Academic, writer, storyteller, digital creator.
(Hint: it’s probably not coffee!) Christina Engela is a writer and digital creator based in Port Elizabeth, on the South East coast of South Africa – a tourist destination known as ‘the Windy City’, where watching birds fly backwards is a thing. She lives with her wife Kay and four cats who compete for her…
About Christina Engela Christina Engela is a writer and digital creator based in Port Elizabeth, on the South East coast of South Africa – a tourist destination known as ‘the Windy City’, where watching birds fly backwards is a thing. She lives with her wife Kay and four cats who compete for her attention and…
I started a show on YouTube called “Tina Talks Tech” in January of 2024, and so far it’s been a lot of fun! Since then, I’ve done unboxings, reviews of tech-related items, as well as troubleshooting and advice videos, and also a few special projects – like the time I turned an old computer case…
Christina Engela lurks in Nelson Mandela Bay, a coastal metropolis known interchangeably as “the Detroit of South Africa”, “the Windy City” – or, as it was once famously described by a colorful radio DJ: “the armpit of South Africa”. There, she lives in a part-time haunted Victorian, where her wife Kay and four happy kitties…
Hello, friends and fans! A few months ago, I submitted two short stories to a sci-fi anthology, and this whole exercise has reminded me just why I don’t like dealing with publishing companies and why being indie is so important to me. That said, you must be wondering the same thing I am: Why did…
Hello there, friends and fans! Modern prisons have been the setting for movies, books and series too numerous to mention. Some writers and movie makers have speculated about what form futuristic prisons might take – and they range from the ambitiously humanitarian and rehabilitative concepts of “Star Trek” and “Magnus, Robot Fighter“, to the opposite…
Hello friends and fans! Today I’m going to indulge my frustration a bit, and talk about eBook selling platforms (like EBooks2Go) offering buyers refunds and returns on eBooks. How is this fair, and more importantly, how do they get away with it?
Hello friends and fans! Today I’m going to openly address a niggling little problem I’ve encountered quite a few times since I released book 6 in the Quantum Series, “High Steaks“! In fact, it happened again today. Yes, I know what I did there. Yes, I did it on purpose. No, madam, it is not…
These days, writers – especially self-published writers – typically need to do their own marketing, book and cover design and… well, everything! In the course of my own writing journey, I encountered some good resources and added them to my list – and thought it might be a good idea to share it with other…
Hello, friends and fans, 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…