Nine quirky SF stories by Sheila Crosby (the author of this blog) to entertain you. Two of the stories are set on La Palma. On sale April 23rd 2012, and available for Kindle, iPad, Mac and PCs. Cover painting by Merche Martin Morillo Layout by Eco-geek This book currently has 4.5 stars on Amazon.com, but it’s slightly cheaper from our own products page, which also offers other electronic formats. If…
El Alisio, the cultural magazine for La Palma has an article about my book here and Hank Quense has one here. Meanwhile Janice Clark gave my book five stars on Amazon.“This collection has something for everyone and a story to fit every mood, from the poignant tale of the last dragon (The Dodo Dragon) to the zaniness of Jose’s AI appliances (The Appliance of Science), who plunk him down in the…
Nine quirky SF stories by Sheila Crosby to entertain you. On sale April 23rd 2012, and available for Kindle, iPad, Mac and PCs. Cover painting by Merche Martin Morillo Layout by Eco-geek This book currently has 4.5 stars on Amazon.com where it costs just $3.54, but it’s slightly cheaper (2.59€) direct from Dragon Tree Publishing, which also offers other electronic formats. If you have any problems with this book, please leave a…
I’ve uploaded the files for “The Dodo Dragon and Other Stories” to Amazon. the book is now “in review” and should be on sale tomorrow. I hope. Of course I’ll be shouting from the rooftops as soon as that happens. So here’s a fun video to celebrate.
Manel Soria, who gave a talk on night photography at FotoNature 2012 now has amazing photos of La Palma on his website at www.frikosal.net The photo above was taken in the observatory, looking north. From left to right you can see the empty dome of the Swedish 60 cm telescope, MAGIC II (on the horizon, some distance below), the Superwasp Follow-up Telescope (closer), the Liverpool telescope (peeking from behind the ridge),…
My SF anthology, “The Dodo Dragon and other stories” will be on sale as an eBook from Monday 23rd April – Shakespeare’s birthday. Nine quirky stories to entertain you from an off-beat imagination. “If you like tongue in cheek retro sci-fi, often filled with bad puns, much in the vein of those 50s & 60s anthologies, with a twist of Ellison, Sheckley or Silverberg, then you’ll find stuff in here you’ll like…had me…