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
For 13-year-old boy and girl twins Kit and Larceny Sullivan, being saved from a stiff jail sentence by a fun aunt with a cool, military-grade airship seems like a stroke of good fortune. Until they discover that she’s not entirely human, and neither are they.
The first in this middle-grade series, Kit Larceny and Aunt Angelica's Airship was shortlisted for the 2020 Ampersand Prize.
It is professionally edited and publication-ready.
(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. They also live in Canberra, which is probably the world's dullest city.
One day, 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.
(The image doesn't even come close to conveying the hideousness of Zlaaargians).
Tromsø
This young adult novel is about a 17-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?
(Look at the image. Tromsø seems lovely? But is it?)
