Happy new year to you! We start the year with a request – if you have a blog or similar space, would you like to join our Blog Tour/launch day event for Curved Space to Corsair? There will be a
Corsair Launch Blog Tour
Earthrise – with season’s greetings!
It was fifty years ago that we saw this picture for the first time. 50. I remember looking at it with awe. Seeing the Earth, our home, the place I walked on, how others would see it if they were
Editing Progress
Progress is definitely being made, ever since my editor revealed she would be over-busy in December. I’m desperately hoping to get the finished ‘final’ version to her by the end of this week. Nothing like a deadline to focus the
Corsair postponed to January 2019
Curved Space to Corsair is now scheduled for 20th January 2019. Apologies for anyone who’s itching to buy it. I’ve been rewriting the start of the manuscript following my editor’s feedback. As usual with my books, I’ve set the scene,
#amediting update – Corsair (Viridian System 2)
Exciting news: I’ve finished editing Curved Space to Corsair! It comes in at around 88,000 words and 260 pages, which will take it to nearly 90,000 when I’ve added front and back matter, like titles, acknowledgements, bio and other titles.
Moons of Exoplanets – real science
Could moons of exoplanets harbour life? That is a question currently engaging scientists involved in exoplanet identification. Earthsky.org, a wonderful news feed in need of annual funding, featured a post last month on 121 giant planets identified outside our solar
News of the books
Just a quickie to tell you that the Perihelix is one of the books being offered FREE for the first 50 people to download it in Smashwords’ Summer/Winter Sale running throughout July. Click here from 1st July onwards. Secondly, I’m
Some real life Hacking
During the slow days that our heroes will have during Curved Space to Corsair, I set Lars hacking the Imperium database. Hacking is not a subject I know much about. I’ve seen enough films involving it to make it up
Thoughts about other planets
Apologies if you’ve been getting some ‘test’ messages from me. Sometimes this seems to work, sometimes it doesn’t. I thought you’d like to see some of the posts from the A to Z Challenge that are relevant to the Viridian
The Perihelix, edition 2, is now LIVE!
The Perihelix (second edition) has been live on Amazon.com and Smashwords for a few hours now. It will filter through the systems to other Amazon stores and to iTunes, B&N and Kobo (and others) over the next few days. In