24 Dec 2017 1 Comment
in About Tags: Albrecht, Albrecht's Takeaways, Atro City, author, christina engela, fantasy, Lupini Square, sci-fi, science fiction, South African
Johannes Albrecht – An immigrant who originally hails from New Excelsior Colony, Albrecht is the owner-operator of Albrecht’s Takeaways, a modest yet popular coffee shop set up in an old shipping container on Lupini Square in Atro City. The small enterprise has become well known, especially for his famous family recipe Hot Dogs and Cold Cats – which according to him – are made “the way his a’mamma showed him back in the Old Country” (New Excelsior Colony). More
16 Dec 2017 Leave a comment
in Promotion Tags: art, author, christina engela, drawings, fantasy, female, horror, Illustrations, Images, LGBT, sci-fi, science fiction, sketches, South African, transgender
About “Panic! Horror In Space” by Christina Engela – a sci-fi-horror series.
‘Panic! Horror In Space‘ is a series of science-fiction-horror stories featuring regular characters, with the occasional introduction of new characters or settings. The premise of the concept was to create a horror-sci-fi story in a series of connected short fiction installments.
While on an otherwise routine deep-space mission to chart new territory on the frontier of unknown space, the Pioneer Fleet starship Mercury is probably the unluckiest ship in history. Not once, not twice, but many times over, the same hapless crew – give or take a few dozen casualties – on a supposed voyage of deep space exploration, stumble into the weird, wake the creepy and trip over the downright terrifying and possibly even supernatural… More
01 Jun 2017 2 Comments
in new releases Tags: author, christina engela, Deanna, fantasy, High Steaks, LGBT, Prodigal Sun, sci-fi, science fiction, South African, The Quantum Series, transgender
Newly released on this morning, 1 June 2017, is my 12th completed, published novel, “High Steaks” – which is book 6 in the Quantum Series! After a gap of many years between book 4 “Loderunner” (2007) and book 5 “Prodigal Sun” released in February 2017, it’s been a privilege (and a heck of a lot of fun) to continue the adventures of characters I created and grew very fond of back in 2003!
“High Steaks” continues a new adventure begun in the previous book “Prodigal Sun”, and introduces fascinating new characters as well as expanding on many different detail aspects of the quaint Terran colony of Deanna!
05 May 2017 1 Comment
in Blog Tags: author, christina engela, indie, publishing, self publishing, South African
There used to be a perception years ago that a writer who made use of self-publishing services was not a published “proper” author. In fact, back in the day, such authors who paid for publishing services were dismissed and criticized (often harshly) as ‘pretenders’ and wannabes, and the presses that offered such services were laughed off as ‘vanity press’ publishers.
But what about today? More
23 Feb 2017 2 Comments
in new releases Tags: author, christina engela, fantasy, horror, LGBT, Prodigal Sun, sci-fi, science fiction, South African, The Quantum Series, transgender
“Prodigal Sun“, book 5 in The Quantum Series, is finally available!
Since it has only just been released, it will at first only be available on Lulu, but in the next few weeks they should start appearing everywhere you can find all my books!
In the meantime, if you want to know more detail about the story being told in “Prodigal Sun“, you can find more info here: “The Quantum Quadrilogy : What Readers Can Expect“.
I hope those of you who have been eagerly awaiting the fifth title in the Quantum Series will enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it!
18 Jan 2017 1 Comment
in Blog Tags: author, Bugspray, christina engela, Dolly, holiday news, museum, South African, VW, vw bug
Hello fans! Yesterday, my long suffering PA and GF, Wendy K. Gloss, went on a road trip to the small city of Uitenhage, or to be more exact, to the VW museum which is right next door to the VW factory. This is the same factory where all South African VW Beetles (and more recently, the Bug-shaped ‘nice try’ they call ‘the new beetle’) were made.
I’ve been on holiday over December and January, and while I’ve been relaxing some of the time, I’ve also been doing a lot of D.I.Y. ‘stuff’ around the house. Yesterday was just a nice get away from it all, so Kay and I boarded Dolly (our 1962 1200cc VW) and took a casual, uneventful drive out to Uitenhage. More
