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Hello, For those of you who are interested in gamebooks (E.g. Fighting Fantasy, Lone Wolf, Choose Your Own Adventure, just to name a few), I have just completed a rather complex system that can give a gamebook a difficulty rating. It has taken me many weeks to design and perfect. The...

After a two year break from this forum, I am back again. I am a children's gamebook author who likes to read Tolkien's Lord of the Rings (and The Hobbit) and C.S.Lewis' Narnia series. I am looking forward to the third movie in the Narnia series at the end of this year, "The Voyage of the...

I've decided to take some time off the various internet forums that I have joined and focus solely on finishing the second gamebook in my Woodland Forest Chronicles series. Once it is complete, I'll be back to chat. See you later. Jasan

Of the seven books in C.S.Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia, which was your favourite? Mine would be Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I enjoyed the story being broken down into a series of mini-adventures that occurred every few chapters or so. (including the fact that the adventures themselves were...

This is an extract (3 pages) of my 3rd mini-adventure gamebook for children aged between 9-13: ~1~ The mournful chorus of howls rouses you from your light sleep. Sitting in your favourite chair, you barely open one eye. In front of you are the lively flames still dancing around within...

Extract Eventually, the morning of the feast arrived. Jumpster’s family gathered outside to farewell him from Hopper’s burrow. Mr Hopper was beaming with pride for Jumpster. Mrs Hopper, while also proud, softly shed a few tears, as she knew there would be dangers along the way for her son...

This is the first two pages of my new children's adventure gamebook. To read the story in its entirety, you can click on the link in my signature. Jasan. THE LOST DIARY PAGE -1- “Oh No! It’s gone!” The voice is of your mother. You run out of your room to where she is, in the...

Hi, I'm an about-to-be-published author (children's gamebooks) and am going through the process of promoting my book before it is released (blog site, announcement emails to interested readers, joining various reading and writing forums etc). One of my promotion tactics that I chose to employ...

With some of the current discussion focused on Enid Blyton, I thought I'd put this question to the forum. Of the faraway tree stories, which adventure did you enjoy the most. (I don't mean which book but which story within one of the three books - (Enchanted Wood, Magic Faraway Tree, Folk of...

Targeted at 8-12 y.o “Okay girl, let’s go,” you whisper to your falcon, Huntress. You emit her learned ‘take-off-and-hunt’ whistle, gently thrust your arm skyward and she complies. She soars into the air and begins to circle the lake, her sharp eyes scanning the clear water for a quarry...

To those of you who remember the Choose Your Own Adventure book series, what was your favourite story? I'll nominate three (no surprise, all written by Edward Packard, IMO the best of the CYOA writers by far) 1) Who killed Harlowe Thrombey (A great whodunnit where you had to solve the...

Hi, I'm posting here an extract from my first soon-to-be-published book, "Invitation to a Feast". It is an adventure gamebook (similar to Choose Your Own Adventure/Fighting Fantasy for those familiar with the genre). It is targeting the tween age range (8-12 y.o). The characters are all...

Hello everyone, I've just joined and wanted to say hello. My name is Jasan and I am from Melbourne, Australia. I write children's adventure gamebooks for the tween age group (8-12) (similar to the Choose Your Own Adventure/Fighting Fantasy genre). I don't have any in the marketplace yet...