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Within This Darkness

3/14/2025

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I am very pleased to announce that Within This Darkness is out!
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The cover artwork was done by Mark Resmer, and the front cover is a work by Mark titled "Waiting", which was done on wood board with oil paint and spray paint. I hope that readers get a "crafted by hand with love" feeling about both the cover and the book itself, because in both cases it is very true.
Within This Darkness is here on Goodreads, and if you're in Canada, there is a March 2025 giveaway contest for the book:

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Within This Darkness by Chris Tomasini

Within This Darkness

by Chris Tomasini

Giveaway ends March 28, 2025.

See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

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I'm still unsure how to describe this book to someone, which was also a problem with Close Your Eyes. In my own head though, this is how I think of Within This Darkness:
- young adult, with the sweet spot probably being within a 13 to 15 year old range.
- has magic, but it's not fantasy.
- has an "outdoor adventure" feeling to it, like one of the old Farley Mowat classics like Lost in the Barrens.
- Also has a thoughtful side, especially in Jeremy's feelings of grief and loss, that probably stem from my appreciation for books/stories like The Dead by James Joyce; The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy, and Butcher's Crossing by John Edward Williams.
- Has a historical timeline that dates back to World War I and World War II, and this historical timeline becomes more important in books two and three of the trilogy.

Within This Darkness is book one of the Douro-Zamość trilogy.
Douro is the fictional town in Ontario, Canada, where most of the story happens, and Zamość is a town in south-eastern Poland where much of the historical action happens.
Book two of the trilogy will be out in 2025.



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    I'm Chris Tomasini.
    I'm currently working on a young adult trilogy, titled Within This Darkness.

    Why "be heroes together"? Because - as someone once told me - writing is hard. Writing well is almost impossible. And writing in a way that truly moves people is something that most of us will never achieve. But - to that we aspire. And to do that, we have to be heroes.

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