You have found the official centre of the Astronomicon universe. Astronomicon currently consists of three science fiction novels, with a fourth on the way very soon. This epic series charts the progress of the human race from early interstellar exploration, through political upheavals, subterfuge, first contact, interstellar wars and even the reason for our existence.

There are information pages about each of the Astronomicon books, links to reviews, pictures and diagrams, other relevant information and I will be adding some pages of questions and answers soon. Please feel free to ask any questions, I will attempt to answer them all!

Back in 2011 I published the first volume of the series, Astronomicon: The Beginning on Amazon.  The second volume, Astronomicon: Distant Relatives followed just the following year, also on Amazon. The third exciting installment, Astronomicon: Those Left Behind, is complete and will be published very soon. In 2012, the first spin-off book set within the Astronomicon universe was publish. Astronomicon: Icarus is also available on Amazon. I actually have loose plans for eight further Astronomicon books (so far!) but writing all of them is going to take some time. This site is the best way to keep up with my progress or, if you prefer, use the social media links on the left side of this page and follow my progress.

Thank you for your support, especially to the rapidly growing number of people who had purchased one or more of my books.

Paul.

A first novel is rarely going to be an author’s best work and, like most authors, my writing skills have improved with each novel. This isn’t usually a problem but as my first three books formed a series I can’t just forget the first one or two, leaving my future readers to just jump in part way through the overall story. That left me with only one solution – a revamp and repolish. So now, after many weeks of work, I am relaunching the first two books (Voyage of the Elysian and The Discovery) in a shiny new single volume.

Both have been re-edited, enhanced and augmented before being merged. It gave me opportunity to include more of the details from the original planning and enhance the dialogue (not my strong point back when I wrote Voyage of the Elysian). On top of all that I also sorted out exciting new front cover art.

The result, Astronomicon: The Beginning, is a much more worthy start to the Astronomicon series and is even more enjoyable than before. Buy it now in your local Amazon site:

Categories: Announcement Posted on 18th May, 2013. |

The finished book has just been uploaded to Amazon, so it should only be a matter of hours now.

This is the culmination of weeks of intensive work to revamp Astronomicon: Voyage of the Elysian and Astronomicon: The Discovery into a single volume. A great deal of editing, proofreading and polishing has resulted in book which is almost 5,000 words longer than the old volumes added together.

Anyone who has already read the first two books will find a lot of material in this new book that they have not previously seen, both in terms of plot and background material. Soon after the book is available for sale, I will be announcing one or more (is one ever enough?) free download events so that my existing readers don’t have to pay again to get the latest version.

I will post Yahoo links as soon as I have them.

Categories: Progress news Posted on 12th May, 2013. |

Well, it seems that my re-edit of what was book 2 has turned into something closer to a rewrite. The original was good, in fact I was pleasantly surprised by just how good the story was. I’d forgotten the deep conspiracy element that weaved its way through the showdown between the Navy and the Jovian miners.

Re-reading it for the 1st time in almost a year, I instantly decided that I needed to make a LOT more of the conspiracy and really ramp up the intrigue there. There’s so much more to it than I used in the novel and a lot of it becomes very important in the later books.

In the original version there was a scary undercurrent of serious politics (including assassinations) but I had been too subtle. You could actually miss the whole thing if you didn’t analyse events in some detail. So I’m putting that right, adjusting the balance and giving away some extra and intriguing information which wasn’t covered in the first version.

This should be exciting!! I can’t wait to get this finished and published so that everyone can let me know what they think of the improvements.

Of course, Astronomicon: The Discovery will be re-released as the second part in a single volume combination of Voyage of the Elysian and The Discovery. Both books will be significantly improved and updated, and the new volume of “Astronomicon: The Beginning” will be released before the summer this year. Of course I really do not want to upset my loyal readers who bought the previous versions of both books, so the new edition will be available for FREE on the day of launch.

Follow this blog or my Twitter feed to be kept up-to-date as we get closer to the big launch day! You don’t want to miss out on the free launch offer.

Categories: Progress news Posted on 18th April, 2013. |

I have previously announced the new artwork for the front cover of Icarus, but now I am pleased to announce that the new cover is now in use on Amazon. Icarus is already selling better than I expected, but this fantastic new cover should be a lot more eye-catching and push sales even higher.

Now what Icarus needs is some reviews on Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com. I get positive feedback from some of my readers (which is always nice to hear!), but never seem to be able to persuade readers to put their comments into an Amazon review.

Categories: Announcement, Progress news Posted on 30th March, 2013. |