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September 14, 2022
Moving House. Again.
And how’s your weekend looking? Mine? Oh, I’m moving house. Again.
See how precisely labeled my boxes are? “Filing cabinet stuff” lolWe sold our home of 13 years back in May and moved into a temporary rental while builders finished our new one. (We’re downsizing, by the way).
“2-4 weeks,” our builders told us. “You’ll take ownership in 2-4 weeks.”
“Okay, we can put most of our stuff in storage and live/work out of boxes and suitcases for a month,” we thought.
And so we did.
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August 11, 2022
Post-Apocalyptic SALE
Three words: Post-Apocalyptic Sale. (Okay, two of them are hyphenated, so technically they’re one word…the important word is SALE)
This weekend, you’ll have the opportunity to snap up rare bargains (great novels at 0.99 each), and sample popular post-apocalypse series in the process.
Dive into conflicts and survival stories that’ll have you on the edge of your seat … and hungry for the next installments.
In a matter of seconds, terrorists execute a coordinated nuclear attack o...
August 3, 2022
Convention Appearances November 2022
Hola. It’s my pleasure to confirm I’ll be present at two Aussie conventions in November where I’ll be hand-selling copies of my books, and chatting with attendees about anything they want to chat about (well, within reason…)
November 1 (Melbourne Cup Day) is a one-day pop culture convention, ComiXpo. This will take place in Burwood East. Click link for details and tickets. Cannot wait.
November 12-13 sees SupaNova landing in Adelaide. My favourite Australian convention by far. Look...
July 9, 2022
You Say You Need a Werewolf Book to Read …
Well, I recommend five of them at Shepherd.com
Follow the link and feast your eyes on these recommendations:
The best werewolf thrillers without motorbikes or erotica (shepherd.com)
June 11, 2022
SITREP: Seriously Good Sale!
Around the world, militaries and intelligence services regularly observe the practice of giving Situation Reports, allowing important people instant access to vital decision-making info.
It’s my pleasure to provide you with a special SITREP today. And ours, of course, involves books! Scifi books …
This weekend, you have the opportunity to snap up rare ebook bargains and sample popular space opera action series in the process.
Dive into conflicts across this amazing galaxy of ours ...
May 2, 2022
Coffee Break Interview: Joe Vasicek
Recently, I was able to fire some nosey questions at prolific author Joe Vasicek. Here are the results …
Pete: Let’s start with the tough one. Best scifi movie or TV series of all time?
Joe: Without a doubt, the best sci-fi movie of all time is Galaxy Quest. It’s not only my favorite Star Trek movie, it’s my all-time favorite movie, period.
Pete: (“Star Trek” movie. Interesting, haha).
What’s a food you detest?
Joe: The grossest thing I ever ate was probably baloot. I w...
April 4, 2022
Congrats to the winners!
Hope you love it! Would love to hear from you while you're reading it, after you've read it ...
And thanks to everyone who entered the draw.
March 17, 2022
New ebook on Amazon
The ebook version of SCRAPPER has launched on Amazon. This book is also available free for email update subscribers at https://petealdin.com/the-cuset-dchc-...
NOTE: the Amazon version includes a BONUS short story not included in the newsletter version. You can purchase it for a special low price at https://www.amazon.com/Scrapper-Peter...
March 7, 2022
Jonathan E Hernandez: Space Opera Discussion
I’d read a couple of chapters of Jonathan E Hernandez’s One Day as a Lion before we met through social media. Instantly , I knew this was a man of good character — just as I’d
quickly seen that he’s a writer of great talent.
We caught up recently for a quick conversation. I present it to you now as a short transcript…
PETE:
First question for you, John: How long had you been writing your GORDIAN KNOT trilogy before Aethon said, “Can we publish that?” (Aethon being the publishing h...
February 22, 2022
Audio-story: “Death”
Narrated by the awesome Travis Baldree.
