Jack Colman is a British author. His debut novel The Rule was released in 2015.

Personal

Jack Colman was born in 1987.[1] He grew up one of five children on a rural smallholding in the middle of the North Yorkshire Moors. His first job was picking potatoes on the local farms and he has since been an antique furniture restorer, a grain tester, a plasterer’s mate, a football coach and a corporate lawyer.[2] He is married and lives with his wife in Poland.

The Rule

Colman says that the idea for his novel came as he was attending a lecture at King's College, London where the lecturer made a comment on how past societies could have been governed with just one rule.[3] Colman worked on the idea and book while studying and working as a corporate lawyer in London. He then submitted it to HarperVoyager's open submission process for sci-fi and fantasy. 15 books were selected from 5,000 entries, including The Rule.[4]

The Rule is set in a Viking kingdom called Hellvik. It will be released on e-book 26 March 2015 and on paperback in October 2015.

References

  1. ↑ "Jack Colman". Goodreads.
  2. ↑ "Jack Colman". harpervoyagerbooks.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2018-03-10. Retrieved 2015-03-24.
  3. ↑ Stephen Lewis. "First novel set in a kingdom which has just one deadly rule..." Gazette & Herald.
  4. ↑ "HarperVoyager signs 15 in open submission fortnight". thebookseller.com.
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