Dandy and Sparky in The Rock Festival …an adult fairy tale for the Inner Delinquent

Attention Literary Editors

Please find below details of debut novel Dandy & Sparky in The Rock Festival, which might well appeal to your readers.  If you are a published magazine or an online magazine you can obtain a free review copy direct from the publisher

For a review copy or interview request please contact:

Charlotte Lowe at AuthorHouse
Tel: 0800 197 4150  Ext. 5906

Email: clowe@authorhouse.co.uk

Web: www.authorhouse.co.uk

Press Release

BBC RATES NEW WRITER

When author Annabelle Franklin entered a BBC competition for new writers she never expected to make the top 10 out of 2500 entries, or to receive feedback from top TV writer Tony Jordan.

The BBC’s Get Writing initiative won the Royal Television Society’s Award for the Best Educational Campaign in 2004.  It inspired many new writers, including Annabelle, who has gone on to publish her first full-length novel.

The brief of the competition was to write a monologue based on the theme of ‘The Con’ as featured in BBC1’s popular Hustle series.  “I don’t normally enter competitions,” says Annabelle, “but when I saw this one I thought it would make a good showcase for a character I was working on.’  EastEnders and Hustle writer Tony Jordan evidently agreed.  “I’m sure we’ll be hearing great things from this writer in the future,” he commented.

Annabelle has gone on to publish the book that features the winning character.  Dandy and Sparky in The Rock Festival (ISBN 1-4208-8348-8 published by AuthorHouse) is a refreshingly playful adult-targeted fairy tale.  The cartoon-illustrated narrative follows the adventures of Dandy, a Magician’s son who thinks he’s destined for great things.  His Mother just thinks he’s destined for jail, and when he goes to Bunberry Rock Festival she tags along to keep him out of mischief.  Things go from bad to bizarre as they meet a decidedly misguided guru, a band whose bodyguard is the Great God Pan, and some aliens who look like miniature Elvis clones and believe Dandy’s guitar to be a holy relic.

The surreal humour is comparable to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and popular TV show Little Britain.  Phil Cope of Cultural Enterprise said “This has the makings of a cult classic – Harry Potter for adults!”

About the Author:

Born and educated in Cardiff, Annabelle Franklin made repeated attempts at respectability in the fields of business, medicine and music tuition, before switching to Bohemia with its attendant rock bands, experimental theatre groups and spiritual awareness courses.  She eventually moved to South Wales’s beautiful and inspirational Gower coast, where she intended to play serious music and write serious literature, but found it more rewarding to play rock’n’roll and write adult fairy stories for the Inner Delinquent in all of us.  The Rock Festival is the first in the series.  

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