AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT

J.S. MANNING

J.S. Manning

The hardest thing to write is a bio. It isn't because I don't know what to write, but I don't know what to filter out. I studied art and originally wanted to travel and draw, yet my journey seeded ideas and visions of a literary universe. The best thing about being self-published is that there are no obstacles to bringing out an entire world from my imagination. I am an Australian who has travelled and lived abroad by working as an international teacher.

The Factory In Windy Valley (The Creatures Book 1)

by J.S. Manning

Windy Valley is a town on the go! Are you looking for a job with great benefits? Then look no further; Windy Valley Electronics is an exciting place to begin your career. We'll provide affordable accommodation so you'll save up for your own home in no time. And if you think that's great, wait till you hear about our scholarship program for your kids. We've got the best working environment in the Northern Hemisphere Bloc. So, come over and apply for an interview with one of our hiring managers.

That was before a peculiar event happened, and only the workers at Windy Valley Electronics began to see strange creatures. No one else in Windy Valley but only the workers who saw these apparitions. Strange creatures appeared that were quite unusual, with unnatural colours and shapes. The most odd and disturbing thing about these creatures was that they spoke. And if that wasn't shocking enough, what they told the workers at Windy Valley Electronics was highly ominous.

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Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy

The Force of Nature: The Rock Band That Saved The World. (C.I.C.E. Book 1)

by J.S. Manning

The Greatest Of All Wars' would have decimated the earth and annihilated the human race. The earth wasn't saved by your typical heroes, they neither possessed any superpowers nor resorted to violence, they saved the world through music.

Her stage name was Dreamer, she had gained that pseudonym on account of whenever she wrote songs she would enter a dream world of the past, present and future guided by two enigmatic beings. They had shown her a possible future where war had escalated so badly that nothing on the earth survived.

A sinister group that hid in the shadows wanted that war despite the devastating outcome it would bring. Their greed outweighed logic and common sense and their grasp strong enough to have a stranglehold on the government. Their influence on the public's opinion was also as strong and seemed virtually unbreakable.

The rock band had emerged from obscurity and it was her guitar playing technique, her singing voice and the contents of her lyrics that had released the people from the secretive group's clutches. It was especially her lyrics that irked the secretive group the most, she had somehow known things that common people were not supposed to know.

Yet, the secretive group would not loosen their grip on the minds of the people and it almost took a miracle to save the world from itself.

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Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy

The Fail-Safe Switch: And How I Became A Traitor (C.I.C.E. Book 2)

by J.S. Manning

I am sitting on a chair but chained at the ankles next to a steel table with only a paper cup of water. A windowless room as it is deep underground, the walls are a dirty white with poorly cleaned off blood splatter stains. I am somewhere in the belly of the Department of Foreign Regime Change. Alone at this moment with my only companion, a security camera in the corner of the ceiling.

I am being accused of betraying my country but I am no spy. I've never worked for any government in my life. I am just a photographer who had been caught in the middle of an information war. The photographs I took are incriminating and my government does not want the public to see them.

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Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy

The Colossal Collapse: A Guide For Survivors (C.I.C.E. Book 3)

by J.S. Manning

To avoid the Freedom Gangs, law-abiding citizens resorted to campsites far away from the cities, towns and suburbs. If you stay in your house despite having no electricity or gas, the Freedom Gangs will still break in and rob you. They will strip the copper wire clean from the walls, take anything metallic, and even if there isn't any electricity, they will grab your appliances.

They call themselves the Freedom Gangs because the Colossal Collapse has neither no law nor police to stop them from committing their crimes. Giving them the freedom to rampage their desires. A gang member will state that if there is no law, therefore, he is not committing a crime. The gangs call this era other names; Total Freedom or Absolute Opportunity.

Those who knew the Colossal Collapse was imminent had stocked up well, both on food and guns and with plenty of ammunition to spare. To their shock and horror, the Freedom Gangs wore special armoured suits that made those weapons obsolete. Blasting away rounds after rounds at the assailant only to find he just keeps walking towards you and knocks you out cold.

How the gangs got these high-tech suits that even the military and authorities never obtained is a mystery.

Their once-safe homes now remain derelict and an easy target which drove good obedient citizens to hide in the forests. By not having anything of value, albeit food and guns, the citizens thought they were now safe from the gangs.

Until one day, a robotic dog with a large mounted machine gun had gunned down the campers. The campers' guns were pointless, and once all the adults were dead, the gangs took the one most valuable possession; the children.

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Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy

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