Rosie Morgan welcomes Katie Stewart - talented author/illustrator.

Meet Katie Stewart from Australia.....

A cover designer, author AND illustrator.

Released today - 'The Time Smugglers'

Dragon has an announcement...

Meet Dragon

He's very excited, almost as excited as I am!

'The Time Smugglers' (The Camelot Inheritance - Book 2) is released on kindle today.

     'It’s been a year.

A year since Arthur Penhaligon swapped his skateboard for a sword and became a reluctant, teenage hero - and a Guardian of Cornwall.

Twelve months since he and his friends found themselves amongst time-travellers and ancient knights.

Fifty-two weeks of wondering what would happen next. The waiting is almost over.

On Cornwall’s shores, old and new enemies are gathering, more deadly and more powerful than the four Guardians could ever imagine.

Memories will live and the Time Keeper will be named. There will be bloody battles, death will finally claim its prize and a tiny green dragon will make its mark

…

Nick still jokes (all the time), and Gawain’s Uncle Kitto is just as mysterious. Tamar is even more feisty and Arthur finds that some old enemies will not die – well not quite.' 

Dragon making his announcement:)

So if you've been waiting for the next instalment of 'The Camelot Inheritance', it's finally here. I've been told by those who've been editing and proof-reading it for me that it's a real page-turner. My dream is that you all enjoy it just as much - if not more!
Dragon wants to make one more appearance before I finish my post.....

I'll add the links to take you straight to the book from here, but please, if you enjoy it, review it and spread the word among your friends. Meanwhile, Book 3 is bubbling. 

Amazon.com - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FI2SC5A

Amazon -UK - http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00FI2SC5A

Amazon -CA - http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00FI2SC5A

Fantastic 5* review and postcards from France

A fantastic review for 'The Golden Sword'

Thrilled to bits - that's what I am. Another 5* review and my holiday has just taken on an even happier glow.

This is the beginning of Lynn Worton's review - you can read the rest on the Amazon site - or Goodreads.

I received a copy of this book from the author in return for an honest review.

This is the first book in a series for middle grade children that takes the myths and legends of Arthur and gives it a modern twist. I loved it!

Lynn has many sites which you either runs or manages, I'll give you the links later but I've just broken my power supply for my trusty laptop - teeny crisis!!! So this is going to have to be a quick post:(

I wanted to post a few pictures of the gorgeous town of La Roche Bernard in France.
This is about 10 mins from where we're staying. www.franceguide.com

But first of all, quick update on the cover for the second book in 'The Camelot Inheritance' series. Katie Stewart in Australia is doing wonderful things. I'm SO excited. I'll let you know when it's ready to be unveiled, and Lynn will have it on her sites as well :)

To buy 'The Golden Sword' in the UK go to: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ANP31XA

To buy 'The Golden Sword' in the US go to: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00ANP31XA

There, beautiful isn't it!

A little piece of Camelot

#Camelot?

The hidden magic of Talland Bay, Cornwall

A little jewel of a place and the setting for part of Book Two of, 'The Camelot Inheritance'.
(Buy - Book One, 'The Golden Sword' in the UK:  http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00ANP31XA
in the US:  http://www,amazon.com/dp/B00ANP31XA )

It's well hidden at the end of a leafy, high hedged and winding lane. One minute you're surrounded by trees and wildflowers and the next, there it is - the tiny bay opening out to the endless sea.

It's here that the second instalment of Arthur's battle against dark and powerful forces begins.

And it's here where the dragon will be found.

Talland Bay, Cornwall

The Camelot Inheritance series - magic, mystery and adventure in Cornwall.  

And keep watching for details of the next competition in the next couple of weeks:)

Magical Cornwall: Looe raft race & a midsummer evening @ the Eden Project

Magical Cornwall in the summer

Featuring lovely Looe's annual raft race & the amazing Eden Project

It's been fabulous weather in Cornwall this week. There's so much going on it's hard to choose what to do.

So, in between writing #2 The Camelot Inheritance series, we've been out & about.

The video competition, for you to enter, is edging closer. More details extremely soon!

In the meantime here are a few photos for you to enjoy.

Looe raft race

The whole point of this is to make your own 'raft' and row around the course.

Some are quick, some don't make it...and some sink.

Looking up river

The finish line

It's world famous! The Eden Project has two massive 'biomes'. One is a rainforest biome, the other is a Mediterranean biome. The whole site is on a reclaimed clay quarry. If ever you're in Cornwall - go - visit.

Every summer the world famous Eden Project have a series of
evening events called the Eden Sessions.
Pete and I went to one on Monday, fabulous!

If you want to see a few more photos of south-east Cornwall, have a peek at the page at the top of the blog with the pics for the Golden Sword.

These places are all pretty close to where I live.

Competition coming very soon - Amazon gift certificates could be coming your way.

Hi folks - about time for a #competition!

Keep watching this blog for the competition details.

We're just about to launch a trailer for 'The Golden Sword'.The competition involves you watching it.

When we're ready I'll post the details on here.

So if you'd like some Amazon gift certificates emailed to you - stay alert!

And tomorrow I'm going to post some photos of a magical couple of days in sunny Cornwall. 

Raft race anyone? 

Meet Arthur, the Crow man and the time travellers.

Arthur Penhaligon: Time traveller? Inheritor? Skateboarder? 

Introducing Arthur, the Crow Man and the time travellers.

It's highly likely that if you're reading this post, you've got a copy of 'The Golden Sword', (at present only available in kindle but very soon in paperback as well) and wanted to find out more about some of the main characters.

I've got to know them so well that  to me they're as real as anyone I might meet. I could tell you all about them, and their families, but for now I'll confine myself to those in the post's title - otherwise this might be an extremely long post!

 

Throughout writing 'The Golden Sword', and the subsequent books in 'The Camelot Inheritance' series, the Arthur I've come to know is the boy in the photo.
He's dark-haired, brown-eyed, and quietly charismatic. Arthur spends a lot of time hanging out with his close friends, Nick and Tamar - and of course Tamar's dog, Mug Shot. His main passion in life is skateboarding, especially at the Yard, a newly converted skate-park in town.

Tamar's dog, Mug Shot - as imagined and drawn by Rosie Morgan

Up until now, life has been pretty ordinary but all that is about to change.

One summer's morning in the small Cornish town of Lyskeret a sinister stranger arrives, and within a day the lives of Arthur, Nick and Tamar are changed forever.

Meet the Crow Man

He's dark, dangerous and sinister. Not someone you'd want to meet if you were by yourself at night - or anywhere at all in fact. And everywhere he goes, he's accompanied by a crow.

The crow - as imagined and drawn by Rosie Morgan

And now, as I said I'll introduce you to the time travellers, and I will, but not in pictures. 

Viatoris and Servo are the two Watchers who've been assigned to observing the progress of Arthur Penhaligon. Their arrival occurs on the same day as the sinister Crow Man, but theirs is a quieter, less obvious entrance, because whenever possible they have to be invisible to those around them. 

For one of them, Servo, this task is made more difficult because he's also cataloguing the progress of a boy in Egypt, 3000 years away in time. 

The other boy's name is Joseph. He's the youngest son of Jacob and his brothers are furiously jealous of him because he's his father's favourite son. Jacob has even given him a beautiful coat marking him out as special. Not the wisest of parental moves!

So for Viatoris, life is relatively straightforward, his only commission is to observe Arthur Penhaligon in Cornwall in the 21st century (in this book anyway). But for Servo life is going to be a whole lot more complicated!

Tamar's picture & excerpt from, 'The Golden Sword'.

Tamar Tamblyn

Tamar is one feisty girl who loves her dog - Mug Shot.

Mug Shot as written about, and illustrated by Rosie Morgan

But she doesn't always get on so well with Nick, the third of the three friends who feature in 'The Golden Sword'.

Interesting fact :

If you're from another part of the world, you may not be aware that the river that separates #Cornwall from the rest of the UK is called the River #Tamar.

It doesn't quite cut us off from England, but in many parts of Cornwall we gaze across a fair expanse of water to Devon - whilst the rest of Cornwall is surrounded by the sea.

Kernow or Cornwall

It's a beautiful and, usually, tranquil river - quite unlike its namesake in, 'The Golden Sword'.
It maybe this river that makes Cornwall such a proud and individual county, determined to hold on to its ancient Celtic heritage; or it maybe that the Cornish are a defiantly different people. We might be English - but we're Cornish first.  

A tiny excerpt from the book to give a flavour of the girl who more than holds her own in the company of Arthur and Nick.

'Nick was rearranging his rucksack and Tamar was attempting to organise her dog because, in his excitement, Mug Shot had wound his lead tightly around her legs.

She looked down at him tugging impatiently, and muttered, ‘Out with two mad boys and a mad dog. Great.’

Arthur stood silently. He was acutely aware of just what he’d done and couldn’t think of anything to say to make it better.

It was Nick who eventually broke the silence between the three of them. ‘Okay then guys, we’re up here now, so what d’you want to do?’

‘Ask brain of the century not me!’ Tamar snapped.

Nick looked thoughtful. ‘Seems to me that now we’re here we may as well go up to the quarry.It may give us some ideas.’

‘What! Like how to get captured by a mad man with staring eyes, fantastic. Why not? Life is just too boring anyway.’ 

The self-opening book given to Nick
by the mysterious, new teacher at school.

Perhaps their friendship will become closer as their lives are infiltrated by magic, myth and mystery.

To buy 'The Golden Sword' ebook in the UK click - http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00ANP31XA

To buy 'The Golden Sword' ebook in the US click - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ANP31XA

The Quarry.....

The tension builds....

'They approached the entrance to the quarry together; it was surprisingly narrow and felt considerably more menacing than on the day of the school trip.

Arthur glanced at Nick and Tamar and realised that they each had their phones in their hands.

The walls of the quarry loomed high and forbidding blocking the sun, craggy rocks jutting out.'

Dare to find out what happens next?

Buy 'The Golden Sword' ebook in the UK click - http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00ANP31XA

Buy 'The Golden Sword' ebook in the US click - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ANP31XA

This quarry is on the moors, near the village of Minions. The other day we went for a walk near there and these wild ponies were grazing at the roadside.

Hey guys, I love to see you've visited my blog, hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoy writing it.

I'll post an excerpt from the next book at the weekend!

 

We all have a favourite character - who's yours?

Who is your favourite character in,'The  Golden Sword'?

It could be that at the start you identify with one of the main characters but after a few chapters your allegiance changes.
Mine changes all the time!
I've got a definite fondness for Nick, with his slightly irreverent take on life. I've known and taught quite a few people like him, and although they can be unpredictable, the world would be a boring place without them.
Tamar is feisty - I admire that, she can hold her own in almost any situation.
And she's loyal, she'll be your friend for life, although she doesn't take well to being teased. Especially by Nick!
And as for Arthur. His life is going to get especially complicated. Will he rise to the challenge? Will his friends stay and support him, or will he try to go it alone. He's quietly charismatic, the sort of person that other people look up to and follow - but that doesn't mean he's always willing to accept help! (Maybe we're all a little bit like that.)

In the shiny, updated edition of 'The Golden Sword', I'm enjoying the Watchers and the Writer.
The Writer might not be young, ( in fact she could be very old ) but she is most definitely cool.
I had a teacher who was very like her - I'll call her Mrs W.
Mrs W. taught us French and we would be in BIG trouble if we forgot our homework. She never shouted, she didn't need to because everyone respected her. Mrs W. had white hair which she wore up and she always had her glasses on a string around her neck - just like the Writer.

As for the animals....
Cathe is quite like one of our cats, although I like Mug Shot as well.
My father-in-law was a vet in Plymouth, Pete and I lived above his surgery for a while. Sometimes I would be called down to help with an operation (animals have always played a big part in our lives). Believe me, watching him operate on the animals was enthralling, although probably not to everyone's tastes.

When I was growing up we had Siamese cats and we also had a Boxer dog called Jenny. My cat, Chai, shared her basket from when he was a tiny kitten. Jenny would sit in her basket and then Chai would climb in beside her and Jenny wouldn't move in case she hurt her.
And now I'm sitting at my laptop with my cat, Oz, on my lap!

Book Two has additional animals and some great new characters. Keep an eye on this blog for further updates and for news of the publication of the next in the series of, 'The Camelot Inheritance'.

Since writing this post, 'The Time Smugglers' has been published... it has quite a few new people and animals but I can't tell you my favourite, that might spoil the plot.
And at the time of editing this post (December 2015) I can reveal that the third in the series isn't too far off being published, I'm pretty excited about it.

If you want to write to me I'd love to hear from you, I'd be fascinated to know who, or what, you like in my books.

Until later folks,

Thanks for popping in. X

Buy 'The Golden Sword' ebook in the UK click - http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00ANP31XA

Buy 'The Golden Sword' ebook in the US click - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ANP31XA