K D Lathar

Kamal D Lathar was born in India, a land of spices, colour and an ancient spirit born anew every generation. He read Physics and Astrophysics followed by another degree in Digital Systems while trying to be an astronaut, but unfortunately there was no astronaut program in the UK. His favorite story is split between Lord of the Rings, Nine Princes in Amber and Thomas Covenant. He really cannot decide between them. KDL is still waiting to be an astronaut, and several careers later, somewhere in the darkness a story took form, a tiny piece of the truth, an echo that grabbed him by the throat. He started to write what he knew to be a six part series. In it he wanted to offer a highly conceptual image of an imperfect world and universe, while trying to make sense of it through a connection to life. The initial story is for YA, but each subsequent one is going to mature and age with the protagonists.

The first novel was self-published late 2005, The Changeling. The story is about a boy, Peter Badger, who goes in search of his missing father in a land where he can become his namesake, but that is just the start of his problems. In this new world, where everything undergoes a dark transformation after the sun goes down, where your enemy has even greater powers than knowledge, where demons are trapped by their broken sources, he encounters Michelle Hawk and Paul Otter, the kind of friends he would like to strangle while they are trying to save him. The second in the series, The Eternal Well, is a very dramatic rescue of a soul that could destroy the whole of existence. In this, our Changelings are asked to enter the Realm of the Dead. It will be released in Kindle format December 2011. Currently, KDL is working on the third in the Changeling Saga. The whole series is exploring materialism against spirituality, human against the animal nature, demon against mortal, while wrapping it all into a high octane fantasy adventure.