Hi Rosalie and thank you so much for having
me today. I am thrilled to be visiting with you.
I would like to talk about my short story Billy Cooper’s Awesome Nightmare – The Wickware Sagas.
It’s for the MG kiddos and it’s a time travel adventure. I have sent in four other stories and the plan is to have a book, starring kids of today coming face to face with historical legends of yesteryear. I am really excited about this project with Billy Cooper starring in Volume One.
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Seventh grader, Billy Cooper, watches as
the clock in his last hour class ticks by at a snail’s pace. Old lady Wickware’s mouth is moving but Billy
is paying no attention. History was not a favorite subject of his and besides
it’s Friday and he has baseball practice, right after this class, if that darn
bell would ever ring.
Billy had heard the rumors about Miss
Wickware. Weird things happened in her
class. Lights flickered, the radio would
turn on by itself, electricity would shoot out of the end of her fingers, things
happened to different students, but nobody was actually talking.
It was bunk! Miss Wickware was a nice old lady that cared
about history and her mission on earth was to boar Billy to death.
“And this oral report will be due on
Monday.” That got Billy’s
attention. “Everyone will draw a subject
out of this box. It does not have to be
long, just factual.”
Among the grumbling of the other students,
Billy’s mind was going over all the things he had planned for the weekend….
ball practice, the new Matt Damon movie, and fishing with his dad.
It’s Billy’s turn to draw his subject. William Tell.
Who was William Tell?
No worries.
A ten-minute search on the computer and he will bluff his way by on this
assignment. The bell rings and Billy smiles as he rushes out the classroom
door.
His attitude takes a different turn when he
wakes up the next day in front of William Tell’s home in the fourteenth
century. How did he get here and the
bigger question is how will he get home????
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Dum da dum dum dummmmmmm – LOL!
Thanks again Rosalie for having me.
I would love to offer someone who leaves a comment a copy of Billy Cooper’s Awesome Nightmare –
so everybody, please leave a comment and don’t forget your email address.
My website is www.pennystales.com and I really love it when folks stop by. I have a few more MG stories, Hike Up Devil’s Mountain and A Float Down the Canal!
Billy Cooper’s awesome Nightmare can be found at MuseItUp Publishing, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble!
Thanks again Rosalie for having me.
I would love to offer someone who leaves a comment a copy of Billy Cooper’s Awesome Nightmare –
so everybody, please leave a comment and don’t forget your email address.
My website is www.pennystales.com and I really love it when folks stop by. I have a few more MG stories, Hike Up Devil’s Mountain and A Float Down the Canal!
Billy Cooper’s awesome Nightmare can be found at MuseItUp Publishing, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble!
11 comments:
Great interview and your book sounds wonderful. Just recently I started reading YA and I'm loving it.
Love the sound of being transported back to the time of William Tell.
Although the premise is similar, Billy's adventure sounds completely different to Stefan's journey in The Unhewn Stone. I love time travel stories. What a great way to immerse yourself in history. To allow a skilled author to transport you... so you can absorb facts, atmosphere, culture and what life was like, with adventure thrown in. Works for me. :)
Hey Marian - thank you so much for taking the time to check it out. I really appreciate it.
I have read this story. It is a good one. Penny, you seem to know just how a child of today would react. I am so excited to read the others. When will they be out?
Stacey
Rosalie, I want to thank you for being such a fun and gracious hostess! It was fun and can hardly wait til we do it again!
Hi Stacey. Thank you for stopping by and I really appreciate the comments. It will be a while before the book comes out, but I am very excited about it.
I read your book too Penny, naturally, since our books relate to the same topic. Middle Graders will love yours. Central Switzerland is so beautiful and the people in the Uri canton care passionately about their legend. We stayed in Burglen, Tell's birthplace, and made friends with two Swiss women and their families. It's wonderful how writing and research bring people together, often as lifelong friends.
Hi Wendy. Thanks so much for checking out my guest post. I would LOVE to travel to Switzerland. Unfortunately, I had to travel to my computer to look up what it looks like! LOL
Hi Wendy. Thanks so much for checking out my guest post. I would LOVE to travel to Switzerland. Unfortunately, I had to travel to my computer to look up what it looks like! LOL
I would like to send PDF copies to all that commented (Wendy has already read it)
Thanks everybody for visiting and commenting.
This is cool!
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