The Intergalactic Custody Battle
by Lee J.
Mavin
GENRE: Fantasy
BLURB:
Ziggy
has been taken from away from Earth, stolen away so it seems to complete his
training on another planet. Little does he know that his Alien father has grand
plans for him, plans for him to take the royal throne and lead the Empire!
Ziggy’s mother (a mere human) wants him back so she is going to fight for her
Son’s custody, even if his father is the Emperor of an Alien race! An Alien
race that has plans to expand its Intergalactic Empire. Ziggy’s best friend
Hiroki, the tiny super genius, plans on finding Ziggy too, even if he does miss
his year twelve math exams. The Intergalactic Custody Battle is the first of a
trilogy that crosses the universe. Get ready for a wild ride across the galaxy!
EXCERPT:
Sigmund Zhao didn't have a good
memory. He was always forgetting things. He had barely scraped through Year
Seven alive, trying to remember all those equations and diagrams in Science and
Math. They kind of went in one ear and then out the other. It wasn't just
school either. Sigmund couldn't remember a lot of things, like the different
apartments and primary schools he had moved to all over Shanghai. He couldn't
even remember his mother’s birthday or even his own.
However he could remember one thing
very well, the time his mother and father gave him the talk, the talk that no
child wants to hear. It was the Divorce talk.
Sigmund remembered every word his
mother had said.
'I'm really sorry to tell you this,
but your father and I are getting a divorce. Your father is going to move away
for a while but this doesn't mean he loves you any less. We are just not meant
to be together.'
He remembered feeling alone and
confused. He remembered crying for hours and hours. He even remembered
shrinking down into the corner of the room, crawling like some sort of
cockroach. Wait, that couldn’t be right. How could he have shrunk? That isn't
possible, is it?
But he did. He’d tried to hide away
from it all, from the confusion and the pain. He’d felt himself shrinking
smaller and smaller, then his arms had turned green and he felt things
stretching out of his back. Yes, that happened but everything else was still
cloudy.
Sigmund could hardly remember his
father. There was just a hint of his voice echoing in the corner of his mind
and a smell. He couldn't quite remember what kind of smell, maybe a hint of
pepper and something else. Something he had never smelt before. It was too
weird a smell to be anything familiar. It was some sort of smell that didn't
belong in Shanghai, in fact it didn't belong in China or the even the entire
planet! It was a smell from out of this world!
AUTHOR BIO:
After
six years in Shanghai, I am finally back in Sydney (brand new home). Here I
will teach and focus on my writing! I will be starting my Phd in Arts at the
University of Sydney in March 2015!
I
have already polished off a children's novel, a collection of poetry and am
about to publish a series of stories titled "The Students Sold Us Secrets
Volume One" with ASJ Publishers. http://www.asjpublishing.com/
I'm
also kept on my toes by my feisty wife and three year old daughter both of whom
are Chinese. They like to let me know how bad my Chinese is on a daily basis.Oh
yeah, I used to be an MC, I mean I was potentially the next Aussie Eminem,(just
kidding) but there is an EP by yours trully somewhere out there in the world
wide web....
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7 comments:
Good Morning and thanks for the great giveaway
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Really great post, I loved the excerpt! I can't wait to read this one :)
An interesting blurb.
Wishing you a great Memorial Day weekend. Be safe and enjoy and would like to salute all those who have given their lives in defense of this country. Thank you for this giveaway as well
Sounds like a great read.
Stopping by and thanking you for giving us the opportunity to win. Have a great Sunday!
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