{"id":44385,"date":"2025-07-06T21:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T21:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/44385\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T21:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T21:58:12","slug":"local-author-releases-debut-novel-set-in-new-forest-after-being-written-in-43-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/44385\/","title":{"rendered":"Local author releases debut novel set in New Forest after being written in 43 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A debut novel set in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salisburyjournal.co.uk\/news\/newforest\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New Forest;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">New Forest<\/a> has been written and published in just 43 days.<\/p>\n<p>The Man Who Hired A Wizard by Thomas Sinkinson has already earned attention for its humour, quick creation, and local flavour.<\/p>\n<p>The story follows Gawin, a bumbling three-foot wizard with a thick West Country accent, who is mysteriously hired by a failing tech firm to &#8220;handle the arcane threat landscape.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Sinkinson said: &#8220;I grew up in the New Forest, and there&#8217;s a quiet strangeness to those woods, like Godshill.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It felt like the perfect place to set a magical breakdown of corporate logic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Sinkinson with his new book (Image: Thomas Sinkinson) A marketing manager by day, Mr Sinkinson wrote the entire novel in just six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;I liked the idea of a wizard who sounds like a retired cider brewer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With its blend of dry British humour, satire, and &#8220;heartfelt weirdness,&#8221; The Man Who Hired A Wizard is recommended for fans of Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams.<\/p>\n<p>The novel features themes of fantasy, workplace satire, and supernatural HR policy.<\/p>\n<p>It is now available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle formats.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Sinkinson said: &#8220;I was amazed by the support I received in the first few weeks after publishing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A debut novel set in the New Forest has been written and published in just 43 days. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":44386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1022,34513,171,34512,34514,34511,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-44385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-debut-novel","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-mr-sinkinson","12":"tag-terry-pratchett","13":"tag-thomas-sinkinson","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114808534832273200","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}