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…
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! Have you ever read a book and wondered “how did the author get to that?” or, “what’s the actual story behind this?” Bearing this curiosity in mind, I decided to put together a list of some behind-the-scenes “secrets” hidden in my latest release, “Freedom Inc.“
Hello friends and fans! A few days ago, I announced the release of “Freedom Inc.” – the first book in my new “Threaders” series, and I thought it would be nice if I gave you some more background detail of what to expect in the book, and also what went into it! After more than…
What is an afterword? What is an epilog? Authors need to know! Good morning, friends and fans! Today I’ll take a stick and poke at that question until it gives up a little clarity on the subject!
Looking back, it doesn’t seem all that long ago that I first started writing my Galaxii scifi series. As it turns out, that was back in 1991 – my final year of high school – when I first started writing the backstory of Galaxii. It was futuristic, it was distantly post-apocalyptic, that is, it was…