Delve into sapphic stories
Welcome to my seasonal and Sci Fi sapphic romance novels.
I wrote the seasonal one because I thought why not.
Deliverance is a different matter. Please read why below.
This seasonal book, Christmas In The Canaries, is an engaging, and moving story of another chance at love between two older women.
Christmas in the Canaries follows the fortunes of Alison and Maddie as they both embark on a cruise over the holiday season.
Alison needs a holiday from her lonely, loveless life. Her previous controlled and abusive relationship had recently ended acrimoniously.
Maddie was still grieving the loss of her wife after untimely death.Both are trying to sort out their lives away from the everyday norm.
Neither want to be alone at Christmas. Both want to re-evaluate their lives. Brought together by chance. Exploring together by choice.
After two incredible weeks cruising in the Canaries Islands, will the new found friendship of these two older women become something more?
This combined lesbian romance and science-fiction tells the story of a group of pioneers who disappear from Earth during the catastrophe and colonise the planet Sythia. They struggle to build a world safe for both women and men. To live their lives as and how they wish, away from the tyranny and brutality of Earth, and how they react when their idyll is finally disturbed.
Earth, 2495. Earth had settled on other planets in this and the neighbouring solar systems. A terrible catastrophe had forced the privileged administration to rule with an iron fist. Archaic rules were put in place forbidding women an education and all unseemly behaviour severely punished. All the satellite planets were under Earth control. All, that is, except one.
Tony and his wife, Julie stared out at the planet that had suddenly emerged before them. Instantly there was a searing flash.
Julie needed help. She stepped onto the strange surface of the planet. Beginning Julie’s voyage of discovery on this bizarre and complicated planet.
Stumbling to safety, she is greeted by Kama, one of the leaders of the free world.
Julie starts to realise she can fulfill her dreams. But will Tony or the enigmatic Kama scupper her ambitions and aspirations?
Why was Deliverance written?
This book came about in 1988 when the UK government decided to introduce section 28. I was teaching Maths at the time and overnight the LGBT+ community was plunged back into the dark ages.
I was powerless to say anything that would promote homosexuality. Frightened to open my mouth about anything. AIDS was rife and this feeling of helplessness angered me intensely. And so this idea of a utopian world was born. Where everyone could live their lives as they chose.
I hated writing anything down other than in note form. Writing detailed lesson plans, when I had to, took me ages. And yet, there I was, tapping away on a keyboard, writing, letting my frustrations out into this fantasy world. I was on a mission, yet hardly anyone knew or understood why I was doing it.
That summer holiday went by in a flash, and so did all the other school holidays, as I finished this special project. It took over two years to write. I allowed three people to read it. Then the finished manuscript sat in a bottom drawer for twenty-five years. I thought my job was done.
Then in early 2015, I found out it was possible to self-publish. And so I searched for the original floppy disc, finding old computers to transfer it, firstly onto a cd, then onto a flash drive. And without any knowledge of what to do and how to do it properly, I put it out there warts and all.
We, as a community, have come so far since those days. Thank goodness. But I'm fearful of the turn of events across the pond.
For me, something positive came out from all of that rubbish. Without section 28 I would not have put pen to paper (or fingers on a keypad). I realised that I could tell a good story. And because I now had a computer, my atrocious writing was not going to be a hindrance.
In my retirement years I have taken up writing part time and have now published my ninth novel. Not bad for someone who was told they were rubbish at English in school.
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