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Mystery of the Ourang Medan
“You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension—a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, …
Children of The Stars
Today ten award-winning authors launch a new science fiction short story series, Return To Earth. The premise is simple: Earth’s story is littered with fantastic tales of alien contact with Earth, both past and future. …
Return To Earth
Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past …
DragonFly GoodReads Giveaway
The Print Edition of DragonFly is now available on Amazon for $14.99. It features a different cover from the Kindle edition and contains 33 black & white illustrations. Click the link below to enter a …
Free for Halloween
Like scary stories? Not afraid of a bit of blood? Here’s a Halloween treat for you. I’m making my two scariest short stories FREE for Halloween in the Kindle book store for five days from …
The Prometheus Saga Anthology
Earlier this year the author consortium known as The Alvarium Experiment published its first series of unique short stories called The Prometheus Saga. Each award winning author wrote and published their stories independently around a …
The Prometheus Saga Anthology
A complete anthology of all the stories in The Prometheus Saga is now available in the Amazon bookstore for $14.99. Click the cover below to take you there: Written by twelve award winning authors, The Prometheus …
Ex Machina: The Cerebral SciFi Thriller
When was the last time you saw a science fiction movie that made you think? I mean really, REALLY think. About what might happen. Really soon? Was it a Star Wars movie? Star Trek? The …
Interview with Author Elle Andrews Patt
Our featured author today is Elle Andrews Patt, author of “Manteo“, a short story in The Prometheus Saga. “Manteo” is available for FREE on Kindle today, so be sure to download your copy! Welcome, Elle. …
Interview with Author Jade Kerrion
Our featured author today is Jade Kerrion, author of “East of the Sun“, a short story in The Prometheus Saga. “East of the Sun” is available for FREE on Kindle today, so be sure to …
Interview with Author Parker Francis
Our featured author today is Parker Francis, author of “The Strange Case of Lord Byron’s Lover“, a short story in The Prometheus Saga. “The Strange Case of Lord Byron’s Lover” is available for FREE on …
1938 Russian ‘DragonFly’
The history of experimental aircraft before, during and just after the Second World War is fascinating. We often think of WW2 as only being fought with piston-engine aircraft but we know the Nazis introduced jet-powered …
Agent Carter: Hit or Miss?
That’s a rap on Season One of Marvel’s Agent Carter. So how did it do? Will the ratings drive a second series? Have we seen the last of Agent Peggy Carter? As you know I’ve …
Interview with Author Doug Dandridge
Our featured author today is Doug Dandridge, author of “Marathon“, a short story in The Prometheus Saga. “Marathon” is available for FREE on Kindle today, so be sure to download your copy! Welcome, Doug. What …
Interview with Author Bria Burton
Our featured author today is Bria Burton, author of “On Both Sides“, a short story in The Prometheus Saga. “On Both Sides” is available for FREE on Kindle today, so be sure to download your …
Interview With Author Ken Pelham
Our featured author today is Ken Pelham, author of “First World War“, a short story in The Prometheus Saga. “First World War” is available for FREE on Kindle today, so be sure to download your …
The Prometheus Saga: Crystal Night
The Prometheus Saga is launching! In previous posts I talked about the unique collaboration The Alvarium Experiment and its first series of stories called The Prometheus Saga. Today, all thirteen stories in The Prometheus Saga have …
The Year of Dieselpunk
Who would have known when 2015 started that this New Year would have so much to offer fans of Dieselpunk? Has there ever been a year filled with such anticipation for a genre generally left …
Agent Carter: Dieselpunk Done Right
A primetime TV show has not created such excitement among fans of Dieselpunk for thirty-two years, ever since 1982’s Tales of The Golden Monkey, a one-season wonder that tried to capitalize on the previous year’s …
Crystal Night
Imagine that you and a friend are strolling through a museum of modern art like the Guggenheim in New York City. You stop in front of a large painting intrigued by its kaleidoscope of colors …
What is The Alvarium Experiment?
‘Alvarium’ is Latin for beehive. The Alvarium Experiment is a unique collaboration of fourteen authors reinventing the short fiction experience. Short story anthologies are becoming quite popular with readers. ‘Short is the new long’ is …
Authors Helping Authors
‘Authors Helping Authors’ is the motto of the Florida Writers Association and that sentiment was in full bloom at this year’s FWA Conference in Orlando. You don’t have to be a member of FWA to …
Punk Fiction: Back To The Future
In previous posts I’ve attempted to define Punk Fiction in general and Dieselpunk in particular. Apparently my musings caught the eye of Perihelion Science Fiction Magazine and they asked me if I would write an …
Amazon Kindle Unlimited – Five Strategies Indie Authors Need to Put in Place RIGHT NOW!
Yesterday Amazon made an announcement that is another incredibly disruptive move in the sale of ebooks. As a self-published author… an ‘indie’… the implications of what this means hit me like a bolt out of …
Dieselpunk Goes to Hollywood
I bet you know some Dieselpunk but didn’t realize where you’d seen it before. In my previous posts, ‘What is Punk Fiction?’ and ‘What is Dieselpunk?’ we discussed retro-futurism and defined it as ‘the future …
D-Day: The Price of Freedom
As nations around the world remember D-Day on its 70th anniversary, it’s important to reflect on the incredible scale of the military operation that landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944. While …
What is Dieselpunk?
In my last post, ‘What is Punk Fiction?’ I talked about retrofuturism and the punk aesthetic. To me, retrofuturism is at the heart of differentiating a work of punk fiction from its associated genre. In …
What is Punk Fiction?
What is Punk Fiction? Punk fiction is not graffiti sprawled across walls and rail cars by gangs of underemployed, disgruntled youth wearing hoodies. It is a sub-genre of science fiction and fantasy that has many …
How to Create a Retro-Poster
I’ve had some feedback on how I create some of my graphics. I am by no means an expert on Photoshop, quite the contrary. But I’m having fun with photomontages and they are a good …
Introducing the ‘Dispatches From Enysfarne’ Newsletter
Have you been to my new website for DragonFly? (you can link here) I call this website the ‘World of DragonFly’. It is a portal into my retro-futuristic interpretation of 1942: a World War re-imagined …
Introducing ‘Priming the Punk’ Newsletter
Oh boy! Where do I begin with this? I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to be considered a dieselpunk author. Being a ‘punk-anything’ author to me means you have decided to shed the …
Introducing ‘A Small Drop of Ink’ Newsletter
My first published work of fiction was the mystery thriller, Tiger Paw, released in 2012. It was actually written in 2005. My journey to find an agent and publisher for Tiger Paw (in the old …
I’m Back!
Hello, I’m back! If you’re reading this, it’s because you were on the subscribers list for my blog & website CharlesACornell.com. It’s been almost six months since I last posted. Why so long? Well, I …