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Our latest ebooks at Fictionwise

We have had our books on Fictionwise, one of the world's largest ebook retailers, for many years now. Originally, their policy was to only accept ebooks through other ebook publishers. This meant that authors such as Ross had to have his ebooks released by a smaller publisher before they could be sold at Fictionwise.

The disadvantage of this was when the small publisher closed down, as two of them have done, our books went offline. We have tried hard to have them placed online again and have succeeded. As well, we have our two latest novels, Time Genes & Time Portal online. The other four have been reedited and have new covers similar to ther paperbacks,

Just click the cover to go to the Fictionwise page for a preview or download.

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Paperbacks

We have just finished transferring our earler paperbacks to Lulu from another publsher.
These include Armlet, Anu Factor and Fortitude and Fate. In the process we have created new covers for the first two books and have re-edited them.

Except for Time Ripple, our paperbacks are now found on Lulu and/or Amazon. Both companies deliver an excellent product.

Time Ripple is under contract to Bumblebee Publishers in India,

Armlet

The armlet Kolina Lagerfelt is given by her dying grandmother is more than a piece of jewellery. It has been handed down through the family for countess generations.

Kolina places the armlet on and is connected to Eboff, a voice in her mind. Eboff is an advanced computer with news that she is the descendant of a starship crew that crashed on the planet a millennium before. Only when other ancestors of this crew are found that technology far superior to that now known on the planet can be accessed to save the world from nuclear annihilation.

But is it too late? Their world is at war and the nuclear holocaust has already begun.

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Anu Factor

Anu is possibly the last Blue, an advanced humanoid race. She must be protected so the genes of her species are passed onto future generations. An environment is made for Anu and the humans with her. It is a hallucinatory world but it works well.

This is until a car accident causes Talbot to discover that his real existence is an empty, township. His sports car is just an old vehicle and his apartment is as old and tatty as the clothes he wears. Also the friends and acquaintances he interacts with don't exist. Anu is the only other real person in the town. He convinces her that the world they live in is false and they remove implants from their necks that create the hallucinations.

But where does the fresh food, electricity and fuel for Talbot's car come from?

After days of searching they find Erin, a human girl who is living alone. In her hallucinatory state, Erin doesn't even know she is heavily pregnant

But where is the man who impregnated her?

Paperback. Ebook

Generation 7

On the planet of Delpe, eighty light years from Earth, 1300 human settlers, descended from a stranded starship crew, have been at war with the crucnon, the native intelligent species of insect creatures, for seven generations .

When a flying female named Jaddig Qarte crashes in human territory she is befriended by human, Holly Jurjevics, Generation 7 Leader. Holly finds the clicker (as humans call them) a compassionate creature with high moral values, not the ruthless killer expected.

Later, it is discovered that Jaddig is genetically related to Holly but how can this be so? And why has this information been suppressed by earlier human generations? Who are the crucks, a new species who attack both the human settlement and the crucnons? How will the humans survive after being squeezed between two enemies? Will the long lost Earth bases and shuttle craft, their one hope of leaving the planet be found?

And what of Jaddig and the thousands of her hybrid species? Where do they belong?

Paperback

Mobipocket Ebook | Cyberread LIT or PDF Ebook

Time Genes

On Earth in our present time, Lara is involved in a serious road accident that leaves her as a quadriplegic. She is helped by going through a portal to Havenseed where technology not even discovered on Earth, is used to restore her to a normal healthy life.

But does it?

Unknown to herself and her family, her new body includes genetically enhanced genes with side effects, both positive and negative, that affect her family and herself, both now and in the future. Travel with Lara and her family through space-time as they find the consequences of her time genes may allow carnivore plants and reptilian species destroy humanity throughout the known worlds of the 24th century.

Only Aari's unborn child, Ralina can help but this is also difficult for she cannot exist in the same world as both an adult and a baby. This conflict of space-time will mean she will never have existed.

As well, her help is illegal and she is brought to trial to answer for crimes against society.

Lulu paperback or ebook

Cyberread ebook

Beyond Infinity

With red hair and a tall body, Brittany Forbes doesn't know:-

She is human and not a freak of nature-

The ruling humanz who run the land with an iron fist are really dwarfs.

She carries a hidden transmitting device.

This device has been passed through twenty generations of humans.

Two men, human Zane Bidwell and the ruthless Colonel Slovinof both know of this transmitter and it is a race to get to her.

The third species in her city the fuzzballs, spherical creatures the size of an orange who have the power of flight, are helping Zane.

That Galactic Cruiser Strabo has been orbiting above for five hundred years.

That the captain of this ship, Alessandra McLean has left a hologram to contact her ancestor once repairs to the cruiser have been made.

It is three a.m. when fuzzball Quig awakens Brittany and tells her the IMPACT forces have her building surrounded.

She does know her life is in danger. Brittany escapes with the fuzzballs and her adventures begin.

Ebook here.

Mind Split

The bees that attack a group of students at a graduation party are far from ordinary. Every student is stung once in the neck, except Madison who is stung twice.

This has long reaching affects on her life. When she wakes up she finds she is in a new strange place called Buckoway but still remembers Earth. Her friends have no memories of home. Buckoway is a strange hybrid of modern and old civilizations. There is electricity but no motor vehicles, aircraft or firearms. It is as if something wanted to recreate a simple society but with modern health and living facilities

With wagonmasters Hamish and Sean Madison she sets out to find the reason she has been transferred to this new world. Madison awakes from her next sleep to find herself back on Earth and again with her friends. They, however, have no memory of this Buckoway.

Madison realizes there are two versions of her friends. She alone seems to travel back and forth between her two existences whenever she awakens. One of the weagonmasters' jobs is to bring in the bodies of newcomers from a strange boat called the Gentle Lady. Hamish does not know where the boat comes from or who operates it. The newcomers are taken in the wagons back to Buckoway where they are awakened and join their society. No newcomers know they were originally from Earth.

With help from the Earth and Buckoway versions of Kirsty, Madison attempts to find the reason for this strange situation.

The ebook edition of Mind Split is our highest rated ebook by readers at Fictionwise

Also at Lulu	Science Fiction When Rhett finds a stranger, Shelley in his holiday home it becomes apparent that she is not just an intruder caught in the act of illegall trespassing. Rhett and Shelley travel through a space-time portal where they are met by Dee, their twelve-year old daughter that they never knew existed. Dee is desperate for her brother, Corwin to be rescued. He has been caught in a trap set by the girifa, the reptilian equivalent of humanity. In this world, humans are the aliens. As they continue their journey they befriend fellow travellers, who help them in a seemingly haphazard quest. However, their lives appear to have been predetermined with a destiny that will affect not only present day Earth but also the future. But who is really in control? Journey through the time portal where time, space and parallel worlds intertwine with an ultimate disaster that only Rhett and Shelley can halt.
Click Cover For Amazon Also at Createspace	Historical Drama It is 1999 and Kosovo refugee Niana Bolsa is abandoned by the Serbs to fend for herself in the mountains. At the point of near collapse she comes across a tractor and trailer by the roadside with two terrified children hiding there. Their grandparents have been shot and mother taken away. Determined to save the children, Niana takes them and heads for Albania. With all records destroyed, nobody queries her right to the children and they emigrate to New Zealand. Matt Coleman is attracted to, Niana when she opens a food bar adjacent to his factory.Friendship between Niana and Matt blossoms into love as they and Niana's foster children become a family. But the terror so prevalent in Niana's past surfaces again--with a vengeance. Ebook at Mobipocket
	Thriller Doctor Reid Tucker's intention to spend the summer at a remote cabin at Eagle's Claw Lake in northeast Washington State with only his dog, Cinders, never eventuates. On the trip there, pilot Kate Meltz calls in with the amphibian to a commune at the other end of the lake. While waiting on board, Reid pulls a desperate and distressed teenage girl, Lorie Somerville, from the water. This begins a frightening chain of events as fanatical commune leader, Peter Littlejohn, tries to find Lorie and prevent her from leaving.
	Science Fiction The search of a millennium is over. Computers aboard Starship Omega find a planet with water and oxygen to sustain humanoid life. It is over populated, polluted and has one social problem; half the human population are males, well beyond the one in a thousand necessary on Planet Delta to maintain the sperm banks. However, the humanoids aboard cannot be kept alive for the two hundred years required to find another solar system so the journey must end. It is time to arouse prepare Pazz for life on Earth while cloned sister Kylina, now 22 not 12 as remembered by Pazz, can be kept in reserve. There is also Lunol, from a primitive preindustrial planet but he is male and doesn't count.
	Family Saga 1898- 2008 From Canadian fir forests, oaks of England and onto the fern bush in New Zealand, this family saga centres around four forthright, liberal women, spans five generations, three continents, two world wars, and one hundred years. Each period in time is filled with drama, joy and sometimes tragedy, but vividly illustrates the determination of each woman to enrich her life through love of partners and families and a liberal outlook on life.
	Romantic Thriller London teacher, Bree Ashworth is attacked by an intruder and taken to hospital. Her husband, Colin tells her he is leaving for another woman. Bree has bookings to attend a reading conference in New Zealand. With double tickets bought and Colin gone, she invites teacher, Jenny to go with her. In New Zealand the small aeroplane they fly in crashes in thick bush country. The pilot is killed and the pair try to survive by themselves. . Police in England tell Colin that Bree is missing. Colin abandons his partner and flies out to New Zealand but his intentions are not those one would expect from a worried husband....

Our Novel Published in India

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Information

Author:- Ross Richdale
Publisher:- Bumblebee Publishers- India
Genre:- Science Fiction
ISBN:- 978-81-904987-2-2
Price $US9.00 INR 195
Published in New Delhi, India Oct. 2007
Our Time Ripple Webpage

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PDF file of the first three chapters Here
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Drama Paperbacks


A 100 years of excitement	A plane crash thriller	Australian bush fire

Oregon coast adventure	Lost in a cave	Stranded on a Pacific atoll

A school teacher's life	A refugee	Covering 60 years

Nazi gold traced	New Zealand adventure	School principal's past

Life in 1961	New Zealand farm