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Somerset's myths and magic folklore inspire epic fantasy tale
“We all know Somerset is a magical place and now a local musician and storyteller has published the first in a series of fantasy stories inspired by the hills and dales of our lovely county.
Alexander Paul Burton, who grew up in Catcott, has just published The Hollow Vale: Act I —the first in The Tharion Cycle , a new fantasy saga inspired by the landscapes, history, and folklore of Somerset.”
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fantasy novel - the hollow vale
As Rome crumbles in Britain's farthest province, a hidden girl with starlit blood begins to dream of a Bell that tolls not in sound, but in memory. Caelwyn has lived her whole life in Elderglen, veiled from the world, raised by a seer who speaks in silence. But when the mists thicken and the rune-stones begin to hum, she's forced from hiding-into a world where names vanish, roads shift, and even time no longer flows as it should.
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#MillennialTruths: The Entrepreneurial Odyssey of a Restless Mind: How Failing, Pivoting, and Reinventing Became the Real Road to Success
📖 A brutally honest, witty, and thought-provoking look at what it really takes to build a business (or five) in the modern world.
The internet is filled with success stories—the overnight millionaire, the entrepreneur who "made it" on their first try, the musician who went viral and never looked back. But what about the rest of us? The ones who fail, pivot, and start over—again and again?
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Marketing for New Musicians: An LGBT Artist’s Guide to Navigating the Industry (Marketing from a Former Marketing Professional: Practical Strategy. Queer Insight. Real Talk. Book 2)
The music industry is a circus, and if you’re an LGBT artist, you’re both the ringleader and the performing seal.
Being a musician is hard. Being an LGBT musician navigating an industry that still doesn’t fully know how to embrace queer artists? Even harder. Whether you're an independent singer-songwriter, a band, an ensemble, or a producer, Marketing for New Musicians: An LGBT Artist’s Guide to Navigating the Industry is the no-nonsense, slightly sarcastic, but thoroughly researched survival guide you need to turn your passion into a sustainable career.
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Alexander Paul Burton is a genre-bending neoclassical composer, pianist, and musical raconteur who straddles the line between high art and high camp, much like a Bach fugue performed in drag. Born in Somerset but spiritually adopted by the wilds of the Canadian Rockies, he crafts cinematic soundscapes that blend Baroque intricacy with EDM euphoria—think Handel at a warehouse rave.
His Ode to the Westcountry project marinates nostalgia in a bath of existentialism, while his OUTLINE series and LGBTQ+ advocacy ensure that the sound of resistance is as refined as it is rebellious.
A former vegan food entrepreneur, marathon runner, and Tokyo farmhand, Burton’s life reads like a Nietzschean paradox—eternally returning to music while forever running from convention.
When not composing, he is engaged in the noble art of defending Katie Price, funding corgi couture, and musing on the neuroexistentialist plight of the millennial expat. #MillennialTruths