Now you can download free sample chapters of Cara Louise's children's novels - The Boy From the Hills and Annie and the Dragon on podcasts.
If you go to www.caralouisebooks.bttradespace.com and click on podcasts you can hear the opening chapters free.
http://caralouisebooks.bttradespace.com/TSContainer/TS1/default.aspx
Suitable for readers aged 8-12.
THE BOY FROM THE HILLS
Jamie is alone by the ancient standing stone on the wild summit of Oldstone Hills. A violent storm springs up and a strange boy suddenly appears before the stone, bringing a whole new dimension of mystery into Jamie’s rational, twentieth century world.
A novel for children aged 8-12, featuring Stonehenge, standing stones, telepathy, time travel and ancient mystery.
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Yuri Leitch - Illustrator
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
SIGNED FIRST EDITION - THE BOY FROM THE HILLS
For Children 8-12.
Jamie is alone by the ancient standing stone on the wild summit of Oldstone Hill. A violent storm springs up and a strange boy appears, bringing a whole new dimension of mystery into Jamie's rational world.
Features telepathy, Stonehenge, standing stones, ancient wisdom.
Published 1983.
76 pages. Full colour cover. 6 full page colour illustrations. Black and white line drawings head each chapter.
Illustrations by Andree Wilson.
A few signed copies available.
£5.99 plus £1.00 post and packing.
Order securely on line with Paypal.
Credit/debit cards, personal cheques and postal orders also accepted.
To order send e-mail to caralouise@talk21.com entitled book order.
Jamie is alone by the ancient standing stone on the wild summit of Oldstone Hill. A violent storm springs up and a strange boy appears, bringing a whole new dimension of mystery into Jamie's rational world.
Features telepathy, Stonehenge, standing stones, ancient wisdom.
Published 1983.
76 pages. Full colour cover. 6 full page colour illustrations. Black and white line drawings head each chapter.
Illustrations by Andree Wilson.
A few signed copies available.
£5.99 plus £1.00 post and packing.
Order securely on line with Paypal.
Credit/debit cards, personal cheques and postal orders also accepted.
To order send e-mail to caralouise@talk21.com entitled book order.
Signed Limited First Edition - ANNIE AND THE DRAGON
Cara Louise. Cover Illustration by Yuri Leitch.
For Readers Aged 8-12
Annie hates being dragged to her uncle’s church every Sunday. She wishes the Dragon would win his fight against St George.
Suddenly she finds that everywhere she looks, her village is full of dragons and realises the Dragon of Windlesham has a message - for her alone.
When Annie follows the trail, she discovers the secret of the Dragon and to save the land, she must take action to end a century old curse.
44 pages. This first edition limited to 25 copies only. Published 2007.
£3.99 plus £1.00 post and packing.
Pay securely on-line with Paypal.
Credit/debit cards, personal cheques and postal orders also accepted.
To order send e-mail to caralouise@talk21.com entitled book order.
THE GUARDIAN AND THE GODDESS
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Cara Louise
For Readers Aged 9-12
Tom is a loner. Unable to make friends at school, the despair of teachers and caught while shoplifting, he feels that the whole world is against him.
The only time he can truly be himself is when he is alone in the wide expanse of Haleford Park.
One day, while sitting near a spring, the strange figure of a monk appears to Tom and teaches him the secrets of the landscape.
To bring back life to the neglected land, Tom must first deal with the notorious Kev and his gang, and he finds the road to enlightenment is never an easy path to tread.
48 pages
Cover Illustration by Yuri Leitch.
£3.99 inc. p&p
Order securely on line via PayPal or Credit Card. Also personal cheques or postal orders accepted.
Send e-mail to caralouise@talk21.com entitled book order.
Cara Louise
For Readers Aged 9-12
Tom is a loner. Unable to make friends at school, the despair of teachers and caught while shoplifting, he feels that the whole world is against him.
The only time he can truly be himself is when he is alone in the wide expanse of Haleford Park.
One day, while sitting near a spring, the strange figure of a monk appears to Tom and teaches him the secrets of the landscape.
To bring back life to the neglected land, Tom must first deal with the notorious Kev and his gang, and he finds the road to enlightenment is never an easy path to tread.
48 pages
Cover Illustration by Yuri Leitch.
£3.99 inc. p&p
Order securely on line via PayPal or Credit Card. Also personal cheques or postal orders accepted.
Send e-mail to caralouise@talk21.com entitled book order.
FENG SHUI AND BABYLON
FENG SHUI AND BABYLON
Cara Louise
Cover Illustration by Yuri Leitch.
Special Limited Edition - 25 copies only
For Readers 12+
Andy lives in a high rise flat in a rundown part of the city. He spends most of his time futilely wandering the streets. He feels there must be more to life than this pointless existence and starts to have strange dreams of an exquisite garden country where everything is perfect.
A beautiful Chinese girl leads him through the land but his failure to listen to her words leads to terrible results.
Feng Shui is the ancient Chinese art of the geomantic siting of buildings to ensure the harmonious relationship of people with the land.
This story was inspired by an article of the same name in Quicksilver Messenger 1983 by Nigel Pennick. It is based on the study known as Earth Mysteries and aims to encourage respect for the earth.
28 pages.
£2.50 inc. p&p.
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Credit/debit cards, personal cheques and posal orders also accepted.
Send e-mail to caralouise@talk21.com entitled book order.
Monday, July 30, 2007
THE LADY OF THE ROCK
The Lady of the Rock
22 page booklet.
For Readers aged 9-12.
Cover illustration by Yuri Leitch.
Near the village where Edward lives is a great rock face in which he can see the figure of a mysterious lady.
Her appearance changes from a laughing young girl in spring to the mother of fruit and grain at harvest time, to a barren, wizened hag in winter.
When a greedy landowner decides to quarry the rock, Mother Earth proves in a dramatic way that she is mightier than man.
£2.50 including post and packing.
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Credit/debit cards, personal cheques and posal orders also accepted.
Send e-mail to caralouise@talk21.com entitled book order.
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Have just been checking out the psychic children website and James Twyman's site on Indigo and psychic chidren.
I was intrigued to read of Michael Scallion's work on Blue Ray Children published in 1988 in which he claims these children are prototypes of a new root race.
Characteristics include:
They have vivid dreams and recall their dreams easily.
Have an affinity with learning languages.
Can be determined and stubborn.
Stare into space a lot.
Vary between a daydreaming state and being highly focused.
Have a desire to travel to foreign countries.
Oh my goodness. I can tick all of those. All my friends and family would certainly agree with 1,3,4 and 5. I drove (and continue to drive them) crazy with my dream accounts, daydream states and sudden bursts of singleminded drive. As for 2 and 6, see my profile I also went into an ecstatic state of consciousness when I was a child at the sight of a deep blue crayon and used to say I came from the Blue Ray. Everyone always said I was "funny."
James Twymnan and other writers on Indigo and other psychic children seem to suggest they are born in the last 25 years or so, which lets me out.
Maybe I was a kind of proto type. An early experiment of Mother Nature. I don't think I was a very successful one though.
Reading on James Twyman's site www.emissaryoflight.com. about psychic children in Bulgaria who can transmit metal bending abilties to others and a 6 year old in China in whose presence 1,000 rose buds opened simultaneously, my psychic powers are somewhat feeble.
I was inspired after reading that to try bending a kitchen knife through psycho-kinesis, but it didn't so much as quiver. Probably a good thing as I am always in trouble for not putting knives back in the right place in the block. Mangling the stainless steel would probably get me thrown out of the house.
As for making flowers open, our lillies remain tightly shut. Poor things can't face all this rain in our Great British summer and they obviously aren't impressed by my psychic powers of persuasion.
Now I did have an incredible dream about lilly men dressed in green with flower caps when I was about eight which I still recall really intensely and regularly chat to the lilly man who looks after ours down here in rainy North Devon. And I'm off to Austria and Brazil later this year. And Bulgarian is my 6th language or there abouts. (I keep losing count though am fluent in none as I country hop so much and have to start learning another one.)
Hey, Maybe there is hope for me yet.
Did I see that spoon bend, just a little?
http://www.psychicchildren.co.uk/1-4-ChildrenOfTheBlueRay.html
http://www.jamestwyman.com/_.aspx?t_t=5
I was intrigued to read of Michael Scallion's work on Blue Ray Children published in 1988 in which he claims these children are prototypes of a new root race.
Characteristics include:
They have vivid dreams and recall their dreams easily.
Have an affinity with learning languages.
Can be determined and stubborn.
Stare into space a lot.
Vary between a daydreaming state and being highly focused.
Have a desire to travel to foreign countries.
Oh my goodness. I can tick all of those. All my friends and family would certainly agree with 1,3,4 and 5. I drove (and continue to drive them) crazy with my dream accounts, daydream states and sudden bursts of singleminded drive. As for 2 and 6, see my profile I also went into an ecstatic state of consciousness when I was a child at the sight of a deep blue crayon and used to say I came from the Blue Ray. Everyone always said I was "funny."
James Twymnan and other writers on Indigo and other psychic children seem to suggest they are born in the last 25 years or so, which lets me out.
Maybe I was a kind of proto type. An early experiment of Mother Nature. I don't think I was a very successful one though.
Reading on James Twyman's site www.emissaryoflight.com. about psychic children in Bulgaria who can transmit metal bending abilties to others and a 6 year old in China in whose presence 1,000 rose buds opened simultaneously, my psychic powers are somewhat feeble.
I was inspired after reading that to try bending a kitchen knife through psycho-kinesis, but it didn't so much as quiver. Probably a good thing as I am always in trouble for not putting knives back in the right place in the block. Mangling the stainless steel would probably get me thrown out of the house.
As for making flowers open, our lillies remain tightly shut. Poor things can't face all this rain in our Great British summer and they obviously aren't impressed by my psychic powers of persuasion.
Now I did have an incredible dream about lilly men dressed in green with flower caps when I was about eight which I still recall really intensely and regularly chat to the lilly man who looks after ours down here in rainy North Devon. And I'm off to Austria and Brazil later this year. And Bulgarian is my 6th language or there abouts. (I keep losing count though am fluent in none as I country hop so much and have to start learning another one.)
Hey, Maybe there is hope for me yet.
Did I see that spoon bend, just a little?
http://www.psychicchildren.co.uk/1-4-ChildrenOfTheBlueRay.html
http://www.jamestwyman.com/_.aspx?t_t=5
Limited Edition - The Serpent of the Wood
THE SERPENT OF THE WOOD
Cara Louise.
Cover illustration by Yuri Leitch.
Special limited edition - 25 copies.THE SERPENT OF THE WOOD. 21 page story.
For Readers Aged 7-11
Mysterious Park Wood gives Sally the chance to escape from the hassles of school. But when the woods are threatened by plans to build a hypermarket, the strange serpent-spirit of the land begins to stir.
Sally must listen to the voice of the woods and rally her friends to take on the might of the local council and big business.
This story is set in Park Wood, in the Glastonbury Zodiac. The cover illustration is by Yuri Leitch who has just brought out his own new book on Glastonbury. For details click on psychic questing portal link.
£2.50 inc. p&p.
Order securely on line using Paypal.
Credit/debit cards, personal cheques and posal orders also accepted.
Send e-mail to caralouise@talk21.com entitled book order.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
New Booklet!
Biffy understands the mysterious beings who live inside the ancient burial mound near his home. When Jacko and his gang begin to use the mound as a scrambling ground for their motorbikes, Biffy’s warnings of trouble come dramatically true.
Available now. Biffy and the Barrow.
20 page story for readers aged 7-11.
£2.50 including p&p
Order securely on-line using Paypal.
Credit/debit cards, cheque, postal order also accepted.
Order by sending e-mail to caralouise@talk21.com entitled book order.
Cover illustration by Yuri Leitch.
Limited edition - 25 copies only.
Saturday, July 14, 2007
New short fiction soon to be published plus brilliant bookbinding course for writers.
Am in the process of republishing my short fiction - THE SERPENT OF THE WOOD, THE GUARDIAN AND THE GODDESS, THE LADY OF THE ROCK (For 8-12s) and FENG SHUI AND BABYLON. (For 12+)
These will be available on quality paper from sustainably managed forests.
The only thing holding up publication now is Hewlett Packard's scam of marketing print cartridges that only last for about 150 copies. Need to find more economical printer or source of cheaper print cartridges.
Have prepared these short booklets prior to publishing longer novels thanks to amazing bookbinding course which empowers the writer to publish short print runs and market from home, cutting out the publisher entirely. This course is one of the best investments I ever made as a writer and publisher. Will shortly be putting details on this blog.
These will be available on quality paper from sustainably managed forests.
The only thing holding up publication now is Hewlett Packard's scam of marketing print cartridges that only last for about 150 copies. Need to find more economical printer or source of cheaper print cartridges.
Have prepared these short booklets prior to publishing longer novels thanks to amazing bookbinding course which empowers the writer to publish short print runs and market from home, cutting out the publisher entirely. This course is one of the best investments I ever made as a writer and publisher. Will shortly be putting details on this blog.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
New Booklet!
At last! After weeks of work, I have finally republished the first of my short fiction for readers of 8-12. BIFFY AND THE BARROW is a 20 page story printed on quality paper from sustainably managed forests which is part of a series aimed at encouraging children to respect the planet and the natural forces of the earth.
BIFFY AND THE BARROW is the story of Biffy, a young boy outside mainstream society who understands the "fairy folk|" who live in the burial mound or barrow near his home.
When Jacko and his gang decide to use the mound as a scrambling ground for their motorbikes, Biffy's warnings of trouble come dramatically true.
First published as a limited edition as part of my BA course at Manchester Metropolitan University in 1994, the updated version is published by Cara Louise Books.
£2.50 + £1.00 post and packing.
£2.50 inc. p&p.
Order securely on line using Paypal.
Credit/debit cards, personal cheques and posal orders also accepted.
Send e-mail to caralouise@talk21.com entitled book order.
BIFFY AND THE BARROW is the story of Biffy, a young boy outside mainstream society who understands the "fairy folk|" who live in the burial mound or barrow near his home.
When Jacko and his gang decide to use the mound as a scrambling ground for their motorbikes, Biffy's warnings of trouble come dramatically true.
First published as a limited edition as part of my BA course at Manchester Metropolitan University in 1994, the updated version is published by Cara Louise Books.
£2.50 + £1.00 post and packing.
£2.50 inc. p&p.
Order securely on line using Paypal.
Credit/debit cards, personal cheques and posal orders also accepted.
Send e-mail to caralouise@talk21.com entitled book order.
Monday, June 11, 2007
North Devon children's book author at Victorian Procession
Press release: posted 12th June 2007
Contact:
Cara Louise.
mail to:caralouise@talk21.com
http://www.caralouisebooks.com/index.htm
12th June 2007
North Devon Author of Children’s Books Takes Notes at Ilfracombe’s Victorian Procession.
North Devon author of children’s books, Cara Louise, attended Ilfracombe’s Victorian procession on Saturday 9th June to make notes for a forthcoming novel.
Cara, whose books feature time travel, secret codes and societies,ghosts and UFOs, has a particular interest in the Victorian era. Her trilogy “The Beast of Biddersley Grange” is set in a Victorian mansion and features a group of children on community service who travel back to the 1850s to battle a deranged headmaster who uses his pupils in experiments with time.
Cara’s books can be found on http://www.caralouisebooks.com/index.htm and on http://www.amazon.co.uk.
Please use web site address in any release
Photograph attached.
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