Alfred 2: And The Underworld:

by Ron Smorynski

Overview

Aflred the Boy King series offers kids and kids-at-heart an adventurous fantasy world, with epic battles, and noble causes worth fighting for!

Alfred is now King of the Westfold and Gorbogal the Witch has focusd her eye on his little kingdom. With too few knights, a decrepit Keep, what is a boy king to do?

First, he magically teleports back home to be with his mother and learn more about the Dark Ages and medieval society. He also gets infatuated with a computer game called "The Underrealms" where he mines blocks and realizes that his kingdom will need to start mining and acquiring their own steel.

However in his stay at home, much has changed in the Westfold. Upon his return he unfolds dastardly plans by Telehistine Merchants who are ruining his kingdom. His knights have lost faith, the girl archers and spearboys have been disbanded, and the new trade deal with the greedy merchants has left his kingdom weaker!

And to top it all off, Gorbogal has laid her plans of invasion by a mightier force than before! Ooops, too much as been said already!!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781663589811
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	10/12/2017
Series:	Alfred The Boy King , #2
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.87(d)

About the Author

Ron Smorynski is an army brat, whose mom is Korean and his dad American-Polish. He grew up in White Sands Missile Range & Las Cruces, New Mexico. He transferred to UCLA as a fine artist, then in Los Angeles, as a struggling painter, discovered the new artform of CG animation. One of the first games and cinematics he experienced was Warcraft! He taught himself CG animation and got his first real job at Blizzard Entertainment working on cinematics for Diablo I.

Ron went on to work at various CG studios like Blur Studios. He worked as lead battle animator for the notoriously failed "Conan the Red Nails" animated feature. He always had a bug for indie work though. His animations and solo movie project can be seen on his youtube channel, Worldofgrim. His solo CG feature film got into the Hollywood Film Festival and was represented by two separate sales agents at the American Film Market in 2007 and 2008. After the mortgage crisis of 2008 his dreams of an indie cg producer got dashed against a proverbial rock. Though he continued on a 2nd feature, his daughters became his main focus. He ended up homeschooling them in their pre-teen to teen years. One even went on to win Rachel Ray's Kids Cook-Off on Foodnetwork. Ron had to sacrifice his 15 minutes of fame on that show! And he had to eat a lot of really really REALLY good food.

During all this, he always loved writing and has nearly a dozen unpublished novels and role playing game books. He even went as far as to publish Alfred, the Boy Who Would Be King, unedited, in 2006. Well in 2015, his sister by chance found the self-published book collecting dust and decided to read it. She saw how badly it was written! Yet she loved the story. So she tortured her younger brother for a couple of years of harrowing editing. Ron had finally succumbed to maturity, professionalism and EDITING. Not only did she use her spare time to edit, after it was all done and polished, and loving it so, she decided to hire an editor on her own dime to help Ron really get it right. Ron has now committed himself to the project and the professionalism needed to make a great story.

For more info:
https://www.StoryTellingRon.com