Andrew Ives

[Andrew]

Hello everyone,

I've been using GoodReads and its Facebook predecessor for several years now, but this is my first foray onto a forum. Please be gentle.

I wrote a book twenty odd years ago on an Amiga when I first stumpled upon a decent word processor. After a few good reviews at the time, life took a different course and after a while, I forgot about writing. Last year, I salvaged Psinapse from the dusty Amiga where it remained unseen for decades and put it on my shiny new Kindle. Since then, it has sold about 100+ copies and been met with plenty of favourable reviews. As it was written in 1989 but set in 2019, it reads quite amusingly now we are much closer to that date.

In passing, I sent a copy to a friend. Despite not being in the target audience demographic, she liked it enough to urge me to write a sequel. I didn't quite listen and wrote a prequel instead, Sirene, which I finished in Nov 2011. That has fared even better than the first, so now I am intending to write the third (and last?) of the trilogy, set in 2029.

All my books are intended to be realistic and based in Europe. The first is in UK 2019, the second in France/Italy 2014 and the third will be UK/Netherlands 2029. My intention was to try to predict future technology and society as accurately as possible, in something akin to Paris in the Twentieth Century: Jules Verne, The Lost Novel which future readers may find interestingly accurate or amusingly inaccurate.

Like Verne, I weave these future prediction around a thriller, the plot of which hinges on technology.

[Lorraine]

Hi Andrew !

[Emma]

Hi Andrew! :-)

[Patti (baconater)]

Welcome Andrew! You've stumbled onto the friendliest, most author loving group in Goodreads!

[Lorraine]

Ditto what Patti says !

Care for a sausage?

[Andrew]

Thanks everyone. I was recommended to come here by Mel Comley, and from what I've seen so far, it looks a great place to meet & discover UK Kindle authors.

As I've said here, I'm currently writing ch3 of my 3rd book for the Kindle. As my Mum just bought an Android tablet though, I'm trying to see how my first two appear on the default eBook software in it. I'm hoping it'll look just the same on Android. I'm quite technical regarding HTML and Photoshop if anyone needs any help... so much so, I don't get much writing done! Tut tut!

[Patti (baconater)]

Awww We love Mel. :)

Andrew would you like to pop some links to your books into your thread so we can have a look please?

[Lorraine]

Couldn't help. It check your profile on Mel's facebook.... dordogne? I think I like you already !

[Kath]

Amiga - wow - i had me one of them... tell me you played lemmings on it !!!

Oh and welcome :)

[M.A.]

Welcome Andrew. ;-)

Yeah, this is the friendliest group around. They're more likely to lick you to death than eat you! lol

[Kath]

Hello Andrew - you will meet readers as well as fellow authors here!

[Andrew]

:-) Thanks all. @ Kath, yes, I played Lemmings on it! I wanted to be a games programmer back then, so I played most things and wrote a few too. That's why Psinapse, which I wrote on Wordworth, is quite techy and game-oriented.

@Lorraine, yep. Been in the Dordogne for about 7.5yrs now. Nice sunny area S of Perigueux surrounded by trees. You will notice some of that has made its way into Sirene too.

Links: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sirene-ebook/... (this is the most recent one, with the music links.)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Psinapse-eboo... (this is the Amiga one.)

Thanks everyone :-D

[Andrew]

I had my first review today from BigAl's Books and Pals: http://booksandpals.blogspot.com/2012...

I had hoped for slightly better, but I guess it's a niche genre that isn't always everyone's cup of tea. Sirene is a bit more mainstream, being not so futuristic.

[Lorraine]

Awwwww... Sunny... Not like here :/