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Dear shipmate

It’s so nice to speak to you again!

As the month of Space Colony One draws to a close, I thought it was time for a quick reminder that the complete 9-book series is heavily discounted at the ship’s store, but only for the next few days. (At the checkout there’s an option to add the complete audiobook, too, free of charge.)

Space Colony One is a multi-generational, epic space colonisation adventure follows the stories of the heroes and heroines who fight to keep the flame of hope for humanity alive, travelling across galactic space, battling aliens, sabotages and disasters as well as their own inner demons.

And if you’d only like a taster of the story, you can download the free prequel, Night of Flames.

Phew!

That isn’t a phew of relief, it’s a phew of blimey, isn’t it hot again?

As the UK heads into another heatwave—I’ve actually lost count of how many we’ve had this year—it’s with trepidation I anticipate something that’s going to mean an encounter with even hotter temperatures.

I can’t tell you what yet. That’s a subject for a later bulletin.

But I console myself that there’s a bright side to everything if you look hard enough.

Take, for example, this sunflower.

I love sunflowers.

I’ve tried to grow them, off and on, for years, without success.

After this year’s failure, I’d concluded that I must have done a terrible harm to sunflowers in a previous life or that they simply didn’t like me.

However, it turned out that I have a very particular personal method for growing sunflowers. First, I fill a feeder with wild bird seed. Then, I do absolutely nothing else except to witness the single flower of a volunteer plant that sprouted from a fallen seed in a crack between paving slabs.

Who knew it could be so easy?

Another way to read the complete Space Colony One series, my other complete series, and many, many excellent books by other authors is to sign up to Kobo Plus.

Kobo Plus is a subscription programme like Kindle Unlimited, except it’s cheaper and it doesn’t require authors to be exclusive with Kobo.

So it’s a win-win!