Happy Halloween!
However you spend your Halloween, enjoy it in your own special way!
A Witchy Book for Halloween?
Surely it’s a must! Gertie Grimthorpe is born into a society of witches and grows up in Vile Vale, but there is something very wrong with her … she is beautiful and couldn’t be nasty if she tried.When she finds out that she is to attend a private academy for magical children, Gertie hopes to find her witchy way in the world.With a moat monster suffering from stomach ache, a short-sighted owl familiar, and mishaps galore, Gertie’s adventures are hilarious and heartwarming.Join Gertie as she struggles with growing up (and longing to grow her first wart), learning magic and working…
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Great Reads for Halloween
Don’t miss some of these perfect reads for Halloween, all available on Amazon in paperback and on Kindle!
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Coming Soon!
This year Crimson Cloak Publishing are bringing out an illustrated children’s Christmas book! Written by Lynne North and illustrated by the highly talented Jack Foster it is not a book to miss! Christmas Under Threat Christmas is the most exciting and busiest time of the year. All the elves are hard at work making toys for Father Christmas, and Bodo the Chief Inventor Elf is desperately thinking up new ideas for this year’s special toys. He loves the work, but someone else isn’t quite so happy. Luka is jealous. He is sure he could invent much better toys than Bodo,…
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Wordsearch
We have wordsearch puzzles based on each of our books free to download from a link on the Freebies page of our website. Check them out here Here is one of them to start you off!
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Freya’s Child
What would a parent do to save their child? Fight the dead? Defy the gods? Helen Gunn moves to the Wirral, an area of England rich in ancient history, with her estranged husband and their three year old daughter Charlotte, in the hope of saving their marriage. When Charlotte starts talking to an imaginary friend and dark shadows threaten the family, Helen must face a parent’s worst nightmare and save her child. The Viking Einaar brought his family to England to farm the land and live in peace, but a sickness walks among his people and his child is blamed….
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Halloween
It will soon be Halloween everyone. I’m sure my book character ‘Gertie’ will enjoy this important day in all witches calendars! Though we celebrate Halloween on 31st October each year, do you know why? Well, here is a brief explanation! Halloween seems to have its roots in the Celtic celebration of Samhain, the last day of the Celtic calendar. Samhain was a Pagan harvest festival celebrated by huge sacred bonfires in honour of the dead, marking the end of the Celtic year and the beginning of a new one. Fire often symbolised the power of the sun,…
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Check out Unlucky For Some for Halloween!
In Unlucky For Some you will find a compilation of thirteen macabre short Twist in the Tale offerings guaranteed to chill your soul and take you to dangerous places you really shouldn’t go alone. You will be transported back to the 1800s to contact your dearly departed, into Out of the Body Experiences at your own risk, and through a recurring dream that might, or might not, be your actual reality. These are but a few of the thirteen scary life changing happenings you will experience between the covers of ‘Unlucky For Some’. The diverse tales all vary, one from…
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Words to Make you Think
Opportunities don’t just appear. You have to build them.
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Nails by Matt Nuth
A story too disturbing to be true, too possible to be ignored, and it should frighten each of us. Nails is a powerful exploration of society’s willingness to sacrifice freedom through the eyes and actions of three deeply flawed people who are thrown together into a riveting, dark and twisted world in which each of them is used and discarded by those in authority. Tau is a man who would slit his own mother’s throat if the opportunity arose. He is recruited to help change a future election, and, in the process, move Democracy closer and closer to autocracy. Simon…
