Plum Crazy is my latest novel for children (9-14 years), recently uploaded to Amazon Kindle – both paperback and e-book. Ideally, however, I’d like a nice publisher to take me on for this and other titles.

Below is a bit of blurb:

‘Are you happy?’ asked the Lord of the Prunes.
‘What a question,’ replied Jim. ‘But, if you must know, life sucks. The kids are rotten. The teachers are rotten. Even the food’s rotten.’
‘I could change all that,’ said the little fruit. So saying, he grants Jim three wishes which whisk them both off to Australia, then America and finally by rocket ship to the International Space Station. Along the way the unlikely duo enlists a motley crew of kids and tame adults to help solve the mystery of Greengage Manor and defeat its resident witch.

Jim Skelly, an overweight twelve-year-old, finds a talking prune in his pudding on an adventure centre holiday at Greengage Manor. Bullied by both children and staff, Jim accepts magical help from the prune. There follow adventures in which Jim learns to assert himself and carry out dangerous missions. His main adversary is Penelope Blackthorn, the centre manager, who is suspected of having dark powers but turns out to be a scientist using children as guinea pigs and accidentally turning them into animated prunes. A toxic waste chemical company holding a conference at the hall is also implicated but, after a battle between the children and executives, a truce is negotiated and the company help Jim and his friends in their mission to win a trip to NASA’s space centre in Florida. Having been turned into a prune himself and not able to reverse the spell, Jim is smuggled into luggage for America and eventually aboard a rocket in an astronaut’s kit bound for the International Space Station. Before being discovered Jim manages to fix an air leak and is proclaimed a fruit-sized hero.

Note – no live prunes were harmed in the making of this book.