Tall Tales

Think of a planet, possibly even Earth. Now imagine it's the past... or maybe the future, it doesn't really matter. The important part is that the planet is entirely covered in water. One great big ocean, with not one shred of land. Every sort of building or enterprise you can imagine, takes place on boats and ships. The President and the Government do what they can to keep order, but pirates are still a rather large problem.

This is the world of Tall Tales.

Amongst all of these pirates, Government officials, and normal people, there is a crew composed of Hermes Stilt, a man with stilts for legs, Vanessa the sheep, a ghost named Jacob Daniels, Arthur Scopes a lawyer, a blind doctor by the name of Greta McKlecky, Aphrodite Dutch the ex-wrestler chef, the once legendary senile navigator Edith Font, a crocdilian fisherman called Nigel, and a teenage alchemist known as Nicholas Addamule.

Together they sail the globe, looking for legal treasure and a bit of fun, but often end up dragged into world affairs that tend to threaten everything that wants to keep on living. Whilst they all joined for their own reasons, Stilt formed the crew in order to hunt down a demon who took his legs and framed him for the murder of his family. Being framed for murder at only nine years old was what created Stilt's other passion – always working within the law. His plans are always completely legal and the Government only chases him because of his previous 'crimes'.

This is without a doubt, one of my favourite series to write. I know I love all of my series / children equally, but I'll always hold a special spot for the eldest, Spirit Rider, and the youngest, Tall Tales. It could be that, or it could just be the fact that it's so damn fun!

Quite a departure from Dawn and Dusk and the Fifth Series, Tall Tales really is about fun. I'd like to say that it never goes so far as to be silly, it certainly treads the line sometimes. More than any other, this is a series for kids, but still applies to everyone else. It's my own personal Doctor Who.

It's also my most disjointed series, or to put it another way, there is no set reading order. Each adventure exists of itself. That isn't to say that each book takes place in another universe. It's just that you can read them in any order. At a push you could say that 'The Terrible Threat of the Origin Stories' and 'The Terrible Threat of the Empty Fridge' are the first and last ones, but the rest come anywhere you please!

These are also slightly short stories. So far I've only written one, and it came to about one hundred pages (hand-written on pages of various sizes). So I've decided to release Tall Tales in volumes of about three stories per book.

They're all going to be 'The Terrible Threat of …' and as yet I've not decided what stories go in what volumes, but at the moment I have ideas for the Terrible Threat of …

- Land

- Cell Phones

- Christmas

- Eggs Isle

- Origin Stories

- Zodiacs

- Sheep

- The Kraken

- A Real Job

- Alternate Worlds

- The Moon

- A New Model

- Frowners

- Holy Matrimony

- Captain Shrew

- Honey

- Elections