Max
and the Gang Of Five
By
Helen Ellis, Illustrated by Lucy Ellis
 Monifieth
Maximilian is a pedigree Burmese cat. One day he jumps the
back fence and his life is never the same. A funny and fast-moving
story for children 7-12 (and their Mums and Dads), Max and
the Gang of Five is an adventure over back fences and through
grass, swamps and rivers. It will entertain readers about
friendship, teamwork, and how to clean burrs from their fur.
AUD$18
(Paperback)
Send me a copy please.
Awakenings
- E-Book
 Would
you trust a two-dimensional friend from an internet chat page,
and run to her when leaving an abusive and violent husband?
Mary Illingford does. She leaves Paul, helped by her feisty
daughter, Jenni, who accompanies her to the island of Santorini,
Greece. Once there Mary meets Eleni, owner of beautiful apartments
overlooking the stunning caldera lake, Julia from England,
John, Eleni’s family friend, and discovers life isn’t
just fear and drudgery.
Jenni and Marios, Eleni’s son, fall in love and are
challenged by the differences in their cultures and the spectre
of a long-distance relationship. When Jenni is eventually
accosted by Paul in his attempt to find Mary, she realises
that her love for Marios at least deserves a chance...
Awakenings
investigates the formation of overseas friendships through
the internet, and their extension into real life - still a
relatively new and controversial concept.The beautiful but
strange and mysterious island of Santorini is the setting
for this romantic drama.
AUD $10
Send
me a copy please.
The
Rosanne Stories - Short E-Book
Meet Rosanne. She’s not your average gentle geriatric,
loving granny, happy homebody or serious senior citizen. Oh
no. She’s bemused, opinionated, bewildered, perverse,
not to mention a trifle wacky, and with some rather bizarre
friends as well. But her heart’s in the right place
if she can just find it. And food is of major importance,
of course...
Six hilarious short stories
AUD $5
Send
me a copy please.
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In Preparation:
War
and Peace - the Musical
Novel
- Contemporary Women’s Fiction - Comedy Romance, 100,000
words
What would
you do if you came home and found a letter from your husband
saying he’s left you for the barbie-doll office receptionist?
Elle Charlwood turns her back on her city life and heads off
to Mirribool, the home of her childhood friends, twins Shelley
and Liam Devlin to try to piece her life together. Things
take a turn for the better for Elle, because gradually she
becomes absorbed into life in the country town, where the
bizarre local characters make great copy for her new job with
the regional newspaper. When the friends decide they need
a hobby and join the local amateur Musical Society, which
has a grant to adapt Tolstoy’s War and Peace into a
stage Musical, Elle is drawn into real life war and peace,
while desperately trying not to fall in love with Liam.
War
and Peace - the Musical is completed, and about to go
in search of a publisher.
Two
Sides of the Coin
Novel
- Contemporary Women’s Fiction - Comedy Romance, 100,000
words
When cousins
Marigold Sheppard and Lainie Greenwood set out for a round
the world trip together, they are not exactly convivial companions.
Beginning their adventures in Greece, their journey takes
an unforeseen twist, for when they meet Englishman Jeremy
Sandford on the island of Santorini, they are set on completely
different paths.
Lainie,
an insecure musician, seeking solace after a tragic family
loss, leaves Jeremy and Marigold to their ‘love affair’
and moves to the Island of Naxos where she meets Andreas Galanis,
a Greek/Canadian businessman. Andy offers Lainie respite -
keeping house while he renovates his old historic home. But
he carries a painful secret, and his life is complicated by
the sudden need to take custody of his son. Lainie helps Andy
deal with his problems and while doing so turns her own life
around.
Marigold, a confident and self-absorbed actress is hired by
the reticent Jeremy to act as his ‘girlfriend’
to stop attempts by his family to marry him off to his mother’s
friend’s daughter. In order to make the deception authentic,
Marigold has to lie to Lainie, leave her, and travel back
to England with Jeremy. But Marigold finds out too late that
Jeremy is really the son of a Baronet. She is suddenly plunged
into high society, requiring all of her acting expertise.
The two conspirators battle Jeremy’s dysfunctional family
while failing to notice their own real attraction.
Two Sides of the Coin is completed, and about to
go in search of a publisher.
Number
Thirteen
Novel
- Women’s Fiction - Suspense and Paranormal, 75,000
words
Sandy Ford talks to houses and they talk back to him, but
nobody takes any notice of him when he tries to warn people
of impending events. That’s probably because he’s
only seven years old. His mother, Sarah, becomes increasingly
alarmed, especially after she purchases, together with her
new partner Jon, an old house, Number Thirteen, Small Street.
Several of Sandy’s predictions come true immediately,
and when he tells Sarah there is a ‘Presence’
in the house which is causing severe deterioration in Jon’s
mental health, she knows she must attempt to find out the
reason for the haunting. The return of her ex-husband Damien
from abroad, and his wish to be reunited with his son Sandy,
complicates Sarah’s relationship, but when things go
really wrong, Damien is also caught in the terrifying aftermath
of Jon’s mental collapse and the revenge of the ‘Presence’.
Number
Thirteen is completed, and in its final edit.
Castles
Novel
- Mainstream Fiction - Drama, 75,000 words
‘A
man’s house is his castle’. Famous sixteenth century
words, but so twenty-first-century-relevant to the staff of
RJ Simpson Realty (Head Office). When real estate consultant
Scott Burnham sells the rundown riverside apartment, he sets
in train a circle of sales, linking seven different ‘castle’
stories with his own. Scott has a talent for relating to his
clients, but is inept in his pursuit of his rival, the lovely
Jessica Knowles. Scott’s sales are - The Apartment,
The Renovator, The Four-Bedroom Home, The Main Beach Penthouse,
The Waterfront Mansion, The Modest Town-house, and lastly
the Family Villa. Each ‘castle’ has its own story
of the people who live there, and, unbeknown to them, they
are all linked through Scott. His last sale - the Family Villa
- allows a devoted elderly couple to move into a retirement
village and give the money to their grandson to buy the first
Apartment... the circle is complete. As Scott sells these
seven hugely different homes, he learns about life, and finds
that happiness is right under his nose - and it isn’t
with Jessica after all.
Castles
is completed, and in its final edit.
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Short
Stories:
Arita’s
Choice
I've written
many short stories with a Greek background. Maybe you would
like to read one of them. This is a romantic drama, set on
the island of Santorini (then called Strongyle) in the year
1650 BC and based on fact. At that time, the island volcano
exploded into the major eruption which wiped out most of the
land. Sea water filled the void and formed the present day
beautiful caldera lake. The picture you’ll see is part
of the ongoing excavations on the actual site of Akrotiri.
Gradually the ash layer is being dug away, to reveal the ancient
town in situ.
If you
enjoy this story, perhaps you would like to read my eBook
Awakenings, also set on Santorini,
but in the year 2008 AD.
You can
read this for free here: http://greekpixandwords.com/words/other.html
More
stories coming soon...
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