Monthly Archives: January 2017

Author Review: V. Gomenzi

Posted on January 30, 2017 by Susannah J. Bell

This was a massive novel to write.  It was intended to be the fourth novel in the Fleet Quintet and encompassed all three earlier novels, beginning before the first one (Commences – yet to be published) and ending after the … Continue reading →

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Author Review: Flesh for Sale

Posted on January 27, 2017 by Susannah J. Bell

When I began FLESH FOR SALE, it was as the next Fleet novella after COMMENCES, at the time the first Fleet novella.  Between the two I had written a short story called Access Denied and it was only while writing … Continue reading →

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Author Review: Transference

Posted on January 26, 2017 by Susannah J. Bell

You’d expect to find brilliantly imaginative technology in your average sci-fi novel.  For some futurist authors, inventing new hardware is probably half the fun.  With TRANSFERENCE, I went in the opposite direction:  the computers are laughable, like something out of … Continue reading →

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The Shrinking Singularity that is my Local Library

Posted on January 25, 2017 by Susannah J. Bell

I haven’t been to my local library for years.  I stopped going because I could never find anything to read.  There were a few new books on display but never anything I actually wanted to read.  The shelves themselves remained … Continue reading →

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The price you pay for teeny tiny fonts

Posted on January 13, 2017 by Susannah J. Bell

I have – miraculously – got the price down on my novel TRANSFERENCE and better still, it’s the sort of price you’d expect to pay for a paperback. One of the many cruelties about self-publishing (and that’s a long list … Continue reading →

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Dear 2016, What do you mean 2017 is going to be worse?

Posted on January 1, 2017 by Susannah J. Bell

Trending on Twitter earlier this week was a “Dear 2016” line (not actually a hashtag).  One of the saddest was someone asking 2016 not to take Carrie Fisher, which it then promptly did, along with her mother.  The general idea … Continue reading →

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