Hi there!Hoping all's well with you as the seasons' changes creep in upon us. I took a break in August... What I'm told are my Long Covid symptoms fatigued and brain-fogged me. And suddenly it's almost October! But I made some progress... I revised my first attempt at a YouTube video, based on comments from …
Tag: writing
YouTube and ARCs
Just a quick post this vacation month... YouTube and ARC copies 1. YOUTUBE I launched my first YouTube video this week, featuring a tale from my Galaxies and Fantasies collection. Video available at https://youtu.be/sjS3aQCGvKE I hope you tick the Like button and subscribe, and why not give a comment? All comments - good or bad …
OOPS!
Apologies to email recipients of my Blog for the formatting issue on many email apps. The scramble of text was supposed to be a table. Please view it in a browser to it properly at this url...https://andymckell.com/ Hope you find it interesting/entertaining/enlightening.... 😉
Spring has sprung or still springing?
I just got back from a great trip to Tenerife, to get away from the dismal winter weather. Here's an ocean-side restaurant we enjoyed. The sunnier south is very commercialized amid a quite arid landscape. The north is very different. It's not tourist-centered. It's lush, with banana plantations and other farms, though less sunny. (I'm …
SPACE: The next frontier!
Space exploration. Space settlement. Space empires. What’s the fascination? It's in our bones, or rather our genes. Our ancestors and their precursors were not satisfied with the place they grew up in. Sub-Saharan dwellers spread out to occupy every habitable place in Africa. Their cousins headed north into Arabia, then Europe (where the Atlantic Ocean …
About a Story, Maybe
Let me tell you a story... about a story. Or maybe it's about a writer. Seven years ago I started to write a story. It grew like topsy. I was squeezing an epic series spanning thousands of years into a single novel. So I found break-points and spread the tale over three, then four, books with yet …
Culling Again
Independent writers are reporting in FaceBook groups a new culling of their 5-star reviews is underway on Amazon. Other reviews are blocked before they even appear on the book's page. Yes, that's indie authors' 5-stars again. I guess if it happened to J.K. Rowling, there'd be a batch of 5-star corporate lawyers knocking on Amazon's …
Almost February?
Wow, time flies! I am SO glad I renamed this an "occasional blog" a while ago. Luckily, the world ducked Father Time's scythe as December slipped into January, despite Middle East issues, although China's upcoming New Year of the Rat (starts January 25, 2020) is plagued with spreading Coronavirus problems and Australia is still beset …
Getting Hissed
Can you hear that? No, you probably can’t. But I can. Tinnitus: ringing or buzzing in the ears. That definition just does not do it justice in my case. A concentration-shattering, perpetual whistling, more like. A shrill, hissing, sibilant, headache-inducing screeching that eases off to a whispering susurration at times. Or maybe you can hear …
Twenty Percent
Greetings from Luxembourg, where the early morning snow has melted away (just like 2019 is doing). (The photo is of the city looking beautiful in deep winter: we only had a scattering of snowflakes this morning and this looks much prettier.) Wake up call! Almost twenty percent of the year is already lost in the …
Andy McKell, Speculative Fiction Author 
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