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Throwback Thursday: A #tbt for my #InArk book launch

Last year, I was rushing to get my cli-fi book In Ark: A Promise of Survival into print format, to make sure that there would be actual paper copies available for sale at my book launch on November 8th, 2014. Today I’m reflecting on the evening and the experience for a Throwback Thursday #tbt moment. […]

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About being in the Indie Spotlight with Literary Lightbox

Since being in the Indie Spotlight with Loretta Milan’s Literary Lightbox, I’ve gotten new confidence about my efforts in being an indie author. As a newcomer to this adventure, I’ve been overcoming and stumbling from challenge-to- challenge – whether it is getting enough courage to share my writing with the world, or figuring out the […]

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DJ Tunesmith to play In Ark book launch

Guests attending my book launch for In Ark: A Promise of Survival on Saturday, November 8th, will be treated to an atmospheric soundscape crafted by Joan Smith, aka DJ Tunesmith, who will curate a mix of post-apocalyptic, and soulful rhythms from throughout the decades. “Expect the music to be deep and gulley for the In […]

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Join me for my BOOK LAUNCH!

Old friends, family, new friends and total strangers — you are invited to join me on Saturday, November 8th, 2014 to celebrate the launch of my first book In Ark: A Promise of Survival! In my fictional cli-fi tale about a woman who gets abducted by an eco-survivalist cult, I hope you’ll be intriqued, entertained […]

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I’m joining in the #PeoplesClimate March

This coming Sunday, millions of people around the world will be taking to their streets in effort to raise awareness about the doom that climate change can bring for planet Earth. Will you join in the #PeoplesClimate March? In London, you can meet me at Temple at 1 PM. I’d love to meet you, and […]

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Meet my #InArk character Mya Brand in this blog tour

After spending two years developing and writing about main character Mya Brand who stars in my book In Ark: A Promise of Survival, I still don’t think she gets enough attention in my wrting and self-publishing adventures. So a shout out of thanks to Sandra Danby for inviting me to participate in this here blog […]

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Reviews of ‘In Ark: A Promise of Survival’

Already, my book ‘In Ark: A Promise of Survival’ is getting a number of positive reviews. On Amazon, my book has been getting 5* ratings and reviews! This is all very exciting and very appreciated. I am finding that my biggest supporters are other writers so I really want to thank Sandra Danby, Stephan Malone, […]

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All aboard for the “My Writing Process” blog tour!

Thank you so much Sarah Holding for the invitation to participate in this blog tour! What fun! Sorry that I’m a few days late in posting. Do check out Sarah’s work, she is the author of the SeaBEAN young adult trilogy, and a cli-fi colleague of mine in London!  a) What am I working on? […]

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A conversation with the inventor of cli-fi

And the Macquarie ‘honourable mention’ word of the year is… ‘cli-fi’! Each year the Macquarie Dictionary in Australia names a Word of the Year from a shortlist of words that have made a valuable contribution to the language. It also names one or two words that are given “honourable mentions” and one of the words […]

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What is cli-fi?

While travelling in America recently I picked up a copy of US Wired and stumbled upon a new name for a literary genre called cli-fi. Wired had it signalled out in a section called Jargon Watch (page 38, December 2013 US Wired) and said about it: “Climate fiction. A subgenre of dystopian fiction set in […]

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