Discovering Witchetty Waters

Discovering Witchetty Waters is an exciting children's fantasy story which will keep you gripped from the outset (regardless of whether you're a child or not!) When Scarlett and Mason leave their humdrum Norfolk lives and move to an island off the Kentish Coast with their parents, their world is turned upside down. Their new home at Waters End on Witchetty Waters is just about as exciting, scary and as far away from 'normal' as it can get. Strangers gift them skull rings with magical powers, spell books are dusted off, and a weird axeman/forest dweller seems intent on scaring the living daylights out of the unwitting family. Scarlett, a 13 year old bookworm, and Mason her 9 year old brother, whose favourite hobby is to play practical jokes on everyone, are about to discover the real reason they have moved to Waters End. And it's all to do with an ancient quest which dates back to the 14th century. Of course, they can't do it alone, and helpful or otherwise, there is a whole host of magical, weird and wonderful creatures, fairies, goblins, sprites, witches and wizards to impact on their rollercoaster adventure at every turn. Can this young pair lift the ancient curse and right the wrong from Medieval Times? Will they follow orders or face being trapped in an alternative 14th century forever.

 Discovering Witchetty Waters is an exciting children's fantasy story which will keep you gripped from the outset (regardless of whether you're a child or not!) When Scarlett and Mason leave their humdrum Norfolk lives and move to an island off the Kentish Coast with their parents, their world is turned upside down. Their new home at Waters End on Witchetty Waters is just about as exciting, scary and as far away from 'normal' as it can get. Strangers gift them skull rings with magical powers, spell books are dusted off, and a weird axeman/forest dweller seems intent on scaring the living daylights out of the unwitting family. Scarlett, a 13 year old bookworm, and Mason her 9 year old brother, whose favourite hobby is to play practical jokes on everyone, are about to discover the real reason they have moved to Waters End. And it's all to do with an ancient quest which dates back to the 14th century. Of course, they can't do it alone, and helpful or otherwise, there is a whole host of magical, weird and wonderful creatures, fairies, goblins, sprites, witches and wizards to impact on their rollercoaster adventure at every turn. Can this young pair lift the ancient curse and right the wrong from Medieval Times? Will they follow orders or face being trapped in an alternative 14th century forever.

Discovering Witchetty Waters (Juvenile/Fantasy)

By Trisha J. Kelly

Independent Publishing Platform

ISBN #978-1544048642

Price $10.18 (Paperback)

Price $2.99 (Kindle)

240 Pages

Rating 5-Stars

It’s time for Percy Tatterhill to retire and close his shop, putting Tom Beckett out of a job. But Percy has an offer for Tom and his family, move from Norfolk to Waters End and run the island for him. This sounds better than being out of a job, so off they go to Kentish Coast and the islands. 13-year old Scarlett and her 9-year old brother, Mason looks for a more interesting life and accept the move easily, not knowing what’s in store for them. For since the 1400s, magicians, wizards, and warlocks have been awaiting the arrival of special children to change history, and Scarlett and Mason are the chosen ones.

There are deeper problems than appear on the surface. Treasure has been hidden for 600 years but protected by the wizards, now the chosen ones must change the course of history and use that treasure for an orphanage on one of the islands, and a space ship from the Andromeda Galaxy dropped a preliminary invasion craft into our ocean near the islands 600 years ago, and it’s supposed to prepare the way for the aliens. This story covers the first task while the second book will cover the second task.

This was a fun little fantasy, reminding me of Disney’s animated Fairy Tales we’ve seen over the years, as well as some of the old fairy tales our mothers read to us when we were children. Young people will certainly enjoy the book, as will most adults. I know I did. Highly recommended.

Tom Johnson

Author of THREE GO BACK

Cover Reveal: Pangaea: Eden's Planet

Cover Reveal: With PANGAEA: EDEN’S PLANET coming off contract in June, I’ve been working on rewrites to the novel, plus Tom TV Powers has provided me with a new cover for the upcoming Kindle book that FADING SHADOWS will release in late June or early July. The story of Pangaea takes place in the Permian Period of our planet’s prehistoric past, 250 million years ago. Seven astronauts go through a time warp in space, and crash land back on Earth. Their mission had been to Mars, but now it has become a mission of survival. One of the main predators of the period is the Dimetrodon, which is featured on the new cover 

Satellite Lost

A rogue satellite disappears off NSA's space radar and falls into Monterey Bay on the California coastline. The Agency's efforts to find the lost satellite are thwarted by a young oceanographer, Matt Cross, who, with his wife, Lindy, a local television reporter, watch the fiery landing from their honeymoon beach picnic and track it to its final resting place, five-hundred feet down in the Monterey Submarine Canyon. Bent on fame and fortune, they retrieve the satellite, examine it, and find an unfathomable object, a satellite sent back in time from our future. Revealing its contents to the American public in a history-making television report, they turn our world upside down and leave it with a life-or-death decision: assassinate a few innocent people or destroy the future of humanity.

This fast-paced techno thriller leaves you breathless as you race through its pages, searching for the answer. Based on the Grandfather Paradox, it is not a fantasy but a realistic depiction of an event that could happen tomorrow. Fasten your seat belts and ready yourselves for the trip of a lifetime.

Satellite Lost (SF Techno Thriller)

By John Paul Cater

Independent Publishing Platform

ISBN #978-1535059671

Price $11.95

230 Pages

Rating 5-Stars

“A Different Kind of Time Travel Story.”

Newly weds Matt and Lindy Cross are celebrating their honeymoon on the California coast. Lying on the Monterey Bay beach they are attracted to a fireball falling into the waters off the shore. Strangely, the fireball doesn’t act like a meteor, as it slows before crashing into the bay. Matt, an ex-Navy diver, takes GPS readings, and a few days later makes a dive in his company’s mini-sub to retrieve the object.

Bringing it back to their home, they discover a teardrop shaped satellite, but that’s not the strangest part. When they open it, they discover it’s from the future, 2285, and there are now 54 states. A letter explains the situation clearly. A scientist in the future had discovered the wormhole effect, putting it to practical use, and aliens from another galaxy uses it to attack our planet. Earth is near destruction, and the president feels the only way out of the situation is for someone in the past to assassinate a relative of the responsible scientist to insure the wormhole effect is never discovered.

This was not only a fast paced thrill ride it’s an interesting take on time travel. Instead of sending their own assassin back in time, they use satellite technology to request us to kill a relative in the direct line. This is the Grandfather Paradox. By killing someone in the past, you destroy a whole family line up to and including the person you really want stopped. What would our society decide to do in such a case? The author’s solution is simply brilliant. Highly recommended.

Tom Johnson

Author of WORLDS OF TOMORROW

Three Go Back

THREE GO BACK by Tom Johnson. Tom introduces us to the 24th century, where people travel by teleportation vehicles, and the wealthy live in bubbles floating thousands of feet above ground. When their teleport vehicle malfunctions, becoming a time machine, it sends three young girls back in time on a journey of discovery they never expected. From the Ice Age through the Cretaceous, Permian, Carboniferous, and finally to the beginning of the Earth's evolution of life, they experience their world's prehistoric past in all its splendor and terror, coming away with the joy of knowledge and adventure! Published by NTD, this Young Adult novel is available on Kindle for $3.99, and everywhere e-books are sold. Also available on Amazon for $12.95 paperback, and $24.26 hardback, plus postage. Tom also keeps copies on hand for book signing and autographs, and can be purchased by contacting him.

Pangaea: Eden's Planet Review

Title:  Pangaea: Eden’s Planet

Author:  Tom Johnson

Publisher:  First Realm Publishing

ISBN:  10-1497340748

           13 978-1497340749

Genre:  Science Fiction

4-Star Rating

A team of scientists led by Colonel Evelyn Peterson is headed for Mars to scout sites for future settlements. Earth has been devastated by a nuclear war and much of it is now a wasteland. The future of humanity can only be assured by setting up a new home on Mars.

Trouble arises shortly after the flight has lifted off, trouble in the form of a strange storm. This was something they were totally unprepared for and had little hope of survival.  However, they did and when they come out of It, they find their destination is no longer Mars. In fact they are stranded back in time.

How they handle their new problems is guaranteed to keep you reading. This reader found the combination of time travel, space flight, a visit to Earth’s past, and living conditions irresistible. It kept me wondering how things would work out and will there be future tales about this place and people as they settle in. I loved the descriptions of the animal life and plants growing in various areas of the place their ship landed.

This is a story any sci-fi fan will truly enjoy. The talented author, Tom Johnson, has crafted a believable world; new terrors for characters dropped into it, and pulls the reader into the story so we become one of the members of this crew.

I am very pleased to recommend Pangaea: Eden’s Planet as a fun read you won’t want to put down. Not only will it teach us about our prehistoric periods, but have us looking for other books by this imaginative author and wanting to know what will happen next on Pangaea.  Will we get to see it decimated by meteor storms or will volcanoes split the large continent into smaller ones that we would come to recognize as our homes of today?

Enjoy. I sure did.

Anne K. Edwards