Ping, Pong,
Gone?
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Between the puppet master's strings, five Gropti tiptoe and dart. A tiny hybrid must become the scissors, if he is smart.
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Outcasted from the Arachni nest, Binbopti knew he was different. A penny-sized hybrid of sorts. What had happened to him? And, why did he keep having terrible visions of his five clown doll friends withering away? Desperate for answers, Binbopti explores the old house but when a human boy gets stuck in their world, things turn even darker. Someone or something is behind the bad goings on. Can Binbopti figure it all out and cut the strings before it snares them all?
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Where've the Gropti
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PING, PONG, WHERE'VE THE GROPTI GONE? written by Nadine Chatergon with an illustrated cover is a Middle Grade Low Fantasy novel, a soft Dark Fantasy with an endearing Status inner genre - at 57,000 words. A nod towards the dark fantasy of Robin Jarvis's The Deptford Mice crossed with the human element of The Borrowers, readers will find themselves immersed from the very beginning in the hidden world of an old house in Shenfield, Essex, filled with intriguing clues and perils and a dollop of whimsy.
​Their curiosities will be driven to explore alongside our main character, Binbopti, an outcasted hybrid who finds belonging among the Gropti (if he can catch them!), a group of mischievous mute doll creatures who roam about the house and disappear into mysterious portals. But in his quest for answers, Binbopti unravels a tangle of sinister clues. And when a couple of human children, Wren (10) and Sharni (12), become trapped in their world, things take a turn for the worst. Characters start disappearing one by one. First the Arachni. Than the Old Doll in the Spare Room. And finally, to Binbopti’s horror, the Gropti too. All gone. Binbopti comes to the dreaded conclusion - these are not accidents. Someone is behind it all. A grotesque puppet master with a concealed identity lies in wait.
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Maidostar
Follow the
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Stuck in a fantasy world of our making, can we escape even whilst losing our minds?
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Intro Harriet Foxglove a.k.a. DENI (21), an insecure junior animator in London, who after enduring the recent blows at work and home, receives the dreaded news... she's lost her job. Driven to escape reality, she spirals with a deteriorating mind into her fantasy world, where she awakens stuck! But far worst, her very presence imbalances that world into dire peril. There's no other choice. Deni must embark on a long and treacherous journey to beat the encroaching darkness and save not only the others, but herself.
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FOLLOW THE MAIDOSTAR written and illustrated by Nadine Chatergon is a YA/Adult-crossover Portal Fantasy novel, a soft Thriller with a compelling Worldview inner genre - at 93,000 words, with 35 illustrations, and fully illustrated cover. Flavoured with a retro-modern fusion, FOLLOW THE MAIDOSTAR offers up a quintessential journey inspired by classics such as The Edge Chronicles by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell, and Jim Henson's Labyrinth. But this is not just a story filled with engaging subplots and heaps of wit and whimsy, not to mention a forbidden one-sided romance. It's also a question - is the fantasy world real or a figment of our protagonist's ill mind.
Accompanied or hindered by a host of endearing characters including Rufus, a Frenwin steampipe engineer with anger management issues, Deni is forced to outrun The Darkness, a physical and symbolic manifestation of the intense feelings she seeks to avoid from her troubled reality. But as she soon finds out, the only way to truly escape The Darkness is to finally face herself.
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