It has been a while since my last post about publishing my SciFi manuscript Heaven’s Ant Farm. But what with COVID, relocating and other such things, I’ve had to sideline that effort. And, to be truthful, I needed to reassess my strategy for publishing the manuscript. A strategy that, till now, was heavily focused on finding an agent to guide me through the process. Well, as most of you know, finding an agent is like…
Category: God Games (aka Heaven’s Ant Farm)
New Tag Line for Heaven’s Ant Farm
I’m constantly making changes to the book. What do you think of the new tag line? God rejected religion but an evangelical devil makes him deal with the consequences on Earth to prevent a second Holy Nuclear Civil War in Heaven.
Snippet from Heaven’s Ant Farm: Deville’s Fake News To Eve
Snippet from Heaven’s Ant Farm: This is what Lucifer told Eve in Eden.
Eve smiles at the serpent. “I’ve never heard of an ancestor named Lucsssfer.”
The snake answers with silence, punctuated by gritty sounds.
Then it opens its fanged mouth to yawn. The strange static in her head all but disappears. “My . . . name . . . isssss . . . Lucifer. I am an elder from a time before there were trees in this forest, before there was dirt in this forest, before water flowed through this forest. I was here before this forest . . . was a forest. Now I am here for you, Eve.”
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Harold J. Johnson’s review of Heaven’s Ant Farm
HEAVEN’S ANT FARM by James A. Scott, is a classic retelling of the forces of good versus evil but in a unusual way. This story is very anti-tradition but not anti-spirituality. However, if you are someone of a religious background, your brain may be ripped open and the contents emptied and replaced with something that may make you feel a bit uncomfortable. On its surface and deep within its heart, HEAVENS ANT FARM is a…
HEAVEN’S ANT FARM- Yahweh and Gwendolyn
Here’s this just completed science fiction novel’s intro to two of the main characters- Yahweh and Gwendolyn Tabbris. Comments welcomed! The setting is in Heaven- 3,127.3 years after the Holy Nuclear War. Warm waves of tall grass brush against a peach orchard and a green pasture that surround a large polygon-shaped home. Blue light streams out from the second-floor bathroom window and fades into the early morning sun. Inside the bathroom, a sleepy Professor Yahweh Tabbris…
Take The 7/7/7 Challenge
John Berkowitz, a fellow blogger writing a middle grade fantasy book, THE LAST PRINCESS recently challenged me to the 7/7/7 Challenge. What’s that you ask? Well, it’s a different way to view your own writing while at the same time sharing and challenging others to do same. Here is what you do: Go to page 7 of your work-in-progress Scroll down to line #7 Share the next 7 lines of your manuscript in…
Now Don’t Blink…
I hope that everyone is enjoying the summer. It’s the best time of the year! Here’s a piece of advice to make it last . . . don’t blink! Many of you have asked why I haven’t been saying much lately. Well, the excuse is . . . my day job fool! But I have also been busy trying to find a agent for Heaven’s Ant Farm. So far no takers, but from my research…
Wagon Train To The Stars
It’s been a while since my last blog entry. I’ve been busy with work and some personal things needed attending. I also wanted to spend more time honing my flying skills—got to stay practiced or you could have a very bad landing. I also started to read the book These Are The Voyages: TOS Season One by Marc Crushman and Susan Osbourn. It’s a historical recounting and detailed analysis of how Gene Roddenbury created the…
Heaven’s Critter Cams
Ever wonder how Adam and Eve were able to speak with the serpent in the Garden of Eden? From what we see in the Bible, it seems that snake just spoke to them—and in their own language. This is a common problem with old science fiction space stories where, for some reason, the earthling and alien easily communicate with each other—and in the King’s English even! Fortunately, most sci-fi writers today have overcome this problem…
Free Will & How the Devil Made Me Do It
In his web article, C. Terry Warner says that “agency refers both to the capacity of beings to act for themselves and their accountability for those actions.” Well, that is what HEAVEN’S ANT FARM is all about. The world that we live in is full of choices, some clearly good or bad…others suspect. What happens if we choose to turn left but not right? Or suppose someone decided it would be a great corporate team building exercise to…