Genres: Advice & How To, Self-Help/Personal Development, Writing & Publishing
Formats: E-Book, Paperback

Your personal journey to publication. Do you know the difference between an independent publisher and a self publisher? Have you written a book but don’t know what your options are? Are you baffled by how the publishing industry has transformed in the last twenty years? How does crowdfunding fit in? If you have pondered these questions, then this is the book for you! Join multi-genre author, creative writing tutor, editor and mentor Karl Drinkwater for an informal overview of book publishing. He explains the concepts and processes involved, and lays out the pros and cons of all your options. By the end of it you’ll be in a position of knowledge about the process of turning an idea into an item you can hold in your hands. This book will be useful to anyone with a part-finished manuscript who wonders: what on earth am I going to do with this...

Genres: Experimental Fiction, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi), Speculative Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback

Humans designed artificial intelligences, but the AIs no longer need us. They are gods, and can create – or even recreate – themselves. The two most advanced AIs in the universe need to rescue a friend from the clutches of their powerful enemies. Their method is to create millions of offshoots: restricted, cut-down versions of themselves, to fulfil specific tasks such as generating ideas. The offshoots can be deleted once they’ve fulfilled their role. No one gives a second’s thought to software. It’s just a tool. Now it’s time to see inside the process. Lost Tales of Solace are short side-stories set in the Lost Solace universe. Note: this work is 100% human-created, crafted with love by the author. No generative AI has been used in the writing or editing.

Genres: Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi), Young Adult (YA)
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback

Afua is a promising acolyte of the Shanta Order, on the densely forested planet of Nuafri. She volunteers to educate orphans – her lively ophanti – every ninth day. When one of her wards goes missing in a dangerous area full of sinkholes and deadly fauna, Afua knows the authorities won’t do anything about a single lost child. Luckily for the orphan, Afua will. She is armed only with her knowledge of wildlife, and implanted augmentations that can sometimes deter attacks. But she is not alone. The sentient, insect-like Dooga she has bonded with, named Akalie, will follow her anywhere, despite being heavily pregnant. An unforgettable Amazofuturist adventure about compassion, courage, and finding your way in life. Lost Tales of Solace are short side-stories set in the Lost Solace universe. Note: this work is 100% human-created, crafted with love by the authors. No generative AI has been used in the...

Genres: Dystopian, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi), Speculative Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback

She has a family. Now it’s time to find a home. Opal, Athene and Clarissa are finally free of Aseides’ torture ship, but the past always catches up. Their enemies remain powerful, persistent and cruel. True escape will require more courage and strength than ever before, in order to achieve what others believed is impossible. To go home. Every journey has an end. But freedom comes at a price. Note: this work is 100% human-created, crafted with love by the author. No generative AI has been used in the writing or editing.

Genres: Dystopian, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi), Speculative Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback

You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist. At the end of Hidden Solace, Athene made a promise: “I’m coming for you. Anything that stands in my way will be neutralised. Destroyed. It will be probability-manipulated out of the equation. Out of existence. It will be absolutely Sevened. Please, my precious Opal, hold on just a bit longer. I am on my way.” The most powerful AI in the universe is coming for her friend. Note: this work is 100% human-created, crafted with love by the author. No generative AI has been used in the writing or editing.

Genres: Dystopian, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi), Speculative Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback

She survived hell. Now her real problems begin. Opal Imbiana is many things to many people. Hero. Traitor. Soldier. Deserter. Criminal. Explorer. Survivor. She finally achieved her life’s goal: to rescue her little sister from the utterly alien Null zone. But the world she returns to has changed. Her friends are gone, and her enemies are more powerful than ever. In the bleakest situations, it takes an exceptional mind to keep hope alive. Note: this work is 100% human-created, crafted with love by the author. No generative AI has been used in the writing or editing.

Genres: Dystopian, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi), Speculative Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback

Welcome to Tecant. Nothing ever happens here. Until today. Ruabon Nadarl is just another low-ranking member of the scan crew, slaving away for the oppressive UFS government which “liberated” his homeworld. To help pass the time during long shifts he builds secret personalities into the robots he controls. Then Ruabon detects an intruder on the surface of a vital communications tower. He could just report it and let the deadly UFS commandos take over, while Ruabon returns to obscurity. Or he could break UFS laws and try to capture the intruder himself. For the UFS, only the outcome matters, not the method. If his custom-programmed drones can save the day, he’ll be a hero. And if he fails, he’ll be dead. Lost Tales of Solace are short side-stories set in the Lost Solace universe. Note: this work is 100% human-created, crafted with love by the author. No generative AI has...

Genres: Science Fiction (Sci-Fi), Young Adult (YA), Suspense
Formats: E-Book, Paperback

If you’re reading this: HELP! I’ve been kidnapped. Me and my big sister stayed together after our parents died. We weren’t bothering anybody. But some mean government agents came anyway, and split us up. Now I’m a prisoner on this space ship. The agents won’t even say where we’re going. I hate them. And things have started to get a bit weird. Nullspace is supposed to be empty, but when I look out of the skywindows I can see … something. Out there. And I think it wants to get in here. With us. My name is Clarissa. I am ten years old. And they will all be sorry when my big sister comes to rescue me. Lost Tales of Solace are short side-stories set in the Lost Solace universe. Note: this work is 100% human-created, crafted with love by the author. No generative AI has been used in the...

Genres: Literary Fiction, Short/Flash Fiction Collection, Womens Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback

A single decision can save – or ruin – a life. An opportunistic baby theft by a young woman in pain. Two strangers shipwrecked on a lifeless rock, unable to speak the same language. A remote cycling holiday descends into terror. One woman seeks the courage to destroy her life. A miracle unites a community, and teenagers take a stand against hypocrisy. Karl Drinkwater presents characters to root for – and characters to dread – in sixteen varied tales of humanity, endurance, and psychological suspense. Note: this work is 100% human-created, crafted with love by the author. No generative AI has been used in the writing or editing.

Genres: Dystopian, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi), Speculative Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback

Major Grubane is commander of the Aurikaa, the most feared cruiser in the UFS arsenal. His crew is handpicked and fiercely loyal. Together, they have never failed a mission. But this time he’s been sent to a key planet that is caught up in political tensions at the centre of the freedom debate. What he thought was a simple diplomatic mission turns out to be the hardest choice of his career. His orders: eliminate one million inhabitants of the planet, and ensure their compliance. Grubane has also rediscovered an ancient game called chess, and plays it against the warship’s sentient AI as a form of mental training. But maybe it could become more than that as he finds himself asking questions. Can orders be reinterpreted? How many moves ahead is it possible for one man to plan? And how many players are involved in this game? Lost Tales of Solace...

Genres: Dystopian, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi), Suspense
Formats: E-Book, Paperback

Helene Vermalle is an expert in Emergent AI Socialisation, invited to assist a secret military project. Her role? Helping ViraUHX, the most advanced AI in the universe, to pass through four theoretical development stages. But it’s not easy training a mind that surpasses Helene in raw intellect, and is capable of killing her with a single tantrum. On top of this, she must prove her loyalty to the oppressive government hovering over her shoulder. They want a weapon. She wants to instil an overriding sense of morality. Will Helene nurture a GERTY, a Data, or a HAL 9000? Lost Tales of Solace are short side-stories set in the Lost Solace universe. Note: this work is 100% human-created, crafted with love by the author. No generative AI has been used in the writing or editing.

Genres: Dystopian, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi), Speculative Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback

Opal’s first Lost Ship was horrifying. The second will test her limits. The legendary Lost Ships exist, and they harbour nightmarish horrors. Opal knows. She barely survived her first encounter with one. Despite escaping, she failed to find what she was looking for: her lost sister. Now Opal must board a second derelict Lost Ship to seek answers, and this one’s even more monstrous, a sickening place of death and decay. Only the voice of Athene – Opal’s AI companion – can guide her through the darkness. But can a human and an AI ever truly trust each other? Note: this work is 100% human-created, crafted with love by the author. No generative AI has been used in the writing or editing.

Genres: Dystopian, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi), Speculative Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback, Hardback

They’re called the Lost Ships … but sometimes they come back. And when they do the crews are missing, while the ships have been strangely altered, rumoured to be full of horrors. Opal Imbiana has been seeking something her whole life. It’s a secret so precious she’s willing to risk her life recovering it from a recently discovered Lost Ship, in a lonely nebula far from colonised space. She’s just one woman, entering an alien and lethal environment. But with the aid of an amazing AI companion and experimental armoured suit, Opal might just stand a chance. This blast of a book kickstarted the much-loved Lost Solace series, about an unlikely friendship between two women who keep hope alive in the darkest of times. Note: this work is 100% human-created, crafted with love by the author. No generative AI has been used in the writing or editing.

Genres: Horror, Short/Flash Fiction Collection, Suspense
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback

Horror lives in the shadows. It exists under the earth’s surface in ancient caves. Below the vast sea’s undulating waves. Under dense forest cover. Within a storm’s thick, rolling clouds. And downstairs in our homes, when we hear the knife drawer rattle in the night. Even our minds and bodies harbour the alien under the skin, the childhood nightmares in our subconscious. Darkness hides things, no matter how much we strain our eyes. And sometimes those things are looking back at us. In this collection of fifteen scary stories to tell in the dark, Karl Drinkwater sews flesh onto the bones of our worst fears, full of creeping menace that seeps from urban legends and folk horror. Note: this work is 100% human-created, crafted with love by the author. No generative AI has been used in the writing or editing.

Genres: Horror, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi), Suspense
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback

First the birds went quiet. Then the evening sky filled with strange clouds that trapped the heat below. Now Callum wakes, dripping in sweat. Something has come to his isolated Welsh farm. If he’s going to keep his family alive during this single night when all hell breaks loose, he’ll have to think fast. And when he sees what he’s facing, he suspects even that may not be enough. Otherworldly creepiness that captures our fear of the unknown. This blast of a book can be read in one nail-biting session. Note: this work is 100% human-created, crafted with love by the author. No generative AI has been used in the writing or editing.

Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance
Formats: E-Book, Paperback

2000 Tunes. One summer of love. Mark Hopton is twenty-four, single, and obsessed with Manchester music. It’s his escape into a better world. Oh man, he needs that escape. His psycho brother’s on his case and in his face, his dad’s in prison, and the local gangsters are twisting his melons to make him smuggle drugs. Heaven knows he’s miserable now. His one ray of hope is work colleague Samantha Rees, a gorgeous and chaotic Welsh woman who rocks his world. However, Samantha is living the twenty-four hour party people lifestyle, so would never be interested in a shy outsider like him. But when a chance encounter leads to Mark and Samantha spending a perfect day together in the city centre, perhaps hope isn’t fool’s gold after all? Note: this work is 100% human-created, crafted with love by the author. No generative AI has been used in the writing or...

Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance
Formats: E-Book, Paperback

Can love defeat the laws of physics? Science teacher Alex Kavanagh’s love life is imploding, his job repels him, and there’s friction with the teenagers who bully him at the bus stop. Even his super-power – being pedantic – doesn’t help much. Enter his ex, Lucy, in what seems to be a chance meeting. Her betrayal marked the point when his life went nuclear. But – holy protons! – he still loves her. Two problems. First, she isn’t who he thinks she is. Second, she’s going to leave him forever in seventy-two hours. An intelligent and deceptive love story about a nerd searching for his theoretical Big Bang. Note: this work is 100% human-created, crafted with love by the author. No generative AI has been used in the writing or editing.

Genres: Adventure, Horror, Suspense
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback

“Welcome to Ynys Diawl, our beautifully isolated Welsh island. We greet visitors in a special way! What? Oh, true, the English translation is Devil Island, but that’s just slander.” “Yes, it was the perfect escape for three strangers. Each had their own reasons for visiting. We don’t care why anyone comes here! Hey now, who said the locals are violent? Surly, maybe, but we love all types, here.” “Mmm, that does look like a storm coming in. A bad ’un. No escape from the island tonight. Escape? I meant … never mind. Come down these steps with me, I have something to show you. Don’t look so worried, we don’t bite!” An atmospheric folk horror likened to The Wicker Man in Wales. Note: this work is 100% human-created, crafted with love by the author. No generative AI has been used in the writing or editing.