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Australian Author Month: Lorraine Cobcroft

Lorraine Cobcroft
 
An Australian author who spent her working life penning instructional and technical books and ghost-writing informational works, Lorraine Cobcroft adopted the name ''Rainbowriter'' because her husband nicknamed her ''Rainbow'', and she has always been excited by the rainbow's pomise.
Lorraine's most successful work was ''The Layout Course'', a 15 lesson self-paced learning program to teach novices visual 4GL computer programming using the now defunct ''Layout'' software produced by Objects, Inc. of Boston, MA. Later, she ghost-wrote informational works on subjects as diverse as body building, child health, home renovation, tax reduction and asset protection, and buying a car. She also produced investment offer documents, marketing collateral, business reports and procedure guides for small businesses.

Now semi-retired and resident in a small beachside village in Northern NSW, Lorraine divides her time between reading, writing, gardening, sewing, beach walks, spoiling grandchildren and touring Australia with her husband in their campervan.






Five Fast Fun Facts about Lorraine...
1. I've worked as everything from motel cleaner, nurses' aide, canteen manager, and bookkeeper to professional writer, software entrepreneur, and CEO of a global technology company with over 500 shareholders. 
2. I've lived in four countries, and though Australian-born, I have an English father, U.S. born sister, and Singaporean-born daughter.
3. I've been called a gypsy, because I love to wander and it took me a long time to put down roots. I am driven by itchy feet and an insatiable curiosity about people, life, and the world.
4. I was once sued in a foreign court for $100 million dollars, and had to fight the case, without a lawyer, in a hearing conducted by telephone. 
5. I think I'm a bit of a stirrer. I like to write stories that are politically incorrect and quite confronting - exposing the seedier side of society and government crime and corruption.
Where to find Lorraine...
Website | LinkedIn


"The Pencil Case: They Stole Us White Kids too "




How many white kids were victims of ''The Stolen Generation''?

Until around the mid-1970s, government policy across Australia was to remove children they considered to be “at risk” in their home environment. The story of ‘’The Stolen Generation’’ is now well known internationally, but the whole truth hasn’t been told. Children weren’t taken solely because of their race. They stole white kids too. Welfare legislation authorizing the removal of children from poverty-stricken homes was enacted by people who were untrained, and unable or unwilling to acknowledge that lack of money did not mean a bad home life. For financial gain to welfare workers and Churches, children were removed from their family to institutions where they suffered deprivation, abuse, separation from loved ones, and withholding of affection that scarred them for life.

A minimally fictionalized biography, "The Pencil Case" is a confronting account of the life of one of the victims of this policy.

A hit on the head with a pencil case began Paul Wilson's lifelong battle against the system and the pencil-pushers who tormented him... but nothing could break his indomitable spirit. A fifth generation, native-born white Australian, Paul was a stolen child. Bureaucrats stole him twice. So-called ‘women of God’ and a misguided carer stole his identity, his heritage and his self-respect.

Join Paul as he takes his lawyer on a journey through time, from the post-war home of a poverty-stricken Australian family, to a cold, harsh Catholic Orphanage, into foster homes and an Anglican Boys’ Home, to an army training school for boys, and through an eventful adult life desperately searching for identity, acceptance, love and peace.

His is a story is that may sadden or enrage you, but it's also one that will reassure you of the beauty and strength of the human spirit and the power of family love.
 

 Where to get your copy of " The Pencil Case: They Stole Us White Kids too "  

Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Smashwords | Booktopia | NovelUnity


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Australian Author Month: Morgan Bell

Morgan Bell
 




Morgan Bell is a young Australian woman, born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1981. She attended primary school in the regional areas of New South Wales, including the Northern Rivers, and the South Coast, and attended secondary school in the southern suburbs of Newcastle. She currently lives in Sydney and works in Local Government as an engineer. Morgan is university educated in civil engineering, traffic engineering, technical communications, linguistics, and literature. She is a member of Hunter Writers Centre, Newcastle Writers Group, and Newcastle Speculative Fiction Group. Her short story "It Had To Be Done" was first published in the Newcastle Writers Group Anthology 2012, and her short story "Midnight Daisy" was published by YWCA Newcastle in 2013 as part of the She: True Stories project, being awarded a Story Commendation at the exhibit launch, and with live readings on ABC 1233 in February 2014 and Newcastle Writers Festival in April 2014.  In March 2014 Morgan's short story "Don't Pay The Ferryman", an anti-travel piece, was shortlisted for the Hunter Writer's Centre Travel Writing Prize 2014.


Five Fast Fun Facts about Morgan...
I never wear jeans because I am allergic to the metal buttons.I am six foot tall.I love Melissa McCarthy movies.My favourite accents are Welsh and Boston.I am obsessed with eyebrows.
Where to find Morgan...
Website | Twitter | Goodreads


"Sniggerless Boundulations "




Debut collection of short stories by indie Australian author Morgan Bell. A cross-section between dreams and reality. An examination of the horrors of life, with plenty of peering, in the form of vignettes, micro fiction, flash fiction, and short stories.

Themes include fear, time, aging, anxiety, and jealousy.

This collection of fifteen stories contains bizarre medical conditions, industrious creatures, conniving cops, killers, dead bodies, a rescue mission, homoeroticism, nonchalant students, a secret garden, and the road to hell.

 

Contains the stories:

The Tunnel (173 words)
Deep Water (127 words)
Shark Fin Soup (507 words)
The Dermoid Cyst (384 words)
Mrs Jackson (644 words)
It Had To Be Done (206 words)
Granted (1034 words)
The Package (482 words)
Strings & Ribbons (131 words)
Mini Play (485 words)
Tiptoe Through The Tulips (523 words)
Poppycock (327 words)
Telfer Speck (1499 words)
Earth Mites (409 words)
Garsdale (539 words) 


 Where to get your copy of " Sniggerless Boundulations "  

 
You can also get your copy from Audible
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Australian Author Month: Shona Husk

Shona Husk



Shona Husk lives in Western Australia at the edge of the Indian Ocean. Blessed with a lively imagination she spent most of her childhood making up stories. As an adult she discovered romance novels and hasn’t looked back.

With over forty published stories, ranging from sensual to scorching, she writes contemporary, paranormal, fantasy and sci-fi romance. 





Five Fast Fun Facts about Shona...
1) I eloped with my high school sweetheart.

2) I love the smell of coffee but can't drink it.

3) As a kid I wanted to grow up to be the Doctor's assistant. 
Alas no TARDIS has ever landed on my lawn.

4) I believe you can grow older without growing up.

5) I like to cross-stitch.

Where to find Shona...
Website | Facebook | Twitter | Newsletter


"Ours to Save "




Some secrets are worth killing to protect ...

Micah Stone sees Solitaire as a fresh start. With twenty years' experience in the agriculture industry, he hopes the colony won't make the same mistakes that were made on Earth.

To most people, Micah looks like a member of the well educated elite, but he's really a Gaia activist. Not only did he lie about his daughter's age to get her on board, but his partner is one of the most dangerous women on Siren.


Felicity Valez was once an Army explosives expert, and she was also a member of the radical Gaia Movement. After being sentenced to life for sedition, she wound up on Siren. To protect her partner and daughter while they're on board, she needs to make sure that no one links the family together.

But her liaisons with Micah have been noted. And when her daughter's life is threatened Felicity will do the one thing she promised Micah she'd never do again: rig an explosive that will kill.

No one on Siren is safe.

Perfect for fans of Laurann Dohner and Evangeline Anderson.


 Where to get your copy of "Ours to Save "  

 

Australian Author Month: Steve Harrison

Steve Harrison



Steve Harrison was born in Yorkshire, England, grew up in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, migrated to New Zealand and eventually settled in Sydney, Australia, where he lives with his wife and daughter.

As he juggled careers in shipping, insurance, online gardening and the postal service, Steve wrote short stories, sports articles and a long running newspaper humour column called HARRISCOPE: a mix of ancient wisdom and modern nonsense. In recent years he has written a number of unproduced feature screenplays, although being unproduced was not the intention, and developed projects with producers in the US and UK. His script, Sox, was nominated for an Australian Writers’ Guild ‘Awgie’ Award and he has written and produced three short films under his Pronunciation Fillums partnership.

His novel TimeStorm was Highly Commended in the Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) National Literary Awards for 2013, Jim Hamilton Award in the fantasy/science fiction category, for an unpublished novel of sustained quality and distinction by an Australian author.
Three Fast Fun Facts about Steve...
1. I used to be a movie extra (my left shoulder appears prominently in Mission Impossible II)

2. I once partnered the 21 year old Hugh Jackman in the chorus of Paint Your Wagon in an amateur musical production (I made him look and sound so good, he became a star)

3. It took more than 25 years (and many drafts) to find a publisher for TimeStorm.

Where to find Steve...
Website | Facebook |Goodreads


"TimeStorm "





In 1795 a convict ship leaves England for New South Wales in Australia. Nearing its destination, it encounters a savage storm but, miraculously, their battered ship stays afloat and limps into Sydney Harbour. Here, the convicts rebel, overpower the crew and make their escape, destroying the ship in the process. 

Fleeing the sinking vessel with only the clothes on their backs, the survivors struggle ashore. Among the escaped convicts, seething resentments fuel an appetite for brutal revenge against their former captors while, for their part, the crew attempts to track down and kill or recapture the escapees. However, it soon becomes apparent that both convicts and crew have more to concern them than shipwreck and a ruthless fight for survival; they have arrived in Sydney in 2017.

TimeStorm is a thrilling epic adventure story of revenge, survival and honour set in a strange new world of unfamiliar technology and equally unfathomable social norms. In the literary footsteps of Hornblower, comes Lieutenant Christopher ‘Kit’ Blaney, an old-fashioned hero, a man of honour, duty and principle, dragged into the 21st century… literally.

A great fan of the grand seafaring adventure fiction of CS Forester, Patrick O’Brien and Alexander Kent, and modern action thriller writers such as Lee Child, Steve Harrison combines several genres in his debut novel. The book was inspired by a replica 18th century sailing ship on Sydney Harbour and a question from Steve’s brother, Tony: “What if that was a real convict ship?” TimeStorm explores that question in a fast-paced story as a group of desperate men from the 1700s clash in modern-day Sydney.



 Where to get your copy of "TimeStorm "  
Amazon US | Amazon AU | Amazon UK | iBooks | Nook UK| Nook US | Kobo | Google Play

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Australian Author Month: Sally Odgers

Sally Odgers



Sally Odgers is a Tasmanian writer, manuscript assessor, editor, daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother and head pack-bitch to nine Jack Russell Terriers. She is also sometimes known as Affa the Editor, Tiffany Mandrake, Flora May, Edward E.B. Cracker, Nicholas Flynn, Sara Chen, Theodora Georgiou and Prints Charming. Over her six decade-spanning career (so far) she has written a lot of books. She also enjoys gardening, walking, music and creating microcosms.

Five Fast Fun Facts about Sally...
1. Last autumn, I discovered I could eat sheep sorrel. Revenge of the gardener!

2. I have written about 300 books.

3. I have several WIPs. Now all I need is a solid year to finish them.

4. I run a small manuscript assessment service.

5. I am the owner and chief nutter at Prints Charming Books

Where to find Sally...
Website



"Fantastic Creatures"




Fantastic Creatures is a picture book with a difference; it's a kind of encyclopaedia of the fantastic from mermaids to dragons and from unicorns to trolls. The text is suited to children at the upper end of the picture book audience and the illustrations by Mark Salwowski are wonderful.





Where to get your copy of " Fantastic Creatures"  
Sally's Website

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Australian Author Month: Tima Maria Lacoba

Tima Maria Lacoba




My name is Tima Maria Lacoba and my background is in archaeology and Ancient Roman History, especially Roman Britain. I was a practising archaeologist for many years before taking up high school teaching. It gave me the opportunity to take my students on overseas excursions to visit the amazing archaeological sites they’ve only seen in books.
One day, I surrendered to the itch of writing. After many years reading and correcting my students’ creative writing tasks and essays, I decided it was time to write my own. I couldn’t hold it in any longer.
Bloodgifted is the result.
 Bloodgifted is just the start of a three part series I’ve entitled, The Dantonville Legacy. Later, I intend writing individual books on the other characters in the series, for they all have their own story.


Currently, I live on the Central Coast, an hour’s drive north of Sydney, surrounded by wooded hills, possums and seed-dropping rosellas. Between bouts of writing, I teach English and History, enjoy long walks while dodging the nesting magpies and plot the next series of books I’d like to write.
Five Fast Fun Facts about Tima...
1. I smashed a 3,000 year-old Egyptian vase on my first dig (I'm an archaeologist).

2. I can read Egyptian hieroglyphics.

3. Chocolate is my favourite food.

4. I make my own jewellery (for giveaways).

5. Unicorns are my favourite animal.
Where to find Tima...
Website | Facebook | Twitter| Amazon | Goodreads


"Bloodgifted: (The Dantonville Legacy Book 1) "



Being unable to age is only the beginning …

Laura Dantonville is shocked to learn her strange genetic mutation, is linked to a dark family secret—a centuries-old curse that turned her Roman ancestor into a vampire. Now that she has come of age, she is the key to breaking that curse. But she’s also the prey of rogue vampires who inhabit the city’s frightening and violent underworld, as her blood gives them the ability to daywalk. For her protection she’s assigned a guardian—the handsome, sexy and dangerous Alec Munro—who wants nothing to do with her.

If not for her family, Alec Munro would never have been transformed into a vampire. He owes them nothing, yet he also knows his own fated role in breaking the curse, and the unthinkable consequences should he not accept.

To the Brethren, the ending of the curse spells disaster. Among a powerful few malice grows . . .


 Where to get your copy of " Bloodgifted"  
Amazon US | Amazon AU | Amazon UK | Amazon CA | Amazon IN | iBooks US | iBooks UK | Nook | Kobo | Smashwords

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Australian Author Month: Emily M Morgan

Emily M Morgan



Emily is a writer of non fiction, general fiction, speculative fiction and short stories. She has even attempted a poem or two. Anything from the real world that can be twisted or re-imagined into something fantastic is what inspires her. She writes for markets in Australia and worldwide.
Emily M Morgan is a dynamic and professional speaker and seminar presenter. Find out more about Emily’s keynotes and seminars and get her involved in your event here.

Emily lives in beautiful Tasmania, Australia, with her cheeky but adorable daughter and son. She loves to travel and looks forward to introducing her children to her favorite spots around the world.  At the end of the day, she loves to come home, where beauty and inspiration abound. Emily has an abiding passion for history and culture. She holds a Master of Applied Linguistics and loves to delve deep into the workings and changing nature of language and languages.

Emily is the author of several short stories, including two published in Jingle Bells: A Christmas Anthology.  She has written articles for parenting magazines and is now working on more short stories and a novel as well as a new book in her Single Parents’ Little Helper series.
Four Fast Fun Facts about Emily...
1. I'm a single mother by choice - no legal dad involved.

2. I once danced for the Sultana of Brunei (I was eight!!)

3. I speak German, French and terrible Japanese

4. I once tried to recreate the chimney sweep rooftop dancing scene from Mary Poppins on our second floor balcony railing - still alive!
Where to find Emily...
Website | Facebook | LinkdIn


"Jingle Bells: Tales of Holiday Spirit from Around the World"




Let these wonderful stories of holiday magic fill your heart with love and peace. With 33 wonderful short stories and 5 poems, written for children and adults alike, there is a variety of tales, written by authors from around the world, to help you find a piece of that holiday spirit to warm your heart.









Where to get your copy of " Jingle Bells: Tales of Holiday Spirit from Around the World"  

Australian Author Month: A.K. Leigh

A.K. Leigh


I am an international selling author of romantic suspense and contemporary romance, and proud of that fact! Like most writers, I began creating stories in my childhood. My family say I was a 'daydreamer', who created stories that were then acted out. This led to my first attempt at a full-length novel at the age of seventeen.   I come from a large family, consisting of six siblings. The experience of growing up in such a personality-fueled environment has enabled me to portray diverse and complex characters in my writing. 

Being an identical triplet, I attribute the constant comparison to two other people (and having to struggle for a personal identity) as the impetus behind my creation of independent, yet vulnerable, women in my writing.
I love books, all kinds, and Martial Arts movies. I manage to slip a book reading scene and fight scene into most of my stories, because, why not?  

I hold a graduate degree in counseling, which I feel has allowed me to delve into the murky depths of human behavior. In particular, the interplay of the psyche of the antagonist versus the protagonist fascinates me. This is why I write in multiple viewpoints.
Five Fast Fun Facts about A.K...
1. I am a naturally conceived identical triplet
2. I am a professional astrologer and amateur astronomer
3. I studied traditional medicine in Thailand
4. I can speak (badly and at various levels of fluency) four languages: English, German, French and Thai - and "Dora" Spanish :-) 
5. I am a huge Michael Jackson fan and don't care that it's considered dorky to admit it!

Where to find C.M...
Website | Facebook | Twitter | Goodreads | Amazon 


"See Her Run"

 
You can run from everything except your past.
Diana King has moved to Smithfield, North Carolina to start fresh. With a new look, a new address, and a new name, she's hoping to begin a safe, quiet life far from the horrors she's endured.

On the painful road to recovery, Diana begins to think she can move forward … until she meets local farmer, Jonathan Smith, and realizes his connection to her previous life. While Jon doesn't recognize her, they both have an undeniable attraction.

Just when Diana begins to see a hope of happiness, she discovers that her ex-husband Russ is on the hunt and will stop at nothing to get her back.

For Diana holds evidence that could lock him away for life ...

Where to get your copy of "See Her Run"  
Amazon US | Amazon AU | Amazon UK | iTunes | Kobo


"See Her Run" Giveaway
(Open internationally)

Australian Author Month: C.L. Moore

C.L. Moore


I  grew up in a small country town in Northern NSW, Australia.
As a child I surrounded my thoughts with a world of fantasy. I loved nothing more than reading books and I read everything I could get my hands on. Elephant Walk by Robert Standish was one of my earliest reads.
When I received 'Black Beauty' and 'Wuthering Heights' as a birthday gift, the dye was set. I wanted to be in the worlds that the authors wrote about, live the book, be the book. Other books that filled my need for adventure and romance were 'We Of the Never Never' and 'Blue Fin', both books I won as literary prizes at school.
Later I grew to love Stephen King, Jane Austen, Daphne de Maurier, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Tolkien, Jules Verne, Stephanie Meyer, and so many, many more!
Having experienced precognitive dreams and visions from early childhood, it was nothing new for me to write my thoughts down, often my stories would come from the magical place of my dream state.
To this day many of my stories are built upon dreams I have had and I often ask myself, 'are these really  dreams?' , 'could the people I write about have been real?' , or 'are they my own distant past lives that I have somehow tapped into?
I don't really know, Dear Reader, but isn't it an exciting thing to ponder?


Five Fast Fun Facts about C.L...
1. I am a Psychic Consultant

2. I am a certified Dog Obedience Trainer

3. The number plate of my car is 01:ECTO from Ghostbusters

4. I am a mental Supernatural fan and a Dean girl

5. I love walking in the rain

Where to find C.L...
Website | Facebook | Twitter | Goodreads | Amazon | Blog


"Louisiana Heat"
  A story of Love, Betrayal and Lust
Aubrey Dupre is a Southern Belle living on her family's Sugar Plantation in the Deep South.
Aubrey has a gift, unfortunately that gift is sometimes unreliable. She doesn't realise the sext field hand is dangerous until it is too late.
The love of her life, Beau, let's her down again and again, unable to protect her when she needs protecting the most.There is more to Jonesy than he lets anybody know. He has a past that haunts him, and that has left him damaged.
That past might do more than come back to haunt him, it might just kill him.Something stirred in the gravelly yard beneath their window . . . A soft slippery nuzzle, the sort of sounds you'd expect a pig to make with its snout in a trough . . . The small mining town of GRYMM perched on the very edge of the Great Desert is the kind of town you leave - but when Dad gets a three-month contract in the mine there, Mina and Jacob, unwilling stepbrother and sister, are reluctantly arriving. From a grotesque letting agent who seems to want to eat their baby brother, a cafe owner whose milkshakes contain actual maggots and the horribly creepy butcher, baker and candlestick-maker, Mina and Jacob soon realize that nothing in GRYMM is what is appears to be. And then things get seriously weird when their baby brother disappears - and no one seems to even notice! In GRYMM, your worst nightmares really do come true . . . - See more at: http://www.randomhouse.com.au/books/k...


Where to find " Louisiana Heat"

 Amazon US | Amazon AU |LULU | Barnes & Noble | iBooks



"The Healer"


Kennedy has grown up around Magick, talking to the spirits of the dead and Angels. The day her family comes for her, her life changes, forever. The day she heals an Angel and ancient Prophesy is set into motion.
A fallen Angel, a brother cast into Hell, and a family that only know how to fight and protect. A Witch, a Shapeshifter and a Righteous man.
But what the Hell happened to all the Angels?
This is a classic story of Good vs Evil, which one will be triumphant?





Where to find " The Healer"...

 Amazon US | Amazon AU |LULU | Barnes & Noble | iBooks




"Belmont Falls"


There is a secret in the township of Belmont Falls. 

The people there are not what they seem.

Kat is looking for a place to hide. When the Sheriff, Sam McKinnon takes an interest in her she finds that it’s impossible to hide any longer. 

She gets dragged into the secrets, but Kat isn’t someone to just let things lie. 

Kat gets more than she bargins for, and this time there isn’t anywhere else to hide.

Where to find " Belmont Falls"

 Amazon US | Amazon AU |LULU | Barnes & Noble | iBooks



"Rosalie"




What would you do if you found yourself 1600 years in the past?Unhappy in the 20th Century, Rosalie Jones is looking to change her life.
She travels to Hadrian's Wall hoping to find proof of her ancestors.
When she finds herself in another time, she is quite unprepared for what happens next.
She finds love, but will she lose herself in the process?Rosalie is in the fight of her life and only one man can save her.
Will he? Or will she be the one to save herself?



Where to find " Rosalie"
 Amazon US | Amazon AU |LULU | Barnes & Noble | iBooks


"Louisiana Heat" Giveaway
(Open internationally)

Australian Author Month: Keith Austin

Keith Austin


Originally from London’s East End, Keith Austin has been a journalist more than 36 years. After working in local newspapers in London, Essex and the Home Counties he made the move to Fleet Street in 1986 when he joined The Sunday Times as deputy chief sub. Since then Keith has worked in Glasgow, Beijing and, for the past 18 years, Sydney, Australia.  
He has been, variously, a chief sub, production editor, travel editor, feature writer, regular columnist, news reporter, restaurant and book reviewer, and has also edited two cookbooks, Blokes and Seafood, and four editions of the NSW Good Pub Food Guide.

He is also the author of GRYMM, a novel for Young Adults described by The Guardian as “up there with Stephen King and Neil Gaiman”, and SNOW, WHITE, published in 2014. JAGO, the third of his Fractured Fairytales, was published as an Amazon Kindle edition in November 2014.

He is passionate about food, drink, travel, writing, photography, humour and football. But not in that order.

Keith lives in Sydney, Australia,



Five Fast Fun Facts about Keith..
1. I have stuttered since I was 5
2. I ride an R1200C BMW motorbike
3. I am a travel writer by trade
4. I love playing soccer! Twice a week at the moment!
5. My first job, aged 13, involved standing in a vat of live eels


Where to find Keith...
Website | Twitter 


"Grymm"
 

Something stirred in the gravelly yard beneath their window . . . A soft slippery nuzzle, the sort of sounds you'd expect a pig to make with its snout in a trough . . . The small mining town of GRYMM perched on the very edge of the Great Desert is the kind of town you leave - but when Dad gets a three-month contract in the mine there, Mina and Jacob, unwilling stepbrother and sister, are reluctantly arriving. From a grotesque letting agent who seems to want to eat their baby brother, a cafe owner whose milkshakes contain actual maggots and the horribly creepy butcher, baker and candlestick-maker, Mina and Jacob soon realize that nothing in GRYMM is what is appears to be. And then things get seriously weird when their baby brother disappears - and no one seems to even notice! In GRYMM, your worst nightmares really do come true . . . - See more at: http://www.randomhouse.com.au/books/k...
Something stirred in the gravelly yard beneath their window . . . A soft slippery nuzzle, the sort of sounds you'd expect a pig to make with its snout in a trough . . .

The small mining town of Grymm perched on the very edge of the Great Desert is the kind of town you leave - but when Dad gets a three-month contract in the mine there, Mina and Jacob, unwilling stepbrother and sister, are reluctantly arriving.

From a grotesque letting agent who seems to want to eat their baby brother, a cafe owner whose milkshakes contain actual maggots and the horribly creepy butcher, baker and candlestick-maker, Mina and Jacob soon realize that nothing in Grymm is what is appears to be.

And then things get seriously weird when their baby brother disappears - and no one seems to even notice! In Grymm, your worst nightmares really do come true . . .

Where to find " Grymm"

 
You can also get your copy from Random House 


"Snow, White"



A dark and twisted take on some classic fairy-tale characters, Keith Austin’s brand-new novel will have you on the edge of your seat as you find out if there really is such a thing as Happy Ever After . .
 
John Creed’s nights are haunted by dreams of a white wolf, his days by the hideous class bully. He’s a loner with a stutter and his home-life – with an eccentric grandfather who wants to teach him folklore and ancient languages – is isolated and unusual.

But then John makes a friend – Fyre. She’s as unusual as John and has her own secrets to keep, but as the truth about John’s past starts to emerge, she’s the best ally he’s got . . .



Where to find "Snow, White"...



 You can also get your copy from Random House


"Jago"

Henry Williams is a multi-millionaire property developer; his life is a charmed and happy one – at least until a mysterious, timeworn woman turns up unannounced at his offices and shows him an old manuscript that will change his world forever. 

The document tells the story of Demelza Cotton, a young street urchin from 19th century London, and her struggle to survive in the notorious Old Nichol slums alongside the charismatic, wild and dangerous Jago Quinn. 

Whether conning rich toffs or stealing food from grocers’ stalls, these two live life on the edge, using their wits and street smarts to skirt a line between the forces of the law and the clutches of the vicious Cray Twins – the hideous and homicidal heads of the criminal underworld. 

But one day the simple theft of a watch turns into something quite different and their already precarious existence in one of the darkest, deepest and most dangerous slums in England threatens to spiral out of control. 

They come under the scrutiny of both the Crays and the enigmatic Adamina Wollondilly with her secretive organization of Eyeballers. 

Which is when they find the iridescent, rainbow-coloured dragon – and things start to get really weird.
Keith Austin’s latest Young Adult book is a roller-coaster ride through the depths of one of the most notorious true-life slums in old England, a bizarre breakneck romp with wonderfully revolting characters and twists, turns and surprises that will keep you wrong-footed and guessing right to the very end. 

Where to find "Jago"


"Grymm" Giveaway
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