Engineer Wang Miao is asked by the Beijing police to infiltrate a secretive cabal of scientists after a spate of inexplicable suicides. What he discovers is a bizarre on-line game exclusively for selected scientists and regularly restarted by the inexplicable behaviour a planet’s sun, and a conspiracy rooted in the cultural revolution that has grown to spread light-years both in distance and catastrophic implication.
There’s a problem aboard the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid. Every time there is an away mission, the crew encounters some sort of deadly confrontation with alien forces. The ships captain and the bridge team always survive. Some poor sucker from the lower decks is always killed.
Now the ship’s crew are expending all their energy avoiding being assigned to Away Missions, until new crewmember Andrew Dahl stumbles across information that may offer him and his fellow redshirts a chance to escape with their lives.
Daisy Jones and the Six were icons of the 1970s, a rock band that transcended the genre to become an icon for their generation. Then, on the 12 July 1979, the band dramatically split, offering no reason why. Now, in a collection of interviews with the surviving members of the band, the truth is revealed.
First of all, I’m very sorry that this is my first post of 2022. Since Christmas, I’ve had a resurgence of my disability, long COVID thanks to exposure to someone who was unvaccinated, a broken wrist, a bust foot, and a twisted knee (all on the right side, all in separate incidents). That meant with what time I had between being ill and looking after the family, I’ve had to focus on the latest book. But you can still find hundreds of posts and articles about writing here on the site – I hope you find the useful.
And there is good news!
First, I’ve finished my third novel! It’s now heading off to readers to be torn apart ready for rebuilding, but finishing a readable draft is always cause for celebration 🙂 I should have one (possible two) new books published this year, we’ll see how it goes.
Second, my first novel, Vile, was listed as a finalist in the Wishing Well fiction competition! They’ll be judging 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in April (there are some wonderful books in the finalist list, so I have no expectations) – mostly I’m just delighted because prizes mean people are enjoying the book! If you haven’t read it yet, the Kindle version is just a couple of bob and had been revelling in all sorts of critical praise. You know, if books could revel. Check it out!
I hope to get back to a more regular posting schedule soon (believe it or not, I have about a dozen book reviews ready to be posted). But I also need to get back to reading other peoples manuscripts for review, as well as finishing off book 4 and I guess starting book 5! As I said, you’ll find lots of resources here, and here’s hoping 2022 will be easier than 2021 or 2020 (actually, I’ll take ‘avoiding world war III’)
Keeping reading and writing 🙂 The world in books is certainly better than the world out here!
Jave Lovell is a gypsy-born nobody with a natural talent for horses but no money to race. Rupert Campell-Black is a charming but brutish aristocrat who has never had a problem with money, spending it to get his way, or winning medals. Naturally, the two detest one another.
When Jake has the good fortune to marry a wealthy debutant, he finally has a chance to prove he can make it as a rider. Rupert Campbell-Black will use all means, fair or foul, to get in his way. But in the cutthroat world of show jumping, can either of them resist their hunger for fame, money, and sex long enough to get on their horses?
