Dark Aelf Publishing



Fiercely Independant

Dark Aelf is an independent publishing label specializing in realizing social media posts into publishable eBooks and paperbacks.



Release Information

This page contains release information about forthcoming Dark Aelf publications for the author Peter Quinton, New York artist CR Bravo and Canberra artist Indya.



RELEASED 2017/19
1. Looking for Spring (Novel, Quinton)
2. Catalyst (Novel, Quinton)
3. The New Adventures of Vampire Girl  (Graphic Novel, Quinton with New York artist CR Bravo)
4. Ancora Tu (Novel, Quinton)
5. Wild Waterfalls of South Eastern Australia (Exploration, Quinton)
6. Twilight of the Gods (Graphic Novel, Quinton with New York artist CR Bravo)
7. The Dragons Eye Dyptych (Novel, Quinton)
8. Three Wishes (Novel, Quinton)
9. Beth (Biography, Quinton)


(details below)



Looking for Spring




"Ok, it is time to reveal the truth. Please, sit down. This will take time.
I am a time traveler. I come from the last half of the twentieth century, October 1975 to be precise. But the link between me and Mission Control is faulty and they keep losing track of me. I can’t get back. The future keeps changing..."

Be careful for what you wish. This is a story about 1975 and heart-lines, time travel and the fall of kings, but mainly about the elven-path. 


Catalyst

Available on Amazon


I dreamed a long dream, so real. I dreamed I was somewhere else for decades and decades. Thrown around time like a fleck of foam in the surf.

The teacher looks at the small children, and smiles, “Who can tell me what today is?”
As one, their hands go into the air. She chooses the youngest, “Robert?”
The boy stands, and says, “It is the end of days.”
She says, “Thanks, Robert, you can sit down. Today is the day we remember the end of days. So we have come out here to the rock shelf to look at the sky and remember.”
She points to the sky, and they look up past the skydome, to the stars and the Earth hanging there above them.
She smiles again, “Today we tell the story of our lost home. When we remember our parents and give thanks to the station guardians."

Labrinth holds David. She misses the real wind and the real rain. The ones from the sky. She misses thunder and lightning. And she remembers those other days: the days of color and danger in the final days of Hanoi, the days of burning heat of the salt lakes in the central deserts, the days when she ran in the sand and surf. But, she had made a choice, her love is in the stars.
She drifted back to that night at the boathouse when the wind blew away the past.
She told herself, “For so long as someone still remembers, it will not die.”


The New Adventures of the Vampire Girl (I)



Graphic Novel with New York artist CR Bravo
The old adventures of the little Vampire Girl have now been left behind, back there in the hall closet of childhood with stuffed toys and scribbled Xmas cards full of typed love and tv series that went on too long. On the edges of the world, the little Vampire Girl now turns her head bravely to make a life in the capital of the world, to find new friends and to bravely go forth to find love where many before have found nought but socks to be darned and smelly shirts. But the world spins strange these days. It is full of landladies, wolf boys, gargoyle angels and tv executives.
Some murmur darkly that the spinning wheel has grown too fat for the young. Into the inter-spaces of our world, the dispossessed, the underemployed, the desperate have been falling out of sight for years. But they have not left the world. They are still here, quietly gathering in their hundreds of thousands. All shapes and sizes. Waiting. Listening. Hungry. Just a heart beat away from the trembling jelly rich.
Welcome to the new adventures of the little Vampire Girl.

Ancora Tu

Available on Amazon

  

The world is changing. The traditional guardians of the world are being displaced by smart phones and eBooks. In the final days of the great libraries, two very different librarians confront the future. 

In Betty's library, some of the books are awakening
In the dark of night they stalk their prey
And, as they consume other books
The stories within twist and turn
And the world starts to change



Wild Waterfalls of South Eastern Australia

Available on Amazon 


For many years Peter Quinton has been trekking to the 15,000 falls of South Eastern Australia. This large format full color book organizes many of the accessible falls into regions and gives you a foretaste of the beauty of these places.

Twilight of the Gods

Available on Amazon

Graphic Novel with New York artist CR Bravo.

c. CR Bravo 2017

The Gods were already old when talk started of retirement. Only Zeus hung grimly to his corner of the old palace atop Mount Olympus. The others tended to avoid the place because the walk up the mountain left them gasping for air. Instead, they had drifted off, joining the diaspora to new places with the rest of their countrymen and women.
Here is the real story of the final days of the old Gods as they try to find a foothold in the modern world.


The Dragons Eye Dyptych

Available on Amazon



A braided yarn about the great war between spider and dragon kin. You say - The dragon must be asleep by now. Go get the gold, I cannot wait any longer. I whisper - I am not sure. I think its eyes are still a little open.
I have been telling bits of the story here and on G+ for a little while now. The story has grown to a book of 300+ pages, including line drawings and maps of the places in the story. 

Three Wishes (Novel)

Available on Amazon



A love story. Mary has been looking for love in the wrong places. This time she has found a Genie inside her computer. Things are not looking good for the Genie.


Beth

Available on Amazon




"I was born near the great meandering river.
The old Wiradjuri called it the Wambool. These days it is called the Macquarie River.
The river turns in great lazy circles on the plains. It floods some years and then slows to a trickle joining deep waterholes in others.
This is my story."




Publishing Details:

Published Books

Novels

Ancora Tu  (The Lost City of Ancora Tu Book 1) 
Paperback: 240 pages, ISBN-10: 1980666873, ISBN-13: 978-1980666875
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1980666873
EBook: File Size: 1481 KB, ASIN: B07BQRPG3H, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BQRPG3H

Dragons Eye Dyptych
Paperback: 400 pages, ISBN-10: 1973484455, ISBN-13: 978-1973484455, Product Dimensions: 6 x 1 x 9 inches
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1973484455
EBook: File Size: 773 KB, ASIN: B077ZJJQCM, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077ZJJQCM

Three Wishes: Maybe, a Love Story
Paperback: 102 pages, ISBN-10: 1980538875, ISBN-13: 978-1980538875, Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.3 x 9 inches
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1980538875
EBook: File Size: 727 KB, ASIN: B07BDGSX5P, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BDGSX5P

Looking for Spring (Palladium Book 1)
Paperback: 158 pages, ISBN-10: 1983265632, ISBN-13: 978-1983265631, Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.4 x 9 inches,
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1983265632
EBook:  File Size: 809KB, ASIN: B07DZX7FL5, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DZX7FL5

Catalyst
Paperback: 312 pages, ISBN-10: 1983147540, ISBN-13: 978-1983147548, Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1983147540
EBook:  File Size: 511 KB ASIN: B07DP1CWGP, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DP1CWGP

Beth
EBook: 
  • File Size: 7925 KB ASIN: B07KPDJM3R  https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/bookshelf?ref_=kdp_TAC_TN_bs





Graphic Novels

The New Adventures of Vampire Girl (by Peter Quinton & CR Bravo)
Paperback: 76 pages, ISBN-10: 1981025324, ISBN-13: 978-1981025329, Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 0.2 x 9.2 inches
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1981025324
EBook:  File Size: 11038 KB, ASIN: B07D188953, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07D188953

Twilight of the Gods (by Peter Quinton & CR Bravo)
Paperback: 186 pages, ISBN-10: 1973475812, ISBN-13: 978-1973475811, Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1973475812
EBook: File Size: 3750 KB, ASIN: B077Y9VR63, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077Y9VR63

Dream Chocolate 2  (by Peter Quinton & CR Bravo) (English and Spanish)
PDF Form: 46 pages
EBook:  File Size: 600KB

Reference/Photographic

Wild Waterfalls of South Eastern Australia
Paperback: 230 pages, ISBN-10: 198027570X, ISBN-13: 978-1980275701, Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.5 x 11 inches
https://www.amazon.com/dp/198027570X
EBook: File Size: 17526 KB, ASIN: B079VRXB9T, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079VRXB9T


Work in Progress (for second half 2018-2019)

Freyja: The Seven Stories of the World (Novel, Quinton)
Wild Waterfalls of SE Australia, 2nd Edition  (Exploration, Quinton)
In Praise of Summer (Palladium Book 2)
Ten Portraits (Fine Art with the Canberra artist Indya)
The Letters (Novel, Quinton)
The Lectures - Contemporary Civil Law (Arguments, Quinton)
The Lectures - Customary Law (Arguments, Quinton)
Short Stories (Novel, Quinton illustrated by the Canberran artist Indya)

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