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.
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?
———Book giveaway!———–
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