T.P. Archie's Blog, page 3
March 14, 2014
March Update
I've put together Lucky and other stories. This collection is print-on-demand at
www.lulu.com/content/9139356
About April time I plan to do a few readings of Lucky at local libraries.
In the meantime, I'm working on an Alternate America piece (which is about 7,000 words to the good). In this America, there were no winners in the War of Secession. There are other differences with the America we know. The east is dominated by two big powers, New England and the Compromise Cities. The latter takes in most of the Appalachians and the Mid-West, and stretches all the way down south.
Without Question
Ray wakes; bones broken, face beaten to a pulp. He's a mess and he's been dumped in a derelict part of Korlam Heath. But he's in luck; a kid spots him.
Hold on Ray; help's a-coming.
The only problem is, Ray is used to being on the wrong side of law enforcement. So when help comes, he's trundled off to a police hospital. How lucky can you get?
At least it isn't on his home turf; they'd have left him to rot there. No; Korlam Heath is slap bang in the middle of Gladstone City; one of the Compromise Cities. This means that Ray's home turf in New Goodshaw is hundred of miles away. New Goodshaw? That's the capital of New England and biggest city in America.
Who's Ray? That's me and I'm gonna find out who left me like this. When I do I'll beat the crap out of them.
This is my story.
A Rebel-Noir piece.
www.lulu.com/content/9139356
About April time I plan to do a few readings of Lucky at local libraries.
In the meantime, I'm working on an Alternate America piece (which is about 7,000 words to the good). In this America, there were no winners in the War of Secession. There are other differences with the America we know. The east is dominated by two big powers, New England and the Compromise Cities. The latter takes in most of the Appalachians and the Mid-West, and stretches all the way down south.
Without Question
Ray wakes; bones broken, face beaten to a pulp. He's a mess and he's been dumped in a derelict part of Korlam Heath. But he's in luck; a kid spots him.
Hold on Ray; help's a-coming.
The only problem is, Ray is used to being on the wrong side of law enforcement. So when help comes, he's trundled off to a police hospital. How lucky can you get?
At least it isn't on his home turf; they'd have left him to rot there. No; Korlam Heath is slap bang in the middle of Gladstone City; one of the Compromise Cities. This means that Ray's home turf in New Goodshaw is hundred of miles away. New Goodshaw? That's the capital of New England and biggest city in America.
Who's Ray? That's me and I'm gonna find out who left me like this. When I do I'll beat the crap out of them.
This is my story.
A Rebel-Noir piece.
February 24, 2014
February updates
Finished the first four episodes of Lucky, a gritty, realistic exploration of space fiction. They have been collected and should shortly be out on Kindle... once Amazon has finished rapping my knuckles for previewing parts of it on the www. Needless to say, the previews went down well. Here's a preview to Lucky's story:
I'm delighted with the cover for Lucky and I'll upload a piccy real soon.
One of the writing groups I attend is publishing a collection of stories as a limited edition. It'll come to about 80 pages (I haven't seen the text yet, but as I'm certain to be doing the formatting, I'll shout it out when I see the edited product). I've a feeling this'll do well. More on this later in 2014.
Long, long ago, there was war in the heart of the galaxy. The core stars were ripped apart by the fury of that conflict. Lucky is a survivor from it; she is lucky to even exist. Her people, the flowing people, were destroyed by the measuring people.
War separates the victors from the losers. The victors survive and the losers are crushed from existence and from memory. To go home would have been death, so Lucky fled. She programmed her ship, the Expedient, to take her away from the galactic core, away from the planets where her people once lived and into the skeins of stars that make up the spiral arms of the galaxy. That was a long time ago. Few of the places she once knew can now support life. She has been a refugee since, drifting from star to star, in a half-life of suspended animation, known as slowtime.
The Expedient charts a careful course, ploughing its lonely furrow between the stars, always away from what she once knew, ever alert for signs of the measuring people. She'd stop running but it's now all she knows. Eventually her ship comes upon a back-water of the Milky Way, known locally as Orion’s Belt.
I'm delighted with the cover for Lucky and I'll upload a piccy real soon.
One of the writing groups I attend is publishing a collection of stories as a limited edition. It'll come to about 80 pages (I haven't seen the text yet, but as I'm certain to be doing the formatting, I'll shout it out when I see the edited product). I've a feeling this'll do well. More on this later in 2014.
January 26, 2014
Update January 2014
In the past few weeks I've got back to somewhere like my previous writing regime. I've four novellas in progress. Currently I'm working on:
Title: Lucky and the Asteroid
Genre: Space Opera, Realistic SF, Science Fiction
Influenced by: Astronomy, Northern Soul, the NHS, Green Cards, Street Drug-Dealers, everyday life in Northern England. This started as an excuse to incorporate bits of astronomy and other space sciences into a Science Fiction story. For authorial reasons it has strong elements of realism. My premise was: What if you couldn't risk being identified as alien and simply wanted to live quietly?
Lucky is a humanoid alien who’s escaped a clash of star-faring civilisations. Her homeworld lies in the galactic core. The battles that destroyed her civilisation were a long time ago, so long that suns have faded to dullness. Few of the places she once knew can now support life. Her people, the flowing people, were destroyed by the measuring people. She’s been on the run since, and exists in slowtime a process that lets her sleep in suspended animation while her ship, the Expedient, ploughs its lonely furrow between the stars. Eventually the Expedient comes upon a back-water of the Milky Way, known locally as Orion’s Belt.
Her dream is to live quietly in Mid-West America. Ideally she'd like to raise a family; but first she needs an identity. She decides to pose as a refugee from the recent Balkans War, who’s fled to live in the UK.
Status 16,000 words done
The others are:
Title: Brant, A Fantasy
Genre: High Fantasy, Heroic Fantasy
Influenced by: Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Jack Vance, Andre Norton, Roger Zelazny and the Mongol destruction of classical civilisation.
Brant leaves his home in the valley realm of Flotyn Bryn-i-Gwyn, for it now lies under the heavy hand of the augeruch.
Away Brant, away. Go east; through the lowlands of Lagelan, the northland steppes; the mountain holds of the mughite where the Khaifite in exile dwells and even to the fabled city of Hrim. Live elsewhere and learn a trade, for the augeruch cannot be fought alone.
Orby is a small town nestling at the edge of Brychon Woods. Princess Aralie is prisoner there and bands of mercenaries lie in wait, hoping to capture her. A knight errant approaches. It's Brant. He's looking for hero work. Simple?
Brychon Woods are said to be the haunt of night-frights and soul-bleeds. Brant comes from a long settled place and considers such talk to be moonshine and fantasy. He meets the seductive Ysarie, who turns his nice, simple world upside down. These events are strangely paralleled in the magical, ancient city of Turalam.
Status 22,000 words done
Title: Without Question
Genre: Crime Fiction, Noir Fiction, Alternate America
Influences: American culture, Raymond Chandler and other Noir fiction, organised crime.
I come from New Goodshaw, the capital of New England and greatest city in the world. In the shady zone between the punters, organised crime and the police, you need to keep your wits about you; that's the world I know and work. Unfortunately I got the crap kicked out of me. When I came to, I was hundreds of miles away, on the rundown outskirts of Gladstone City, the northernmost of the Compromise Cities. I'd been left for dead, I can barely remember who I am, let alone what happened, but when I find out, someone's gonna pay.
Status 6,000 words done
Title: Harjazes
Genre: Detective Fiction, Noir Fiction
Influenced by: Noir fiction, American culture, Indian folklore, Libraries
Bernie Doarne is a private investigator, working in Lellegheny, pop 250,000 (a fictional town) which is in the South-West Appalachians. One day when business is slow, Mrs Dimling engages him to find her missing husband. On the same day, the local newspaper runs a report on the Ridge Runner, a local legend.
Status 9,000 words done
One of the biggest distractions for me is the net, I've set myself a target to do a monthly update, which I'll try to stick to.
Title: Lucky and the Asteroid
Genre: Space Opera, Realistic SF, Science Fiction
Influenced by: Astronomy, Northern Soul, the NHS, Green Cards, Street Drug-Dealers, everyday life in Northern England. This started as an excuse to incorporate bits of astronomy and other space sciences into a Science Fiction story. For authorial reasons it has strong elements of realism. My premise was: What if you couldn't risk being identified as alien and simply wanted to live quietly?
Lucky is a humanoid alien who’s escaped a clash of star-faring civilisations. Her homeworld lies in the galactic core. The battles that destroyed her civilisation were a long time ago, so long that suns have faded to dullness. Few of the places she once knew can now support life. Her people, the flowing people, were destroyed by the measuring people. She’s been on the run since, and exists in slowtime a process that lets her sleep in suspended animation while her ship, the Expedient, ploughs its lonely furrow between the stars. Eventually the Expedient comes upon a back-water of the Milky Way, known locally as Orion’s Belt.
Her dream is to live quietly in Mid-West America. Ideally she'd like to raise a family; but first she needs an identity. She decides to pose as a refugee from the recent Balkans War, who’s fled to live in the UK.
Status 16,000 words done
The others are:
Title: Brant, A Fantasy
Genre: High Fantasy, Heroic Fantasy
Influenced by: Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Jack Vance, Andre Norton, Roger Zelazny and the Mongol destruction of classical civilisation.
Brant leaves his home in the valley realm of Flotyn Bryn-i-Gwyn, for it now lies under the heavy hand of the augeruch.
Away Brant, away. Go east; through the lowlands of Lagelan, the northland steppes; the mountain holds of the mughite where the Khaifite in exile dwells and even to the fabled city of Hrim. Live elsewhere and learn a trade, for the augeruch cannot be fought alone.
Orby is a small town nestling at the edge of Brychon Woods. Princess Aralie is prisoner there and bands of mercenaries lie in wait, hoping to capture her. A knight errant approaches. It's Brant. He's looking for hero work. Simple?
Brychon Woods are said to be the haunt of night-frights and soul-bleeds. Brant comes from a long settled place and considers such talk to be moonshine and fantasy. He meets the seductive Ysarie, who turns his nice, simple world upside down. These events are strangely paralleled in the magical, ancient city of Turalam.
Status 22,000 words done
Title: Without Question
Genre: Crime Fiction, Noir Fiction, Alternate America
Influences: American culture, Raymond Chandler and other Noir fiction, organised crime.
I come from New Goodshaw, the capital of New England and greatest city in the world. In the shady zone between the punters, organised crime and the police, you need to keep your wits about you; that's the world I know and work. Unfortunately I got the crap kicked out of me. When I came to, I was hundreds of miles away, on the rundown outskirts of Gladstone City, the northernmost of the Compromise Cities. I'd been left for dead, I can barely remember who I am, let alone what happened, but when I find out, someone's gonna pay.
Status 6,000 words done
Title: Harjazes
Genre: Detective Fiction, Noir Fiction
Influenced by: Noir fiction, American culture, Indian folklore, Libraries
Bernie Doarne is a private investigator, working in Lellegheny, pop 250,000 (a fictional town) which is in the South-West Appalachians. One day when business is slow, Mrs Dimling engages him to find her missing husband. On the same day, the local newspaper runs a report on the Ridge Runner, a local legend.
Status 9,000 words done
One of the biggest distractions for me is the net, I've set myself a target to do a monthly update, which I'll try to stick to.
The Brun
School Yearbooks and Memories
I've finished moving my office. Moving stuff that hasn't been touched for years, can trigger memories. I came across yearbooks from my old Grammar School; they encapsulated the ethos of the school. This yearbook, the Brun, was named after the river Brun that flows through the town of Burnley (Lancs, UK).
This set me off into researching the history of the school; which was over 400 years old and came about due to the closure of an even older chantry school; and the area. I wrote seven articles about the town, the school and the politics that forced it to close.
There are fewer and fewer Old Boys from Burnley Grammar School; the association is moribund. Their memories die with them and tattered copies of the Brun will end up flung into the rubbish bin of history, along with the school. For reasons of nostalgia I reproduced my copies of the the Brun. These are available for Burnley Grammar School Old Boys via the following direct web addresses:
The Brun 1968 – A History of Burnley
http://www.lulu.com/content/14313979
The Brun 1969 – Burnley Grammar School
http://www.lulu.com/content/14322173
The Brun 1970 – Politics in Education
http://www.lulu.com/content/14344079
The Brun 1971 – Education, Then and Now
http://www.lulu.com/content/14344080
The Brun 1972 – The Brun: Advertisements
http://www.lulu.com/content/14344081
The Brun 1973 – Technical
http://www.lulu.com/content/14344082
The Brun 1974 – Fly on a Wall
http://www.lulu.com/content/14344083
Appended to each edition are articles looking at a separate facets of UK education. The Brun project was completed early January. See also: http://my.telegraph.co.uk/archietp/ta...
I've finished moving my office. Moving stuff that hasn't been touched for years, can trigger memories. I came across yearbooks from my old Grammar School; they encapsulated the ethos of the school. This yearbook, the Brun, was named after the river Brun that flows through the town of Burnley (Lancs, UK).
This set me off into researching the history of the school; which was over 400 years old and came about due to the closure of an even older chantry school; and the area. I wrote seven articles about the town, the school and the politics that forced it to close.
There are fewer and fewer Old Boys from Burnley Grammar School; the association is moribund. Their memories die with them and tattered copies of the Brun will end up flung into the rubbish bin of history, along with the school. For reasons of nostalgia I reproduced my copies of the the Brun. These are available for Burnley Grammar School Old Boys via the following direct web addresses:
The Brun 1968 – A History of Burnley
http://www.lulu.com/content/14313979
The Brun 1969 – Burnley Grammar School
http://www.lulu.com/content/14322173
The Brun 1970 – Politics in Education
http://www.lulu.com/content/14344079
The Brun 1971 – Education, Then and Now
http://www.lulu.com/content/14344080
The Brun 1972 – The Brun: Advertisements
http://www.lulu.com/content/14344081
The Brun 1973 – Technical
http://www.lulu.com/content/14344082
The Brun 1974 – Fly on a Wall
http://www.lulu.com/content/14344083
Appended to each edition are articles looking at a separate facets of UK education. The Brun project was completed early January. See also: http://my.telegraph.co.uk/archietp/ta...
October 21, 2013
Unfinished Stories
Unfinished stories? We all have them. Even if we never write they're there; ideas circling round and round, waiting to be written down. So though I've been busy for several months editing my novel (600 pages, 160,000 words) and dealing with the follow through, I haven't been idle. I still get time to drop in at my local writing group, Hasiwriters. When I go, ideas just seem to crawl out of the woodwork. As soon as the shape of the story is clear, I make a start. Editing is an intensive process, especially when it's a first time experience so compromises are required. Some of these pieces are brought to completion, e.g:
*Xewjika - Historical, Mediterranean Corsairs, Slavery
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...
*The Central Sea - Historical, Mediterranean Corsairs, Slavery
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...
*Adriana - Historical, Mediterranean Corsairs, Slavery
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...
A Red Car - Flash fiction
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...
Sandie - Flash fiction
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...
All In Time - Myth / Flash fiction
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...
After School - Post urban
http://my.telegraph.co.uk/archietp/ar...
Alibi - Journalism / Romance
http://my.telegraph.co.uk/archietp/ar...
It's not always possible to bring each to completion at the time they are begun. If I'm working on other projects, I do enough so that when I return (on a future rainy day) I can pick up where I left off. Eventually, I'll make time; but then the question in my mind is: Which to finish off? Below are the incomplete pieces begun in 2013:
The Glass Slipper - Pantomime
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...
The Fairy Tree - Realistic Fantasy
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...
A Sending - High Fantasy
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...
Asimov3 - Ooh - err Science Fiction
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...
Storm - Supernatural
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...
An Italian murder - Murder / Detective
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...
Erisse of the Illyany - Fantasy / Horror
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...
Some I'm still working on, e.g:
Writing Day - Post urban
Lucky - Science Fiction
Brant - Heroic / mythic fantasy
Without Question - Romance / Detective
* These form part of my Mediterranean Corsair Cycle. The umbrella title is The Central Sea (a literal rendering of The Mediterranean) It's set around the time of the Crusades. Here's some of my background notes to The Central Sea http://tparchie.wordpress.com/the-cen...
*Xewjika - Historical, Mediterranean Corsairs, Slavery
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...
*The Central Sea - Historical, Mediterranean Corsairs, Slavery
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...
*Adriana - Historical, Mediterranean Corsairs, Slavery
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...
A Red Car - Flash fiction
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...
Sandie - Flash fiction
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...
All In Time - Myth / Flash fiction
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...
After School - Post urban
http://my.telegraph.co.uk/archietp/ar...
Alibi - Journalism / Romance
http://my.telegraph.co.uk/archietp/ar...
It's not always possible to bring each to completion at the time they are begun. If I'm working on other projects, I do enough so that when I return (on a future rainy day) I can pick up where I left off. Eventually, I'll make time; but then the question in my mind is: Which to finish off? Below are the incomplete pieces begun in 2013:
The Glass Slipper - Pantomime
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...
The Fairy Tree - Realistic Fantasy
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...
A Sending - High Fantasy
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...
Asimov3 - Ooh - err Science Fiction
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...
Storm - Supernatural
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...
An Italian murder - Murder / Detective
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...
Erisse of the Illyany - Fantasy / Horror
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...
Some I'm still working on, e.g:
Writing Day - Post urban
Lucky - Science Fiction
Brant - Heroic / mythic fantasy
Without Question - Romance / Detective
* These form part of my Mediterranean Corsair Cycle. The umbrella title is The Central Sea (a literal rendering of The Mediterranean) It's set around the time of the Crusades. Here's some of my background notes to The Central Sea http://tparchie.wordpress.com/the-cen...
October 18, 2013
Extracts from Guide
Here's a story recap:
Guide alternates between the present day and a post-apocalyptic Earth.
On the edge of the solar system, Star Beings plan the next phase of their work. New life. An animite must be hurled onto the third planet. The impact will scatter organic compounds throughout Earth’s biosphere. But there’s a problem: the animite goes missing.A hundred thousand years later, it’s the 21st century. A space mission to a near-earth object makes an amazing biological discovery which is brought back to Earth. This American secret is trumped when France announces contact with creatures from outer space. Then disaster strikes. Technologies in key industries begin to fail. The West collapses …
It’s now 2060. Most cities are long abandoned. All that remains of the once-mighty United States is the Petits États, centred on New England. Outside of there, civilisation survives in Enclaves, relying on the confederation of Sioux Nations for protection. For forty years a genetic plague has ravaged humanity. It began just after Earth was contacted by aliens. A new and mysterious power – the mandat culturel – controls access to advanced technologies.
Triste, hopeless with girls, but good with guns, is a bounty hunter. He has all the latest ordnance. His contracts pay well but are dangerous. They take him to the ruined cities; he spends a lot of time in the former urban area of New York.
His current mission is to reconnoitre a long lost laboratory. He encounters a ramshackle band of opportunists whom he sends packing. In doing so, he meets Shoe. They find the lab. It has secrets linking it to the collapse of Western civilisation. Shoe is running from her family. She has other secrets.
In the dead shell of Manhattan lurks a secret pensitela base. Their alien biology protects them from the brutal savagery of the place. They have their own reasons for being there.
From the edges of the solar system, a Star Being monitors Earth. It has a plan – and Triste meeting Shoe isn’t accidental. His troubles have just begun. Eventually he is faced by the hard truths behind the fall of the West.
At its most basic, Guide is a series of interlinked narratives that combine to reveal how the apocalypse comes about. Other readings are possible. One of my objectives was to explore different kinds of first contact.
- See more at: Client Talk The Independent Author - T.P. Archie
The complementary site for A Guide to First Contact is largely complete. It's pitched at
! ! Spoiler Alert ! !
those who've read the book. It's for discussion and feedback. Some content could be considered (gasp!) story spoiler and may also provide insight. Check it out at: http://aguidetofirstcontact.wordpress...
I recently added me reading extracts from Guide onto You Tube. Check these out at: http://aguidetofirstcontact.wordpress...
Here's a breakdown of its resources:
About Guide
- Humans / Aliens
- Places
- The Lost
Background
- Acadia
- Language
- Sayings
Characters
- Character sketches
- Sex
Chronology
- Pre-history
- Before the Fall: Cradle Hood
- Before the Fall: Observer Effect
- Post Apocalypse
Extracts
Press Release
- Trailer
A Guide to First Contact recounts events leading up to 'The Human Incident'; and is part of the Mandat Culturel cycle.
Main Wordpress blog Archie
Guide alternates between the present day and a post-apocalyptic Earth.
On the edge of the solar system, Star Beings plan the next phase of their work. New life. An animite must be hurled onto the third planet. The impact will scatter organic compounds throughout Earth’s biosphere. But there’s a problem: the animite goes missing.A hundred thousand years later, it’s the 21st century. A space mission to a near-earth object makes an amazing biological discovery which is brought back to Earth. This American secret is trumped when France announces contact with creatures from outer space. Then disaster strikes. Technologies in key industries begin to fail. The West collapses …
It’s now 2060. Most cities are long abandoned. All that remains of the once-mighty United States is the Petits États, centred on New England. Outside of there, civilisation survives in Enclaves, relying on the confederation of Sioux Nations for protection. For forty years a genetic plague has ravaged humanity. It began just after Earth was contacted by aliens. A new and mysterious power – the mandat culturel – controls access to advanced technologies.
Triste, hopeless with girls, but good with guns, is a bounty hunter. He has all the latest ordnance. His contracts pay well but are dangerous. They take him to the ruined cities; he spends a lot of time in the former urban area of New York.
His current mission is to reconnoitre a long lost laboratory. He encounters a ramshackle band of opportunists whom he sends packing. In doing so, he meets Shoe. They find the lab. It has secrets linking it to the collapse of Western civilisation. Shoe is running from her family. She has other secrets.
In the dead shell of Manhattan lurks a secret pensitela base. Their alien biology protects them from the brutal savagery of the place. They have their own reasons for being there.
From the edges of the solar system, a Star Being monitors Earth. It has a plan – and Triste meeting Shoe isn’t accidental. His troubles have just begun. Eventually he is faced by the hard truths behind the fall of the West.
At its most basic, Guide is a series of interlinked narratives that combine to reveal how the apocalypse comes about. Other readings are possible. One of my objectives was to explore different kinds of first contact.
- See more at: Client Talk The Independent Author - T.P. Archie
The complementary site for A Guide to First Contact is largely complete. It's pitched at
! ! Spoiler Alert ! !
those who've read the book. It's for discussion and feedback. Some content could be considered (gasp!) story spoiler and may also provide insight. Check it out at: http://aguidetofirstcontact.wordpress...
I recently added me reading extracts from Guide onto You Tube. Check these out at: http://aguidetofirstcontact.wordpress...
Here's a breakdown of its resources:
About Guide
- Humans / Aliens
- Places
- The Lost
Background
- Acadia
- Language
- Sayings
Characters
- Character sketches
- Sex
Chronology
- Pre-history
- Before the Fall: Cradle Hood
- Before the Fall: Observer Effect
- Post Apocalypse
Extracts
Press Release
- Trailer
A Guide to First Contact recounts events leading up to 'The Human Incident'; and is part of the Mandat Culturel cycle.
Main Wordpress blog Archie
September 23, 2013
Complementary Site for Guide - Update
Complementary site for A Guide to First Contact update.
Added notes on sex at: http://aguidetofirstcontact.wordpress...
(uh... yeah; Guide is age restricted; no-one under 100 should read it)
Added notes on sex at: http://aguidetofirstcontact.wordpress...
(uh... yeah; Guide is age restricted; no-one under 100 should read it)
Language
Complementary site for A Guide to First Contact update:
Added a piece on the origins of language at: http://aguidetofirstcontact.wordpress...
Added a piece on the origins of language at: http://aguidetofirstcontact.wordpress...
September 20, 2013
September 17, 2013
Complementary Site for Guide
I'm creating a complementary site for A Guide to First Contact.
At the moment I'm doing character sketches. I plan to add a chronology, information on aliens, details of the Lost plus some artwork.
Guide is set primarily in New York; however some of the story takes place in [;aces such as Des Moines, Rochester (MN), Paris, the British Virgin Islands... I may add a map or two.
I will also add a couple of You Tube extracts from it.
Spoiler alert
The site assumes the reader to have already read Guide. It is at: http://aguidetofirstcontact.wordpress...
At the moment I'm doing character sketches. I plan to add a chronology, information on aliens, details of the Lost plus some artwork.
Guide is set primarily in New York; however some of the story takes place in [;aces such as Des Moines, Rochester (MN), Paris, the British Virgin Islands... I may add a map or two.
I will also add a couple of You Tube extracts from it.
Spoiler alert
The site assumes the reader to have already read Guide. It is at: http://aguidetofirstcontact.wordpress...
