Tuesday 30 July 2013

The Fountain of Youth: Fantasy or Reality?





In THE FOREVER ONES humans are engineered to stay 19 forever but is that ever likely to happen? Check out this latest article from The Huffington Post:

How and Why We Age: The Power of Telomeres and Telomerase

Or is all this new info about Telomerase therapy just another big money-making scam?  Check this article from The National Post

But there's one thing you can be sure of.  If science did find a way to reverse aging or make people immortal, it would be TOP SECRET! And only available to the highest bidder!

Sunday 28 July 2013

WHO WOULD CONTROL IMMORTALITY? BIG BIZ OR BIG CRIME?






That's the main question in the novel,  THE FOREVER ONES .
If we could reverse aging - if we could be modified to be young forever who would have CONTROL?  MEGA-CORPORATIONS or MEGA CRIME SYNDICATES?  Or maybe there's not too much difference between them.  The truth is - those with BIG MONEY would fight for control and there are always innocent victims in a war.
 Would the ability to CHEAT DEATH spell the end for humanity as we know it?  Would our greed and vanity blind us?  Or will there always be heroes to save us from disaster? Read the book and find out! Available now on Amazon.

Monday 22 July 2013

Paige's World:The Iduna Project: Who Is Paige?

Paige's World:The Iduna Project: Who Is Paige?: WHO AM I? THAT'S THE MAIN QUESTION ON PAIGE'S MIND! FIND OUT MORE.  READ THIS EXCERPT FROM THE FOREVER ONES "Wh...

Who Is Paige?


WHO AM I? THAT'S THE MAIN QUESTION ON PAIGE'S MIND!
FIND OUT MORE.  READ THIS EXCERPT FROM THE FOREVER ONES
"Who are my parents?  The Iduna Corp call them mother donor and father donor.  I have holograms of them in my bedroom and a mini-bio about them. Everyone in the compound has their own.
       Every morning when I wake up I lie in bed and study them – miniature little 3-D figures made of light.  Hilda, the woman who donated my egg was a Swedish circus aerialist.  She’s dressed in a sparkly body suit with nude mesh tights, pink ballet shoes and her platinum hair is scraped into a tight bun studded with silver jewels.  I watch her little routine – hands on hips, feet turned out in ballerina pose, then arms raised up into the sky as she does a perfect flip, lands on her feet and bows – a beaming smile directed to an absent audience. 
Johnny, my donor father, was an American writer who obliged with the sperm.  He has a kind of hunched stance – hands shoved in the pocket of black leather jacket, three earrings in one ear, dreadlocks sprouting in thick waves from his head and a very pouty mouth.  His hologram doesn’t do anything much except stand there looking cool and squinting at some long-lost videographer.  He does say something though and I’ve listened to it over and over again.  In laid back growl he says, “That time ticks on is inescapable.” It sort of makes sense but it’s puzzling, especially since time means nothing to me.
The scientists at IDunaCorp incubated Hilda’s fertilized egg and engineered it with Forever serum and bingo, I - Paige was born – a perfect specimen of immortality with platinum hair, one blue eye and a contortionist’s body (from Hilda), honey coloured skin, one brown eye and a wild imagination (from Johnny).  People say I’m very exotic looking but I can’t see it myself.  They also say I’m a dreamer – always tuning out into crazy daydreams – even in the middle of a conversation."

EXCITING NEWS!  Reviews of THE FOREVER ONES will be appearing later this week.  I'll keep you posted when they do.
Don't forget to order your copy from Amazon.  Available in paperback and Kindle at:

Wednesday 17 July 2013

Everybody Wants to Live Forever. Or Do They?

We humans are ruled by time.



That time ticks on is inescapable.
Clock faces
Moons with spider hands
Click through seconds.
Droplets of reality.
Grains of each impulse
Slide through cupped hands
That cannot hold
The hours back
From their kamikaze dive into nothingness.

But if we could stay young forever what would that really be like?  


What if time didn't matter any more?  What if you could reverse your age and be young again? Would we be any better off?  Who would control the technology?  Big business or big crime?  Who could access it?  The highest bidder? 
What if you were a victim of the technology?

Welcome to The Iduna Project and Paige's world.

The Forever Ones - available on Amazon: Kindle and Print

Saturday 13 July 2013

Who Is Iduna?

The Keeper of Eternal Youth
The Norse Goddess, Iduna

The story of Iduna, the Norse goddess begins like this:
  
In Asgard there was a garden, and in that garden there grew a tree, and on that tree there grew shining apples. Thou knowst, O well-loved one, that every day that passes makes us older and brings us to that day when we will be bent and feeble, gray-headed and weak-eyed. But those shining apples that grew in Asgard--they who ate of them every day grew never a day older, for the eating of the apples kept old age away.

Iduna's job was to tend the golden apples and each day to pluck them and place them in her basket so the Gods and Goddesses could eat them and stay forever young.  Iduna is always portrayed as strong, radiant and youthful with rippling golden hair and eyes that were blue as the blue sky!  There's even a shrine to her that you can check out at this link:

And a legend about how Iduna was almost burned to a crisp when Loki tried to steal the golden apples.

Good reading!!

Friday 12 July 2013

INSIDE IDUNA

THE IDUNA COMPOUND


I AM PAIGE.  I WILL BE 19 FOREVER
I BELONG TO IDUNA CORP









BUT OUT THERE PEOPLE WANT WHAT I HAVE
I WANT TO BREAK FREE

THE STORY STARTS HERE

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