Speculative Fiction For Christians discussion

Immortality: This is Probably a Novel 0.99 in UK and US from Monday 10th August until Sunday 16th. Also available free on Kindle Unlimited.

Chester, a successful investigative reporter, is in fear of his life. He takes refuge in New Zealand, twelve thousand miles from Kate, the woman he cannot forget.

His quiet life is interrupted when a stranger knocks on his door and takes him to the world’s best kept secret – Hell. He is certain this cannot be true and looks for answers to why he is being subjected to endless mysterious occurrences. These life changing answers are a long time coming.

Powerful, moving, thought provoking.

FREE on Kindle Unlimited
0.99 in US and UK
2.99 (down from 3.99) in Canada

Writers write, some better than others. Even Charles Dickens wrote some duds though, so the Internet says. However, I am absolutely sure that my big flop is a bigger flop than Dickens’ flops.

Please rescue it - the hero’s having a hard time, they’re all out to get him and the heroine’s 12,000 miles away and being kept in the dark. Only you can save them from oblivion.



Immortality: This is Probably a Novel. You are invited into a mystery: intriguing, exciting, deadly.
0.99 in the UK and US until 5th May 2021. Free on Kindle Unlimited.

Can you guess which of Dickens’ books were flops? Take a look at my blog post for May:

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...

And you might also like to take a look at best selling author Josh Grant’s youtube video which tells you more, and you get to see a waffling woman too. He bills it as ‘the least professional talk show on the Internet’. I’ve already been told it’s funny - not quite what I was aiming for :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3CXm...

How do authors think of an opening line to the first book they write? Until I wrote my first book, I don’t think I ever thought or even cared how they came up with something snappy or enlightening. But first lines of books have become famous. Think of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ or probably the most famous of all time "In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth." Well the blog gives you one idea of how it can happen for an ordinary writer! Rather embarrassing really.

Here's the safe link:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

Backstories - we’ve all got them! What have I done with mine?

My blog is always fairly short so don’t shy away from taking a peek, please, and tell me what you’ve done with your backstory. Whatever you do, keep hold of the good bits.

There’s also the usual sage saying, handy hint and stress reducer

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

Follow the link to find August's bargains - a whole series for 2.97, and you're invited into a mystery for 0.99 US and UK only.

Injections of Joy

We’ve heard a lot about injections lately and we’re told they’re doing a good job. There’s another injection doing a good job: something unexpectedly cheerful can feel just like an injection of joy. I won a prize! Definitely unexpected and definitely something good.

There’s also the usual sage saying, handy hint and stress reducer. And news of three of my books being reduced to as low as £0.77/$0.99 (similar prices for all markets) or a little bit more for the other three.

Hop on over to https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog... and share your idea of an injection of joy. Children? Grandchildren? Holiday? Meeting someone new and super...? Finally being able to meet in church together again?



£0.77/$0.99 or FREE on Kindle Unlimited

Latest blog: 52 things to do once in your life - you may be surprised – they’re not quite what I expected. Take a look here:

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...

And you’ll find news of a greatly reduced PAPERBACK. If you think this world is getting stranger by the day, wait til you see what Chester had to put up with. Some find the truth in most extraordinary ways.




Reduced from US$10.45 to $6.99;
£8.95 to £5.99
€8.95 to €6.99
Ca$ 12.95 to Ca$ 9.99
Au$ 17.52 to Au$13.99

These prices are a very few cents more than Amazon permits me to sell it for and they will remain until the end of October.

Please visit the blog for your Handy Hint, Sage Saying and Stress Reducer and you’ll be very welcome to leave some chatter in the comments box.

November’s blog post has something for everyone.

There’s something for readers – want to choose an Indie author for me to interview?

Something for authors – want to have a mini interview?

Something for everyone – fancy writing a drabble and posting it in the comments? Go ahead, have fun. A drabble is a very short story – exactly one hundred words, no less, no more.

You’ll find the blog here: https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...

And the cat’s been crying again. Ignored apparently.



And the cat is not what she seems.

I hope you’ll take a look at the answers to the question “Why do you write?” Three authors have responded. It’s a bit like saying “What makes you tick?” Let’s see what goes on in their heads!

And, as the heading says, there’s a gift for you – a free world-wide gift of a Christian fiction ebook so long as you get to it between 5th and 9th December.

Here’s the link to the blog:
https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...

★MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE★

And for those who don’t celebrate Christmas – I hope you will have a wonderful time as we run up to yet another new year – happy holidays!

Don’t you wish you could change the world?

Visit https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog... and help us do better in a troubled world.



It's reduced to 0.99 in the US and UK until 4th February.

In this book, Chester is paying a high price for attempting to improve the world he inhabits.

He has achieved his burning ambition to become an investigative reporter but what has he sacrificed in the process? And now he's become the target, will he survive to enjoy his achievement?

Off the grid in New Zealand, his quiet life is shattered when a stranger knocks on his door and takes him to the gates of Hell and back. He holds onto his sanity through the promise of returning to the one girl he has ever loved.

You are invited into this mystery: intriguing, exciting and deadly.

And it's FREE on Kindle Unlimited.

Jubilee Joy – many countries around the world are celebrating Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s 70th anniversary of service as Queen. Here’s a quotation from one of her speeches:

"On our own, we cannot end wars or wipe out injustice, but the cumulative impact of thousands of small acts of goodness can be bigger than we imagine." 25 Dec 2016

If you take a look at my blog https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog... you’ll also find a few questions about your favourite titles of my books but also, if you are an author, we’d like to know your own favourite from the books you have written and for readers we’d like to know which title of every book in the world (!) that you think is the best and why.

Also –Immortality: This Is Probably a Novel is FREE on 2nd July – and always FREE on Kindle Unlimited.

Does Your Life Have a Theme?

Have you ever looked back on your life and seen a theme? I doubt that most of us have. But if you have, I’d love to hear about it.

Here’s where to tell us:

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...

If you are a reader, I’d love to know what theme you feel authors never tackle. Or, tell us your favourite theme in books in general or in a single book.

If you are an author, please tell us how you arrived at the theme of one of the books you have written (no links please but do put the title). Here's where to tell us:

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...

There’s also a stress reliever tip for the tough times ahead.

This book gives you a glimpse of what lies beyond... (or does it?)

“The pacing is great. The dialog is great. The sense of place is … phenomenal.”

“…you’ll love watching Chester’s world slowly unravel.”

“I realised just how clever the plot is”

“His yearning for Kate was also intriguing; what had happened between them, would they be reunited?”

“…the storytelling is so skilled that the layers of meaning are revealed and understood in good time, and to powerful effect. A compelling novel that I didn’t want to put down, this is a highly-recommended read.”

All the above are Goodreads’ reviewers and are obviously intelligent, kind, wonderful people! I promise I am not related!

If you pop along to my blog, you’ll find an excerpt too:

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...

It’s good to treat yourself occasionally and at 0.99 it doesn’t cost much. (US and UK)

Immortality: This Is Probably a Novel 0.99 until 4th May or FREE with Kindle Unlimited.

The world seems to be going through some strange, anxiety-creating times: war, floods, fires, heat waves and more.

I hope you will hop over to https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog... where you might find some reasons to be cheerful – and please add your own reasons in the blog’s comments and spread a little much needed enjoyment and, if you can, some laughter too.

This month’s bargain is an Amazon best-seller. 0.99 from 27th September to 3rd October or FREE on Kindle Unlimited. Louisa, a Goodreads reviewer says, "When a book allows me to become one of the characters....aahhhh, perfection!"

Christian speculative fiction - You might also like to know that is reduced to £1.77 and US$2.99 and other territories are cheaper than usual too. Paperbacks are US$7.25 and £5.95. You can sit back in an armchair and enjoy travelling to London, New Zealand, the Caribbean and to places you’ve never heard of and will never want to go to again. Why would any author write about places you wouldn’t want to go to ever again?
https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...

Merry Christmas

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...

Something a little different this month as this is the month when many of us will be scratching our heads (or whatever you do when you absolutely have to do some thinking). What to buy for Christmas presents? Easy: a book. It’s something that lasts, can be treasured, can be shared and most of all can bring joy – and that is precisely what Christmas tends to do.

I’ve done your searching for you. Ahem. Three of my paperback books have been reduced in price to the very lowest that Amazon allows for authors in their Kindle Direct Publishing. At their very lowest, the author receives nothing. So that’s me! I’d like them to have been even cheaper but Amazon have to make their money…

A Time Travel Romance has some nice Christmassy chapters. Amazon Best Seller
US - $7.40
UK - £6.30
Canada - $9.70
Australia – $14.50

A Time Travel Romance, taking you back to the Swinging Sixties and even further back Readers’ Favorite 5* review
US - $7.95
UK - £6.75
Canada - $10.50
Australia - $15.50

Goodreads reviewer said, “The pacing is great. The dialog is great. The sense of place is … phenomenal. Great balance in the storytelling…” Christian theme
US - $7.25
UK - £5.99
Canada - $9.35
Australia - $13.99

Find out more on the blog:

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...

I wish you all a very happy Christmas.

It’s a Wonderful World

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...

I’ve recently returned from a trip Down Under and I spent some time at a favourite beauty spot, a café in Scorching Bay, Wellington, New Zealand. Munching brunch, I remembered a scene from one of my books set just around the headland in Breaker Bay which features in

“Suddenly he saw it: the most magnificent roller advancing steadily towards the shore. A shout went up and all paddled furiously towards the beguiling breaker. He caught the wave, stood and steadied himself. The magic carpet took off; he was flying once again. For a few precious moments the exhilaration bore him up to surfers’ heaven – no drug could compare.”

And then something shocking happened.

And it’s reduced to 0.99 in the US and UK from 25th February to 1st March 2024.

Also FREE on Kindle Unlimited.

Find out more on https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...