THE
GOD SUN

A SCI-FI HORROR STORY

Four years after the ISF Althaemenes became stranded on its maiden voyage to Proxima Centauri, Captain Helene Cross and the crew of the ISF Apemosyne are sent to determine what happened and rescue the wayward crew. The horrors they find there are beyond their understanding…

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THE
SHADOW OF
ARCADIA

THE AUGMENT SAGA: BOOK TWO

SIDERA SILERE:
LET THE STARS REMAIN SILENT.

When a dangerous faction born of an unlikely blend of isolationists and alien-worshippers attacks the Martian city of Arcadia Landing, Captain James Fowler must work together with Nate Rifkin, Erin Pritchard and April Rose-Hartley to bring those responsible to justice…

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THE
FLIGHT OF THE
AURORA

AN AUGMENT SAGA NOVELLA

A CROSSROADS FOR HUMANITY.
ENDLESS SKY. BOUNDLESS HORIZONS.

Commander James Fowler is offered the opportunity of a lifetime: to be the test pilot for the Aurora, an experimental spaceplane which promises to lead humanity to the stars.

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FROM
THE GRAVE
OF THE GODS

THE AUGMENT SAGA: BOOK ONE

STRANGE LIGHTS IN THE SKY. A RED PLANET.
A CATALYST TO CHANGE THE COURSE OF HUMAN HISTORY.

Commander James Fowler is an astronaut and the first officer of the Magnum Opus, the largest spacecraft ever built, on the first crewed expedition to Mars. The mission: to investigate the mysterious extrasolar object that went down on the Red Planet five years ago.

But his dreams shatter as the mission ends in disaster…

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THE
RE-EMERGENCE

AN AUGMENT SAGA NOVELLA

‘IT WAS JUST A MYTH. JUST A DAMN LEGEND PASSED DOWN FROM CORRUPTED DATABANKS.’

A strange probe from a long-forgotten satellite network appears in the heart of the Maldaccian Empire. Its message: a dire warning signalling the return of an ancient mythological evil.

Imperator Da'kora Corasar and the crew of the Qesh’kal are sent to determine the probe’s origin, and find that the satellite is not as they had expected…

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Tell me a bit about yourself. Who are you and what do you write? Howdy, I’m Frankie and autistic author from Detroit. My other creative ventures have been singing, acting, and making animated music videos (AMVs) on YouTube. You can still see those videos under Simmian7. What’s your favourite genre? Is it the same as the one you write in? Urban fantasy. I’m a sucker for vampires...

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I very much enjoyed the first book in the cosy fantasy series that has took the bookish community by storm—you can read my review of Legends & Lattes here—and so I was very excited when I saw that another entry was in the works. As with all things on the endless TBR, it’s taken me a while to get to Bookshops & Bonedust but it certainly provided me with some lovely, warm respite this winter...

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I picked up How Do You Live? by Genzaburo Yoshino precisely for the reason you might think: It was touted as the inspiration behind Hayao Miyazaki’s latest Studio Ghibli movie, The Boy and the Heron. And I think I may have misunderstood what that meant at first. But after correcting my impressions, I still wanted to give it a read. It’s my first real foray into literary fiction and while there...

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The Augment Saga: Now Wide!
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As I mentioned in my most recent writing update blog post, I have been making moves to take my books off of Kindle Unlimited and push them out widely to other ebook stores. This process started with The God Sun, which wasn’t on Kindle Unlimited and was a great way to get all the accounts set up. And now, happily, the rest of my books have followed suit! The Re-Emergence, From the Grave of the...

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If you had told me when I was a teenager struggling to get through The Lord of the Rings and bouncing off the Entmoot that I would one day not only gleefully smash through the whole trilogy but then follow it up by reading The Silmarillion in just one week, I’d have laughed in your face. But inexplicably, here we are. And as personal reading achievements go, this one is something of which I am...

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