Jack Hargrave (IS SELF PUBLISHING)

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Ooh nice! My debut is out 27th Feb on Kindle 😁

It’s a dystopian post apocalyptic thriller, should have mentioned that sorry 👀😅

I spent over a year querying my dystopian novel.

Over 100 agents.

Lots of “not right for the market.”

So I stopped waiting and published it myself.

What Remains of Us - out on Kindle 27th Feb 2026

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Attention agented authors!

What’s the one piece of advice you’d give to authors currently in the query trenches.

Me, and many others are refreshing day after day to see if agents are closer to their query, or constantly refreshing their emails.

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Thank you to anyone who took the time to comment & like on the lead up to #dvpit & the comments & support on my pitches.

Unfortunately, I wasn’t successful, not yet anyway, but wanted to say thanks to all the other authors!

Good luck everyone on their journeys & see you in the query trenches! 🫡

DIVIDED KINGDOM

FALLOUT: NEW VEGAS x THREADS (1984)
THE ROAD x STATION ELEVEN

Smoke clings to the skyline ☁️
Ash coats the ruins 🏚️
Keepers whisper through the static 📻
He just wants his family back.
They want control.
In a dying Britain 🇬🇧 love is the last act of defiance.

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The church bells are silent,
The bridges collapsed down below.

Keepers patrol the ruins in stolen masks,
But he just wants his wife back.

They want his obedience.

In a fractured Britain, love becomes rebellion.

Divided Kingdom

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Thanks! It's a really great book! Hoping to be next to it one day on someone's TBR!

💥 Britain burned.
☢️ The Zone Keepers rose.
👨‍👧‍👦 One father will cross the wasteland to save his wife, and discover the truth buried beneath the ashes.
👑 Tyrants. Experiments. Rebellion. Family.

FALLOUT × CHILDREN OF MEN

A brutal fight for hope in a divided kingdom.

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Thank you so much! 😅

They called it rebuilding. The Keepers built walls, weapons, and fear. When they take his wife, Jarrod’s journey through Britain’s wasteland turns into a rebellion the Keepers never planned for.

FALLOUT energy, British soil.

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You want:

☢️ Fallout-style wasteland Britain ✅
👨‍👧‍👦 A father crossing Zones for family ✅
👑 Tyrants in armour & rebel ghosts ✅
💥 Explosions, betrayal & survival ✅

Then welcome to DIVIDED KINGDOM!

Where Britain burned, and the Keepers took what was left.

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Thank you so much! There is some slight cyberpunk undertones to it throughout, but revealed in greater detail later on in the book!

Fallout is my all time favourite game, and biggest inspiration, I even have 3 fallout tattoos 😂 Would love to read your novel!

Thanks, I’m glad it caught your attention! 😅

Thank you! I love to throw in a great mystery question now and again 😅

After the bombs, Britain divided itself. The Zone Keepers promised order, but delivered fear. When a father rebels to save his wife, he ignites a question no regime can survive: who deserves to rebuild the world?

Fallout X The Last Of Us

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Britain’s gone nuclear. The Zone Keepers call it order. Jarrod calls it hell. To save his wife, he’ll cross irradiated ruins, face warlords, and uncover the lies that ended the old world.
FALLOUT meets CHILDREN OF MEN
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Day 6 - Next project

How to Lose Friends & Gain Levels

Think Dungeon Crawler Carl meets Mogworld with a splash of Discworld.

A laugh-out-loud, nostalgia-fueled MMORPG fantasy about dying to cows, grinding shrimp for GP, and trying to make friends in a world where everyone’s AFK.

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YouTube video by Billy Talent Billy Talent - Rusted From The Rain (Official Music Video)

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Day 5 - Divided Kingdoms Song

I have such a wide taste of music, and so many different song ideas that would fit the whole novel. However, one to sum it up, would be this.

This song gives the sense of wandering, aging and wariness

youtu.be/RAOnUF8t20w?...

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a black and white drawing of a man smiling in a circle . ALT: a black and white drawing of a man smiling in a circle .

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Day 4 - Meme/GIF

Divided Kingdom started off as a recurring dream as a child, and continued into my adulthood, and I think it’s down to one game and one game only.

So here you go, Fallout!

Bonus content: I have 3 fallout tattoos!

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Thank you! I’m a big fan of world building and descriptions, right down to the slippers 😅

Thanks! I’ve been battling with myself for months about adding it, not sure if it would come across weird or not, but I’m glad it’s come across intriguing! Thank you 😁

Opening paragraphs to my debut, Divided Kingdom. Chapter One - Granite Getaway

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Day 3 - Opening few lines

Instead of copy and pasting, thought I’d share an extract from the first chapter!

Let me know how it reads!

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Picture collage; four photos; from left to right, top to bottom Ryan Hurt (Top Left) Mark Boone Jr (Top Right) Jeff Bridges (Bottom Left) Rick Rubin (Bottom Right)

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Jarrod Randor

Jarrod is the one tasked to go on supplies runs outside the bunker. Now, with his wife missing, the one left to tackle British wasteland with his kids and find his wife.

Looks like;

Jeff Bridges x Rick Rubin x Mark Boone Jr. x Ryan Hurst

Thanks! Not sure if it would come across, but I’m glad it did! 😁

Thanks! Tried hard to find photos to match the book 😅

#DVPARTY Divided Kingdom Moodboard. Yorkshire dales, deserted cities, love, abandoned railway, hidden bunker, scrapyard

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New to this, so hope I’m doing right!

Moodboard for my first novel, Divided Kingdom. A British post-apocalyptic novel, based in North & East Yorkshire!

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