My Fellow Machiners!

A fair Monday morning greeting to each of you! We are closing in on the new year and the final two (and change) weeks of the Sword & Laser contest!

We aimed for 100 readers by Sunday and did that first thing this morning! Pretty amazing. So thank you very very much to each one of you who has thought, "yeah, how about this story - not bad, not bad at all - let's get this one into the bookstores." 

I will follow-up in the next day or so once another exciting raffle has occurred for this great milestone.

And finally, though we have held onto 2nd place for the last couple of weeks and remain in the catbird seat, we are not satisfied! People get nipped at the tape all the time. Or as the New York football Giants learned repeatedly this year, leading until the last minute of the 4th quarter counts for bupkis in the win column. So, if you haven't told your best friend or significant other to grab their copy too, please do! 

Thanks so much for the wonderful support!

Happy Monday Hexers!

I have lots of news, so I'll get right to it:

First of all, my new book trailer for Deus Hex Machina is up on the funding page, so make sure you check it out.  To go along with it I have officially launched DeusHexMachina.com, which was created by my talented husband.

Thirdly, I am incredibly excited to tell you I got the chance to interview inventor and technology guru Timble Ada. He's one of the fathers of something called "perceptual computing," which seems like it might someday lead to something like the Grid in DHM. Click on over to my blog to check it out! 

We're very close to our next giveaway mark -- 60 orders, so if you know anyone who would enjoy a rolicking cyberpunk adventure, be sure to send them our way!

Have a wonderful Monday and a great week!

Good Monday readers

Blood Dawn is DONE!

Pre-order a copy of The Investigations of the Para-Usual (The IPU) and I will donate 10% of book sale profits to Green Energy research.

An honourable pledge, you might think. Took you until the last six days of funding to make the offer. Smacks of desperation to earn some pre-sales.

That's a bit harsh, though, isn’t it? This started as self-aggrandisement and now I’m feeling like I’m on self-trial. Why the pledge to Green Research, anyway? The IPU was written as an entertainment novel, but the politics of Climate Change is very much at the heart of it. The ways politicians, big business, the media and academics block the paths to pursuing alternative, renewable energy. Just a few days after signing up to CO2 emission reductions at the Paris Summit, the UK Government was issuing licences for fracking under National Parks. It’s not enough to trust Governments to act. Perhaps people need to face up to investing directly?

Hello all of you lovely readers and followers out there! I hope everyone's holidays have been as enjoyable as mine, and now that I've cleared the copious banquets of never-ending food and drink, I've returned to oversee work on The Children of the Forest as we enter the final weeks of the 2nd Sword & Laser contest! 

Greetings wonderful people, 

I have just posted a new shiny book trailer made up by Yicheng Liu. Take a look and see what you think. I personally am really impressed by the results and I hope you are too. 

Also we have reached to 35 sold goal. I will be posting chapter 12 very soon and a re-polished chapter 1 hopefully soon after that (still working on it)

I hope everyone's had a jolly happy Christmas and a good New Years to come. If you've liked what you've seen so far don't forget to pre-order. If you already have thank you so much for your continuing support. 

A day late with this one thanks to the holidays, but it was a break I needed.  I hope the rest of you have also had a holiday which you enjoyed.