At the end of the conversation, the rat stood on his haunches and shook Skyle’s hand, grinning a toothy grin.
“Good to have met you” he squeaked and, looking backwards with a wink, he ran off into the night.
Arnold glared at Skyle. “What nonsense have you cooked up with that egotistical rodent?” he asked.
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“Beau dreamed strange dreams. He dreamed he was a caterpillar, surging forward on hundreds of pairs of tiny feet. He dreamed of Invisimin, he dreamed of Skyle, he dreamed of his beloved Hare 7 and all the dreams were punctuated with squeaks and squeals.”
“The Professor emitted a series of squeaks and six paws shot into the air, each little rat trying to reach the highest. Professor Rodoric tapped a small grey eared rat on the shoulder. He clapped his little paws together and rolled up a sleeve, whiskers trembling with excitement.
The grey eared rat plunged his paw into the liquid then removed it from the mixture shaking droplets back into the bowl. His paw had vanished.”
Two years ago, on a rare week off in the summer holidays my son Alex & I were walking the dog across a local common. We passed our time imagining a world full of little people and hares, warmongering dwarves and impossibly vain moth men. Before we knew it, Calorean became lodged in our minds and wouldn’t let go. Then Alex asked if we could write a book about it and in a moment of ill-considered indulgence, I agreed. I signed up to a writing course with The Writing Magazine, wrote the first three chapters and after some very pleasing feedback from my tutor, mentally committed to completing the book.
Three months on and I began to flag. Writing a whole book was an enormous task & with two demanding day jobs, finding time to write seemed somewhat self-indulgent. But Na-No-Wri-Mo came round just at the right time & with the discipline of a daily word goal, all 67,000 words of Beau Garnie & The Invisimin Mine were finally completed. After a year of editing I thought my pledge to Alex was fulfilled; but writing the book wasn’t enough. He wanted it published too. So thanks to David and the team at PublishNation BG&TIM was born in paperback & kindle this week.
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Jacqueline Beard Writer 