This was the question posed by Patricia Lynn Josephine for a guest post prior to the Zanzibar’s Rings tour. I mentioned it in one of the posts here, but Patricia has changed her website, and the old content is no
Why do I write scifi?
10 Things you didn’t know about… Jemima Pett
The last of my featured posts in the blog tour for Zanzibar’s Rings appeared on Lynn’s Romance Enthusiasm, which is pretty weird as it’s really a Romance blog behind an Adult blogger screen! I thought as they already had a
The Viridian System Series Box Set is now on sale at Smashwords
The regular price is $11.99, which is a $3 discount on the individual book costs. It launches everywhere except Amazon on November 10th. Why a box set? I was thinking of Christmas presents, and the number of people who pass
Dear Reader, Love Author
The last stop in the blog tour last March was this one, at a site simply called Dear Reader, Love Author. Dear Reader, Love Jemima Pett Dear Reader, When I’m talking to people at book shows, scifi gets a curious
An Interview with Maggie Ingleton
Nearing the end of my features from the Feb-March blog tour for Zanzibar’s Rings, here we have a character interview. I love doing character interviews. I ought to do more. I may inflict them on you in the next few
Ten Things you didn’t know about Asteroid Mining
One of the best things about writing science fiction, is that if you pick an obscure enough occupation for your protagonists, nobody can tell you you got it wrong… Asteroid mining, for example. There is a little knowlegde about asteroid
A Bookish Chat with… me
I did several interview type things for the Blog Tour which helped launch Zanzibar’s Rings in February. This is one with The Writer’s Life. TWL: Welcome to The Writer’s Life! How did you come up with the idea to write your
Zanzibar’s Rings – the Story Behind the Book
I’m continuing my series of posts from the blog tour earlier this year. Today it’s the story behind the book. This appeared at the site cleverly called The Story Behind the Book. All the posts appear to be ‘the story
Solar sails… a new design gets funding
You thought I was making up solar sails? Well, I’m not the only writer that’s used them in their scifi. And now science is catching up. Strange that I can share it to Facebook and then embed it, but not
Ten things maybe you didn’t know about Zanzibar’s Rings
Ten things? Well, these are the ten things I sent for the Blog Tour in February and March. You may well have seen them at Shannon: the Warrior Muse website. What surprised me, was that having done three ’10 things’