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BUY DEBORAH JAY - AMAZON UK BUY DEBORAH JAY ON AMAZON - US I’m a lifelong fantasy and science fiction fan: books, TV, films – can’t get enough. Growing up I can just remember the excitement surrounding the first moon landing, and through childhood I devoured a steady TV diet of such shows as My Favourite Martian, Bewitched, all the Gerry Anderson series: Fireball XL5, Stingray, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, UFO. And, of course, Star Trek. You get the picture: wired for science fiction and fantasy from birth. No regrets there. As genres, they are a writer’s dream, the ultimate scope for imagination. And boy, is my imagination demanding! For years I read books as fast as I could find them, and then it occurred to me that I could write them too. I have a dream of a day job as a trainer of competition dressage horses, so my fiction writing has to fit around that, but being able to make my own schedule is a definite advantage to being self-employed. So in the real world I am professional rider, trainer, judge and author, Debby Lush. I write features and answer readers’ questions on dressage in HORSE magazine, and have two books: The Building Blocks of Training and The Successful Dressage Competitor published by J A Allen, plus a self published booklet The Sunshine Tour Diary about my experiences as a first-time International competitor. Think James Bond meets Lord of the Rings - a fun, fast, action-packed story featuring a pair of mismatched spies who are struggling to save their kingdom whilst trying not to kill each other.