KINDLE/NOOK AND NOVELS GIVEAWAY COMPETITION The contest I announced last week is now over and the winners' names will be released next week. So keep those fingers crossed. REVERSALS (Apologies to followers who received a draft copy of this post, sent in error last week. And this contains an update.) It's well known that book reviews are important to readers making …
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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 …
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 …
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... …
My, The Force Was Strong
What a wonderful month May was. Family The first big event was my eldest daughter's engagement party in sunny Romania. It was wonderful to see her take the next step in life, and to meet her friends and her fiance's family. She looked, as ever, so lovely. My middle daughter then announced her graduation grade: an …
Mancunicon (Eastercon 2016)
I'm still recovering from a splendid few days at the annual British Science Fiction Convention, held at Easter and generically named Eastercons. 2016 was the turn of Manchester, England to host 1200 sci-fi and fantasy fans, and a fine job the organising team did. For four days the hours between 10 am and falling-over-with-exhaustion-time were filled …
Andy McKell, Speculative Fiction Author 
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