Targeted Age Group:: 5-12

A novel by 8-year-old:A Magic Mirror slurps Ara and Felice into the story “3 Little Pigs”. Can the kids rescue the pigs? Or twist the plot entirely!?

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How Did You Come up With Your Characters?
Its me and my sister

Book Excerpt/Sample
My life was all normal, but then things had to change.

My name is Ara. I’m 9 and I have a brother named Felice who is 5 years old.

Also, I am new to Toronto and things are just so different here. All I want to do is go back to Arizona, but that’s just me.

My brother is not too sad, he doesn’t miss his friends too much because he already got a new friend, Aziz.

But I haven’t made any new friends here because of all the weird things.

Sometimes I ask my mom, why we had to move and my mom always says, “Because I’ve got a really good business job,” and she ends the conversation.

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One day, I was dreaming about going back to Arizona when my brother (rudely) shook me awake.

“Ara! the mirror in the basement is shaking!” yelled my brother.

“Felice, that doesn't make sense,” I say.

“Look for yourself,” says my brother.

I go have a look because I do not want Felice to annoy me for the rest of the night. I go down to the basement and I'm shocked to see…

The mirror is SHAKING!!!!

I get closer to inspect and accidentally bump into it. It glows yellow and then it starts to suck us in.

“Ahhh!!!!” I scream.

Meanwhile my brother looks like he’s having fun.

Can you believe that? My brother could have fun if a 10 feet alligator was looking for a very certain meal-us!

I look around, hoping to find something to hold on to, but our basement is empty except for some old boxes that could never support our weight.

We go falling into the mirror.

Author Bio:
Anushka is eight years old. She is in grade 3.
She was born in Arkansas,USA , then moved to Chicago, Dallas and now in Toronto.
She started reading at the age of two. She is an avid reader,a regular member of the local libraries since she was a toddler, and has read over a 1000 library books just in the past one year.While stuck at home during Covid-19 she wanted to do something constructive and that’s how she nurtured the idea of writing a book.
Her schooling started at Preston Hollow CDC , then Children's Courtyard, Universal Academy and now at Seneca Trail. This fall she will be starting at Coronation School where she has been selected for the "gifted program". Anushka enjoys reading, bike riding, and movies. She is also very good at ice skating. She has a sister Arushi, in kindergarten.
Anushka has inspired many little readers during her in-person Book Events, who now want to pursue their dream of becoming an author. Anushka is very active in the community, and donates part of her proceeds to charitable organizations like "Durham Children's Aid Association" ,"Hearth Place Cancer Support Centre","Autism Home Base Durham Inc.",etc . She also sends donations to Ghana for little kids.

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Targeted Age Group:: Adult, YA

Suzanne finds a dead body on a ski slope at a Lake Tahoe resort. There seem to be a lot of people in California and Nevada who wanted to see the victim dead. Which one killed him? From the lush forests, well-groomed ski slopes, and scenic grandeur of the Tahoe wilderness to the glitzy casinos of Reno and the sumptuous excesses of the Hollywood party scene, Roger follows a twisted trail of treachery to a killer who just might have committed the perfect murder. This suspenseful thriller, which can be enjoyed as a standalone novel, is available in e-book or paperback formats.

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What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
I know the setting well as we live an hour's drive from Lake Tahoe. I wanted to use this very special place as a backdrop for a thriller. All of my books are designed to be read as standalone mysteries, but the series features recurring characters who deserved a good vacation. And I wanted to do an updated contemporary treatment of the classic noir California private eye novel as a series entry.

How Did You Come up With Your Characters?
Most of my characters are not new, but are veterans of previous books in the series. Roger and Suzanne, my main detectives, are in all of the books. The other people in the book have characteristics borrowed from real individuals I know or have worked with, and are adapted as needed for their roles in the story. A few of the minor characters just popped into my head as I went along, so we might say they introduced themselves to the story as needed.

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In the spring the top layers of snow on the well-groomed and well-marked ski slopes were machine made, covering the many times melted and refrozen natural snow known affectionately to the locals and visiting skiers as “Sierra Cement”. To each side of the groomed slope were “out of bounds” areas where the snowpack was irregular, with occasional rocks, trees, and bushes marring the natural snowpack and creating a safety hazard. Advanced skiers often liked to ski on real snow in these out of bounds areas, rather than the manmade variety on the groomed slopes, in areas where the natural snowpack out of bounds was adequate to cover all of the obstacles.

About a third of the way down the carefully groomed slope they were skiing on, Shasta spotted a likely looking stretch of real snow that had been protected from melting by the shade cast by a thick stand of pine trees further beyond the out of bounds markers. She turned gracefully to the right heading in the general direction of the clump of trees beyond the out of bounds marker, calling out to Suzanne to follow. They both slowed down to enjoy the feeling of real powder snow under their skis until they got a good look at what was waiting for them in the out of bounds area further down the slope.

As they neared the trees, well beyond the groomed slope all of the other skiers had descended, Suzanne saw what appeared to be a downed skier, half-buried in the snow lying motionless. From the extensive damage to the back of his head, it was obvious the victim was dead. The two women pulled up several feet from the downed skier, not wanting to disturb what might be a crime scene.

Suzanne, like Shasta no stranger to finding dead bodies, pulled out her cell phone and dialed the emergency number she had programmed into the instrument before beginning skiing today. “I want to report a dead body off one of the ski trails at Squaw Valley,” she told the emergency response operator who answered.

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The author writes “tweener” mystery books (tough mystery stories that follow the cozy conventions of no graphic sex and no cussing), all published as e-books on Amazon Kindle, with ten currently also published as paperback versions. They are fast moving and designed to entertain the reader. Several of the earlier books in the series introduce the readers to Latin America, a region where he has lived and worked that is a long way from home for most English speakers. Jerry selects the most interesting places that he has lived in or visited for Roger and Suzanne to solve miscellaneous murders. Jerry and his wife Elaine (who edits all of the books) breed, show, and hunt test prize-winning German shorthaired pointer dogs.

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