I shelved my planned blog post due to amazing news. I'm going to the moon! Not me in person, but... "Fly me to the moon..." Yes, there'll be traces of McKell on the moon, soon. Publishers of two anthology series have arranged with https://www.astrobotic.com/ to land their books on the moon in mid-2021 on their …
Category: Paradisi Chronicles
The Writing Game
This writing game is a bit of a strange adventure. Telling Lies A fiction writer tells lies in a vacuum. S/he tells lies about things that didn't happen to people who don't exist. And there might be no one listening... (Hello? Anyone there? I'll carry on and you can catch up later.) Writers write - …
Final Flight and Win-A-Kindle
I've finally had to admit it. I'm over-committed. I never planned to spam my blog followers with daily ramblings. Twice or thrice a month would suffice. But I'm down to one post a month. So I changed the tagline in my posts to "An occasional blog". Truth is good. (Unless, of course, you're a …
Back Home
Turning Worlds So much catching up to do now my I'm back home! The world just keeps on turning, even if I'm not watching it. (Quantum physicists are invited to comment below on that observation.) Distribution Channels My novels' distribution network continues to grow effortlessly! I use the Mention app to notify me if my name or my …
PARADISI CHRONICLES & NEWS
NEW MUST-HAVE PARADISI CHRONICLES RELEASES (details below) As my regular readers know, my JANUS PARADISI series takes place in an open-source sci-fi universe. A what? Essentially, a group of authors agreed on the backstory and main features of a time and place where all action will occur, then write their own stories within those parameters. These stories …
Space Opera Readers
Enter to Win a Summer Bundle of Sci-Fi Novels PLUS a New eReader! Today, I have a fun surprise I’d like to share with you. I’ve teamed up with space opera science fiction authors to give away a huge collection of novels to 2 lucky winners, PLUS a Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet to the …
Blurb Versions: One Plot, Three Stories
I'm offering Faces Of Janus free for a couple of weeks for sci-fi fans' summer reading enjoyment. (Grab it here or click the image below.) Writing the short descriptive blurb for the promotion was hard. (Hell, I took 60,000 words to tell the story and now you want it in 70 words?) You see, there …
Faces Of Janus: New Cover and Answers
Cover Confession Time Newbie mistake #1: "Faces of Janus" was my first published book. If you've read it (thank you and I hope you enjoyed it), you'll see how the two-faced image represented the JCorp logo, the lead characters' internal conflicts, the deceptions encountered, and the disguises adopted. But if you haven't read the book …
Faces Of Janus: 100% 5 star!
Reader Reviews With Janus Challenge straining at the release leash as March approaches, I'm starting to gather 5-star reviews for Faces of Janus (the first in my Janus Paradisi series) Samples of kind words from readers... I should have read this sooner! 😀 Intrigue, romance, fight between the classes. And for me a small kinship …
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 …
Andy McKell, Speculative Fiction Author 
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