{"id":7530,"date":"2026-07-11T10:02:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T09:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?post_type=book&#038;p=7530"},"modified":"2026-08-01T09:52:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T08:52:44","slug":"the-awakening","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?book=the-awakening","title":{"rendered":"The Awakening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: #535a62; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"color: #0f1111;\">The powerful Chon&#8217;ith Empire has expanded rapidly and aggressively, conquering all in their path. Stubborn and dogmatic, the Chon&#8217;ith do not accept retreat, and for years their passionate approach to warfare has won them many battles &#8211; until they pick a fight with a clever, cunning enemy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: #535a62; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"color: #0f1111;\">Superior Chief Seluban watches as his fleet torn is apart by the superior tactics and technology of their new foe and does the unthinkable &#8211; he retreats. Excommunicated and shamed, he is banished to Coward&#8217;s Forge, an inhospitable wasteland, but he knows time is against his Empire. Somehow he must unite a band of outcasts and lead them to revolution before everything he loves is destroyed &#8211; but will he destroy it from within first?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the relaunch. <em>The Awakening<\/em> is my first book, previously self-published in 2020 and then traditionally published via Jumpmaster Press in 2022. In 2026, that arrangement came to an end, and so <em>The Awakening<\/em> returns as a self-published venture. I remain passionate about this story, and the world I&#8217;ve created, and I won&#8217;t give up on it. <em>The Awakening<\/em> is presently available as an ebook <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4pj2OZc\">via Amazon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/gb\/en\/ebook\/the-awakening-513\">Kobo<\/a>, and also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/the-awakening-ben-berwick\/1137608178\">Barnes &amp; Noble<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The powerful Chon&#8217;ith Empire has expanded rapidly and aggressively, conquering all in their path. Stubborn and dogmatic, the Chon&#8217;ith do not accept retreat, and for&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?book=the-awakening\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Awakening<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7528,"parent":0,"template":"","book-category":[24],"book-series":[25],"book-author":[26],"class_list":["post-7530","book","type-book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","book-category-science-fiction","book-series-the-chonith-saga","book-author-ben-berwick","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/book\/7530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/book\/7530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7571,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/book\/7530\/revisions\/7571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"book-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbook-category&post=7530"},{"taxonomy":"book-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbook-series&post=7530"},{"taxonomy":"book-author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbook-author&post=7530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}