Tag: children’s mystery

Kindle Kids Books

I’ve published two kids books on Amazon through kindle.

First off, here’s a fantasy tale called ‘The Miraculous Destiny of Edward Cooper’. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07C1T5F28

My second novel is called ‘The Trials and Tribulations of a (Wannabe) Teenage Rock Star’. I think the title’s pretty self-explanatory. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08DLTZF6B

By the way, adults can read these books. They’re not sweary or rude, but have fun and spills and thrills, good guys and bad girls (good girls, too. And a couple of really bad guys).

Here’s the link to my Amazon Author’s Page: https://www.amazon.com/author/chrismctrustry

Trade Children’s Books

The writing trade for children can be broadly broken down into two types: Trade publishing (books that can bought in bookshops – both physical and online) and education publishing (books that are used to teach children reading, comprehension and the like). Inherent to both of these forms of publishing are age brackets:

  • Picture Book
  • Early Reader
  • Chapter Book
  • Middle Grade
  • Older readers
  • Young Adult.

Phew.

Here are the trade titles I’ve had published:

Published by: Reed for Kids, Australia
Published by: Reed for Kids, Australia
Published by: Addison Wesley Longman, Australia
Published by: HarperCollins, Australia
Published by: The Five Mile Press, Australia
Published by: The Five Mile Press, Australia

Books of Mine Number 2

My second children’s novel was ‘The Card Shark‘. 

This was published in the Mammoth Mystery series by Reed Books (Melbourne). 

The best way to tell you what the book is about is to check out the back cover blurb (I wrote this, too): 

After a severe case of crossed wires, Sean’s valuable sports card collection ends up in the hands of his arch enemy, Max Logan.

When the collection goes missing, Sean is accused of stealing it! Knowing the only way to prove his innocence is to catch the culprit, Sean sets out to catch the Card Shark.

I was very pleased when this book was shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Crime Writing Award (children’s mystery).  I didn’t win.  Gary Crew won. Oh well, you win, you lose some . . .