The Amazing Adventures of Jimmy Crikey - by Wallace E. Briggs
Author Bio
Wallace was born on the outskirts of Durham City eighty years ago. Married at twenty-one to his childhood sweetheart, Pat, whom he first met at the age of eleven, they are nearing their fifty-ninth wedding anniversary. They never lived more than five miles from the Cathedral City until they were almost forty years old with two children, boys. Then, employment took their small family to the south coast: E.Sussex for a decade, then another ten years in lovely Hampshire. Employment brought them back North, and now retired, they live on the edge of a small rural town in beautiful East Lancashire, NW England. An author of children’s books with several works published on Amazon, retirement gave Wallace the time to concentrate on writing. His latest project is bringing the Jimmy Crikey stories to market in audio formats with the help and direction of a great narrator. The fifth Jimmy Crikey fantasy story was published in December 2022. He is now concentrating on a memoir recounting events that moulded his life up to the age of seventeen: the year he met Pat for the second time and the year his father died. His account highlights his turnaround from a humble childhood in poverty to a successful career in technical sales and many adventures in International markets.
Genre: Children's/YA Fantasy
Synopsis: An epic adventure story that will take you below this earth, over mighty oceans, even beyond the stars, to find a place where this orphan can fit in. “Even though this book is written for a younger audience, I found myself more than once, tensing up a little bit wondering how Jimmy was going to get out of whatever the current predicament. The lessons in this book are well presented: bullying is bad, but you can overcome; confidence in yourself is powerful; beauty comes from the inside.”
Author website: www.wallaceebriggs.com
Author note: There are now five published Adventures of Jimmy Crikey on Amazon, each a stand alone adventure.
"Splendidly written with action, humor, and love." Readers' Favorite. "A young adult novel with elements of fantasy, science fiction, mysticism and outright adventure."
