Monday, 21 September 2009
Friday, 16 January 2009
Raclette, mark 2
No, this is not about my second attempt to make cheese ... I just thought I'd post something about how I'm getting on with the sequel to 'Raclette and the Siege of Mont 'Or' which is awaiting the attention of the 12th publisher (I hope to hear back from them in 3 months).
Raclette and Chester are married and living uncomfortably at Innperlenburg Palace in close proximity to Raclette's parents, King Géramont and Queen Emmental. The latter is as silly, controlling and manipulative as ever. They'd like to get a place of their own, but snooping out the murderer of Raclette's Aunt, the Dowager Duchess Mozzarella di Buffala is a lot easier in the palace, as any suspects must live or work there too.
Edam and Petrella are also married but owing to the reconstruction of the country after Morbier's invasion, times are hard. Edam is working on his father's thyme farm and Petrella has a job on 'The Daily Grind', the main Innperlenburg newspaper.
Pecorino, Petrella's younger brother, is champing at the bit, hoping to win the National Wheeling Championships, which are due to take place shortly. Petrella has to do a write-up on the contest.
It has been decided that the Palace Trap Gang will do some hunting for the elusive iron box, thought lost when Großkäsingen (Cheesing Magna) House burnt down, which contains proof of Morbier's crimes and which, it is hoped, will finally put Raclette's wicked Uncle behind bars. However, in the meanwhile, Morbier, undaunted by the death of his 'Baby', Gorgonzola, is up to no good, continuing his genetic experiments on rats, and has succeeded in breeding a succession of mutations for which he has found a ready market; more about that another time.
New characters so far; Norbury, another journalist on The Daily Grind, currently out in the East investigating some fishy business involving the Sultan of Ghazi and a depopulation programme. Grinding Manchego, the Chief Editor of The Daily Grind, greedy, unsympathetic and down on his employees like a tonne of bricks.
The 9th Baron de Roquefort and his wife the Baroness Delice (who happen to be Queen Emmental's parents) and their son, Albray, the 10th Baron-in-waiting, commonly known as Baroque. Later to appear in the story, Mortadella, King Géramont's banished sister.
I have to get on with some writing. Excuse me.
Raclette and Chester are married and living uncomfortably at Innperlenburg Palace in close proximity to Raclette's parents, King Géramont and Queen Emmental. The latter is as silly, controlling and manipulative as ever. They'd like to get a place of their own, but snooping out the murderer of Raclette's Aunt, the Dowager Duchess Mozzarella di Buffala is a lot easier in the palace, as any suspects must live or work there too.
Edam and Petrella are also married but owing to the reconstruction of the country after Morbier's invasion, times are hard. Edam is working on his father's thyme farm and Petrella has a job on 'The Daily Grind', the main Innperlenburg newspaper.
Pecorino, Petrella's younger brother, is champing at the bit, hoping to win the National Wheeling Championships, which are due to take place shortly. Petrella has to do a write-up on the contest.
It has been decided that the Palace Trap Gang will do some hunting for the elusive iron box, thought lost when Großkäsingen (Cheesing Magna) House burnt down, which contains proof of Morbier's crimes and which, it is hoped, will finally put Raclette's wicked Uncle behind bars. However, in the meanwhile, Morbier, undaunted by the death of his 'Baby', Gorgonzola, is up to no good, continuing his genetic experiments on rats, and has succeeded in breeding a succession of mutations for which he has found a ready market; more about that another time.
New characters so far; Norbury, another journalist on The Daily Grind, currently out in the East investigating some fishy business involving the Sultan of Ghazi and a depopulation programme. Grinding Manchego, the Chief Editor of The Daily Grind, greedy, unsympathetic and down on his employees like a tonne of bricks.
The 9th Baron de Roquefort and his wife the Baroness Delice (who happen to be Queen Emmental's parents) and their son, Albray, the 10th Baron-in-waiting, commonly known as Baroque. Later to appear in the story, Mortadella, King Géramont's banished sister.
I have to get on with some writing. Excuse me.
Thursday, 16 August 2007
Raclette
Got Raclette back from the latest publisher; very nice letter - regrets and all that; they hope I'll be more successful with someone else. All grist to the mill, I suppose. Maybe I should rewrite it so Raclette and Chester, or just Raclette finds Morbier and I end the story there instead of writing two sequels.
Hard cheese. :(
Hard cheese. :(
Wednesday, 18 April 2007
To publishers and agents
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'.
'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'.
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