I did my first proper Twitch stream last night - the first of twelve sessions where I will read out my first novel - The Deep System: Boxrunner.
This session was a bit longer to get to the right point in the story before stopping but it took just under 2 hours to read the first 7 chapters (referred to as
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It's getting a bit dangerous out in The Deep System. This new render uses illuminated elements to get the glow from teh plasma bolts on the Quadstar.
With a successful Twitch test stream under my belt, I will start reading the first book 'Boxrunner' next Saturday 29th Jan 2022. Streams will start at 10pm GMT (US: 5pm Eastern). If you like audiobooks and feminist science
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The rise of the audiobook has created a problem for us unpublished authors. Finding beta readers was difficult enough before but so many people now either don't have time to sit and read or just prefer audiobooks.
So I will be streaming my book, in segments, on Twitch. If you like the idea of well written female characters in an industrial, post-urban decay, Solar System
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Frydon Carlyle is captain of the Eclipsis freighter 'Ikiryō'. He goes by the Japanese term 'Senchou' and perhaps has a wiser head on his shoulders than most people realise.
From The Deep System: Proteus Rising.
I'd love to write some awesome quotes for the good guys but it just doesn't play out that way.
Passed 40K words on the second book in The Deep System and really enjoying throw characters who didn't get on well in teh first book back together again. I love some of the interplay and in one conversation, Asatei and Yseult face off a little and
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Context is important - I'm a writer.
I was out last night, pen and notebook with me enjoying an artisan cocktail in my favourite haunt and I was trying to solve a problem. I'm writing my second book and in the first one, there's a secondary but quite significant character. I realised that in my outline for book 2, she appears in one chapter, doesn't...
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P.J. Burgy is a rising author. She has written two science fiction novels which are avaalable now. If you want to support some good grass roots science fiction with a female protagonist, go find Paladin 33 on Amazon and give her your support... by buying it. Cheering is nice and appreciated but kind of ineffective.
Above is my own rendition of the 'Hijo'; the main
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I’ve been everywhere I need to go,
if tomorrow starts without me.
Learnt everything I need to know,
if tomorrow starts without me.
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Seen everything I need to see,
heard everything that speaks to me,
been everything I need to be
if tomorrow starts without me.
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The World, I’m sure will carry on
if tomorrow starts without me.
A million lives won’t stop...
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ChangedStars is a feminist queer-themed TTRPG set after the war that Humanity lost that is full of aliens, but where no player feels alienated.
I've been helping my friend who is an incredible artist with her kickstarter for this role playing game which funded in only five hours. There are still stretch goals to reach before fundraising ends on May 27th though and the digital
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