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In 1600 Shakespeare wrote As You Like It. In that play his character Jaques said “All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” I happen to like that phrase. I also believe that we would all like to play different characters from time to time; stories give us the opportunity to do that. We can be a hero or a villain. We can live wherever we dream and travel through time at will. In this crazy world writing keeps me sane: its also a lot of fun.

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Where did you grow up, and how did this influence your writing?
I was born in Chesterfield England, lots of English countryside to roam in, but I believe my inspiration really began in Leicester where my parents were caretakers at a large old building. There was no ghost in residence, but it was a spooky place and I remember deliberately, and repeatedly scaring myself by going into parts of it in the dark, on my own.
When did you first start writing?
Twice actually, my very first attempt was around twelve years old when I wrote for the school newspaper. Casper the ghost had recently been on at the cinema and it inspired me to wrote a serial about a friendly little ghost; unfortunately I got him into so much trouble I couldn’t get him out.
From then on I would get a piece of paper now and again and scribble a few words, but with career and family it was never a serious attempt; that came after a divorce in the mid nineties when I wrote to quieten the silence of the empty rooms. The silence is now filled with grandchildren and I haven’t stopped writing.
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This is Absolutely, Definitely NOT an Author Guide to Writing a Novel by
Price: Free! Words: 4,970. Language: English. Published: January 26, 2014 by Starshipwriter. Categories: Nonfiction » Publishing » Self-publishing, Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Study guides -- General
To an aspiring author writing a novel can seem a daunting task; there are so many variables that it can be too confusing. The purpose of this ‘not an author guide’ is to hopefully pick out the important points so that if the author needs more help they can go to an actual guide to get that detailed information.
Orbit the Sun by
Series: Orbit the Sun. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 86,890. Language: English. Published: January 6, 2014 by Starshipwriter. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » General
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
A hotel at the edge of space; a close encounter with an asteroid, and a journey that no-one expected, go to prove that space tourism is the destination for those who have been everywhere, but not the place you want to be when things go wrong.
The Astonishing Adventures of Jet Black and the Starship Crew by
Series: The Adventures of Jet Black and his Starship Crew. Price: $1.00 USD. Words: 47,330. Language: English. Published: June 22, 2013 by Starshipwriter. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories
Series five of the Adventures of Jet Black and the Starship Crew. 21- The Highest Bidder. 22- The Moon of Gold. the Fountain of perpetual Youth. 23- Blend Five hundred and thirty-five. 25-
The Incredible Adventures of Jet Black and the Starship Crew by
Series: The Adventures of Jet Black and his Starship Crew · jet black and the starship crew. Price: $1.00 USD. Words: 29,100. Language: English. Published: May 11, 2013 by Starshipwriter. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories
(4.00 from 1 review)
Collection of the the first five Jet Black stories
Jet Black and the Escape from Culver City by
Series: The Adventures of Jet Black and his Starship Crew · jet black and the starship crew. Price: Free! Words: 6,670. Language: English. Published: May 1, 2013 by Starshipwriter. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
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Disillusionment can be a great motivator, and when the only way out is up Jet learns that friends can be found in the most unlikely of places: that a courier service is much more than delivering parcels and that diamonds are everyone's best friends. This is the first story in the Jet Black series.
The Astounding Adventures of Jet Black and the Starship Crew by
Series: The Adventures of Jet Black and his Starship Crew · jet black and the starship crew. Price: $1.00 USD. Words: 38,010. Language: Australian English. Published: April 10, 2013 by Starshipwriter. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
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Stories sixteen to twenty of the Adventures of Jet Black and the Starship Crew. 16- the Incubator. 17- Nightmare Museum. 18- The Lost Platoon.19- the Moons of Koo. 20-Mushrooms and Spiders
The Amazing Adventures of Jet Black and the Starship Crew by
Series: The Adventures of Jet Black and his Starship Crew · jet black and the starship crew. Price: $1.00 USD. Words: 41,450. Language: English. Published: March 24, 2013 by Starshipwriter. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
Third series of stories from the Jet Black series. 11-Water World. 12- Treachery Deceit and Bluff. 13- Gold. 14- Holiday from Hell. 15- Return to the Planet of the Merwomen
Island Between Times by
Series: Australian. Price: $1.00 USD. Words: 23,750. Language: English. Published: March 5, 2013 by Starshipwriter. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories
Bloodthirsty Pirates: World War II; an Island paradise, and a stolen Ruby with mystical powers makes a leisurely sailing holiday anything but. Alone and trapped on an island two children must find a way to save their parents before the Shah’s mystic ruby brings time back into order.
Corporate Expansion - Book Five of the Company Wars Chronicle by
Series: Forever War. You set the price! Words: 60,250. Language: English. Published: February 27, 2013 by Starshipwriter. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
As we grow older we lose more people than we gain. Sometimes the grief changes our lives, and sometimes it's just too hard to let go
Quone Loc Sie by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 100,740. Language: English. Published: February 20, 2013 by Starshipwriter. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
There comes a time when the last great war is almost forgotten: a time when people grow and make what they need for the simple lives they live. It is also a time of oppression; when overlords are suspicious of the people, for now is the time foretold... Death will give forth life. Out of the Sun good will face evil in the unwinnable, final battle. The prophecy will come to pass.
Soul Stealers by
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 14,030. Language: English. Published: February 14, 2013 by Starshipwriter. Categories: Fiction » Horror » Occult
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What would Halloween parties be without creepy old houses; spirits and ghosts; but be sure; be very sure that there’s nothing waiting there; living or dead, before you accept the invitation to step through the door.
Return to Pla - Book Four of the Company Wars Chronicle by
Series: Forever War. You set the price! Words: 60,300. Language: English. Published: February 11, 2013 by Starshipwriter. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
We are all players; centre stage in our lives, and while around us things change, deep down inside us we rarely do. Sometimes we receive praise; even adoration for what we have done or achieved: other times we are the villain and carry the blame. Mostly we are there, but unseen. Through whatever life may place in our way we must keep perspective and be true to ourselves
Coming and Going - Book Three of the Company Wars Chronicle by
Series: Forever War. You set the price! Words: 63,850. Language: English. Published: February 10, 2013 by Starshipwriter. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
Necessity creates the most unlikely of partnerships. Hostility can become Tolerance. Distrust can become Caution. Competition can become Cooperation; and sometimes a relationship becomes friendship.
Assimilation - Book Two of the Company Wars Chronicle by
Series: Forever War. Price: $1.00 USD. Words: 63,570. Language: English. Published: February 9, 2013 by Starshipwriter. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
The future can never escape from the past no more than situations can remain the same. Such too can be said of each and every person, but you and I are not always who we seem to be, even to ourselves let alone to a stranger. In some the secrets are even deeper, so deep that even they are unaware of their place or of the course that fate has laid out before them.
The Forever War - Book One - Return to the Beginning by
Series: Forever War. Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 80,300. Language: English. Published: February 8, 2013 by Starshipwriter. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
(4.00 from 1 review)
There is a time far, far into the future where all that has happened before is forgotten. A future where all people know of is a century's long war that raged even before the systems were colonized. Some believe that having the knowledge of how it began can bring it to an end, but changing the past has consequences that no one could have imagined.
Poisoned Ground by
Series: Australian. Price: $1.00 USD. Words: 39,130. Language: English. Published: February 7, 2013 by Starshipwriter. Categories: Fiction » Horror » Occult
Left alone the rainforest will quickly take back what has been taken from it. Nature will obliterate the marks of human hands beneath vine and creeper... unless the legacy has poisoned the soil beyond redemption.
The Impossible Adventures of Jet Black and Starship Crew by
Series: The Adventures of Jet Black and his Starship Crew · jet black and the starship crew. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 32,480. Language: English. Published: February 6, 2013 by Starshipwriter. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera
Second series of the Adventures of Jet Black and the Starship Crew. 6- Deliver the Devil. 7- The Elixir of life and Death. 8- The Emperors Hand. 9- The Emperors Curse. 10- Planet of the Acid Ants
Curse of the First Invaders by
Series: Australian. Price: $1.00 USD. Words: 35,810. Language: English. Published: February 6, 2013 by Starshipwriter. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General
(4.00 from 1 review)
We may never know where all the ancient voyages of exploration took man. Many are a matter of record; others would have lost contact, be assumed lost and been written off as failures: yet others maybe are best forgotten
Subterranean by
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 50,910. Language: English. Published: January 1, 2012 by Starshipwriter. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
Beneath an old manor house, in a picturesque English village there is a cellar that has been forgotten for centuries. It hides a secret, and it’s hungry.
Alien Harvest by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 83,210. Language: English. Published: December 28, 2011 by Starshipwriter. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
A forced landing is a pilot’s worst nightmare. The forced landing of an airliner, on the frigid wastes of Antarctica, is unimaginable. As winter draws its white cloak over the continent, rescue becomes impossible; hope slips away, and the ice entombs its victims. Years pass, generations come and go: alien contact is made, and the world is subjugated. Now the future depends on one man

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Jet Black and the Escape from Culver City
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The Astonishing Adventures of Jet Black and the Starship Crew
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The Amazing Adventures of Jet Black and the Starship Crew
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short stories following the adventure of Silver Flyer's crew
Jet Black and the Escape from Culver City
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The Amazing Adventures of Jet Black and the Starship Crew
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The Astounding Adventures of Jet Black and the Starship Crew
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The Impossible Adventures of Jet Black and Starship Crew
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The Incredible Adventures of Jet Black and the Starship Crew
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Curse of the First Invaders
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Poisoned Ground
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Island Between Times
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Forever War by
There is a time far, far into the future where all that has happened before is forgotten. A future where all people know of is a century's long war that raged even before the systems were colonized. Some believe that having the knowledge of how it began can bring it to an end, but changing the past has consequences that no one could have imagined.
The Forever War - Book One - Return to the Beginning
Price: $1.99 USD.
Assimilation - Book Two of the Company Wars Chronicle
Price: $1.00 USD.
Coming and Going - Book Three of the Company Wars Chronicle
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Return to Pla - Book Four of the Company Wars Chronicle
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Corporate Expansion - Book Five of the Company Wars Chronicle
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