by Dan | Oct 18, 2016 | Galactic Arena, Sci-fi, Science, Space
My new book is written! Inhuman Contact the first Galactic Arena Prequel novella is currently being proof read and I hope to get the final copy, with all corrections, completed by this coming weekend (22nd/23rd October). The story is about the first mission to the...
by Dan | Oct 5, 2016 | design, Galactic Arena, Space
I have been trying out different compositions and colours for the new book. Here’s one I quite like. If you put a spaceship on the cover of your spaceship-based book then I think that tells the reader pretty clearly that there’s a spaceship involved in the...
by Dan | Oct 4, 2016 | Galactic Arena, Indie publishing, Sci-fi, Space
Excitingly (for me) I have my first comments back from a beta reader on my latest book and they are incredibly invaluable, as always. Without someone else’s eyes on your work, you can’t get an idea of how a story reads and what comes across – and...
by Dan | Sep 20, 2016 | Galactic Arena, Indie publishing, Sci-fi, Space
When the author can’t control his word count? As I’m not a full-time writer, I have been attempting to write shorter novels so that I can release more of them and release them more often. I was unable to keep the last two under 100,000 words (assuming 250...
by Dan | Aug 22, 2016 | Galactic Arena, Sci-fi, Space
It appeared beyond the orbit of Neptune. An alien space station, a threat to the Sol System and a gateway to the galactic civilization. For the last hundred years, humanity has sent a champion to fight for our future. Every one has lost. Now, monstrous aliens have...
by Dan | Aug 5, 2016 | Galactic Arena, Indie publishing, Sci-fi, Science, Space
I love science fiction. I have read more scifi novels than any other genre, even more than historical fiction and fantasy combined (maybe – who can tell? Who cares?). . I first had the idea for this scifi novel series back in about 2006 and the other novels in...
