Category:  Children Publisher: A Better Be Write Type: Fiction Copyright: October 1, 2007 Three children find the lost gold of Jefferson Davis'and become suspects in a school fire. A multi-cultural paranormal mystery for pre-teens (8 to 13 years old) plus older or younger, everyone will enjoy reading The Anna Mae Mysteries: The Golden Treasure. Set in Lowry, Georgia during the 1990's, the story deals with two twelve year old friends, Raoul Garcia and Anna Mae Botts, and her younger eight year old brother, Malcolm. Anna Mae Botts inherits her grandmother's gift of possessing paranormal abilities. Her parents disapprove, but they're away for the week. During that week, three things happen. The first day of school the black fist makes its presence known. The school bully, PitBull and his gang of five, plot how to destroy and discredit Anna Mae and Raoul. The school burns turn. Join Anna Mae, Raoul and Malcolm as they try to solve the mystery of Jefferson Davis' gold and who would deliberately set fire to the school!

The Black Fist Cinematic Image!
Elizabeth Caldwell asked me to review for you her children's book/series The Anna Mae Mysteries.

I had to email back and ask which books those were, because I didn't remember from the title. I'm a reviewer and I handle hundreds of titles a year for The Monthly Aspectarian, a New Age Magazine published on paper then posted to their website. My column is eventually archived on my domain -- http://www.simegen.com.

So Elizabeth reminded me this was the one about the BLACK FIST. I had read the manuscript several hundred books ago.

Now that black fist is the most cinematic image I've read in a long time in a children's book. It etches itself into the mind and won't go away.

It makes the entire book and all the characters instantly memorable. These characters become real people while you read this book, and I expect kids would run around pretending to be these characters.

These novels need to be marketed to film, but first they have to be brought to the attention of librarians for read-aloud sessions. These are books that will make children want to read the words themselves.


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Olfactory Senses Used Well
When I realised that it wasn't adult fiction I didn't think I would enjoy it, but I was wrong.

Although the editing work I do is for all genres for adult readers, I was very impressed with your work, The Anna Mae Mysteries: The Golden Treasure. I was caught up admirably by the spectre of the glack gauntlet and its' timely apparitions.

As a high school teacher (11 to 18) for thirty years I know plenty of pupils in the young teens would would be gripped by the antics of Anna Mae. Move over Harry Potter and Shadowmancer! You might think their
Britishness would hinder their appreciation of your American novel but although I had to look up Whippoorwill, kids over here adore American lifestyles, even those that flit randomly to Civil War times!

Much of my cricism of writers focuses on their insufficient show instead of tell, but wow EC, you demonstrate how its done! YOu use olfactory senses particularly well that poor Anna Mae had so many aromas spreading, creeping up and filling her poor nostrils, I loved it!

Youngsters rarely want very serious literature, nor characters that are too ridiculously comic for a whole book, but you grab the correct yet difficult balance.

Good luck with it.