I've been spending a frustrating morning trying to find a publisher/ agent for my novel,
'Raclette and the Siege of Mont d'Or'.
Trying to get one's foot in the door as a new author is about as easy as reaching the moon on the end of a balloon.
Raclette is the feisty and resourceful Crown Princess of the tiny European mouse kingdom of Mont d'Or. On the day that her parents, weak King Géramont and domineering Queen Emmental, deliver her an ultimatum to marry one of several disagreeable suitors before her 18th birthday, horrifying news arrives; wicked Uncle Morbier, (creator of Gorgonzola, a monstrous, two-headed mutant rat) long envious of his older brother's wealth and royal position, has allied with the love-sick, conceited Mars Capone, and has invaded the kingdom.
Raclette, who would rather continue to run her youth club, the Palace Trap Gang, (P.T.G.) where the main sporting craze is 'wheeling', flees marriage, Morbier and Mars Capone. On the run, and in the process of planning her uncle's defeat with the help of the P.T.G.'s clandestine spying activities, Raclette meets and finds herself unwillingly drawn to an unexpected ally in the mysterious Chester Wedge, apparently an itinerant but singularly inept musician.
After a series of fur-raising adventures in which Raclette, Chester and friends almost meet their doom, catastrophe is averted, Mont d'Or saved and dreams finally come true.
Until ... the sequel ...
'Raclette and the Catacombs of Ghazi'.
