Hello friends and fans!
Welcome to my 24th newsletter! 24! That means the newsletter’s been going for a whole 2 years already! And wow, it’s already December too, how about that!
Another Round At The Crow Bar: #23 November 2018
06 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
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Hello friends and fans!
Welcome to my 23rd newsletter: November 2018! Coming up in this edition of Another Round @ The Crow Bar:
Regular updates, new releases, and a monthly spotlight on one of my books, this time “Demonspawn“.
Another Amazing Review For “Demonspawn”!
05 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in reviews Tags: action, book, future, gay character, horror, murder, outer space, pirate, space opera, space ship, starship, thriller
I just found another great review of “Demonspawn”, the second title in my Galaxii Series!
by Aimee Ann, October 6, 2018
“Demonspawn by Christina Engela is incontrovertibly a must-read science fiction horror novel and a novel that should not be missed! Demonspawn is the spine-tingling second installment of Christina Engela’s Galaxii series that takes us, adventurous readers, to the depths of space on a journey riddled with dangers around every turn. Demonspawn by Christina Engela will chill you to your core, it will seep into you deeper than the vast cold of space and it made for a thrilling read! I love how the tension and suspense build to a horrifying crescendo that had my heart pounding through my chest in terror, shock, and excitement! More
“Blachart” – book 1 in the Galaxii Series
05 Nov 2018 2 Comments
in Promotion Tags: action, book, colonies, future, gay character, outer space, pirate, space opera, space ship, space station, starship
“Blachart” tells the story of a former Space Fleet officer trying to make a living as a private loderunner owner and skipper. Mykl d’Angelo has fallen on hard times – and has just had the worst day of his life in that field. Due a minor misunderstanding, his crew has mutinied and left him and two others behind to crew the ailing loderunner Pegasus – which just happened to literally lose its stardrive in the middle of the middle of nowhere! His two remaining crewmen are killed when the ship’s engine explode, and Mykl d’Angelo is marooned and awaits rescue in deep space.
Buy Now for only R30 (or about $2): http://www.christinaengela.net/product/blachart-by-christina-engela/
Watch the book trailer video: https://youtu.be/OGcxZpVAV7U
Improvement to the Crow Bar’s Payment System!
30 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
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When I set up the new Crow Bar shop website a few weeks ago, the only online payment system that was available to me was PayPal – which just about everybody knows about these days.
Today I added a local South African online payment system called PayFast, which works in very much the same way, but without all the niggling problems I have with getting funds out of my PayPal account into my South African bank account!
Despite my best efforts so far, my dealings with First National Bank (FNB) which is the only bank in South Africa which deals with PayPal, have been completely fruitless. Money goes into my PayPal account, but I can’t get any of that into my South African bank account – and FNB, despite claiming that “it works”, won’t assist me in person or even respond to my emails – but that’s a matter for another post some other time.
PayFast has been around for quite some time apparently, and has a good reputation – several of my friends and acquaintances use it on their business websites (which is how I got to hear of it) – and it will accept local and international payments, EFT, Bitcoin (!), as well as credit and debit card payments. The only thing I had to change on the shop site in order to use PayFast was the site’s currency – from USD to ZAR, which was reflected on each book sales page, which is why the prices are now in Rands instead of Dollars.
Unlike PayPal, buyers don’t have to register or have an account with PayFast to buy at the Crow Bar! All they need to do at the checkout is select the appropriate buttons to tell PayFast which bank they’re with, and then fill in the blanks in the secure spaces provided to execute an EFT – and it’s done, no mess, no fuss!
Come on over to the Crow Bar and have a look around!
What A Lovely Review Of “Demonspawn”!
22 Oct 2018 2 Comments
in About Tags: action, demonspawn, future, Galaxii Series, gay character, horror, murder, outer space, pirate, space opera, space ship, starship, thriller
“Demonspawn by Christina Engela – a review
by Lee Hall
‘In space, not all things were certain… not even death’
Demonspawn is a detailed well-imagined space story, which I found hard to put down, in fact I read the book in just 3 sittings.
Christina Engela has created a believable world of space travel, delivering it in way that seemed to me logical and explained without straying from the main plot.
From the very opening, there is a deliberate psychological vagueness as to what the ‘big bad’ could be. This heightens the mystery giving readers a real urgency and a want to find out, eventually you will.
With that tension steadily building the story follows the somewhat damned crew of the I.S.S. Mordrake; a ship seemingly stranded and damaged beyond repair in the furthest reaches of space. Their captain is found murdered and so it’s up to main character Joe Lofflin to investigate along with a cast full of convincing characters.
Then they discover a derelict ship just floating in space.
This story reminded me of films such as Alien and Event Horizon but Demonspawn could easily stand shoulder to shoulder with them. There were many concepts of the sci-fi genre in this book that were original and put together in a way not seen before anywhere else (this was especially so for the ‘Akx’.)
It’s an enjoyable read that will leave you wanting more.
5 Stars.” – by Lee Hall, UK-based writer, playwright and reviewer.
