-Science Fiction/Fantasy-
Deborah Jackson
NEWS & EVENTS
Keep up to date with my latest releases, my next projects, and book events.
Deborah Jackson chosen as an ONTARIO INDIE AUTHOR PROJECT SELECT AUTHOR.
Furies' was among 60 eBooks by local Ontario authors that was chosen by Indie Author Project curation partners as Indie Author Project Select titles, representing the best-of-the-best of IAP submissions from indie authors all across the U.S. and Canada. These IAP Select authors are invited to participate in a royalty-paying program where their eBooks are sold in curated collections to libraries locally— and internationally— via eBook platforms such as OverDrive, DPLA Exchange, cloudLibrary, and Axis 360.
Article/Interview in Arts and Culture ezine Apt613
Deborah Jackson Redefines Science Fiction in the Age of Rage
"Enthralling page-turners, her multiple novels combine geology, biology and genetic engineering into a matrix worth exploring. A significant turn-of-the-millennium theme runs through her literary creations, which fall within the science fiction genre but, more specifically, within near-future speculation. Her literature conveys an evolving landscape for the reader to explore. To read Jackson is both a departure to outer space and a passage to our inner world."
Goodreads Giveaway - Mosaic
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Starting Friday, November 4, for ten days, you can enter the Goodreads Giveaway to win a copy of Mosaic, my YA chiller.
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You can enter to win here.
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Good luck and thanks for entering.
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Sinkhole Promotion - Featured on ebookdaily
Sinkhole will be free for five days on Kindle.
If you like caving, or just want to experience it vicariously.
Get it while you can. Apparently it's doing that Ice Tomb bestseller thing :)
Kindle Link here.
The First Reviews - November 4
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The first reviews of The Furies' Bog are very positive.
"The Furies' Bog by Deborah Jackson is truly a unique read. The story started out something like that of the Call of the Wild and then transformed into a whole different universe. Here, readers will find genetic engineering, human evolution, and a deadly mission. Deborah Jackson created a book that intrigues readers minds. The Furies' Bog is a science fiction fantasy novel that I would recommend to readers everywhere."
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"Ms. Jackson has created a fascinating scientific plotline for this novel, weaving geology, anthropology, and near-future Mars exploration together in a creative way . . . she has developed a plausible chain of events that lead from a bog in the Canadian north through the jungles of Africa and out to the barrenness of Mars.
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The other strength of the novel is characterization. The story is full of intense, driven and flawed people, who strike sparks off each other without fail."
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The Furies' Bog - Released October 1st, 2016
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The Furies' Bog has launched. After 2 1/2 years of intensive research into terraforming Mars, genetic engineering, anthropology and archaeology, with a little bit of mythology thrown in, the novel is complete.
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You can find purchase sites here, as well as read the first chapter.
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Please let me know what you think. Send me a note via my contact page, or write a review on a bookstore or reading site.
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Mosaic Promotion - October 30, 2015
Starting now I have a special promotion for Mosaic, the most unusual book I've ever written. It is FREE.
Visit these sources to get your copy:
The promotion ends February 1st. Get your copy soon!
The Furies' Bog - May 2015
I have finally completed my latest project, to the point where beta readers are poring over it. This is the largest novel I've ever written, a considerable time investment both in writing and reading. I hope you will find it as intriguing as my other novels. Here is a preliminary blurb:
A bog may be Earth’s undoing, but it will be a gift to Mars.
Digging up bog bodies and analyzing corpses are the last things archaeology graduate student, Felicity Cratchett, wants to do. And when unusual mummies are discovered in the subpolar region of Polar Bear Provincial Park, it’s the last place she wants to go. But since her faculty advisor insists she improve her expertise in fieldwork, she has little choice in the matter. In a remote bog with a small team of scientists, she unearths the greatest secret of our time—a secret with ties to ancient Rome, roots in Botswana, and a link to the first people to exercise abstract thought. This revelation will challenge the conventional theory of human origins and human evolution.
Meanwhile, astronaut Lucas Wilson, a man tormented with deep-seated anger issues, is terraforming Mars. He reluctantly descends to the red planet’s surface with his fellow astronauts, preparing to direct their exploration. Mars, in its birth pangs, will challenge every step he takes, with gas explosions and raging rivers, with damaged fuel processors and limited oxygen supplies. In the midst of these disasters, he must keep his companions from discovering a feat of genetic engineering that will transform Mars like nothing has in over a billion years. A masterwork whose double helix twists all the way back to Earth and Felicity’s mummies. But if he fails, he must decide whether to take up Mars’s sword and the demon cry of the Furies, or to cast the weapon into a bog.
If you would like to read the first chapter, I've added it to the list of excerpts.
New Website - May 2015
If you haven't guessed already, I've created a new website. Several years ago a brilliant webmaster produced a website for me, and then, as the demands on his time and expertise became too extensive, he deserted me. So I was left with a huge, unwieldy, code-ridden website with my limited knowledge of code. Every change I made altered the entire look and, as time marched on, the style became outdated. I've been looking for a user-friendly website ever since. When I found this host with formats that catered to my passion for photography, I decided it was time to make the move.
Click around, browse, and if you feel inclined, give me your feedback. All the photographs used on this site are from my own collections.