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Scam on the Cam, the third volume in the Sesame Seade series, is coming out in just one week!

Best cover so far? I think so.

I can’t believe it’s already almost the end. I would cry if I were a bit of a crybaby, which I’m not. But also, it’s not really the end – it’s just the apéritif. Because more and more people all over the world are now reading the Sesame books!

And so many kids – so, so, so many kids. It’s brilliant to see that so many of them love the books, and they tell you they do, and when you ask them why they do, they say things like: ‘Because… because… I don’t know’ and when you ask them which bit they prefer they say ‘I like the moment when… well, I like how… oh, I don’t know’. Which is, I’m sure you’ll agree, the best possible review one can get.

“I don’t care about your narcissistic dribble! What’s the book about?”

It all begins when Sesame, Gemma and Toby find an authentic pirate chest on the banks of the river Cam. Could it have anything to do with the fact that a mysterious illness seems to be striking, one after the other, the rowers of the Cambridge University Rowing Team, just a week before the Oxford/ Cambridge Boat Race? (hint: it does).

Sesame is faced with more problems than one, since her precious sidekick Gemma appears to have fallen in love with the deplorable Julius Hawthorne. As for Toby, he’s more interested in collecting frogs. And the pirates always seem to turn up just at the wrong time… Will Sesame solve this tricky mystery? (hint: she will)

Here are some other important facts about Scam on the Cam:

It’s about the Boat Race, but it’s ten times more gripping than the actual Boat Race. No, make that a hundred times. You can read it while other people are watching the race, and laugh and laugh and laugh and say that they’re missing out.
It’s my favourite of the three, and also Sarah’s favourite of the three. And a few bloggers have hinted that it was also their favourite.
Something terrible happens to Sesame’s Phone4Kidz phone.
We meet a real French pirate.
There are many animals, including the usual (cats, ducks, parents), but also new ones (frogs, fishes, rowers).
It’s the last one for now!

Conclusion: this is what you should do now: go into your local bookstore and say “AHEM AHEM! I can see there’s [delete as applicable] only three/ one/ no copies of the Sesame Seade Mysteries in here!” and when the bookseller says, “The sesame seed mysteries? Maybe that’s in the cookery-book department,” you reply “Certainly not! it belongs here. It’s written by Clementine erm… Clementine ermm… Beaver? Beavis? Bovine? Well, something like that. Look it up!”. Then you order quite a few, for your nephew, your goddaughter, your great-aunt and your neighbour, and one for yourself.

And you’ll end up with this rather pretty array of Sesame books

ALTERNATIVELY, you take part in this…

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BOOK GIVEAWAY!

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In order to win a copy of Scam on the Cam, leave me a comment on this blog answering this little question:

Which big sport event would you most like to gatecrash spectacularly? and how would you make your big entrance?

Results in 2 weeks’ time!

Not very long till the second Sesame Seade book comes out! It’s called Gargoyles Gone AWOL, and I’ve just received my own author copy:

Yeah the background and the dress are a bit dark but I promise I’m happy in reality.

Look at the three of them (almost) together!

Can you spot the one that’s not quite there yet?

ALRIGHT WHAT’S IT ABOUT???

This is a book for readers who would have liked to be lizards. Not in the sense that they would have liked to eat flies, have very brittle tails, and be entirely dependent on sunshine to bring their body temperature to a level allowing for a slight chance of survival. Rather, in the sense of being able to climb walls at astonishing speed and hide in nooks and crannies.

That’s exactly what Sesame is up to in Gargoyles Gone AWOL. Because, you see, lots of gargoyles have been mysteriously disappearing from the walls of the Gothic colleges in Cambridge – and as everyone knows, they can’t have just flown away, right? … right?

Picture of absolutely real Gargoyles not gone AWOL.

Add to this a trail of pawprints that look like nothing Toby-the-animal-expert has ever seen, a tsunami of mice (tsunamice), parents turned suspiciously non-annoying, and a cat turned dramatically lethargic, and you’ve got the plot of Gargoyles.

Sorry, what? You’re wondering how this plot can hold together without a pair of toddlerish twins solving jigsaw puzzles? Oh yes, of course, I’d forgotten about those.

Also, Sarah added a badger playing the ukulele.

Sarah also added to the mix a badger playing the ukulele. I’m not sure what she’d had for breakfast that day.

CAN I READ AN EXTRACT FROM THIS CONVOLUTED-SOUNDING NOVEL?

You may indeed! For Chapter 1 is available right here for free and your perusal!

This absolutely believable story will hit bookstores on October 4th, which is also the due date of one of my closest friends, but I hope her baby ends up being less complicated than mine (and that mine doesn’t wake me up every night for the following six months).

It’s supposed to be funny. I will very modestly (not) point at the reviews of Sesame Seade, book 1 – Sleuth on Skates, to say that if it’s anything like the first one, it should make you laugh. Unless you’re an incredibly sour person with no sense of humour, entertaining murderous thoughts about children and kittens, in which case what are you doing on this blog when you could be stuffing apples with razor blades in preparation for Halloween?

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Anyway, as an international competition to win a signed copy of Gargoyles Gone AWOL (or unsigned if you prefer your books un-written-in), why don’t you leave a comment telling me which building in the world you’d most like to climb?

Personally it would be the Eiffel Tower, because one of my favourite films as a kid used to be this splendid classic of French comedy, Un Indien dans la ville (“An Indian in the City”), a not at all Orientalist story where a young savage climbs up the Iron Damsel.

As I said, not for Said.

Leave your answer in the comments!

Around the 6th of October I will ask the Gods of Randomness to pick a winner, and s/he will get the book for free in the post and a sample of my saliva on the back of the envelope.

Bye bye and happy climbing!

Clem x

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