Tag Archives: Fleet

When music creeps into your writing

Posted on April 10, 2018 by Susannah J. Bell

It’s ironic that the two most brutish men I’ve ever created should both be associated with tinkly piano music. When writing a novel, I obsessively listen to the same music every day until the book is finished (or I’ve gone … Continue reading →

Posted in My Books, On Writing | Tagged Bladerunner, divenire, dr zhivago, einaudi, Exodus Sequence, Fleet, Fleet quintet, Fleet trilogy, Flesh for Sale, music, nightbook, piano, piano music, suicided, Transference, V. Gomenzi, writing, writing process | Leave a comment

Last day to get my books free (for all E-readers)

Posted on March 11, 2017 by Susannah J. Bell

I’ve gone quite cross-eyed with promotions this week, having to rely mostly on Twitter. This has not been ideal for obvious reasons, Twitter being a flood of ads that produces no results at all except perhaps a few more follows … Continue reading →

Posted in My Books | Tagged A Doorway into Ultra, books, ebook, ebooks, existential, existential science fiction, Fleet, Fleet novels, Fleet Quinteet, Fleet trilogy, Flesh for Sale, FREE, Free Book Promotion, free books, free ebooks, free free free, free novels, marketing, sci fi, science fiction, Smashwords, Transference, V. Gomenzi | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Getting Published, On Writing | Tagged angels, blurbing, Blurbs, book blurb, Commences, existential science fiction, Fleet, Fleet Quinteet, Flesh for Sale, immortality, science fiction, Science Fiction Books, science fiction series, self-employed, self-published, self-publishing, Transference, V. Gomenzi, writing | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged anti-hero, epic, Fleet, Fleet Quinteet, Flesh for Sale, Goodreads, goodreads review, hero, novel, sci fi, science fiction, science fiction series, series, Transference, V. Gomenzi | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged alien invasion, Fleet, Fleet Quinteet, Flesh for Sale, Goodreads, goodreads review, mindwalkers, mindwalking, missing persons, relationships, sci fi, science fiction, self-publishing, Sistia Scarpora | Leave a comment

Why is it so hard to write a book blurb?

Posted on July 8, 2016 by Susannah J. Bell

Does it ever get easier to write a book blurb? At some point, after you’ve battled day after day, does something suddenly go “ping” and you realise how to string the words together adequately? I’ve just written nine new blurbs … Continue reading →

Posted in On Writing | Tagged alter space, Blurbs, book blurb, Fleet, Fleet quintet, Fleet trilogy, quintet, sci fi, science fiction, self-publishing, V. Gomenzi, writing | Leave a comment

V.GOMENZI is published today!

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Susannah J. Bell

V.GOMENZI is my fourth novel to be published but it feels like the first! I tried out the pre-order option on KDP and gave myself a month to promote it like mad, with the result that the 3rd of November … Continue reading →

Posted in Getting Published | Tagged alter space, amazon, Fleet, Fleet quintet, KDP, kindle, New, Published Today, V. Gomenzi | Leave a comment

Accidently got my new book published on Super Thursday!

Posted on October 9, 2014 by Susannah J. Bell

I wasn’t trying to get V.GOMENZI published on Super Thursday – I didn’t even know the date! I had dimly thought about it, but then decided it was a marketing gimmick that wouldn’t do me any favours. After all, I’m … Continue reading →

Posted in Getting Published, On Writing | Tagged 3rd November, alter space, amazon, ebook, ebooks, Facebook, Fleet, Fleet quintet, Fleet trilogy, Gomenzi, kindle, marketing, meet the author, novel, pre-order, promotion, published, publishing, publishing event, rewrite, sci fi, science fiction, Science Fiction Books, self-published, self-publishing, selling writing, SuperThursday, V. Gomenzi | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in On Writing | Tagged alter space, Authonomy, Commences, Fleet, Fleet novels, Fleet quintet, Flesh for Sale, heat, Heat soundtrack, Ian Curtis, Joy Division, Moby, quintet, sci fi, self-publishing, Transference, V. Gomenzi, writing | Leave a comment

Very very very very very Gomenzi

Posted on March 12, 2014 by Susannah J. Bell

I’ve started preparing FLESH FOR SALE as a .doc for Smashwords and find that every time I come round to editing/managing/preparing this novel, I find myself intrigued all over again by my blurb for V.GOMENZI. It feels awfully self-indulgent to … Continue reading →

Posted in Getting Published, On Writing | Tagged .doc, agent, agents, alter space, blurbing, Blurbs, book blurb, Fleet, Fleet quintet, Fleet trilogy, Flesh for Sale, Gomenzi, quintet, sci fi, science fiction, self-publishing, Smaswords, submissions, Transference, V. Gomenzi | Leave a comment