Tag Archives: Commences

The Birth of the Fleet Quintet

Posted on July 13, 2019 by Susannah J. Bell

The Fleet Quintet began originally with Commences, at that time a novella. My intention was to write something about the beginning of the universe – but not the physical universe: the universe of beings or entities or spirits, people who looked … Continue reading →

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COMMENCES in review!

Posted on February 21, 2017 by Susannah J. Bell

I can’t believe I’ve reached this point! It’s taken over twenty years to turn COMMENCES into a novel that is actually readable! Now in review on my Kindle Bookshelf, it’ll be out by the end of the week. I’m REELING … Continue reading →

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Please let me know what you think of the blurb for my new book

Posted on February 8, 2017 by Susannah J. Bell

Billions of years ago, before the artificial universe, there was the Fleet. Fleet personnel number 50 – mostly known as Dett – sees a spacial dissociation in Fleet space and realises the control sector is broken. She interacts violently with … Continue reading →

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Brand New Year, Brand New Novel

Posted on January 5, 2015 by Susannah J. Bell

Today for the first time in years, I sat down to start pre-writing a new novel. I’ve been looking forward to this for an entire year. I’ve been looking forward to it all Christmas. When I did sit down at … Continue reading →

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What do you do when you realise you are a terrible writer

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Susannah J. Bell

Give up? Start over? Get a job stacking shelves in some shitty supermarket? Turn into the dull, grey, dying-inside person you’re afraid of? I’ve spent all summer editing. Both the third and fourth Fleet Quintet novels were already written but … Continue reading →

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Elation and Revelation

Posted on July 4, 2014 by Susannah J. Bell

A loaded gun won’t set you free (Moby cover) It’s rare in a writer’s life that it happens: a moment that is so beyond coincidence it would seem you are connected with the Truly Divine. Not to appear too slack, I … Continue reading →

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Who are the Fleet?

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Susannah J. Bell

Once, in another era, another epoch, when there could not be time, where there could not be space, in a universe that existed in conjunction with the cosmos but was not subject to its linear decay, games were played by … Continue reading →

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Flesh for Sale almost ready for publication!

Posted on November 27, 2013 by Susannah J. Bell

Six months before my mother died, she turned to me and said bluntly, “I’m never going to read your novels.” Naturally I was horrified and protested vociferously but of course she was right: I’d failed utterly to get myself published … Continue reading →

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The Curse of the Copy-Cat Covers

Posted on July 30, 2013 by Susannah J. Bell

The curse of being a self-published author using the free cover templates on offer is that someone else is going to have the same book cover you have. As far as I could, I’ve tried to put together my own … Continue reading →

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Pulverate the Plagiarists

Posted on May 28, 2013 by Susannah J. Bell

I thought I’d do an old friend the courtesy of reading his first published novel – I haven’t talked to him for years but used to know him well from a writers’ group fifteen years ago. Several pages in and … Continue reading →

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