I’m thrilled to announce the re-release of my new first novel, The Beekeeper and the Bomb!
This project has been a labor of love, weaving together themes of family secrets, LGBTQ+ romance, and historical mystery.
When Alex Bramble discovers a WWII-era bomb in her grandfather's meadow, she realizes the quiet beekeeper she knew was hiding a dangerous past.
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“Visit the #Startups and they look like throwbacks to the 1950s. Firms drape their walls with vast American flags. They deck their offices with the parts of customised cars. They adopt prosaic company names, such as General Matter, Varda Space Industries and Metal Cross, that echo the General Electrics and General Motors of America’s #industrial heritage more than the twee nomenclature of Silicon Valley.
Young, buff #entrepreneurs, almost all men, bench press and brandish wrenches; they do anything to distinguish themselves from what they see as #software #dilettantes farther north.
#SiliconValley may be the cradle of modern life, from artificial intelligence (#AI) to burrito deliveries. #Gundo is its equivalent in hardware innovation—and the harder it is to build, the better.”
This isn’t the opening lines of a new #NeilStephenson novel. It’s a story where patriotism meets USA machinists and Engineers designing and build tangible things using material instead of computer science.
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One done, many to go…
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YAY 🎉 I finished the library challenge with a non-fiction book:
"Ten steps to Nanette" by Hannah Gadsby (read by the author).
I liked it. I had never read an Australian author. The fact that they are #AuDHD was so relatable. They have also gone through quite a lot of heavy trauma, in part due to been queer. They also make quite a critique of many current systems. Plus being funny. It was quite a thing.
Edit: correct pronouns!
Pretty stoked the pre-orders for 'Invasive Species' are really rolling in.
Best part of Pre-ordering... It's like Christmas in August. You wake and BOOM. There’s a new book for you to read on your ereader.
Or if you're impatient, you can buy direct and read it now, everyone else.
Summer's not over! Plenty of time for more reading!
https://johnwilker.com/book/invasive-species/
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Completed another book in the challenge, also in French!
A fiction book: "L'Épave du Cynthia" (The Waif of the Cynthia) by A. Laurie and J. Verne (the name of the latter only added to sell more copies).
This book was a childhood favorite. The plot is... predictable? almost an excuse to list or describe geographical locations. But I think this was the book that made me want to go to the Arctic.
I had forgotten how much I enjoyed reading sea adventures when I was young.
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