Virginia Author Wins Moonbeam Children’s Award

HERNDON, Va. - Oct. 10, 2013 - PRLog -- Mike Blyth, author of Inspector Rumblepants and the Case of the Golden Haggis has a shiny new Moonbeam Award to show off. The story, which is a combination of Sherlock Holmes mysteries, exciting adventures, and a bit of humor for pre-teen boys and girls, secured a Bronze Medal from Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards in the Pre-teen Fiction/Mystery category.

According to Awards Director, Jim Barnes, “The Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards are intended to bring increased recognition to exemplary children’s books and their creators, and to support childhood literacy and life-long reading. The Awards recognize and reward the best of these books and bring them to the attention of parents, booksellers, librarians—and to children themselves.” The 2013 medalists, 165 in all, were chosen from over 1,200 entries from throughout North America and around the world.

Fresh and original, author Mike Blyth writes a colorful tale of thievery and intrigue. He cleverly describes the characters, scenes and action with narrative set to enhance the readers’ vocabulary while whizzing along in the adventure. The vibrant illustrations by Mike Motz are modern and easily compete with the superior visual characteristics of video game designers.

This book, which was published by BQB Publishing, is written to match the life-experiences and vocabulary of the pre-teen age group so well that it is hard to guess that the author, Mike Blyth, is a retired Royal Marine Commandos Major and currently a COO of a risk management corporation. His humor pokes through at the most unexpected times. His characters have enough personality to be real for his audience. The action moves right along so parents may catch their young readers under the covers with a flashlight to finish one of the Inspector Rumblepants’ chapters.

The book is available through www.BQBPublishing.com , Amazon, Barnes & Noble, independent bookstores throughout the country and from a variety of eBook vendors—Kindle, Nook, Apple, Kobo and Sony—throughout the world.

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About The Author

Mike Blyth, a retired Royal Marine Commandos Major, is presently the chief operating officer of a risk management company supporting government and commercial projects in high-risk environments. He has worked or lived in over forty-three countries, most of them rather dodgy in nature. He also published a book on security management and commanded more than 650 security personnel in Iraq.

Mike is married to Kristen, who is retired from the US Navy and frequently points out she has a much higher IQ than her husband. They have five children together. Mike enjoys writing the Inspector Rumblepants books every time his wife gives birth in order to escape changing diapers (which happens rather frequently).

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About BQB Publishing

Founded in August of 2010, BQB was created to be “the writer’s publisher,” focusing on quality writing from new authors. An independent hybrid publisher, BQB combines the quality processes of traditional publishing with hands-on author involvement to bring books by talented new writers to the reading public. To learn more about BQB’s publishing process and submission guidelines, visit www.bqbpublishing.com.