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Ben Jeapes
ALLi Author Member
Location: United Kingdom (the)
Genres: Adventure, Children's fiction, Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi), Young Adult (YA), Advice & How To, Writing & Publishing
Skills: Press/Media Interview, Reading/Literary Event, Speaking Engagement/Lecture, Writing Workshop
I took up writing in the mistaken belief that it would be easier than a real job. As it isn't, I have now worked as a book and/or journal editor in publishing (social sciences, IT, medical, legal, and science fiction) and in technical communications.
I have five novels professionally published, plus a further three self-published, and two of the first five are now self-republished. I have also self-published my collection of short stories. All of the above are in the genres of science fiction, fantasy and adventure.
My (professionally published) biography of Ada Lovelace was chosen by the National Science Teaching Association as one of the Best STEM Books of 2021.
I accidentally become a ghostwriter earlier this century, and even more accidentally went fulltime freelance in 2015. I live near Oxford, which suits me perfectly as a place where anyone with publishing and writing skills is unlikely to starve.
Ben Jeapes' books
H.M.S. Barabbas
Jim Hawkins vowed he would never return to Treasure Island. And he never did.
The Teen, the Witch & the Thief
The First Ted Gorse Adventure
The Comeback of the King
The Second Ted Gorse Adventure
His Majesty's Starship
Michael Gilmore, Captain of the HMSS Ark Royal is part of Earth’s first interstellar delegation to visit an alien planet. His passengers are an ill-tempered prince and an inscrutable quadruped alien. His First Officer is on the brink of mutiny, the ship’s A.I. seems to have turned renegade, and the neighbouring vessel harbours a genocidal maniac.
The Xenocide Mission
Lieutenant Joel Gilmore is part of a multi-species observation team on a hidden base in a distant solar system, when they find themselves under attack by the very aliens they were meant to be watching. Joel and his allies, the enigmatic Rusties, must explore the parameters of trust in a lethal confrontation with a deeply alien third species: one with a proven predilection for xenocide on a planetary scale. Meanwhile the humans and the Rusties rush to their rescue – but as it turns out, are they any better?
Ghostwriting Novels: A Guide for Ghostwriters and the Ghostwritten
This book is for any author thinking of hiring a ghostwriter, and for any writer thinking of being hired as one. Ghostwriters, and the ghostwritten.