Manuscripts
Here are some of the exciting middle-grade children's and YA manuscripts I'm either working on or are very much ready to go.
The Kit Larceny series
Being saved from a stiff jail sentence by an eccentric aunt with a cool, military-grade airship seems like a stroke of good fortune until you discover that she’s not human, and neither are you.
The first in this middle-grade series, Kit Larceny and the Airship of Destiny was shortlisted for the 2020 Ampersand Prize.
It is professionally edited and publication-ready. Check out the synopsis and first chapter.
(The image shows the Rosetta Stone in the British Museum, which features in the book. The woman doesn't, but she humanises this page a little, so ....)
Hideous Reptile Creatures from the Planet Zlaaarg
Just when you thought sharks, crocs, scorpions (and humans) were the nastiest species on the planet …
Jason Bland and Sangita Khandelwal have only one thing in common: they both have terrible families.
But then Jason’s parents and 15 siblings vanish and Sangita’s grandmother is murdered. Are the two events linked? Of course they are! Are you an idiot or something? But what does it all mean?
It means the whole human race is on the verge of being wiped out by a race of hideous lizard creatures from the planet Zlaaarg! And Jason and Sangita are the only two people who can stop them. Apart from Jason’s sister Emily and a Zlaaargian called Falumptor.
Check out the first chapter.
(The image doesn't even come close to conveying the hideousness of Zlaaargians).
Tromsø
This young adult novel is about a 16-year-old Australian girl who finds herself in the Norwegian Arctic city of Tromsø after her mother, a senior police officer, is nearly murdered by a psychopath. But Tromsø turns out to be no refuge. Has the psychopath followed her and her family, and is he the least of her troubles?
This is in the early stages of drafting, but you can get a flavour of this soon-to-be masterpiece by reading the first chapter.
(Look at the image. Isn't Tromsø lovely? Or is it?)
