Tej Turner

ttavatarTej Turner is an SFF author and travel-blogger. His debut novel The Janus Cycle was published by Elsewhen Press in 2015 and its sequel Dinnusos Rises was released in 2017. Both are hard to classify within typical genres but were contemporary and semi-biographical with elements of surrealism. He has since branched off into writing epic fantasy and has an ongoing series called the Avatars of Ruin. The first instalment – Bloodsworn – was released in 2021, and its sequel Blood Legacy in 2022. The third – Blood War –is due to be published in early 2024.

He does not have any particular place he would say he is ‘from’, as his family moved between various parts of England during his childhood. He eventually settled in Wales, where he studied Creative Writing and Film at Trinity College in Carmarthen, followed by a master’s degree at The University of Wales Lampeter.

Since then, Tej has mostly resided in Cardiff, where he works as a chef by day and writes by moonlight. His childhood on the move seems to have rubbed off on him because when he is not in Cardiff, it is usually because he has strapped on a backpack and flown off to another part of the world to go on an adventure.

He has so far clocked two years in Asia and two years in South America, and when he travels, he takes a particular interest in historic sites, jungles, wildlife, native cultures, and mountains. He also spent some time volunteering at the Merazonia Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre in Ecuador.

Firsthand accounts of Tej’s adventures abroad can be found on his travel blog.


Artwork by Alison BuckThe Janus Cycle, Tej’s first novel, was published by Elsewhen Press on 2nd January 2015.

 

Existence is Elsewhen by John Gribbin et al; Artwork by Alison BuckTej’s story The Last Days is included in the anthology Existence is Elsewhen which was published by Elsewhen Press on 18th March 2016.

 

Artwork: Alison BuckDinnusos Rises, Tej’s second novel, set in the same urban landscape as The Janus Cycle was published by Elsewhen Press on 7th April 2017.

 

Bloodsworn, Book 1 of Tej’s epic fantasy series, The Avatars of Ruin, was published by Elsewhen Press on 8th January 2021.

 

Blood Legacy cover artwork: Alison BuckBlood Legacy, Book 2 of Tej’s epic fantasy series, The Avatars of Ruin, was published by Elsewhen Press on 11th February 2022.

 

Blood War by Tej Turner; Cover by Alison Buck Blood War, Book 3 of Tej’s epic fantasy series, The Avatars of Ruin, was published by Elsewhen Press on 8th January 2024.

 



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    Tej can be contacted via Elsewhen Press using tej.turner (at) elsewhen.co.uk