Welcome back to author Francis H Powell – please tell us your news.

My big important news in recent times, is that after a long wait, my new book Adventures of Death, Reincarnation and Annihilation, finally got published, by Beacon publishing.

I have written a lot of short stories, a  lot of them revolve around “death”.  While living in Paris, I saw a writing competition, which required writing about the last person on earth.  I sent three stories, the last of which they really liked, but it arrived too late to be published. This sent me on the course of writing about world annihilation. It also introduced an unlikely science fiction element into my writing.

At some point I decided to group all my stories that connected with death into a book.

I decided to try to write a story that would exceed my normal page length. It is called “the Master”. The…