Monthly Archives: November 2018
BOOK PROMO: SHIELD OF BEOM (MORE BLATANT SELF-PROMOTION)
An excerpt from my latest book, on sale now at Amazon & through Chapters Indigo and Barnes & Noble. http://tinyurl.com/y8gv444o One meal we always looked forward to at the palace was high tea. Taz and Vostia’s mistrust of most things originating on AUP’s founder planet did not extend to high tea, a custom they […]
HISTORY SHARE: EARLY SCI-FI WRITERS
Science fiction novels started quite a while back – with some of their authors envisioning things that are now a reality. (Though Frankenstein’s monster has, thankfully, yet to make an appearance.) https://amysmartgirls.com/mary-shelley-meet-the-teenage-girl-who-invented-science-fiction-3735d785411c https://www.famousauthors.org/h-g-wells http://mentalfloss.com/article/546405/facts-about-jules-verne And my personal favourite of these, https://io9.gizmodo.com/5616081/how-edgar-rice-burroughs-became-one-of-the-twentieth-centurys-biggest-scifi-authors I devoured all of his Mars & Pellucidar books as a teen. And the […]
FUTURISTIC CITIES BEING BUILT RIGHT NOW
In keeping with time travel into the future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGeCcI4d2t0
SIDE TRIP BOOK 2 NOW AVAILABLE (BLATANT SELF-PROMOTION)
Time travellers can move forwards, too, and teens and youthful minded adults are encouraged to join the second adventures of my planet-hopping Brent siblings and their friends, Kirsty & Jip. The e-book is now out, with print to follow soon. http://tinyurl.com/y9u2jsap
HISTORIC MOVIE IDEAS FOR NOVEMBER
November’s history based or bygone era TV and/or movie suggestions: Gunpowder (2017) (TV Mini-series) (17th-Century) The Horsemasters (Disney, 1961) (Mid-20th Century) Mr. Peabody & Sherman (Animated, 2014) (Time Travel)
REMEMBER THEM ON THIS REMEMBRANCE DAY
It is now one hundred years since the guns of WW I ceased fire. Sadly, the war to end all wars did not end all wars. So, in remembering those who fell (on both sides), and those whose lives were devastated by their falling (on both sides), pray that the world begins to put more […]
Time Travelling With Kids 