Saturday Snippet: A Very Carrie Christmas
Do you hate it when shops put out their Christmas decorations too early? From what I hear, this isn't such a problem in the United States because Thanksgiving is one month earlier, then the tinsel and baubles go up afterward. But in other English-speaking countries,...
Reader Poll Results & Carrying On
I usually steer clear of current affairs in the Starship JJ Green bulletins - we're here to escape from earthly concerns for a little while, right? But this week's news about Las Vegas struck home because I'm going there for a writers' conference next month. I was...
Saturday Snippet: Space Colony One Part V
It's time to say goodbye to Space Colony One with one final snippet. I haven't completed the novel yet but to keep to my schedule I need to set it aside for now. Next week, I begin work on A Very Carrie Christmas, my second standalone novella starring transgalactic...
Limited Time Book Offers & Reader Poll
Last week I was excited to tell you my news that my story, Star Mage Exile, had been accepted into Chris Fox's forthcoming anthology. This week, I'm excited to tell you about two great limited time book offers that I think you'll love. Before we get on to the books,...
Saturday Snippet: Space Colony One Part IV
I'm sticking with the early parts of Space Colony One again this week. Anything from later on has too many spoilers! In this snippet, the Defender called Strongquist approaches Cariad as she's recovering from the bomb blast. He wants to enlist her help to find the...
Exciting News & Galactic Battles
The red alert is flashing aboard Starship JJ Green this week, but don't worry, the Borg aren't attacking. It's a celebration! You may remember a few weeks ago I submitted a story to a science fantasy anthology to be edited by the successful science fiction author,...
Saturday Snippet: Space Colony One Part III
Welcome back for another Saturday Snippet! This week we're returning to humanity's first deep space colony. I'm around a third of the way into the first draft of this novel, but today I'm posting a glimpse of chapter three. Last week, a bomb explosion endangered the...
An Amazon Bestseller & Free Sci-Fi Books!
This week seems a good time to escape planet Earth and its wild weather events. To anyone who is/was in the path of Irma, I hope you and your family are safe and escaped any damage from the storm. As I write this, a typhoon is heading towards Taiwan, so I know a...
Saturday Snippet: Space Colony One Part II
I've been steaming ahead with Space Colony One this week, and I'm actually at chapter eight and 21,000 words into the story. It's a first draft, so it's still very rough. I tidied this one up a little before copying it here, but it still isn't perfect. The major...
Cool Sci-Fi Books & Reader Questions
I was answering some interview questions last night about writing science fiction, and one of them was why I chose to write in the genre. That got me thinking...what was it that first attracted me to writers like Asimov, Dick, Heinlein and even H.G. Wells when I was a...
Who Is Your Favourite Game of Thrones Character?
Did you hear the news earlier this week that three planets with roughly the same mass as Earth have been discovered only 12 light years away? The planets aren't within the zone where we think life can exist, but I thought the discovery was exciting nonetheless. The...
Saturday Snippet: Space Colony One
It's always a great feeling to start a new series, and this week I finally managed to do just that! I haven't given the series a name yet, so for the moment, because the story is set in humanity's first deep space colony, I'm calling it Space Colony One. Last week's...
