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Scruffy, rude, bad-tempered mystery adventures for the young at heart
I am writing a series of adventure stories suitable for those aged twelve to adult featuring scruffy, rude, bad-tempered
Scottish rock creatures called Gomes ( NOT gnomes). These will be published in September
2008 by Windstorm Creative, a wonderful publisher with a great philosophy. They publish interesting and innovative
books for people of all ages. Check them out at: www.windstormcreative.com I have a blog that accompanies the series. Check it out at: www.gomeworld.typepad.com In addition to getting background information (and random ramblings) about the stories, you can hear me reading
the opening couple of chapters of each of the books)
The first book in The Blackhope Scaur Trilogy is called The Rusty Pelican. Here is a summary of it: For Finnley McDougall Sixth Grade
homework is boring and dumb. He is having enough trouble impressing his mom, hiding from his Latin teacher, and surviving
Alex Drivelson, the school bully. The last thing Finn needs is more essays on Mesopotamia. What he wants is more
action and adventure than his quiet neighborhood in Seattle can provide. But when Great Uncle Hugh McDougall arrives
from Scotland, he gives Finn a most unsual gift - a scruffy, rude, bad-tempered Scottish rock creature called Wullie who brings
danger and disaster with him wherever he goes. From French snobs in fancy hotels to urine-soaked alleys and rusting
barges on the Seattle waterfront Finn is drawn into an evil plot that threatens to destroy everything he loves. The
only person who thinks that Finn is smart enough or brave enough to make a difference is his best friend and next door neighbor,
Hadley Kobayashi, a girl who is wiser and tougher than Finn is. If only they can survive being choked by Lavender perfume,
drowned in Elliott Bay, or burned alive in a coal furnace, Finn and Hadley might just prove everyone else wrong.
If you want to hear me reading the fist couple of chapters go to:
http://gomeworld.typepad.com/gome_world/2007/05/the_rusty_pelic.html
The second book in The Blackhope Scaur Trilogy is called The Abandoned Mine.
Here is a summary of that story: A summer vacation in Scotland: weird food, ancient castles, people you can't
understand, fabulous candy, rugged hills, sandy beaches, cross-eyed hotel waiters and tacky gift shops. What's not
to like about that for two thirteen-year-old best friends from Seattle? Plenty, with parents who are self-centered goofballs
or overbearing worry-warts. And somewhere around them an evil plot is being put together by a gang of European crooks
to hurt them all and destroy the pride of Scotland. Finnley McDougall and Hadley Kobayashi bring with them clues that
don't make sense from the secret book of Bluebeard-The-Pit-Bing-Gome. They reconnect with Wullie, the pocket-sized,
scruffy, rude, bad-tempered rock creature who got them into all this trouble in the first place. If they can just figure
out the connection between Gimpy, Slushbum, Stottermou, The Scaur o' Blackhope, a psychotic helicopter pilot, a slobbering
Tasmanian Rhino hound, a flooded quarry and an abandoned coal mine, maybe they will be able to prevent the crooks from stealing
the heart of Scotland and destroying the city of Edinburgh and everyone in it. Including them.
If
you want to hear me reading the first couple of chapters of this story go to:
http://gomeworld.typepad.com/gome_world/2007/05/blackhope_scaur.html
The third book in The Blackhope Scaur Trilogy is called The Doomed Castle.
Here is a summary of that story: The Edinburgh Military Tattoo: Hundreds of squealing bagpipies, gymnastics,
battle re-enactments, a military fly past, laser shows, fireworks all out on the castle esplanade and seen be floodlight.
It should be the best vacation ever, a dream come true for most thirteen-year-old American visitors. But for Finnley
McDougall and Hadley Kobayashi it is something to dread. Somewhere a gang of greedy, cruel humas and three armies of
evil gomes are planning an attack somewhere in Edinburgh Castle. They have a bomb. They have a helicopter.
They have a hatred of humans in general and Finn and Hadley in particular. They have thousands of Lignites, Graywackies
and Slag Piles on their side. What can two small children and one very small, scruffy, rude, bad-tempered gome to do
stop them?
If you want to hear me reading the first couple of chapters of this story go to:
http://gomeworld.typepad.com/gome_world/2007/06/the_doomed_cast.html
The stories of The Blackhope Scaur Trilogy will be published
in the summer of 2008.
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