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…
Friends, right? Right… Let me tell you about friendship. I’m 51 years old now, and over the span of that half-century I’ve accumulated some small level of experience in the subject. Allow me to share my experience with you.
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…
Good morning, friends and fans! A fellow writer recently asked me for my opinion about a story they’re working on and sent me the first five chapters. Is it “worth carrying on with?” they asked. So here’s my opinion of the matter in its entirety – and I feel it applies to any writer who…
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!
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…
Hello again, friends and fans! As sci-fi lovers, we love the starships our favorite characters cruise the cosmos in, don’t we? Star Trek has its various incarnations of the Enterprise, Star Wars has the Millenium Falcon, Battlestar Galactica… well, has itself. Firefly has the Serenity. Buck Rogers had the Searcher, and The Expanse has the…
Good morning, friends and fans – and fellow writers! The topic I’ll be addressing in this article – to paraphrase the Bard, is: To withdraw, or not to withdraw? That is the question! And what a question it is, right? I mean, context is everything. As writers, most of us submit our stories to any…