The Incredible Shrinking Bogey Bear

When Mrs McGonagall collapses with the biggest nose bleed in the world, inventor Dad & his daughter, Morgan, have to come up with a plan. Dad miniaturizes Morgan's cyber teddy bear, Bogey, pops him in a techno-suit, & programs him so he can wield a laser glue gun. Inserted in Mrs M's nose Bogey has just 5 minutes to fix the nose bleed before he reverts to normal size & explodes Mrs M's Head. This is the first in a brand new series of Bogey Bear tales from author Clive Gilson...so keep watching out for new Bogey Bear adventures. Individually Clive's stories have been downloaded over fifty thousand times since the end of 2012, but this is the first time that Bogey Bear has appeared on Amazon and Kindle. Clive's stories mix a love of traditional storytelling with magical realism. There's a lot of reality here, good and bad, but you're never going to be far away from the odd, the horrific and the mysterious...

About the Author :
For the full bio please see my Author Central page. Following are extracts from an interview conducted in early 2015: What's the story behind your last novel? My last published novel is Acts of Faith, which came out at the end of 2012. The story is based on memoirs from the eighties - namely those of people like Tom Sutherland, Terry Anderson, John McCarthy and Brian Keenan. That was the germ of an alternative history where the oil rich Middle Eastern states are what we in the West like to think of as the developed world and poor Northern Europe is the fundamentalist "basket case." The story is written as a memoir by a twenty-something Lebanese man who comes to war-torn England as an aid worker. Where did you grow up, and how did this influence your writing? As a family we moved around quite a bit when I was young. I think we moved about seven times by the time I was twenty (although I'd left for college at eighteen - another move, of course). I guess the key things that I learned then were things like self-reliance and the art of making a life in ever-changing circumstances, all of which have stayed with me throughout my adult life. As far as influences on my writing are concerned I think this is reflected in the independence of thought and the range of subject areas that I have covered. I don't like to be pigeon-holed or tied down to one particular genre or area of story-telling. You could say that I'm "bloody-minded" about it at times, but the variety keeps me interested and motivated. That said, of course, the very fact that I range over different areas and topics sometimes mean that maybe I miss a trick in establishing a stable audience. What is the greatest joy of writing for you? Seeing where the story goes. Obviously I plan and storyboard but I love the fact that characters take on their own lives and personalities as you unfold the layers and as situations develop. In my first novel, Songs of Bliss, I was pretty strict with the storyboard concept, almost making it filmic in the development of acts and scenes. With Acts of Faith I felt much more free to let the story develop organically, and I think that sense of enjoyment shows in the story-telling. What are you working on next? I have written the opening sequences to Arkland and to Cry Havoc and I hope to get into the detail in the next few weeks and months. Of course there's always the shorts. I just love short stories so you can expect to see new stories popping up shortly.