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Another four-star review of Accelerating Returns has been posted on Smashwords. “Despite a few chinks (more perception on my part than Anthony’s fault), this story satisfies. Clever plot, good pace and characters that avoid "cardboard" so you can identify with them. The bioethical scenario rings true and the sense of ‘this could really happen’ makes this book worth reading.” Kindle Edition: $2.99 | Paperback: $13.99 A new review of Accelerating Returns has been posted on Smashwords. “Peter Anthony certainly did his research before writing this one. The result is a solid techno-thriller, with vibrant characters and well-layered intrigue throughout. The philosophy and machinations of the underground activist group known as "Blockers" is fascinating, and one of the novel’s strongest selling points. A good book, worth the read.”
Kindle Edition: $2.99 | Paperback: $13.99
When a work gets published, the world gets to define it in terms that live outside the author’s mind, popping the bubble the author lived inside while writing the story. This can be a blessing or a curse, depending on what other books are name-dropped in the reviews. When the Financial Times reviewed . . . → Read More: The typecast curse: When a book review marries you to another author
Review from the Financial Times (Review by James Urquhart) With its terse emotions, rural dysfunction and sharply comic moments, this suspenseful debut shares midwestern ambiance and territory with the Coen brothers’ Fargo. An array of strong characters gives a bright, nervy edge to Anthony’s fresh prose. Review from the South Wales Argus (Read full review) Josh Werther is the first to offer help to find the missing boy Jacob Marak, but it soon becomes evident that Josh’s interest goes further then just ‘being neighbourly’. I found this novel a very . . . → Read More: Warm up Christmas with a blizzard: A Town Called Immaculate now on Kindle
The farm in the Immaculate series is the Ray and Renee Marak farm. The Marak family is the centerpiece of the series. If you’ve read A Town Called Immaculate, you know that the farm is near a woods and a pond, both of which appear again . . . → Read More: Cover design for The Plenty nearing completion–feedback welcome!  Immaculate | Journal | Novels | The Plenty  calm, cover, Ethan, Flickr, image, Joel Dinda, Renee Marak, sequel, series, spring, stump, thicket
As a writer, I’m so inside the story that it becomes difficult to say exactly what the book is about. Then I try to back up and really consider what the book is about. I usually come up with ten different ways . . . → Read More: The dreaded question to authors: “What is your book about?” At midnight, the door of the Werther house opened. Kathy stepped inside quietly, thinking of her sleeping children. A smell of cigarette smoke clung to her coat and fingers. During her soul searching hours she rediscovered a habit she had kicked for ten years. But lighting up in her rusty Toyota did not give the satisfaction it once did. Every light in the house burned brightly and she started to flick switches in making her way to the kitchen. A folder in her hand contained important documents, the beginning of the end for Josh and Kathy’s marriage. In the kitchen, she gathered herself, intending to wake Josh and deliver the news to him. An electrical hum came from the living room and Kathy shook her head, knowing that the TV caused the white noise. Steeling herself for confrontation, she entered the living room expecting to find Josh sitting up, . . . → Read More: The Plenty: Chapter 33 When Josh crept out of the camper, he already knew the depth of his destroyed reputation, now that Hank Murphy and Judd Blanks both knew. He sought isolation, to hide from the story that he expected to engulf the town like a flash flood. Like Kathy had done earlier in the day, Josh ducked in his car, in fear of recognition. Through Immaculate, Josh drove, low in the seat, peering over his steering wheel in search of his mother, June Werther, and his trick-or-treating children. The happiness on children’s faces guarded every street, putting Josh’s own depravity into high relief. An old couple in wheelchairs sat near the sidewalk handing out candy, laughing together, even holding hands. He rolled down his window to cool off and heard a girl cry out, "Step on a crack, break your back," and turned to see a line of girls carefully hopping along the . . . → Read More: The Plenty: Chapter 32 Immaculate | Novels | The Plenty ambulance, Bryce, car, Doctor Parker, Dr. Parker, face, garage, Josh, mouth, office, Phone, railing If you like science fiction rooted in what is actually possible, and in the near future, check out the RAND Corporation’s report titled: THE GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY REVOLUTION: Bio/Nano/Materials Trends and Their Synergies with Information Technology by 2015 http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/2005/MR1307.pdf To me, I felt like RAND was the voice calling out in the wilderness about the coming tech changes.
The National Intelligence Council (NIC) believed that various technologies (including information technology, biotechnology, nanotechnology (broadly defined), and materials technology) have the potential for significant and dominant global effects by 2015. The input presented in this . . . → Read More: RAND Corporation’s report on accelerating change, integration of sciences The deer in Hank’s garage attracted company. Men in trucks circled the block, craning their necks on their first pass, and parking on the second pass, stopping to visit the dead animal, it being a conversational springboard. A man wearing a shirt with a picture of a wolf under a full moon waddled into the garage. A farmer in a blaze orange camouflage zip-up sweater parked and moseyed up the driveway, hands in his pockets, eyes locked on the carcass. Hunters were drawn to the garage light like moths. Tommy had returned to the Hank’s without Judd, calling his cousin a ‘hothead’ and Hank tried to put the man out of his mind, but he silently dwelled upon it. In the rear of the garage, near a window, Hank held court under his swaying deer while sitting on a deep-freeze that contained a quarter-cow of ground beef and fifty Hungry-Man . . . → Read More: The Plenty: Chapter 31 Immaculate | Novels | The Plenty camper, car, door, driveway, garage, Hank, Josh Werther, Kathy Werther, lawn, moment, rear, Walt Werther, Werther Cadillac |
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