If you like to read, and you or your kids enjoy YA sci-fi, then I'm happy to say that my friend Leonie Rogers has just published her first novel "Frontier Incursion" and this will definitely appeal to you. Leonie lives in my hometown of Muswellbrook, Australia.
It is now available on amazon.com as an eBook. It will be officially available on Kobo, Bookworld, Barnes and Noble, Angus and Robertson and Apple iBooks on the 15th October.
There is a direct link to Hague Publishing, (where it is also available for purchase at an introductory rate), on the authors (Leonie Rogers) web page. https://www.facebook.com/leonierogersauthor
The cover art on the book was done by my daughter Emma Llewelyn, who grew up here in Muswellbrook. She is available for personal or corporate art commissions with examples of her work on her website http://www.emmallewelynart.com/
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| Emma Llewelyn |
Portrait artist Emma Llewelyn creates timeless and breathtaking custom portraits, cherished heirlooms that go beyond photographic reproduction to reveal the emotion and spirit of the subject.
"The greatest joy of my work is to watch a blank sheet of paper come to life, sparkling with essence of the personality I have captured. Be it the innocence of childhood, the beauty of young adulthood, the wisdom and experience of the elderly or the spirit of animals. "
"Commissioning a custom portrait is a truly unique way to capture your memories. Portraits are timeless, personalised gifts that will memorialise your loved ones throughout the years.".
Emma Llewelyn Biography
Emma Llewelyn is an Australian artist specialising in graphite and soft pastel portraits of wildlife and people. She started drawing with graphite at a young age, taking up soft pastels in 2006. She sold her first drawing in 2005, and sales and portrait commissions have boomed since. In 2011 she completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts at the University of Wollongong.
She had her first group exhibition in 2006 at the Mitchell School of Arts, and since then has exhibited a number of times, including the Muswellbrook Open Art Prize, the Scone Arts and Crafts Society Exhibition, the McCully's Gap Fundraising Exhibition and the UOW Graduates ‘Catch; No Two Alike’ exhibition.
She has received several awards, such as Highly Commended in the Murrurundi Art Prize in 2011, and the winner of the Bernadette O’Reilly Artist Under 25 Award at the Thirroul Art Prize in 2012.
Her work now hangs in private collections and commercial buildings across the country.
Frontier Incursion
‘Frontier Incursion’ is an exciting science-fiction novel. It tells the story of Shanna, whose joining the Scout Corps had been a dream come true. The Scouts were charged with expanding their knowledge of Frontier, a hostile planet their ancestors had crashlanded on 300 years before. As the youngest in her class, Shanna struggles to find acceptance and respect amongst her older peers - a task made more difficult by the fact that she has not just one, but two of the colonists' huge feline companions, their starcats.
On a routine patrol, she and the other cadets are swept up in the greatest challenge yet to be faced by the settlers of Frontier. Now they find themselves on the very frontline of a war they knew nothing about, and possibly the Federation of Race's last chance against the hostile Garsal. Suddenly their world has changed, and in ways never dreamed of by Shanna and her fellow scouts.
On a routine patrol, she and the other cadets are swept up in the greatest challenge yet to be faced by the settlers of Frontier. Now they find themselves on the very frontline of a war they knew nothing about, and possibly the Federation of Race's last chance against the hostile Garsal. Suddenly their world has changed, and in ways never dreamed of by Shanna and her fellow scouts.
Leonie Rogers Biography
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| Leonie Rogers |
Growing up in Western Australia, Leonie was an avid reader from an early age. Her mother vividly recalls her stating "I can read faster with my eyes than you can with your mouth, Mum..." at around the age of six. Her parents and great aunt encouraged her interest in literature, providing her with books of many different genres, and . She began writing during high school, placing in the Western Australian Young Writers Award in 1980, and she fondly remembers several of her English teachers, who encouraged her to write, both fiction and poetry.
Leonie trained at Curtin University as a physiotherapist and moved to the remote north west of Western Australia, as a new graduate, in late 1986. She continued to write poetry for herself and for friends. Living in the remote northwest, she had the opportunity to work with camels, fight fires as a volunteer fire fighter, and develop vertical rescue and cyclone operation skills with the State Emergency Service.
After relocating to NSW with her husband and two children, Leonie continued to work as a physiotherapist, while still dabbling with writing. Finally deciding to stop procrastinating, Leonie decided to write the novel she'd had sitting in the back of her head for the last twenty years. Her husband and two teenage children have been extremely tolerant of the amount of time she has devoted to writing in the last few years.
E-Book Details
- Price $6.00
- File Size: 596 KB
- Print Length: 352 pages
- Publisher: Hague Publishing (September 29, 2012)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B009JR4Z2E
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