Lee J. Mavin will be awarding a $30 Amazon/BN GC, 5 print copies of The Intergalactic Custody Battle (International Giveaway), and 10 print copies of The Diary of a 7th Grade Hybrid (International Giveaway) to randomly drawn winners via rafflecopter during the tour.
The Intergalactic Custody Battle
by Lee J. Mavin
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GENRE: Fantasy
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BLURB:
Ziggy has
been taken from away from Earth, stolen away so it seems to complete his
training on another planet. Little does he know that his Alien father has grand
plans for him, plans for him to take the royal throne and lead the Empire!
Ziggy’s mother (a mere human) wants him back so she is going to fight for her
Son’s custody, even if his father is the Emperor of an Alien race! An Alien
race that has plans to expand its Intergalactic Empire. Ziggy’s best friend
Hiroki, the tiny super genius, plans on finding Ziggy too, even if he does miss
his year twelve math exams. The Intergalactic Custody Battle is the first of a
trilogy that crosses the universe. Get ready for a wild ride across the galaxy!
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EXCERPT:
Sigmund
Zhao didn't have a good memory. He was always forgetting things. He had barely
scraped through Year Seven alive, trying to remember all those equations and
diagrams in Science and Math. They kind of went in one ear and then out the
other. It wasn't just school either. Sigmund couldn't remember a lot of things,
like the different apartments and primary schools he had moved to all over
Shanghai. He couldn't even remember his mother’s birthday or even his own.
However
he could remember one thing very well, the time his mother and father gave him
the talk, the talk that no child wants to hear. It was the Divorce talk.
Sigmund
remembered every word his mother had said.
'I'm
really sorry to tell you this, but your father and I are getting a divorce.
Your father is going to move away for a while but this doesn't mean he loves
you any less. We are just not meant to be together.'
He
remembered feeling alone and confused. He remembered crying for hours and
hours. He even remembered shrinking down into the corner of the room, crawling
like some sort of cockroach. Wait, that couldn’t be right. How could he have
shrunk? That isn't possible, is it?
But
he did. He’d tried to hide away from it all, from the confusion and the pain.
He’d felt himself shrinking smaller and smaller, then his arms had turned green
and he felt things stretching out of his back. Yes, that happened but everything
else was still cloudy.
Sigmund
could hardly remember his father. There was just a hint of his voice echoing in
the corner of his mind and a smell. He couldn't quite remember what kind of
smell, maybe a hint of pepper and something else. Something he had never smelt
before. It was too weird a smell to be anything familiar. It was some sort of
smell that didn't belong in Shanghai, in fact it didn't belong in China or the
even the entire planet! It was a smell from out of this world!
Excerpt
Two:
Two
green cockroaches sped toward earth in their silver space pod. Well, to call
them cockroaches is quite inaccurate actually, even though they did resemble
cockroaches in some ways. They were, of course, distant cousins of the creepy
brown insect you might find on your kitchen bench in the middle of the night,
but that’s getting a little off track. In any case, the two green
cockroach-like beings made their way into the Earth’s atmosphere.
The
bigger roach, who had more brown spots on his back than the other, shouted, 'Is
that Shanghai down there?' If you could understand the Zular language, that is.
The
other, smaller, green roach, who was steering (very badly) replied, 'I think
so; it is very hard to see through all that pollution. If we were going to sector
two, we would be able to see the horizon a lot clearer. That dimension is so
much simpler than this one.'
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
After six years in Shanghai,
I am finally back in Sydney (brand new home). Here I will teach and focus on my
writing! I will be starting my Phd in Arts at the University of Sydney in March
2015!
I have already polished off
a children's novel, a collection of poetry and am about to publish a series of
stories titled "The Students Sold Us Secrets Volume One" with ASJ
Publishers. http://www.asjpublishing.com/
I'm also kept on my toes by
my feisty wife and three year old daughter both of whom are Chinese. They like
to let me know how bad my Chinese is on a daily basis.Oh yeah, I used to be an
MC, I mean I was potentially the next Aussie Eminem,(just kidding) but there is
an EP by yours trully somewhere out there in the world wide web....
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GIVEAWAY INFORMATION and RAFFLECOPTER CODE
Lee J. Mavin
will be awarding a $30 Amazon/BN GC, 5 print copies of The Intergalactic
Custody Battle (International Giveaway), and 10 print copies of The Diary of a
7th Grade Hybrid (International Giveaway) to randomly drawn winners via
rafflecopter during the tour.
http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/28e4345f1673



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