After a long week of writing books, it’s so nice to write a chatty note like this to you. How has your week been? What have you been doing? Did you know that Starship JJ Green has shipmates in places as diverse as Norway, New Zealand, Argentina and Ukraine? I often think about this ship’s bulletin flying out to be opened by readers in all those exotic locations.
How are your critical thinking faculties today? Are you up for giving me your opinion on something? I have the cover for the second book in my Space Colony One series, and if you have time, I’d love it if you would pop over to the post on Facebook here and let me know what you think of it. I have a special reason for asking that I can’t tell you but I’ll reveal all next week.
By the way, be sure to open next week’s bulletin if you’d like notice of the discounted new release price of Daughter of Discord. (Review Crew, your copies have gone out. If you didn’t receive one, check your spam folder and let me know.)
I realised that I’d forgotten to tell you about the Daughter of Discord snippets I’d been posting on my blog. Go here for a taste of the early chapters of the book. I’ll post a final snippet this Saturday.
As is usually the case when we’re busy, my family commitments seem to have increased too. Last weekend my son had to film a very short documentary for homework, which I was dreading as I know nothing about that kind of thing. But luckily a friend’s son and daughter stepped in and helped out. You can see the result here on Youtube.
And if you’re in the market for some great sci-fi reading material check out the two great 99-cent books below.
The Other
The world was melting down. North Korea had tested another nuclear missile. Terrorist attacks were happening with frightening regularity in European cities. In the United States, the FBI and CIA were investigating multiple computer hacks in which the Russians were the prime suspects. Then the news took an even more ominous tone. People began seeing UFOs and strange, alien-looking creatures with humanoid shapes, green skin and large black eyes. In places where this occurred, doctors reported the spread of a mysterious virus that scrambled people’s thoughts and caused hallucinations. Many experts believed the virus came from the aliens. The pathogen had not yet been identified; there was no known cure.
Psychology professor Dr. Cora Frost had a different theory: the bizarre symptoms were nothing more than mass hysteria, not unlike the hysteria that caused people in our not-too-distant past to see witches flying through the sky, which justified hanging them or burning them at the stake. Intense stress within societies gives rise to scapegoats. Doing field research within the compound of a cult in Roswell, New Mexico that revered the exact same kinds of aliens being reported on the news, Cora’s entire worldview is shaken and upended. In a shocking series of events, her past and future collide, forever changing her life.
Pick up a copy here.
Time Seer
Destiny is all. Unless it’s going the wrong way…
Time often abducts Captain Valeria Tylia and shows her about two seconds of the future. And when she sees a barbarian attack being prepared, she knows that everything she holds dear is in danger.
But she depends on the only man who can order long range weapons to be deployed in the arms-free system of Origin: the Emperor of Cael.
Gaius Drusus has just spent ten years in exile on an empty rock, courtesy of his mother, and after defying fate to return and claim his throne, he declines to enter the fray.
Except that when he somehow wakes up on Earth, he realizes he should have refrained from telling Captain Tylia that time seeing is nonsense…
He thinks she is a lunatic, but brave — she thinks he is an idiot, but a brilliant one; and now they are stranded on their derelict mother planet and must put together a mega weapon to defeat the invasion of Origin.
As they race against time and battle hybrids, bounty hunters and mad scientists, Valeria begins to believe that Gaius is the promised leader she saw in her visions, and the key to humanity’s salvation.
An epic quest, vivid, original characters: if you enjoy the fantasy, wit and romance in Star Wars, together with the sense of destiny in Dune, you will love Time Seer.
Snap up your copy here.
Happy reading!
P.S. My space colonisation novel, The Concordia Deception, comes out soon! If you’d like to join the review crew for that book, write to me at jenny@jjgreenauthor.com and include a link to a review you wrote on Night of Flames.