Monday, January 26, 2015
Saturday, January 24, 2015
Friday, January 23, 2015
Dynasty Z... Egypt's mysterious age where a young king must battle the demigods (Mythic Egypt fiction)
Dynasty
Zero. A primordial clash of humans, gods and demon demigods.
A
young demigod boy Nemes, a future unifier of pharaonic Egypt, also known to
history as Narmer, lived on the fault line between deity and humanity. It was a
time of the gods and demigods, when the throne of the god Horus shook and the
weak hands of men stretched out to catch the crown and seize the scepter of
Egypt.
The
demon demigods did not stand by, but seized the moment to strike.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Monday, January 19, 2015
Why were these 8 people chosen to road-test VIRTUAL ETERNITY, a mysterious ancient Egypt simulation?
On Amazon Kindle |
Eight
very different people are chosen to road test ‘VIRTUAL ETERNITY’, an ancient
Egyptian virtual reality simulator housed in a complex on the estate of tech billionaire
Brandon Viking, a lifelong lover of Egypt’s past.
Each
wears a tag – Sage, Robber, Scribe, Prophetess, Gamer, Soldier, Priest, and
Neophyte. They must race through the twelve hours and zones of the ancient
Egyptian underworld night to reach the end of the journey before dawn, but only
if they can survive hideous dangers along the way.
Then,
shockingly, a journeyer is killed... really
killed, it seems.
They
are in a race against time and a struggle against the guardians and monsters of
the underworld as well as against each other.
Enthralling
adventure novella that hits the ground running.
‘VIRTUAL
ETERNITY – A journey through ancient Egypt’s underworld' - shocking reality, or deadly Virtual Reality?
Sunday, January 18, 2015
Friday, January 9, 2015
UPDATE: "The monkey of ancient Egypt on my back" - an adventure thriller author enthralled for life
Photo: one of my early trips to
Egypt – and that monkey on my back.
I feel I am engaged in a kind of archaeology of my past in a search for inspiration. Will I keep on turning up Egyptian artefacts?
(My best known advertising campaigns were ‘Natural Gas - The Living Flame’ for AGL and ‘Cancer is a word, not a sentence’ for the Australian Cancer Society.)
I didn't rush things and thirty years later published 13 children’s novels in a period of about four years, seven of them Egypt-based, the rest Australian fantasy adventures.
Then came my first adult novel, an archaeological thriller The Smiting Texts and 7 novels in the series as well as the stand alone books.
One thing is a constant.
I am addicted to escapism.
Today I am on the road with my wife Brenda and a dog Anubis, writing fiction as I explore in a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van RV and I still keep my advertising skills sharp by writing occasional freelance advertising appeals for several causes and charities.
For fiction "that grabs hold of you and won't let go, even after you turn the last page" - see these titles on Amazon Kindle
or here on my blog
UPDATE 2023: Egypt is clearly something I can't shake - my collection of titles today
After being immersed in dreams of ancient
Egypt since I was a child, it’s difficult to get the ancient Egypt monkey
off my back.
I've written a small
library of Egyptian adventure fiction titles:- The Smiting Texts, The Hathor
Holocaust, The Ibis Apocalypse, Rising of the Nile Gods, Egypt Eyes, The
Forbidden Glyphs and The God Dig (the Anson Hunter alternative Egyptologist
series).
Then there are my stand-alone works
like The Egyptian Mythology Murders, The Delta Dilemma, The Ra Virus, Aeon Jump:Ancient Egypt and Vengeance of the Mummy God.
(Not to mention my children’s
ancient Egypt titles.)
He who drinks from the Nile waters
of inspiration will always return – to paraphrase a saying.
I start to look back at my earliest
writing influences – Rider Haggard, Mika Waltari, Ernest Hemingway, C.S.
Forester, Alistair Maclean, Ian Fleming, to name a few.
They stuck to the knitting, with few
exceptions. (Should I too? I always said that a writer should be allowed his subject.)
I look back at an unusual and nomadic life lived in Central
and Southern Africa, and now in Australia.
I feel I am engaged in a kind of archaeology of my past in a search for inspiration. Will I keep on turning up Egyptian artefacts?
I’ll keep digging. Maybe something different will gleam
down there in the next layer…
My first published story was actually a spy short
story, appearing in The Ellery Queen Mystery
Magazine New York, in the same issue as an Ian Fleming story and so of
course, instead of embarking on a career writing spy novels, I
became an adman, copywriter and Creative Director in a slew of
multi-national advertising
agencies, while I flirted on the side with my first loves of fiction
writing and ancient
Egyptian history.(My best known advertising campaigns were ‘Natural Gas - The Living Flame’ for AGL and ‘Cancer is a word, not a sentence’ for the Australian Cancer Society.)
I didn't rush things and thirty years later published 13 children’s novels in a period of about four years, seven of them Egypt-based, the rest Australian fantasy adventures.
Then came my first adult novel, an archaeological thriller The Smiting Texts and 7 novels in the series as well as the stand alone books.
One thing is a constant.
I am addicted to escapism.
Today I am on the road with my wife Brenda and a dog Anubis, writing fiction as I explore in a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van RV and I still keep my advertising skills sharp by writing occasional freelance advertising appeals for several causes and charities.
For fiction "that grabs hold of you and won't let go, even after you turn the last page" - see these titles on Amazon Kindle
or here on my blog
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Ferocious ancient Egyptian Goddess Sekhmet-Hathor features in two novels
THE SMITING TEXTS and HATHOR'S HOLOCAUST Amazon Kindle and paperback |
Monday, January 5, 2015
A dozen reasons to venture into fiction with a mysterious ancient Egypt theme
Top 12 of the Roy Lester Pond Egypt collection - available on Amazon Kindle |
Thursday, January 1, 2015
Can we assume that the movie #ExodusGods&Kings got the pharaoh right (at least) with Rameses Il?
Did Ridley Scott finger the right pharaoh in Rameses the Great? |
"Some academics have tried to muddy the waters of the Nile and disputed Christian tradition that Rameses II was the Pharaoh of the Exodus, who defied Moses and refused to let the Hebrews go. This, no doubt, is their agnostic reflex at work. Rameses The Great in the role of the titanic villain is just too auspicious and biblically corroborative for them. They’d prefer a lesser pharaoh, which would have the effect of discrediting scripture and reducing the scale of the drama.
"But the identification of Rameses has
never been satisfactorily disproved. The fingers of Rameses are all over this
affair and his identification goes back to The Book of Exodus and receives
further confirmation by Eusebius of Caesarea, father of church history.
"I contend: if the pharaoh of Exodus
looked like Rameses the Great and behaved like Rameses (he press ganged the
work force into building a new city in the Delta called Raamses, as the Bible
tells us) and felt like Rameses (he was a megalomaniac who was not going to be
pushed around by anyone, including Jawveh) then he probably was Rameses..."
Excerpt from the novel The Ibis Apocalypse
NOTE: As the leading Rameses scholar Ken Kitchen points out, Moses made appeals to pharaoh on a daily basis - and that could only have been to Rameses II at his Delta city of Pi-Rameses (in the vicinity of the Israelite's region of Goshen).
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