(An update of "Mid-year Review, 2022") Belated "Happy Longest Day" greetings to half the world and "Happy Shortest Day" in the other half. Summer hit with a vengeance here, melting the flowers, browning the grass, and melting my brain. Then it rained... off and on... for days as if in apology. Ah, well. I write …
Mid-year Review, 2022
Summer seems to have hit Luxembourg already - blazing sunshine in recent weeks with enough occasional rain that I don't have to water the flowers. Of course, the lawn-mowing has become more frequent! Sigh... swings and roundabouts! At least the Covid restrictions have been easing at long last. More good news: Galaxies and Fantasies (my …
Upcoming: Galaxies and Fantasies
Publisher, Elsewhen Press, says..."Galaxies and Fantasies is an eclectic collection of tales from master-storyteller Andy McKell, crossing genres from mythology to cosmology, fairytale to space opera, surrealism to hyper-reality. What they all have in common is a twist, a surprise, a revelation. Leave your pre-conceptions aside when you read these stories, prepare for the unexpected, the extraordinary, the …
Seasons and Reasons
First, I hope everyone's enjoying the ebook - the paperback will follow in a few weeks. Choose your vendor: books2read.com/PrivateVices I've been working on the sequel, which I hope to release later in the year. And there's more sci-fi on its way, just hold on a little longer. SEASONS AND REASONS So here we are, …
Great New Year News!
I just signed a publishing contract for a collection of short stories, provisionally titled Eclectic! Should be on the bookshelves, electronic and physical, later in the year. I'll announce the launch right here and in as many other places as I can. 😉 Meanwhile... In my library is a novel first published in 1956: "No …
HAPPY YEAR END !!
Hi there! First, let me wish you a Happy Christmas, Hannuka, MidwinterFest, New Year, Hogmanay, or whatever you celebrate. Hoping the New Year brings relief to us all!(And yes, I said the same thing last year...) So what's that odd image above? It's the all-seeing Eye of Horus, the symbol of the Pax Diktat, the …
November News
Happy Thanksgiving to those with thanks to give. Commiserations to those who don't and I hope 2022 goes better for you."Winter IS coming" to the northern hemisphere despite the occasional sunny days interspersed with rain here in Luxembourg. And to southern hemisphere readers: have a great summer!Here are today's updates:-* Delayed Moonshot* Andy's Shorts* Novels Delayed MoonshotBad news first. …
Long Covid Years
Hi! Back again! I know some of you have missed me these past few months. Apologies. Heard of Long Covid? It's a long-term after-effect of Covid-19 infection. For about a year, I suffered apathy, lethargy, head-and-eye pain, and brain-fog. Not good for a writer. I came to a dead stop. During that year I lost …
To the Moon – edited
(Due to interface changes by WordPress, the email version of my previous post got scrambled. Apologies. Here is the unscrambled, image-free version.) 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 …
To The Moon
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 …
Andy McKell, Speculative Fiction Author 
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