Finally! Cave of Ages is on the digital shelves. Available as an eBook, it is a great, fast paced time travel adventure. Once you pick it up you won’t be able to put it down until done!
A great choice for lockdown fever or just to slip out of the reality of today for a short time.
Its available on a number of sites:
https://www.fnac.com/e534333/Paul-Roborg-Sondergaard
And a whole lot more!!
Get your copy now! Brace yourself for an adventure!!
“Readers can get lost in the adventure of it. I recommend it!” B.V Neale, Author
My first book in the Mitch and Makhaya Time Travel Adventures Trilogy, Cave of Ages, has been out for a month now and well received. People have been reading it across the globe! I am now onto the research and development of book 2 of the Trilogy, Mountain of Ages. Mountain of Ages will have some really exciting historic connections in it. I hope to have that out in a couple of months. River of Ages is the third book and will really bring the story to an exciting high point.. but lets get them done and released so you can enjoy. In the meantime, get through and enjoy Cave of Ages. you can get it at https://www.amazon.com/Cave-Ages-Makhaya…/dp/1990964915
Cave of Ages, the Mitch & Makhaya Time Travel adventure novel is coming closer to release. The final formatting is underway and as of today, the final cover is complete! Coming to an Amazon store near to you.
This is an exciting time! With the book edited, the next steps are the formatting and final cover design. This picture of the cover (below) is just a draft as it needs a bit more work to have the cover genre specific and aligned with more of the story. If you know anyone who’d like to assist, I’m all ears!
Right! So, I have been looking for just the right person for the cover design whilst I get the formatting completed. then it’s not much more to do but get the publishing done and let everyone know they can go and obtain a copy. It will be initially available as an eBook and rapidly thereafter, as a paperback. So stay tuned!
Leave a comment below if you want an alert at the time of release and I’ll send you one!
A MITCH AND MAKHAYA TIME TRAVEL ADVENTURE
If you would like an alert sent to you on the day of release, please send “LAUNCH ALERT PLEASE” to info@palangapublishing.co.za or post it in the comments below.
To be released very soon!
A fast paced Young Reader Novel, trying the imagination of it’s readers through time!
Two entrepid adventures, Mitch and Makhaya, see the before and after of their own lifetimes and survive gripping encounters with extinct animals, advanced societies, old gold miners and find love along the way.
Used to the mundane life of a farm lifestyle, the two boys are involutarily flung into a rush of time jumps just to get back home for dinner!
Get lost in the adventures of the young pair as they travel to distant times, face unknown challeges and experience emotional highs and lows in their quest to get back home.
If you would like an alert sent to you on the day of release, please send “LAUNCH ALERT PLEASE” to info@palangapublishing.co.za or post it in the comments below.
I would not call myself a linguist as that implies I have studied for some sort of qualification in the field of languages.
Instead I refer to myself as a languagologist. Still no formal qualification but I guess that, when understood simply means the study of language.
In my own research, and gaining the experience in the past three plus years in the delivery of workshops to over 800 maths teachers and more than 5,600 learners from Grade 4 through to Grade 12, I can confidently say that if one gets to understand the language of any subject, any profession or hobby or job, one will succeed with it.
It is not rocket science, but simply application. If one knows the definition (conceptually), the purpose of a word, term or concept and its association within the parameters of the subject or profession one is studying or applying, one understands. When one understands, he or she can apply correctly.
My forte right now is maths. I am the co-author of My Maths Buddy, a simply amazing tool for learners and teachers proven to improve results rapidly.
In applying these simple methodologies, we have moved thousands of learners up from struggling or mediocre maths performance to succeeding. Schools we have been involved with have reported marks oftentimes going up 5 – 20% in a matter of a couple of months.
The simple formula is to leave the teaching, being the content, to the teachers. We empower the teachers first and provide them with the methodology we have proven works. Then we help the learners with the simple building block of any education – understanding the language the subject is encapsulated within.
In fact I mentioned rocket science earlier on. If one were to get to conceptually understand the majority of definitions, purposes and associations of the words related to rocket science, he would be a successful rocket scientist. It really is that simple, ask any engineer, doctor, plumber. They succeed according to their conceptual understanding of the language of their profession, the purpose of each word or term and the associations of these words and terms.
Learning is simple. Content is understood and successfully applied on the back of understanding of the language of the subject.
The world of books continues to be the source of inspiration and a place to let your imagination roam free.
I thought to drop in an extract from the book I am busy on. This is my young readers book by the name above. Take a read and let me know your thoughts or views. . .
CHAPTER 5
The old woman looked down from her hidden position on the side of the hill. She could see the young boys kicking the ball to and fro on the soccer field and on the closer side of the school to her, a group of girls throwing a ball through the netball hoop. Another group sat together chatting to each other leaning against the wall of the administrative building of the school.
She watched them for a while, envious of their youth and energy. Her life had been one of watching and waiting. She was The Keeper. Her job had had moments of anguish and of confrontation with people she had preferred not to have occurred. It had been many, many years now of watching with nothing happening. She felt in her old bones that she was soon to have another confrontation. She thought she had seen them, those she had encountered before. Maybe this was the time.
She sighed and scratched her nose, a slight itch irritating her.
She had perfected the art of camouflage, not being seen by the farm workers, the farmer himself and many of the children when she was but meters away from them.
She gazed upwards to judge the time of day, her white eyes reflecting the glare of the sun. Her body had become old and wizen over the years and her hair had turned white. She had to use mud to cake her hair so that she could remain hidden and so had gotten used to a helmet of dried mud in place of hair she remembered being able to run her fingers through. But that was the price of her position as The Keeper.
She gazed down once more at the children as the school bell sounded and they made their way back to the various classrooms. When the last of them had disappeared into class, she slowly rose, stretched out her back and turned towards the hill. She took three steps towards a clump of bushes and disappeared.
Reading is playing a movie in your mind,
Writing provides the scenes, actors and directing,
Publishing produces the movie and
The book itself is your TV set.
You know what makes an authors life interesting? Being able to go out and research the territory for their book. I had that pleasure yesterday. My wife, Angela, and my one year old daughter, Catherine, got into the car – well, maybe Catherine was helped! – and headed out of town. It was raining so we didn’t expect to see too much but felt we needed to take the trip. Luckily the rain held up once we were out of town.
The amazing thing about Johannesburg is you just have to go 40 minutes west – on the right road – and you are into virgin country. This is the area of the Cradle of Mankind. Beautiful hills, nature reserves with a few sightings of wild animals from the road and some really aesthetic resorts.
We got to the area my upcoming book is being located in, took some shots and carried on driving. Unfortunately it just started drizzling so we did not get much but this opens up the possibility to get more time out of town to continue! But boy, does it help to have that reality on the location so you can close your eyes and think about the roll of the story.
Anyway, we were out of town and reluctant to return too early, so we meandered around, went through the gorge called Hekpoort which is beautiful and found ourselves at a village called Magaliesburg. We stopped at a terrific Country Hotel called Mount Grace for coffee and outstanding and mouthwatering Black Forrest Cake. Now, if you are ever in the area, this is the place to stop for a meal, a coffee or a weekend! Beautiful. On top of a hill overlooking stunning valleys but oh! so green and lush out there right now.
My daughter Catherine loved the place and crawled around at a speed with Angela and I following like two brawny bodyguards.
Then time to head home but we definitely want to take a weekend break at Mount Grace.
Paul R Sondergaard 