Tony Bertauski

Broschiertes Buch

Gingerman (Large Print)

In Search of the Toymaker (Science Fiction Adventure)

Beschreibung

WELCOME TO THE SCHOOL WHERE CHRISTMAS IS MANDATORY. Twelve-year-old Chris Blizzard thinks he's hit the jackpot. He scored a last-minute invite to the Institute of Creative Mind, an elite mountain school that runs on snow, secrets, and year-round Christmas cheer. Candy cane chandeliers. Creativity as currency. It's the kind of place where even detention smells like nutmeg. But underneath the cheer, something is seriously off. Failure isn't just punished. It's erased. Cameras watch everything. Students vanish without explanation. And at the top of it all is Lord Kris Pelznickel, a reclusive founder who hasn't been seen in years but still manages to breathe down everyone's neck. Rumor says he's not looking for grades. He's hunting for talent. As Chris scrambles to keep up with his gifted classmates, he stumbles on a hidden message buried in his textbooks. Decorations start glitching, students start disappearing. Then winter shows up early. The campus walls close in. And the line between student and toy starts to blur. Now Chris has to unravel the Toymaker's legacy before he becomes just another cog in the Christmas machine. Gingerman: In Search of the Toymaker is a darkly whimsical mash-up of holiday fantasy, boarding school mystery, and a pinch of dystopia. Perfect for fans of Coraline, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, and A Series of Unfortunate Events, it's a cautionary Christmas tale about creativity, conformity, and the price of fitting in.

Autor

I grew up in the Midwest where the land is flat and the corn is tall. The winters are bleak and cold. I hated winters. I always wanted to write. But writing was hard. And I wasn't very disciplined. The cold had nothing to do with that, but it didn't help. That changed in grad school. After several attempts at a proposal, my major advisor was losing money on red ink and advised me to figure it out. Somehow, I did. After grad school, my wife and my two very little children moved to the South in Charleston, South Carolina where the winters are spring and the summers are a sauna (cliche but dead accurate). That's when I started teaching and writing articles for trade magazines. I eventually published two textbooks on landscape design. I then transitioned to writing a column for the Post and Courier. They were all great gigs, but they weren't fiction. That was a few years later. My daughter started reading before she could read, pretending she knew the words in books she propped on her lap. My son was a different story. In an attempt to change that, I began writing a story with him. We made up a character, gave him a name, and something to do. As with much of parenting, it did not go as planned. But the character got stuck in my head. He wanted out. A few years later, Socket Greeny was born. It was a science fiction trilogy that was gritty and thoughtful. That was 2005. I have been practicing Zen since I was 23 years old. A daily meditator, I wanted to instill something meaningful in my stories that appeals to a young adult crowd as well as adult. I hadn't planned to write fiction, didn't even know if I had anymore stories in me after Socket Greeny. Turns out I did.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Tony Bertauski
• Seitenzahl: 482
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 692g
• ISBN-13: 9781951432706
• ISBN-10: 1951432703
• Artikelnr.: 60657289