Legends of Windemere

You may know C.J. Heath from his fantasy novel, Dark Angel. You may not know that he has also written a novel called “Her name is James“. The book deals with a number of issues around family dynamics, sexual identity and, well, love.

CJ is giving away “Her name is James” until November 9th. In case you’re wondering, I decided to include his promo here despite the non-fantasy/SF theme, based on the great reviews his book has received.

Her name is James

When James Farrow’s father decided he wouldn’t have his 15 year old son under his roof any more, the boy was taken into care. Now James is 18 and is no longer the responsibility of Social Services. He returns home to an uncertain reception.
His volatile father has mellowed over time but his son seems intent to challenge his restraint. In the three years apart, James has taken the first…

The Visual Guide to Extra Dimensions

EXTRA DIMENSIONS

I published the first volume of The Visual Guide to Extra Dimensions in August, 2008.

It’s taken six years to put this on Kindle.

Well, these books include numerous images, equations, and a few tables, which made the formatting rather complex. (I wasn’t planning to convert these (or have them converted) to Kindle any time soon, until I had the opportunity to interact with the Kindle educational team. But that’s a story for another day.)

These two books are quite sentimental to me.

I had put years of effort into perfecting Volume 1 and was shopping it around to academic publishers without being able to persuade them to look further than my curriculum vita, when I discovered CreateSpace.

For the first six months, I had sold just a few copies per month. At the beginning of 2009, I had really begun to…