Sunday 23 August 2015

Reel Time E-mmercial



The World Wide Web has a new site spiralling into it this week.  And we have another first on this week’s Reel Time – a Reel Time E-mmercial.  E-mmercial is not a real word, by the way.  It is just yet, another spot of creative license that has splattered from my spray guns of imagination overload this week.  And what a week it has been.  Glory – I feel like I have spiralled from the tight-fit insides of an atom to the grandiose dimensions of the cosmos, all before morning coffee.
This week’s hectic creative pace was due to the final coming together of the bits-and-bobs for the website. So, without further ado…
Ladies and gentlemen, girls and boys,
Make way!
Make way!
For the…
Star Ways
Step right up. Step right up.  Over in this corner we have a Storyboard of grand designs, and what an elaborate feat of fabrication it is, folks.  For the mysterious secrets of the Star Ways, click and clack your mouse over the power-board.  Get up close and personal with the stars themselves on the Starboard.
Over in the other corner, weighing in at ‘freight-free’ we have a skinny version of Jasmine Neutron Star itself.  A book ergonomically designed to fit easier on the credit card.  However, readers are the true star of this show, and they will soon get to participate in a smorgasbord of fun in the ‘under construction’ soon to be ‘revealed’ Game board.
Enjoy!
Jasmine Neutron Star is the first book of the Star Ways Chronicles.  It is a novel most suitable for young adult and teenager readers of speculative, fantasy / science fiction, urban fantasy.  It is a humorous account of Jasmine’s first adventure into the world of light – Quanta.  She is a spirem – a new kind of superhero – and perfect for the sphere of Terra.


Sunday 9 August 2015

Warheads and the Looming Zombie Apocalypse

The zombies Are Coming!
The zombies are coming!
The zombies are coming!
AWESOME!
On This week’s episode of Reel Time I get zombie-fried.
It wasn’t what I was expecting.  My hands went bloodied and hung loosely out in front of the screen.  Interestingly I lost all interest in ‘seek and destroy’.  Perhaps because this game was about killing off zombies until you became one yourself – which happened in a nanosecond to my player (dumb player).
Up until a recent visit to the local hardware, I had thought Zombie Mania was age-related.  Boy was I proved wrong.
I entered the store with my son.  He went his way, I went mine.  ‘Hey, where are you going?’ I had the audacity to ask him.  Meanwhile a young male shop assistant was approaching.
I was deciding how best to explain to the assistant why I was there, without embarrassing either him or myself, when my son shouted from across the isles. ‘Where’s the zombie stuff?’
Without batting an eyelid, the assistant responded.  ‘Come with me.’
I stepped in his way.  After all, I was a ‘real’ shopper.  ‘Hey, hang on, he was just joking,’ I explained.
Passing by, the assistant smiled at me. He winked as he replied. ‘I’ll be quick.  I know where all the best zombie weapons are kept.  It’s why I work here.’
When he came back, I no longer had any problems explaining to this guy my requirements. ‘I want to make a giant pencil to go with my superhero outfit that I am having made.  I am my own superhero,’ I explained to his ensuing inquiry.  ‘I am the Writer of the Star Ways, no, really truly, I am, really.’
KEEPING WATCHING…







Jasmine Neutron Star is the first book of the Star Ways Chronicles.  It is a novel most suitable for young adult and teenager readers of speculative, fantasy / science fiction, urban fantasy.  It is a humorous account of Jasmine’s first adventure into the world of light – Quanta.  She is a spirem – a new kind of superhero – and perfect for the sphere of Terra.