Are the Young Readers in Your Life Looking for Their Next Great Series?

This Christmas, bring them to Patria.

Dec 20, 2023

Here’s the pitch:

An 11-year-old boy named Oliver Stoop discovers, on the other side of the woods behind his new house in northern Indiana, a secret hidden kingdom known as Patria, founded by refugees from the Trojan War 3,000 years ago.
The refugees made their way to the New World in a boat reconfigured from the remains of the Trojan Horse. And their kingdom has been kept secret ever since they were discovered by an American explorer in the early 19th-century, after which President Thomas Jefferson declared Patria to be Area One, the U.S. Government’s first supersecret facility (you’ve no doubt heard about the 51st of these secret installations).
For Oliver, Patria is a land of wonders - and for the first time in his life, friendship. There's young Prince Farnsworth Vesuvius, inventor of the Magna-Pneumatic Whizzing Biscuit Blaster, and his formidable sister, Princess Rose, whose inedible, stone-hard biscuits provide the blaster's ammunition. But there's also the rest of the eccentric and lovable Patrian Royal Family, the boy warriors of the local Potawatomi Nation, not to mention the Viking kids from the Geat Village, newcomers to the area who only arrived 1,000 years ago.
Yet when the noble Knights of the Blue Sock threaten to drive off the Stoops by force of arms, Oliver has to decide where his loyalties lie, and whether he has the courage to undertake the quest that is both Patria's, and his family's, last, best hope of peace.

Invite the young readers in your life to join Oliver now as he discovers a new world of fun and excitement right in his backyard!

My Kingdom of Patria books are written for “middle grade” readers, i.e., readers age approximately 9-14. They are an attempt to marry the humor of P.G. Wodehouse with wacky alternative history. You can read the full backstory on the series in this post I wrote last year.

There are three books in the Patria series, all available on Amazon in both paperback and hardcover editions—and all marked down for the Christmas Season!

Just click on the following links (which present the books in series order)…