 |
Happy Christmas, time to kidnap yourself into mad scientists territory...
Yes, the perfect gift for anyone with an e reader, and the need to take over the world with mad-science is now available as an ebook - just buy a copy and contact me, or my publisher phantomfeatherpress(at)gmail(dot)com and you could be in to win one of five paperback copies - yet to be officially released in April 2016
"Rabid rodents, a fun read!" Lee Murray
Miss Lionheart and the Laboratory of Death from award-winning writer A J
Ponder is the first part of a science fiction adventure intended for
middle grade readers.
The story opens with the heroine, Miss Lilly
Lionheart, snatched off the street by Mr Big, the CEO of GKS
Laboratories and the least important crime lord in the World Wide Web of
Evil. Bundled into his underground bunker, Lilly is being forced to
genetically engineer a dreadbeast for Big’s Spring Catalogue of Evil.
She has no choice in the matter, not if she plans to live to see New
Year. But even if her science skills were up to creating an
arachnid-reptilian hybrid in the short weeks before Christmas, her
social skills are not, which makes managing her rag-tag scientific team
somewhat problematic. As if that isn’t enough, someone seems to be
watching her, someone other than Big’s ruthless security thugs and their
ubiquitous cameras…
A former scientist myself, and slightly nerdy, I
wish this book had been written when I was younger. Just as Lewis and
Tolkien opened our imaginations for fantasy, Ponder’s is the kind of
tale to prompt an interest in science in its young readers. Just how
long would a squirrel-snake hybrid need to gestate anyway...
Happy Christmas everybody and don't forget to say goodbye to the Tuesday Poem blog, with the final poem, What I didn't know then
A.J.
Author of Quest, Prophecy, Omens, Miss Lionheart and the Laboratory of Death, Wizard's Guide to Wellington, Attack of the Giant Bugs - a You Choose Science Adventure, and The Frankie Files.
Find my stories and support my writing on ko-fi And tell me which poems you'd like to see in my upcoming poetry book—2024
No comments:
Post a Comment