I recently had a great time at the 68th British National Science Fiction Annual Convention: meeting old friends; making new ones; attending some fascinating panels... The panels prompted my restless mind to explore tangential threads, as they should. Example... During the Artifical Intelligence (AI) panel, someone mentioned that when driverless trucks take over, some 3.5 million USA …
Category: On Writing
Beyond Beginnings: Sequels
A Good Year End In November 2016 I became a published novel author, building on my years as a short story writer. Where do you go from there? You write the sequel. Actually, I started writing the sequel long before I published "Faces of Janus". It's already gone out to beta readers, for publication in Spring 2017. My …
What’s With Wattpad?
I heard a few good things about Wattpad during 2014. Wikipedia (December 20, 2016) says... "Wattpad is an online storytelling community where users post written works such as articles, stories, fan fiction, and poems, either through the website or the mobile app... As of April 2014: [Yes, 2014] 85% of its traffic and usage comes from …
FACES OF JANUS : Published
Can a handful of security agents overcome the greatest corporate conspiracy and reach the stars? In the last decades of the twenty-first century, the wealthiest, most powerful families on Earth choose to escape the increasingly failing planet by constructing ten vast ships that would ferry mankind to colonize Mars. It was a lie. Angel pieces …
Paradisi Chronicles Anthology
The latest in a long line of Chronicle Worlds Anthology best sellers just hit the Amazon electronic shelves! Another world. Another chance... In the last decades of the twenty-first century, seeking to escape a devastated Earth, ten families focus on constructing spaceships to colonize the world they call New Eden, in the Paradisi System. But the …
A Beginner’s Tale #3
It has been a long journey, but here I stand on the verge of publishing my first novel. I always wanted to write, but my first High School English teacher convinced me I was barely literate. I think he resented me being taller than him, as a later (taller) teacher promoted me from bottom of the class to …
So this is what 65 feels like?
I hit 65 last month. Let's try interviewing me. How does it feel? Well, pretty much the same as when I was younger. You know, 64, 63... It happened to me while I was in the UK, so I could celebrate my birthday with my mother for the first time in too many years. She …
Janus and June
CELEBRATION ! Another hectic month. June started with a week in the UK, celebrating my middle daughter's graduation (huge congrats!). It ended with a week at a German spa! In between, I managed to start work on my beta-readers' responses to my novel, "FACES OF JANUS". Why "FACES OF JANUS" as a title? Well... …
Plot Sketch #4635
So Many Ideas, So Little Time... (I have too short a lifespan to produce a full story from every idea I get, so will occasionally throw up out a plot sketch so you can see what you are missing...) Plot Sketch #4635 Earth is the only planet in the galaxy where chocolate and coffee grow, due …
So Where Have I Been?
I took a long break between posts this year. I'm sure you noticed. So where have I been? Among other things, my acting hobby took over for a while with a sudden rush of auditions, resulting in a few days filming ("Toy Gun" and "A Storm In Their Stars"). Audition readings to prepare, lines to …
Andy McKell, Speculative Fiction Author 
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