SEVEN books and WEET!

Haven't heard of the SEVEN Series? SEVEN grandsons are given SEVEN tasks in SEVEN linked novels by SEVEN top Canadian children's authors. Publication and awesome tours and launches scheduled for October. My contribution is Lost Cause."Steve thinks a trip to Europe is out of the question—until he hears his grandfather's will. Suddenly he's off to Spain, armed with only a letter from his grandfather that sends him to a specific address in Barcelona. There he meets a girl named Laia and finds a trunk containing some of his grandfather's possessions, including a journal he kept during the time he fought with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. Steve decides to trace his grandfather's footsteps through Spain, and with Laia's help, he visits the battlefields and ruined towns that shaped his grandfather's young life, and begins to understand the power of history and the transformative nature of passion for a righteous cause."Check the series out—SEVEN times?
My very first published novel, WEET, is now out, extensively reworked, as an eBook. The continuations of the dinosaur, time-travel fantasy for 8-12 year olds are also up, Weet's Quest and Weet Alone. Excellent early chapter books or read alouds. Click on the title to link to Amazon or check out my website.Enjoy.

Three traditionally published titles coming in 2012, Victorio's War , the third Desert Legends novel, in the spring; Failed Hope: The Story of the Lost Peace, the companion non-fiction title to Desperate Glory and Bitter Ashes is scheduled for August; and Lost Cause, a novel set largely in Spain in 1938 is planned for the fall. Lost Cause is one of a series of seven books by seven Canadian authors. Seven boys meet at the will-reading of their grandfather. Each receives a sealed envelope containing a task or a quest. The seven tales blossom from there.
My website is now updated, to include a section offering hard copies of my out-of-print titles for sale direct from me. This means they can be signed and personalized—the perfect Christmas or Birthday gift.
Titles available are:Crusade: The Heretic's Secret Book IGrail: The Heretic's Secret Book IIWhere Soldiers LieGermaniaAnd in the MorningLost in SpainDancing Elephants and Floating Continents: The Story of Canada Beneath Your Feet.
Ghost Mountains and Vanished Oceans: North America from Birth to Middle Age reached the dizzy heights of #2 on Amazon's Kindle bestseller list of Geology books. Check it out on Amazon (US, UK, Germany and France) and Smashwords (all other formats [Nook, iPad, etc.]). As always there is a free sample.
Ghost Moon, the sequel to Written in Blood is now available. Here's what Kirkus Reviews says: "Action fans will thrill to the gunplay and other dangers. James' conflicting feelings about his archetypically dangerous friend-and also a telling conversation with an old Mexican survivor of the Alamo about the difference between legend and reality-introduce thought provoking elements. A tale of the Old West with a sturdy historical base and nary a dull moment."Check out the Ghost Moon cover, too, it's one of my photographs.
Where Soldiers Lie is selling well. Why not pick up a sample for free or the entire book for only 99c on Smashwords or Amazon.com. Of course, the danger is you'll become addicted and have to pick up all my other titles, but what's life without a little danger.
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