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Aquamarine by Mel Keegan

AQUAMARINE Mel Keegan
272pp, 6" x 9"
Cover by Jade
Published by DreamCraft,
printed & bound in the UK and EU.
Paperback via Amazon.com or Lulu.com;
Hardcover only via Lulu.com (due in 2009);
Buy direct only from Lulu.com;
Ebooks from Kindle, Smashwords, DreamCraft;
$18.50 (buy direct)
$22.50 (Amazon paperback)
$32.50 (Lulu hardcover -- due 2009)
$9.95 (eBook: many formats, see below)

Ebook formats:
PC, Mac, iLiad, Sony Reader, Pocket PC, Palm Pilot, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobipocket.

Read the first 10% of this novel online! Any "content warning" to readers? Murder,'chiller' material, realistic violence, frank description of same-gender relationships. (See our Caveat.)

(Caveat: sample readings offered here encompass about the first 10% of the book, and are uncensored, unabridged. If you're disturbed by candid descriptions of same-gender romance, or by realistic violence, please don't download! Samples are not intended for younger readers. By clicking to open the PDF, you agree that you are of age in your local jurisdiction; you know what you are about to read; and the material won't disturb you: 'nuff said.) Stay on this page for cover notes, reader reviews and one-click shopping!

Paperback:Kindle: DUE in May 2009

For PC & Mac, Desktop/Laptop:
For Pocket PC, iLiad, Sony Reader, Palm:

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Hardcover and Large Print Edition are due in mid-2009, only from Lulu.com

COVER NOTES
A new sci-fi adventure by the master of gay thrillers"



Mel Keegan's new story is set in the late 21st Century when major land masses have been submerged by rising oceans and the Earth is a world of water. Russell is a hydrologist, based on the giant floating platform of Pacifica; his lover, Eric, one of fifty Aquarians, is a new sub-species of human who can breathe underwater. When the pair refuse an attractive offer for Eric's services on a suspicious salvage operation, Eric is kidnapped and a fast-paced intrigue starts to unfold on the "acorn principle" ... a small event turns out to be the key to a major war which would involve the whole Pacifica region.



PUBLICATION NOTES:
AQUAMARINE is once again MK's property, since the rights have 'passed back to the author.'

This is tremendous news for DreamCraft, and also for readers who either haven't been able to find a copy of AQUAMARINE (it's been hard to track down recently), or ... readers who have been driven bananas since 2000, by the 'tatty' presentation of the MPG issue. If you've read the 'Keegan Speaks' page, you'll know that 'things went haywire' at the pre-press stage.

The book was never proof-read! MPG went to press off the 'raw' files which Mel had emailed from Fairbanks, Alaska. Now, normally a book will be proofread four or six times before being published. (At DreamCraft, all books are proofed five times by humans and twice electronically.) This means very few errors get through. No book is error free, but you can get close, and we do. For seven years, readers have loved AQUAMARINE even though they've had to grit their teeth to get through the typing hiccups ... they can't be called 'proofing errors,' because the book wasn't proofed!

So we've invited MK to go back to the 'raw' files, the exact, same files that were emailed from Fairbanks, and not only will they be properly proofed by DreamCraft,but MK has the chance to take a 'second bite' here: rework, redevelop, re-edit. The story won't change, but parts of the narrative are almost certain to. The end product will be far superior to the MPG presentation in many ways. We'll have a full-color cover, with a genuine depiction of the characters and locations rather than a monochrome (blue) pic of a young man; the interior text will be thoroughly proofed and error free; and the narrative will have been re-reveloped. Any writer will tell you, good books are not written, they're re-written ... and the DreamCraft edition of AQUAMARINE is exactly what you've been waiting for!

READERS' REVIEWS

REVIEWED BY CHRIS R.

You have to chalk up a mark to this book, because the plot and characters actually survive the machete-job done on the project by a publisher [the publisher in question was Millivres, not DreamCraft!! -ED] that found a way to get more slipshod than it's norm! I've read the interview segments on the Keegan webpage here where Keegan tells what happened. Shi-!! It wasn't copy edited! In light of that, three cheers to Keegan for getting AQUAMARINE as good as it was. The typos and type-setting mistakes do intrude now and then, but the story is fully engrossing. I started reading late at night, and wound up looking hungover the next day. The saga of Eric the gill-breather and Rusty Grant, the geneticist, is a very different, very fresh kind of story. If you might be tempted into thinking AQUAMARINE is something like that Kevin Costner flick that drowned at the box office, you'd be wrong. If I have one criticism (apart from the typesetting choas, which Keegan isn't responsible for), it's that I think MK passed over (glossed over??) the set-up for the Drowned Earth Scenario a bit too fast. I personally would have liked a lot more set-up and background on this ... but I also see AQUAMARINE is well over 300 pages. Loads of technical stuff might have pushed the book into the too-long cateogory, and anyway, lots of other readers could have wound up skipping whole chunks of the book to actually get away from the scientific stuff. After just coming thru HELLGATE (wow), I have to guess Keegan actually wrote in the science and then edited it back out for readability and overall-length??? despite the gloss-job on the science background though, the watery world in the book is described so richly, with such reams of detail, [the novel] doesn't suffer overall for having some techno stuff missed out. Another great read.

Paperback:Kindle: DUE in May 2009

For PC & Mac, Desktop/Laptop:
For Pocket PC, iLiad, Sony Reader, Palm:
For iPhone, Blackberry, Mobipocket Reader, Palm Pilot and more:


Hardcover and Large Print Edition are due in mid-2009, only from Lulu.com





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