The IMC Magazine Issue 16/June 2016 | Page 28

That's my business!

You can sit around for years waiting for someone to give you a break, so to save time and expense why not do it all yourself?

That’s exactly what these two new ventures have set out to do. Emily Templar (left) has released the first in the book series Zeek Kim’lo subtitled The Fifth Best Detective Agency in the Universe.

At the same time TinCan Theatre (right) have launched their own theatre company. Both businesses are by young entrepreneurs and based in the West Country in the UK.

I look at both of these ventures in this article and hope to inspire the uninspired!

ZEEK KIM’LO BOOK SERIES

Emily Templar was born in Essex, UK in 1992 and moved to Devon in The West Country when she was three years old, so Emily grew up in a small hamlet surrounded by fields, animals and various farmyard smells. She first started writing at age eleven and hasn’t stopped scribbling since!

She has completed many stories scattered across Internet, time and space. She’s also helped to manage several online creative writing communities and has spent many nights mentoring new writers from multiple countries and literary backgrounds. An avid lover of science fiction and has written a truck load of fan fiction stories.

Now self-published, Emily has released the first novel in the series Zeek Kim’lo, the comedic stories and adventures of an alien detective agency.

The Zeek Kim'lo Detective Agency are officially the Fifth Best Detective Agency in the Universe, just behind the Singing Mice Detective Agency of Joomla District 3 (they had a good year). In order to win first place at the Best Awards, the Zeek Kim’lo Agency must dare to take on the most dangerous of cases … the trouble is, nobody thinks they’re any good.

Zeek’s agency are called to the murder of an innocent pet, but become the witnesses of an armed robbery at the planetary museum.

Thrown abruptly into the murderous world of a massive criminal gang, Zeek and his employees must solve the case, whilst saving their own lives.criminal gang, Zeek and his employees must solve the case, whilst saving their own lives.

By

Neil Derek

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