My self-published book - a children's fantasy adventure - came out last summer but still needs support (readers!).
https://tinyurl.com/2feme7nr https://tinyurl.com/ywjar4vc
https://tinyurl.com/h2s8hkxs (Book preview - pdf)
But if you're reluctant to buy, request it from your local library. #childrensbooks

Well into the new year so it's time I started pushing my latest book again. (Came out July 2024). Available as a paperback or eBook. #childrensbooks
https://tinyurl.com/2feme7nr

#childrensbooks #ChildrensFantasy #childrensstories #Kidlit
Something different. A link to my author page. OK it promotes my book but has other stuff too. Like some insights into how my book came about and a page of odd favourite books I've read.

https://mytalesforkids.uk

For the lead up to Christmas the kindle edition of my Children's fantasy novel has been dropped to £0.99. #childrensbooks #childrensfantasy
https://tinyurl.com/yabek9b2

Special Halloween Treat!

I've decided, just for the week leading up to Halloween, to put up a PDF file of my children's novel. The whole book, free for Halloween! (It begins with kids trying to raise a ghost with a Ouija board). I wanted to put up Kindle file but it wasn't technically possible. Open it in your browser and zoom to get your best text size.
Here it is: https://tinyurl.com/t94feb6n

#childrensbooks #childrensfantasy #halloween2024 #Halloween

@RulesBuster @DoomsdaysCW
Racism deadens the mind.

#Texas county sidelines #librarians, reclassifies book on abuse of #NativeAmericans as "fiction"

Judd Legum
Oct 14, 2024

"A Texas county has mandated public libraries move a well-regarded children's book documenting the mistreatment of Native Americans in #NewEngland — #Colonization and the #Wampanoag Story — from the 'non-fiction' section to 'fiction.' The decision was made after the government of #MontgomeryCountyTexas, under pressure from #RightWing activists, removed librarians from the process of reviewing #ChildrensBooks and replaced them with a 'Citizens Review Committee.' Colonization and the Wampanoag Story was 'challenged' by an unknown person on September 10, 2024. The Committee responded by ordering that the book be moved to the fiction section of public libraries in Montgomery County by October 17, 2024, according to public records obtained by the #TexasFreedomToReadProject shared with Popular Information.

"The author of Colonization and the Wampanoag Story is #LindaCoombs, a 'historian from the #WampanoagTribe.' Coombs spent three decades working at the #WampanoagIndigenousProgram, an initiative to preserve the history of the Wampanoag people. The book is published by Penguin Random House, which describes the book as '[t]he true story of the #IndigenousNations of the American Northeast, including the Wampanoag nation and others, and their history up to present day."

"Colonization and the Wampanoag Story tells the real story of the brutalization of the Wampanoag people by #EuropeanSettlers. An excerpt:

"'[C]ertain ship captain began kidnapping Wampanoag men and those of other tribal nations along the coast. Sailors invited them aboard their ships under the pretense of trading, then lifted anchor and sailed away. The men were prisoners, stolen from their families and homes.

"'They were taken to #England and #Spain to be sold into slavery and paraded through the streets as "novelties," something for the people of Europe to gawk at as curiosities — not as human beings. Imagine how these men must of felt when they realized their situation: they would never see their children, parents, wives, relatives or communities and homelands again. What a terrible shock for all their families when they realized their men were gone — just disappeared forever.'

"This is fact, not fiction."

Read more:
https://popular.info/p/texas-county-sidelines-librarians

#IndigenousPeoplesDay #Colonization #Censorship #Fascism #IndigenousHistory #TruthAndReconciliation vs #LiesAndDenial

It will soon be Halloween. How about a book for the occasion? A story that begins, with a séance, leading to the opening of a mirror-gate into another world. Two children are pursued by terrifying magical creatures sent by a wizard after a great secret they unknowingly hold. Magic, mystery and a talking cat, an ideal Halloween story.
#childrensbooks #childrensfantasy

My new book has been out for a month now. A fantasy tale of children pursued through parallel worlds, aided by a magical cat. #childrensbooks #childrensfantasy
https://tinyurl.com/ywjar4vc (Amazon)
https://tinyurl.com/2feme7nr (Troubador)
https://tinyurl.com/h2s8hkxs (Book preview - pdf)

Before I say anything more ... you can get a book for free by requesting it from your local library. But if you're looking for something magical and adventurous for children aged 9-12, say as a birthday present or even an unbirthday present, you can check this out.
A fantasy tale of children pursued through parallel worlds, aided by a magical cat.
https://tinyurl.com/ywjar4vc (Amazon)
https://tinyurl.com/2feme7nr (Troubador)
https://tinyurl.com/h2s8hkxs (Book preview - pdf)
#childrensbooks #childrensfantasy

Publisher produced this nice graphic for my new kids' fantasy novel.
#childrensbooks #ChildrensFantasy
https://tinyurl.com/ywjar4vc

The eBook version of my children's novel is now available to order.
https://tinyurl.com/2feme7nr (scroll down)
#childrensbooks #ChildrensFantasy

My new children's fantasy novel is now available to order.
https://tinyurl.com/ywjar4vc
https://tinyurl.com/2feme7nr
You can get it free of course by requesting it from your local library.🔰
#childrensbooks #ChildrensFantasy

A two-chapter preview can be seen here: https://tinyurl.com/h2s8hkxs

#childrensbooks #ChildrensFantasy #childrensstories
My book is now printed! 💥My box of author copies arrived and my book will be officially available from the 28th July. (Available for pre-order NOW). Here's a pic of a few copies.

My book will be out soon. Meanwhile, here's a short extract:

>>At least it was quiet for several minutes. Then Selena started up in Charles arms.
“What’s wrong?” said Charles.
“Something’s coming. Listen!”
Whatever was coming after them was big and bursting past obstructions, careless of noise. Charley gasped.
“Run!” <<
#childrensbooks #ChildrensFantasy #childrensstories
https://mytalesforkids.uk/

#childrensbooks #ChildrensFantasy #childrensstories
Oops my cover had a minor error.
Here's the final version for the book coming out late July.

Book proofread and now I've approved a cover - the whole wrap-round, front, back, spine. (Book to come out late July).
#childrensbooks #ChildrensFantasy #childrensstories

Another extract from my kids book coming out late July.

Selena told her the spell. “But the words mean nothing unless your mind is in tune with the spell. Imagine the key fitting the lock, then the lock turning and the click of the lock opening.”
Charley instinctively grasped her twin’s hand and, holding out the key, she recited the spell as she’d been taught. The words were in an old form of Lyferith.

#childrensbooks #ChildrensFantasy #childrensstories

https://mytalesforkids.uk/

“Why did you give me this?” She pointed to her pendant.
“I believed it was only an ordinary charm. It’s more powerful than I thought. If I’d known it would’ve helped you get through to a mirror world, I’d never have given it to you.”

“Perhaps it’s a g-good thing you did,” said Charles. “Otherwise I’d still be a prisoner.”
Selena looked thoughtful for a moment in a curiously mixed cat and human way.
“Perhaps you were meant to use the pendant.”
#childrensbooks #ChildrensFantasy #childrensstories

Extract from my book coming out late July.
#childrensbooks #ChildrensFantasy #childrensstories

The shadow creature moved close to the side of the building where the shade let it stay invisible. It had the scent – not the scent a real hound would smell but a scent of magic, of the mirror magic. The scent of humans who had travelled through a magic mirror.

https://mytalesforkids.uk/