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Open Channel – The Audiobook!

It is officially in production! Coming soon to popular digital media players everywhere, the epic tale of dragons, witches and biomechanical beings in space will be entertaining listeners during drive time, chore time and gym time. The audiobook is being produced through ACX and Steve Sherwood Voice Talent with a scheduled completion date of July 1st. The completed audiobook will be available at Audible, Amazon and iTunes. With a growing popularity in audiobooks, creating an audio version of...

AUTHORSdb Book Cover Contest!

The cover art for the first two books in the Open Channel Series has been entered in the AUTHORSdb 2014 Book Cover Contest! Please click on the either of the two covers below to link to the page to vote. You can vote for both covers. Your votes are so much appreciated and I thank everyone in advance for their support.

Aria versus The Stranger

Aria thought she was safe and well hidden working as an exotic dancer in a popular club on a backwater world. Then one day, out of the blue, a stranger enters the club, kills several people, interrupts her dance routine and attacks her. Who is this stranger? Why does he seem to hate Aria so much? Will Aria get the better of him? So begins the first chapter of Open Channel…

Witchkin Warship

I have felt compelled for sometime now to graphically display some of the concepts in my first novel Open Channel. Here is my first drawing. The Witchkin are a peaceful race. They learned long ago that much more could be accomplished through peace than through conflict. Readers of Open Channel will learn why a peaceful race would resort to creating armed space going vessels and I won’t spoil that here. However it is important to note that because the witchkin

Ender’s Game – Love thy enemy

By Daniel Betts Call me old school, but for as long as I can remember I have not appreciated or condoned the idea of “child” protagonist characters. It is not that I don’t believe young people can achieve great things, far from it. But in many instances fictional stories often fail miserably to sell me on their justification. In my opinion child protagonists almost always come across as arrogant, annoying and non-deserving of their positions. In real life, earning a

Quantum Gate

The second book of the Open Channel Series is currently available at Amazon-Kindle. Join the action in this prequel to the first exciting adventure today. A nefarious gang of pirates challenges the advanced defenses of an ancient orbital space platform. Recently promoted, Captain Jason Drake inadvertently flies his brand new ship and fresh crew into the center of a pirate vendetta. Looking to escape the carnage of a galactic war, biomechanical beings are tricked into performing a perilous mis...

Open Channel

Enjoy the first book in the Open Channel Series for FREE at Amazon-Kindle as well as many of the major eReader bookstores around the Internet, but only for a limited time. Jason Drake, the rogue captain of a remarkable warship, is on a campaign of justice against the perpetrators of a terrible tragedy that robbed him of his beloved daughter’s life and ended his marriage to his uniquely talented wife, Aria. Perhaps it was unrealistic for either of them to

He Frankenstein – I not impressed

By Daniel Betts © Copyright 2014 I was very excited about seeing I Frankenstein. Written and directed by Stuart Beattie and starring Aaron Eckart and Miranda Otto, the trailers looked cool and the story had promise. Unfortunately the film failed to entertain. The story begins with our anti-hero confessing to the murder of his master’s wife. While he believes himself a monster, he acts too “human” and despite his scars, he is much too handsome to be a creature constructed

The Sapphires shine

by Daniel Betts © Copyright 2013 I am usually a fan of either action/adventure or science fiction movies but sometimes I will enjoy a great drama as well. The Sapphires, an independent film from Australia, did not disappoint. The Sapphires takes place during the Vietnam War and follows the exploits of four strong female Australian aboriginal singers who bravely travel to Vietnam to entertain the troops with their amazing soul music. Each of the girls has their own reasons for

Riddick reawakens his animal side

by Daniel Betts © Copyright 2014 I was wondering what David Twohy was going to do with his Riddick franchise. I have to say, I was not disappointed. At the end of the last movie, The Chronicles of Riddick, our anti-hero had lost his best friend but had gained an entire nation that believed wholeheartedly, “You keep what you kill.” I had my doubts that such a powerful lone-wolf character would be successful leading an entire nation to a mythical