SUPPOSE WE is released!

SUPPOSE WE is released!

May 14, 2019 | Blogroll, Genre: Science Fiction

Is there anything special about May 20th? Yes! Five important events occurred on that day: 1498 Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama discovers the sea route to India. 1609 Shakespeare’s sonnets are published for the first time. 1932 Amelia Earhart is the first woman to...
Across The Nightingale Floor

Across The Nightingale Floor

Mar 22, 2019 | Blogroll, Genre: Science Fiction

I belong to an active science fiction and fantasy book group that meets monthly in the fabulous new Storyhouse library / theatre / cinema / restaurant. We are an eclectic mix of old and young, male and female but mainly from Earth. Our book for March 2019 was “Across...
Fond of a font

Fond of a font

Dec 5, 2018 | Blogroll, Genre: Science Fiction

The publishing industry professionals are up in arms. Well not all of them, but the traditionalists are. There I go tainting a swathe of friends unfairly. Let’s start again. A year ago at a writers’ retreat in Greece (Limnisa.com) I launched my imagination into space....
#Copyright flutterbies

#Copyright flutterbies

Oct 3, 2018 | Blogroll, Genre: Science Fiction, Writing

There are butterflies in my stomach. What does that mean? Am I worried about something, or scared that an event is approaching about which I have little control? Yes, and no. SUPPOSE WE is approaching lift off and it nearly got away from me, its author. This working...

MORE MENTAL THAN INCREMENTAL

Sep 21, 2018 | Blogroll, Genre: Science Fiction

https://geoffnelder.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/fire1537514316.mp4 I am really pleased with this collection of my own favourite short stories. Some have been published before, but in anthologies or magazines no longer available or rare. Such as What Kept You? A...
One new and one revised book

One new and one revised book

Aug 28, 2018 | Blogroll

I’m delighted to report… several things. INCREMENTAL is to be published on the 6th October 2018 by LL-Publications An updated version of How to Win Short Story Competitions by me and Dave Haslett has been released today I am reading Claire North’s clever body swapping...

Books and biscuits

Jun 22, 2018 | Blogroll

Yesterday I gave my fifth book talk of the season about Xaghra’s Revenge to readers at the Lache Library, Chester, UK. I gave a quick outline of the plot. Fact: pirates abducted 5,000 people off the Mediterranean island of Gozo in 1551 and sold them into slavery or...
Sample of Xaghra’s Revenge

Sample of Xaghra’s Revenge

Apr 21, 2018 | Blogroll

Xaghra’s Revenge excerpt from Chapter 23 used on talks Read to the Salon literary event in Malta April 2018 and at the Gozo Central Library 1551 – Stjepan was one of 5,000 people on the island of Gozo, near Malta, who were mass abducted by pirates and sold as slaves...
Why do a book tour?

Why do a book tour?

Apr 20, 2018 | Blogroll

Why do a book tour?    (link to excerpt at https://geoffnelder.com/sample-xaghras-revenge/) It was inevitable. I’d written a historical fantasy set in the Maltese islands. We go there for a holiday every few years so as sure as sand + cement = mortar, this year’s...