News Update on Hive Mind 5

Posted on November 8, 2020 by

There is some good news and some bad news on the next release in the Hive Mind series.

ADVERSARY (Hive Mind 5)

Ebook Est Release:- End Feb/Early March 2021

All outstanding paperbacks will be released as soon as the situation allows.

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The good news:-

I can now announce the title and cover. Book 5 in the Hive Mind series is Adversary. The first draft is nowhere near complete, so I daren’t give a book description at this point, but the following cover description should give a strong hint about some of the book content.

Cover depicts Adversary Aura of Hive Genex.

Cover art (C) Janet Edwards 2020, Cover Design by The Cover Collection.

The bad news:-

The global pandemic has affected everyone’s plans for 2020. My apologies that illness and bereavement have left me way behind schedule all year, so the release has to slip into early 2021.

Some slightly good news:-

One of the reasons that the release of Adversary is slipping into early 2021 is simply that it’s turning out to be another long book. I know that some of you will regard that as good news.

Rather than leave people without anything new to read for Christmas, I’m looking at the possibility of releasing a short piece set in the Portal Future. It would be nice to get the follow-up story to Hera 2781 out into the world at Christmas, because that story is a sequel to Hera 2781, but also provides the background history for a story already written for the planned second Earth Girl Aftermath Collection.

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Telepath is at a reduced price until 12th October.

Posted on September 26, 2020 by

If you haven’t read Telepath, the first book in my Hive Mind series yet, then it’s at the reduced price of $0.99/£0.99/0.99 Euro until 12th October. This is a good time to give it a try!

More details of Telepath here.

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Ebook Release of Earth Prime (The Earth Girl Aftermath Stories 1)

Posted on August 29, 2020 by

Earth Prime (The Earth Girl Aftermath Stories 1) is available now in ebook.

Earth Prime is the first in what is planned to be two collections of stories set in the Portal Future after the Earth Girl trilogy.

This collection is set immediately after Earth Flight, and focuses on Jarra, Fian, and the other archaeologists before they head to excavate the alien ruins on Fortuna.

Approximate length 460 pages. Full details here.

A huge apology for paperback readers that Earth Prime won’t appear in paperback until early 2021.

 

Cover Design (C) Janet Edwards 2020, Cover Design by The Cover Collection.

 

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A Guest Blog Post at Defying Doomsday

Posted on August 16, 2020 by

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There’s a guest blog post from me over at Defying Doomsday, talking about how I first started writing, and how pleased I am to have a short story in both the Defying Doomsday and Rebuilding Tomorrow anthologies.

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Defying Doomsday and Rebuilding Tomorrow

Posted on August 2, 2020 by

DD_cover_ebook-188x300Back in 2016, Twelfth Planet Press published the Defying Doomsday anthology, which includes my very own doomsday story, “I Will Remember You”.

If you haven’t read Defying Doomsday yet, it’s currently only £2.70/$3.99. This is an anthology of apocalypse fiction featuring disabled and chronically ill protagonists, proving it’s not always the “fittest” who survive – it’s the most tenacious, stubborn, enduring and innovative characters who have the best chance of adapting when everything is lost.

If you have read Defying Doomsday, then you’ll want to know that Twelfth Planet Press are now running a kickstarter for the followup anthology Rebuilding Tomorrow. This will include a sequel story from me, “I Will Lead My People”, set twenty years after the events in “I Will Remember You.”

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More news on Earth Prime

Posted on July 22, 2020 by

EARTH PRIME EBOOK COVEREarth Prime was planned to be a collection of scenes and stories set after Earth Flight, told from the viewpoints of various characters in the Earth Girl trilogy and revealing a few things that Jarra didn’t know.

As always, I hugely underestimated the number and length of the stories. Rather than throw stories away, and leave out some favourite characters, I’ve decided this will have to be split into two collections. This will also give me the chance to include two Portal Future stories that have only appeared on my website and one that appeared in an anthology with stories by other authors.

Earth Prime should hopefully be published in ebook in August of this year, estimated length 440 pages. It will focus on Jarra, Fian, and the other archaeologists during the period after the events of the Earth Girl trilogy, and before they head to excavate the alien ruins on Fortuna.

The second collection will be published in the first half of 2021 and will focus on scenes and stories from the Military and Jarra’s family.

Earth Prime will contain the following stories set after the Earth Girl trilogy:-

Jarra – The End, and the New Beginning – originally published as a first draft 19 part serial story on my website.

Fian – I’ll Be Right Here Waiting – Novelette

Dalmora – Twenty Seconds in Ark – Short story

Lecturer Playdon – Full Circle – Novelette

Krath – Raw Material -Short story

Amalie – Balance of Power – Short story

Jerez – The Real Jerez Rivera – Novelette

I’m also taking my chance to include a story set a year earlier and featuring many of the same characters.

Lecturer Playdon – Year End 2788

A huge apology for paperback readers that Earth Prime won’t appear in paperback until early 2021.

When I publish an ebook, the paperback usually follows about two months later. In the current world situation, I can publish ebooks relatively normally,  and my existing paperbacks seem to be available to buy with longer than usual delivery times, but publishing new paperbacks is a problem. Some steps in my usual paperback process are likely to take much longer than normal, while others may not be possible at all.

My deepest apologies that I’m therefore reluctantly delaying publishing the paperback of Earth Prime until early 2021 when I hope everything will be back to normal.

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Status report

Posted on May 12, 2020 by

People have been hopefully asking me about future Hive Mind books, and stories about Fortuna. I have so many ideas for books I want to write that I had a backlog of projects building up anyway, and side-effects from the current world situation have slowed down my writing. Jarra confused things even further by making the New Year story so long that the Earth Prime collection queue-jumped everything else.

So this is a quick status report on my current projects. Please note that I can’t guarantee to publish even two books a year in the current world situation, and any of my projects can go off totally off the rails at the best of times.

The Earth Prime collection has to be finished and published next.

Hive Mind 5 will then be my top priority and hopefully out in time for Christmas, but there’s the usual danger of it slipping into January.

Fortuna. If there’s enough interest in Earth Prime then I’ll be aiming to write more about Fortuna, ideally next year. A project that is slightly complicated by it being the second half of the chimera wars, and interlinking with my partially written book about Tellon Blaze.

Also on my list to progress whenever I have time. Scavenger Exodus 3 and Earth and Water.

(Just to clarify  Scavenger Exodus 3 is definitely on its way, but progress has been affected by the world situation, so I daren’t commit to a publication date at the moment.)

Right at the bottom of the list is the mystery book. Pity this book. The poor thing has been sitting in first draft since I first wrote it eight years ago. It’s set in yet another different future, and needs some revisions, but I may eventually sort it out and publish it as a standalone just to stop it whining at me.

Please feel free to comment with your own wish list. The creative side of my brain seems to pay more attention to comments from my readers than it does to anything I tell it myself!

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The Serial Story is Finally Complete!

Posted on May 10, 2020 by

EARTH PRIME EBOOK COVERUnbelievably, the never-ending serial story is finally complete. It was a rather a risk posting parts as soon as they were written, especially when I had absolutely no idea where the story was going except for the last couple of paragraphs. I hope you feel Jarra has brought it to a reasonably sensible ending.

My website is creaking under the strain, but I think it will hold together for another two weeks. I’m therefore planning to remove the serial on 24 May 2020. It will then be trimmed, and polished ready to be published in the Earth Prime collection with some other stories set after Earth Flight.

If you’d like to get an email alert when this collection or other future books are released, please sign up for my newsletter.

You can read the whole of The End, and the New Beginning  here

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I bet you saw this coming.

Posted on May 3, 2020 by

EARTH PRIME EBOOK COVERI’ve had some wonderful messages from people saying that the serial has been cheering them up in a grim situation. I’ve therefore decided to allow Jarra to take her time winding up the story. That means part 18 has been posted and the serial still hasn’t finished. There isn’t a lot left for Jarra to say though, so part 19 really should be the end.

And if anyone is thinking that it isn’t a case of me deciding this at all, but that I have absolutely no control over Jarra… Well, you could be right.

As usual, I’m giving the warning that the completed novella will only remain on my website for two weeks before being removed, trimmed, and polished ready to be published in the Earth Prime collection with some other stories set after Earth Flight.

If there’s enough interest in Earth Prime then the plan is to have a new series about Fortuna. Meanwhile, anyone interested in Jarra’s ancestors and Exodus century should try reading my Scavenger Exodus series.

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You can read The End, and the New Beginning Parts 1 to 18 here.

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Guess What Happened!

Posted on April 26, 2020 by

EARTH PRIME EBOOK COVERShe did it again. There really isn’t much I can say except that I am a broken wreck of an author, trampled underfoot by the relentless willpower of one of my own characters. Part 17 of the serial has been posted. I’m hoping, possibly naively, that it will be a case of third time lucky and the serial finally ends next week with part 18.

As before, I’m giving the warning that the completed novella will only remain here for two weeks before being removed, trimmed, and polished ready to be published in the Earth Prime collection with some other stories set after Earth Flight.

If you’d like to get an email alert when this collection or other future books are released, please sign up for my newsletter.

You can read The End, and the New Beginning Parts 1 to 17 here.

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