Maintenance: Volume Eight of Kindred Spirits Now Available To Buy As Paperback or E-Book

 

The Universal once united the universe. Now it's tearing it apart

Sparky can see the whole of her life laid out before her for the next millennia – that’s how Mekkions like it after all, with a really good job overseeing update ‘patches’ on the intergalactic translation service the Universal, a routine to keep her safe from surprises and a universe that a thousand years on from interstellar contact seems at last to be settling down. She’s as grounded as they come, not least because her wheels cause her to sink lower to the floor than most Mekkions and more interested in profits than prophets. But when her new Boss, an uncaring uncouth Doosbrat named Melon Rusk, takes over her precious ‘Universal’ that’s brought such peace and community and starts using it to attack the new-oldcomers in the universe, the Space Dinosaurs, Sparky discovers her new calling and it’s one that lies in an unseen dimension of faith rather than her reliable logic. Will she be able to save her new friends from persecution? Can she work out what Melon’s plan really is? can she stop Maggrumph Ronald Grump from taking power? Will she ever work out that her pterodactyl boyfriend has feelings for her? Will she ever discover the memory she had removed and feel the feelings she’s suppressed for so long? And will she ever find her life’s porpoise? (Not a typo!) More than just another novel, ‘Maintenance’ is absolutely another mad house, a love song to spirituality and how we are all more than just cogs in a machine, offering hope that one day if we listen to what’s in our hearts and souls rather than seeing the world that’s right in front of us it might just save us all.

Available to buy on all planets as a paperback or as an e-book

The Future Starts Here Day Eight: Maintenance

 

1,2,3,4,5,6,6,7,8,9, 10 whirr click…Oh greetings Humans! That page took an illogically long time to load. It’s not like I’m doing anything that complicated – just creating a hole in space-time from 500 years in the future to send you a missive for day eight of the ‘Kindred Spirits’ promotional blitz. I’m Sparky the Mekkion and my book is all new and has never been out before, although it still has the same magnificent illustrations by our Human friend which are so brilliant they made me cry. Which is quite dangerous in a Mekkion. The acid in waters causes us to rust you see.
I ought not to feel anything at all given that we voted to have our emotions removed along with 90% of our body parts centuries ago, but I still have a heart. Which is why I was so angry when an evil Doosbrat hybrid named ‘Melon Rusk’ arrived one day and took over my workplace.  ‘The Universal’ used to be such a wonderful company to work for, helping translate things between all the twelve different species. I really enjoyed working there and helping aliens. I had a special job seeing things from a higher perspective, checking that all posts were neutral and fair. Only he came along and turned it into a business, named it after himself and even took away our ability to use vowels without paying for them! There’s something not quite right about him though. Could it be that he’s really just a front for politician Ronald Grump? Or an old Camalosian boyfriend of mine named Plaidimir Vutin? 

Of course nobody’s blaming them are they? They’re making us look the other way  at people who have even less than we do – at the newly arrived space dinosaurs to be exact, just because they’re refugees from another time who are a little bit backward. I quite fancy the dishy pterodactyl one named Zilda. Between you and me he quite turns me on – although I guess I can do that myself, seeing how I have buttons for everything. For love is what brings us to a higher dimension. Well, that and searching for the ‘porpoise of life’… Anyway something tells me this particular timeline you’re in would benefit a lot from what we learned so if you want to know how to defeat wickedness and tyranny either read the book or check out this amazing video by a Human friend who’s the sort of Human who has all his sprockets in alignment (that’s a huge compliment coming from a Mekkion).

Buy it here: rebrand.ly/kz9rh63

Remember, the future starts here. But if you can’t wait for tomorrow then come visit the website www.kindredspiritbooks.blogspot.com (you can even find out which alien you most resemble in our fun quiz!), buy the ‘Kindred Spirits’ merch which logically should be over at www.redbubble.com/people/AlansArchives only their computer algorithms are still being illogical and down for, ahem, ‘Maintenance’ (you can get my face on all sorts of stuff including some fab technology casings for your antiquated Earth technology. What do you mean you haven’t invented holovisions yet?!) or if you want to do things the easy way just look out for one of the Mekkion time-travel machines from the future! Or of course you could just immerse yourself in eleven whole other worlds by buying the e-books, paperbacks or the two compendiums over at Amazon (it is a logical way of buying in bulk after all). Convergence I: rebrand.ly/yoleg4l Convergence II: rebrand.ly/izcovt7  If you have a ‘Kindle Unlimited account’ then you should go and add the book to your pile too. That’s only logical!
Well, that’s all for me. I’m going to leave you there and read my book all over again tucked up cosy on my sofa in one of my tyre-blankets with some battery pot-noodles. May all your diodes stay strong! There will be another alien along tomorrow. Yours whirrily, Sparky  

Exciting developments at Kindred Spirits next month!

 

Prepare yourself for a book series that takes you 'out of this world' - all you have to do is open up a book or a kindle!

We have lift off...in March! A whole new era will be underway for the 'Kindred Spirits' universe, with the publication of book 8 'Maintenance' and re-issues of the first seven volumes with brilliant new illustrations by the super talented 'Under A Dreamer's Moon'. The future starts here...again! 

So why not get yourself prepared for what's coming and find yourself a nice cosy beverage (Clandusprod tea?), a nice cosy space (like the one above) and some nice playlists (Jefferson Starship's 'Blows Against The Empire' is a good start or why not check the heck out the Kindred Spirits playlist at the Alan's Album Archives channel on Youtube? https://www.youtube.com/@AlansArchives) and escape into a series of new worlds (Because this one really isn't much fun at present!) The future starts here...Again!  

Say hello to (1-r, top-bottom) the Agrosians, Camalosians, Belobrats, Clandusprods, Maggrumphs, Argibraffes, Glabdihardits, Mekkions, Habridats, Mrasianarts and Doosbury Giants! 

You've already read the first seven volumes (and if not why not? No don't read them now, wait for thew shiny new ones!) Here's what's new  in March, in a book for our times (even though it's set in 2630...) 

Can Sparky the Mekkion face her fears, dry her deadly tears and re-programme her peers?

Sparky can see the whole of her life laid out before her for the next millennia – that’s how Mekkions like it after all, with a really good job overseeing update ‘patches’ on the intergalactic translation service the Universal, a routine to keep her safe from surprises and a universe that a thousand years on from interstellar contact seems at last to be settling down. She’s as grounded as they come, not least because her wheels cause her to sink lower to the floor than most Mekkions and more interested in profits than prophets. But when her new Boss, an uncaring uncouth Doosbrat named Melon Rusk, takes over her precious ‘Universal’ that’s brought such peace and community and starts using it to attack the new-oldcomers in the universe, the Space Dinosaurs, Sparky discovers her new calling and it’s one that lies in an unseen dimension of faith rather than her reliable logic. Will she be able to save her new friends from persecution? Can she work out what Melon’s plan really is? can she stop Maggrumph Ronald Grump from taking power? Will she ever work out that her pterodactyl boyfriend has feelings for her? Will she ever discover the memory she had removed and feel the feelings she’s suppressed for so long? And will she ever find her life’s porpoise? (Not a typo!) More than just another novel, ‘Maintenance’ is absolutely another mad house, a love song to spirituality and how we are all more than just cogs in a machine, offering hope that one day if we listen to what’s in our hearts and souls rather than seeing the world that’s right in front of us it might just save us all.