Here’s an interesting find.
How many more are out there?
In book 5 of the Gemini Series we’ll be exploring one hidden under centuries of soil and vegetation. Jamie Spenser knows it is key to finding out what is going on; the truth he’s been chasing. He just doesn’t know how or why it is important and doesn’t know where to start.
Book 5 is underway…
If the signal is truly from an alien world, it’s one far more advanced than ours.
Jodie Foster as a SETI scientist in the film Contact, based on Carl Sagan’s book about E.T. communication. (Image: Warner Bros)
An international team of scientists from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is investigating mysterious signal spikes emitting from a 6.3-billion-year-old star in the constellation Hercules—95 light years away from Earth. The implications are extraordinary and point to the possibility of a civilization far more advanced than our own.
More on the Observer site…
Not a Drill: SETI Is Investigating a Possible Extraterrestrial Signal From Deep Space
It’s passed the half-way mark in first draft. Six more sections to go. First drafts are rough. The often quoted saying is ‘first drafts are like babies – they suck’. The hope is you’ve got the main ideas for the story down in some understandable way.
The next task to go back through it and fill in the big holes. The character who appears but never exits – where did he go, is he still in the room you last left him in? Key bits of action that need to happen in the right order – does it make sense? Then I tend to look at the words. What are the characters doing and feeling? Does that need more explanation? Can we do that by showing what’s going on rather than telling you the reader – that’s generally a boring way to do it.
So getting closer.
A few days after releasing MOON it’s showed up as number 23 in Amazons ranking for free books in
Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Action & Adventure > Short Stories
That’s a great start for a few days out in the wild.
It exists! But only as notes and scribbles in a pad of paper at the moment.
A few things seem certain,
It’s next on the list to pick up again as soon as the website is sorted.
And book 5? It won’t be in Egypt. I think I know where but that’s for another day.
How can you not end up in Egypt at some point? It has everything. Mysterious beginnings, buildings that defy any modern construction techniques, stories of mummies and tombs and curses.
ANCIENT takes us there. It starts out as a routine dig. The sort of thing that happens each year for university lecturers and their students. Most are happy if they find a two inch high statue of the cat god Bast. Not Peter Merchant. He’s put up with that for years knowing there was more until his brush uncovers … I’ll have to stop there or it’ll give away the story.
I personally think ancient Egypt was up to its neck with aliens. You only have to look at the paintings. Their artists were skilled. They knew what they were doing when they painted someone with blue or green skin or a birds head. Ahh, it’s symbolic say the experts. Or, they’re wearing ceremonial masks or makeup. Really? How do they know, where they there? Is it any more of a stretch to consider they weren’t native to earth? One thing is for sure, there are lots more questions than answers.