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When I was young I wanted to grow up--instead I became a writer.

Science Fiction/Fantasy and Romance author. Born in the historic university town of Cambridge. I published a poem in the local newspaper at seven, and it all went downhill from there.

Creator of the PIACT universe and author of the PIACT Undercover Agent novels my first released ebook won the Ecataromance award for best first ebook romance of 2005

I'm currently working on too many novels to name and living in a modest shack somewhere over the big pond whilst looking for gold in them thar' hills. I've learned that life has a funny way of putting you in places where you least expect it to. All I can say is thank God for air conditioning!

Always ready and able to chat, I love writing, love reading, love anything to do with the textual word up to and including -- Heaven forbid -- editing. Ugh! That is alas my doom. I will die a raggedy death having edited myself to pieces. But, not until I have that multimillion dollar contract for at least one of my novels. Hmmm, maybe I'm aiming too low.

If you want to know more feel free to ping me on my website or forum. I think I've remembered to put the shilling in the meter to keep them running...

A quick note to all. I work retail, I'm often 18+ hours a day away from the internet and the rest of the time sleeping. If you back/comment on Space Burps I will get back to you but it could take several days. If you haven't heard from me in four days of backing/ commenting please send me a polite reminder. I wish I could hang around on the site 24/7 but alas I have to work for a living. Please accept my apologies for my sometimes slow response.

S.J.

08/27/10 Broke up Chapter One into three more easily digestible sections and apparently knocked it off everyone's shelves. Sorry guys and gals
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favourite books

Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Tamsin - Peter S. Beagle
The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
The Fairy Godmother - Mercedes Lackey
The Queene's Cure - Karen Harper
Urban Shaman -- C.E. Murphy
All of Jim Butcher's Dresden files
Plus a whole passel more.

my websites

http://www.sjwilling.com     http://www.sjwillingforum.com

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my books

Space Burps

S.J. Smith & Theresa Miller

Six year olds, massive cannons, burping babies, galactic conspiracies and hunted by two armies while dealing with his mother. Can't a marine get any peace?


Being mugged by a six-year-old girl didn’t do much for ex-marine Buthedra Klaxsteen’s image. But given the choice of either handing over his milk or being incinerated into fine ash, Buthedra reluctantly complies—then becomes embroiled in a conspiracy involving two warring species which stretches from one end of the universe to the other. Now wanted for crimes he didn’t commit, he’s on the run—while both deadly armies try to hunt him down. He suffers through all of this to discover that the girl and her baby brother are the most dangerous people he knows. Thankfully they’re on his side.

Buthedra’s descent into hell and hilarity is accompanied by the two earthling children, the aberration known as his cat, a bipolar robot—and his mother. It’s enough to drive any Tarsian insane.

The novel is complete, only 12k words posted so far.

Edit: 08/27/10 Fixed typos, broke first upload file down to three chapters from one.

 

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I wrote 996 days ago

Tense, hooked from the word go. This is a wonderfully written first chapter and really makes me want to find out just what is happening around here. Why did the woman die? it sounds suspiciously convenient for her to have fallen and broken her neck. Will back and WL hoping I'll get time to come ... view book

I wrote 996 days ago

The first chapter is extremely well written and hooks nicely, Does he talk to ravens? Who knows :) it leaves so many possibilities and questions and helps keep the readers interested and on his side. There was a bit of an awkwad sentence structure at the beginning of chapter 3. Such as usually fi... view book

I wrote 997 days ago

Wow, thanks for all the comments guys. and the well appreciated backing. Am stuck in MacDonald's atm with dodgy wifi connection. Will get back to you all tomorrow (tuesday) and return reads, backings and comments. Thanks! S.J. view book

I wrote 998 days ago

Thanks for the comments B.J. And yes someone else suggested we break the first chapter down. LOL I did manage to lose all the bookshelved backing when I did but oh well. At least its more readable now. Time for me to go to bed alas, but i'll be back on tomorrow night and I'll take a peek at y... view book

I wrote 998 days ago

Alas nothing I can say will help you improve this. Backed S.J. view book

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