The Creative Writer's Toolbelt discussion

My Space Opera adventure novel The Centauri Survivors is out this coming week, on 1st August 2019 on Kindle and paperback and 8th August 2019 on other digital platforms. After ten years in development, I'm delighted to be releasing this book at last!

You can order it from Amazon here.


"When a habitable planet is discovered just four light-years from Earth, governments and private corporations rush to build a ship to take the first humans there. But only a few of the colonists wake up from cryosleep after the sixty-year journey, and as their ship comes into orbit around the new planet, they find themselves surrounded by death.

As the survivors scramble to make sense of what has happened, they find their own lives under threat, and, pursued by their enemies, they escape to the surface of the new planet. Caught between their human adversaries and whatever the planet throws at them. the survivors fight to stay alive, as circumstances drive them towards a final, deadly confrontation."

Very cool, Andrew -- congratulations. I'll pick it up the next time I am buying books in a couple weeks.

I am a relatively new listener but of half a dozen creative writing podcasts I gave a listen to, I enjoyed your approach and delivery the most, and I enjoy the examples you provide. Thanks for all the hard work & I hope your book is a big success.

Many thanks, Jacob, I hope you enjoy it! My latest podcast episode, and the one that will come next give some insight into the processes, and mistakes(!) that were part of the book. I am going to be sharing a lot of the inside story of creating The Centauri Survivors so in the hope that other authors can learn - to emulate some of the things I did right, and avoid some of the things I did wrong.
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