Just to let you know that Alien Hothouse by JMJ Williamson is on a Kindle countdown offer for the period 29 November to 3 December on Amazon.com for $0.99 (normally $2.99). It is also available on Amazon.co.uk £0.99. Her best friend and neighbours are aliens. Now they want to go home, and she will risk everything to …
Tag: science fiction
Finding a story from chaos
One of the tasks I have been putting off for some time is a limited re-edit of my debut novel, Collision. After its release in 2012, I noticed some irritating typos had crept into the final proof. Well, as you can see it's taken me quite some time to get around to doing it. But …
When science fiction meets science fact
Recently, when I was researching material for my latest science fiction book, I came across some extraordinary facts about the number of exoplanets that were discovered during 2014. For those of you not familiar with the term, an exoplanet is a planet outside of our solar system. The first of these exoplanets was discovered back …
What makes a good story ending?
Having covered story beginnings and middles in previous blogs, it seems only natural to cover story endings. Whether a story ending is right or not can ultimately only be judged by the reader. If the ending is not consistent with the direction the story is taking the reader, they may well feel disappointed and let …
What is science fiction?
Recently, we (the family) were hunting through our DvD/Blu-ray movie collection for one of my favourite sci movies of all time: Blade Runner. Eventually, after going through our collection several times, we found it. But I knew after all the effort of searching that it was time to put our collection into some kind of …
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