About Me
My name is William Long, but I'm better known to my friends as Bill, and I live and work in Northern Ireland, the better part of the year.
I'm from a sales and marketing background, having at one time my own business designing and producing branded goods for a wide range of high profile clients, including Coca-Cola, the Ryder Cup, the Five Nations Rugby Championship etc.
After retiring from business, I devoted some of my time for a few years to working in a men's hostel for the homeless.
Now I concentrate on writing, with my current project being a series of sci-fi/fantasy adventure stories aimed at the young adult market - and older kids!
Published in July 2014, by New Generation Publishing, the first in the series, Timecrack, is now available in paperback and hardback from most online booksellers, worldwide, including Amazon.
Next in the Timecrack series, Copanatec, will be published in late 2014.
I've worked in Canada and the USA, and I still travel as often as I can. In recent years I've visited Sri Lanka, Mexico, Rome, Pompeii, Egypt and Newgrange in Ireland to pursue an interest in ancient cultures.
My first book, An Unexpected Diagnosis is a collection of fictional Irish short stories, but the title story refers to my true experience on discovering I had prostate cancer. I was very fortunate to discover it early, dealing with it successfully through surgery.
Now I treat every new day as a bonus. It was also the push I needed to start writing and stop thinking about it!
An Unexpected Diagnosis is available on Amazon as an eBook.
An Unexpected Diagnosis:
A Collection of Irish Short Stories by William Long
(7 Oct 2009)
AMAZON : £2.40 Kindle Edition Available for download now
Timecrack' by William Long is now available through 99% of online booksellers worldwide including Amazon. Christmas, published by New Generation Publishing.
· Paperback: 382 pages
· Publisher: New Generation Publishing (25 Jun 2014)
· Language: English
· ISBN-10: 1910394459
· ISBN-13: 978-1910394458
Timecrack ISBN 9 781910 394465
More news will be available on a new website to be announced shortly.
Synopsis:
Timecracks act as portals to other dimensions. They have existed since the creation of time, and when one arrives during a storm at the newly discovered pyramid site in the Yucatan jungle, it's the beginning of a nightmare journey into another world for archaeologist, Malcolm Kinross and his wife, Lucy.
And when another timecrack strikes the secretive energy facility in New Mexico, their sons, Archie and Richard, along with their tutor, Marjorie, and their uncle, Professor John Strawbridge, all find themselves thrust into the same world of New Arrivals, ancient warring tribes and deadly enemies.
Richard is endowed with the ability to 'see' beyond his own world. Can he help Archie to find their parents, and help the scientists at Mount Tengi to find a way for all of them to return home, and can he escape the clutches of the mad high priest, Prince Lotane?
The second book in the 'Timecrack adventure series, 'Copanatec', is coming soon.
Amazon Reviews for 'Timecrack'.
This is one of those books you can't put down - each chapter keeps you wanting more!
My son really enjoyed Timecrack. I suggest checking it out!
Really pleasant to read and very absorbing. I can't wait for the next book in the series.
