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# matthewkipwell.com

Matthew Kipwell author of the Backdoor Angels series

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- [Agatha Christie in space or just Death En Route to Neptune?💉🗡️💣](https://matthewkipwell.com/agatha-christie-in-space-or-just-death-en-route-to-neptune💉🗡️💣/) - AUGUST 2025 This month’s “missive” essentially writes itself. Even so, I would probably have started by going on about the summer weather, the beach, my new implement for securing the bottom of the umbrella in the sand, and my lingering doubts about yellow as a colour for ankle socks, but having a son in Australia
- [If you can dream – and not make dreams your master … 🏊 🏊 🏊](https://matthewkipwell.com/if-you-can-dream-and-not-make-dreams-your-master-🏊-🏊-🏊/) - JULY 2025 I’ve recently started taking swimming lessons. I’m going to have a total of eight one-on-one sessions. It’s expensive (a very generous gift from my wife!) but only about the same price as taking four people out to dinner in a decent restaurant, or slightly less than a meal for one in the kind
- [A Martian Ending launched at last (and FREE until Monday!) 🌎🚀🪐](https://matthewkipwell.com/a-martian-ending-launched-at-last-and-free-until-monday-🌎🚀🪐/) - MAY 2025 So, I was going to apologise for sticking the new novel in another Bookfunnel promo, but I’ve been studying the dark arts of book marketing for “indies” recently, and the received logic seems to be that I should offer discounts and deals on early books in the series and sell the new one
- [Does (DID!) anyone want an ARC?](https://matthewkipwell.com/does-did-anyone-want-an-arc/) - MAY 2025 Book news at last! A Martian Ending is (WAS!) now available as an “Advance Review Copy”. I know I’m always saying how much I want reviews, so you’d think I’d be encouraging you to go and grab one. But next month the damn thing will be free on Amazon for a few days
- [BRAND NEW and ENTIRELY FREE novella featuring ‘Red’ available right now!](https://matthewkipwell.com/brand-new-and-entirely-free-novella-featuring-red-available-right-now/) - AUGUST 2024 It’s August, and that means even pink-skinned dudes like me have to slap on some Factor 50 and head for the beach. What will I be reading as I sit on the towel under my trusty umbrella? That’s a good question, but it’s not what we’re here to talk about. This was a
- [Discover CALLISTO’S MONSTROUS SECRET right now!](https://matthewkipwell.com/discover-callistos-monstrous-secret-right-now/) - DECEMBER 2023 “What a ride. This story manages to answer a lot of questions and bring the current story to a good stopping point as well as whetting your appetite for what’s to come.” “I think this has to be one of the best books I’ve read in a good while, it kept me engaged
- [The Karima Shuffle now being played in the Kindle Store](https://matthewkipwell.com/the-karima-shuffle-now-being-played-in-the-kindle-store/) - JULY 2024 I know this is just repeating last month’s news, but the official version of the fourth novella associated with the Backdoor Angels series – and providing some extra fun, I hope – is now available from Amazon. As usual, I’m keeping the price at a modest 99 cents/pence (can’t do the same with
- [New book news!](https://matthewkipwell.com/new-book-news/) - JUNE 2024 I don’t know if you noticed the newsletter sneakily sliding from the end of one month to the start of the next. It meant that April’s went out in May, and now I’m regarding this as the missive for June, so you might argue that we ‘lost’ one somewhere. But after last month’s
- [Brand new free novella: AN ULTRAKEY FOR DIONE](https://matthewkipwell.com/brand-new-free-novella-an-ultrakey-for-dione/) - OCTOBER 2023 I’m aiming to be brief and to the point this month. We’re currently spending a few days in the Cotswolds, in an impossibly picturesque English village, all narrow lanes lined with sandstone cottages, some of which even have thatched roofs, and walking among posh English types who dress like people you think might
- [The first three novels, loud and proud!](https://matthewkipwell.com/the-first-three-novels-loud-and-proud/) - APRIL/MAY 2024 So, a funny thing happened on Amazon. I uploaded my revised text for Anything But Accidental, the first novel in the Backdoor Angels series, with the additional insights involving important people within the Superior Planets Company, but KDP didn’t see any reason to regard it as a new edition, and I only spotted
- [Death is finally en route to Neptune! 💀🚀🌘](https://matthewkipwell.com/death-is-finally-en-route-to-neptune-💀🚀🌘/) - MARCH 2025 Okay, we’re back on track. So, if you’re in need of a bit of escapism, how about a journey to Neptune to brighten up the fickle month of March? At nearly 60,000 words, what was originally intended to be a short story to take advantage of a free couple of months while I
- [Reflections on gender, book news and a sneak peek at the next cover!](https://matthewkipwell.com/reflections-on-gender-book-news-and-a-sneak-peek-at-the-next-cover/) - DECEMBER 2024 This month, inspired by two fairly recent TV shows, I find myself drawn back to a favourite topic. The first show is Spanish and is called Machos Alfa, which doesn’t need a translation, does it? It’s a comedy and improves as the writers get to know their characters and become bolder with their
- [Catching rockets, winning elections and more Kindle deals](https://matthewkipwell.com/catching-rockets-winning-elections-and-more-kindle-deals/) - NOVEMBER 2024 My original idea for this month was to comment on October’s astonishing scenes as Space X managed to catch the Super Heavy booster right there on the launch pad with those crazy “chopsticks”, but that all seems to have been eclipsed by Elon Musk’s slightly disturbing contribution to the re-election of his presidential
- [Sex, politics and religion – certainly not!💋👑😇](https://matthewkipwell.com/sex-politics-and-religion-certainly-not💋👑😇/) - APRIL 2025 A few weeks ago, we were out for lunch with my wife’s sister and her brother-in-law. She’s retired, but he’s a lawyer and shows little sign of slowing down. He also teaches at the university in the fine Spanish city where they live, and for some reason we got talking about taboo subjects
- [Rockets, frustrating delays and crackpots …](https://matthewkipwell.com/rockets-frustrating-delays-and-crackpots/) - FEBRUARY 2025 It’s all too easy to get overtaken by events. There I was around January 16 thinking about comparing myself to Jeff Bezos as he waited to finally get his New Glenn rocket off the ground after any number of frustrating setbacks and delays over the last few years. There are a few differences
- [Time management ⏳ and angels on the inside](https://matthewkipwell.com/time-management-⏳-and-angels-on-the-inside/) - JANUARY 2025 First of all, Happy New Year! If you spend any time on social media, you’ll already know that 2025 is a “perfect square year” and the only one you’ll ever see (the last was 1936 and the next will be 2116). In other words, 2025 is equal to 45 x 45, as well
- [What IS an ultrakey and what’s with all this punching?](https://matthewkipwell.com/what-is-an-ultrakey-and-whats-with-all-this-punching/) - OCTOBER 2024 Almost as soon as I’d finished getting An Ultrakey for Dione ready for the big bookstore in the cloud, I was almost literally struck down by a bout of sciatica. I think it might have been my back complaining about the end of summer and the start of the cooler, even wetter weather.
- [Is there light at the end of the self-publishing tunnel?](https://matthewkipwell.com/is-there-light-at-the-end-of-the-self-publishing-tunnel/) - SEPTEMBER 2024 Self-publishing is like a dark tunnel that has suddenly filled with people poking flashlights in my face and telling me to follow them to the light at the end of the tunnel, before taking me back the way I came and then handing me the bill for their services. What to do? Well,
- [Your data is safe with us!](https://matthewkipwell.com/your-data-is-safe-with-us/) - March 2024 Since I’m currently sailing joyously through the final revision of a second edition of Anything But Accidental (the subject line is a quote from that novel, by the way), this month I was going to say very little and simply include this link to an article about “enshittification”. Revisiting the link, I see
- [What do you mean there isn’t any dark matter?](https://matthewkipwell.com/what-do-you-mean-there-isnt-any-dark-matter/) - FEBRUARY 2024 One of the more trivial consequences of the pandemic and the various lockdowns and ongoingrestrictions was that it thwarted my plan to join the local astronomy society, Astrocantabria, in early2020. I had been poised to fill in the form and was already looking forward to my first monthly talk when everything was shut
- [Perhaps it isn’t really a race?](https://matthewkipwell.com/perhaps-it-isnt-really-a-race/) - JANUARY 2024 Sometimes it’s hard not to see life as a series of deadlines looming up ahead like a many-headed hydra. Every time you come face to face with one you discover that the beast STILL isn’t quite as deadly as you had feared, and you chop off its head just as its big, goggling
- [T-21 DAYS AND COUNTING!](https://matthewkipwell.com/t-21-days-and-counting/) - NOVEMBER 2023 Exciting though it was, watching the latest Starship launch and ‘rapid unscheduled disassembly’ of the Super Heavy first-stage the other day reminded me yet again how little space flight seems to have changed since the Apollo missions well over fifty years ago, apart from the fact that NASA wouldn’t have been quite so
- [There can be only one?](https://matthewkipwell.com/there-can-be-only-one/) - SEPTEMBER 2023 If you don’t have much time right now, I recommend skipping straight to the video below, although I should point out that it’s not a TikTok, blink-and-you-miss-it sort of thing or a YouTube ‘short’, so you’ll actually need to have around ten minutes if you want to watch it all (and I only
- [A kiss is just a kiss?](https://matthewkipwell.com/a-kiss-is-just-a-kiss/) - AUGUST 2023 Finding myself back from Marbella in the middle of August, reluctant to get back into any kind of routine and with my hard-working reviewers working their way through the latest draft of the Callisto novel, I sought escape in the story of what happened to Rebecca – ‘Red’ to her friends – after
- [We’re in a space race – again!](https://matthewkipwell.com/were-in-a-space-race-again/) - January 2023 In the context of the current war in Ukraine, remembering the space race of the 1960s seems to take me back to an age of innocence. I know there were crises and that most of us felt the threat of nuclear war looming over us at one time or another before Reagan and
- [Who’d be a duck?](https://matthewkipwell.com/whod-be-a-duck/) - February 2023 I had already started cobbling together something for this month inspired by a very good article about ChatGPT (my favourite bit being a funny story about photocopier software) which has been in the mainstream news, hasn’t it? Everyone seems to be asking if, from now on, teachers will ever know if their students have really written
- [Martian Shuffle is waiting for you to go and grab it for free!](https://matthewkipwell.com/martian-shuffle-is-waiting-for-you-to-go-and-grab-it-for-free/) - March 2023 So, I ignored my own advice in the January ramble about not sending people to Mars and created a small settlement on the Red Planet called Karima-Napata. (I know it sounds like the famous Swahili catchphrase from the Lion King, but might that also make it easier to remember?) In Anything But Accidental,
- [Juice and “The Big G”!](https://matthewkipwell.com/juice-and-the-big-g/) - APRIL 2023 Okay, why am I so interested in the European Space Agency’s “Juice” (“Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer”) mission, which launched a day late on 14 April? It’s going to take eight years and four gravity assists to get to the Jupiter system! How could that be exciting? Well, for me there are two main reasons: first,
- [“Creating something that is to us as we are to a frog!”](https://matthewkipwell.com/creating-something-that-is-to-us-as-we-are-to-a-frog/) - May 2023 I get the impression that most people have either forgotten or never heard about Bill Gates’ bold assertion that the Internet wouldn’t come to anything. I guess he’s remembered for other stuff he did (and does!) – more astute business decisions, addressing the issues of the moment. Zuckerberg, on the other hand, thought
- [Where are all the aliens?](https://matthewkipwell.com/where-are-all-the-aliens/) - JUNE 2023 So, aliens. I’m sure I’ve mentioned before that I grew up on Dr Who and Star Trek. I also dream about aliens on a fairly regular basis. In one of my favourites, I had my chunky, two-handed blaster resting on my forearm as the broad line of alien soldiers was marching towards us,
- [Sack the head of marketing! (Plus: “Not Quite Blackmail Material” special offer on Kindle!)](https://matthewkipwell.com/sack-the-head-of-marketing-plus-not-quite-blackmail-material-special-offer-on-kindle/) - JULY 2023 During my years in software development, I had a reputation for trying to avoid getting involved in sales and for not liking the reps. It wasn’t entirely true. I occasionally tried to explain that, for me and my team, new customers only meant an impossible workload that came with no extra money. And
- [April starts with a group giveaway!](https://matthewkipwell.com/april-starts-with-a-group-giveaway/) - March has been quite a month. As well as getting this website up and running, I also finished proofing the first two stories in the Backdoor Angels Short Stories series and uploaded them to a couple of funky promo sites. And April kicks off with a ‘Science fiction extravaganza’ group promotion featuring Imperfectly Deadly, the
- [New year, future worlds …](https://matthewkipwell.com/new-year-future-worlds/) - Newsletter - December 2022/January 2023 First of all, apologies for mucking about with the newsletter day of the week again! It’s a bit all over the place at the moment. One of the reasons is that I’ve just added the second novel of the series, published only a few days ago, to one of these
- [Lazy or cloak and dagger sci-fi and The Safest Moon!](https://matthewkipwell.com/lazy-or-cloak-and-dagger-sci-fi-and-the-safest-moon/) - Newsletter - November 2022 At last, we’ll soon be heading back into space! It seems a long time since I uploaded The Big G as a free giveaway to blaze the trail, and yet the second full-length novel, due to be published next month, is set before the events on Ganymede and was mostly written
- [Bugs and flour and Imperfectly Deadly on Kindle!](https://matthewkipwell.com/bugs-and-flour-and-imperfectly-deadly-on-kindle/) - Newsletter - October 2022 Unlike my three brothers, I inherited my mother’s sweet tooth, and though I hated most of the school dinners I was ‘forced’ to eat as a boy – employing contrived methods of avoiding doing so – I loved the stodgy, sticky puddings. And I have always been a sucker for almost
- [Jupiter’s moons and a treasure hunt](https://matthewkipwell.com/jupiters-moons-and-a-treasure-hunt/) - Newsletter - September 2022 After a freakishly long dry – and hot! – spell, someone must have looked at the calendar, seen that it was autumn and finally decided to send some serious rain to Cantabria. This apparently endless summer had given us the time we needed to get agreement from the residents’ committee to
- [Why did Derek kick the cards across the computer centre?](https://matthewkipwell.com/why-did-derek-kick-the-cards-across-the-computer-centre/) - Newsletter - August 2022 As well as anticipating at least one of my future ‘careers’, my final year undergraduate degree project with the promising title ‘Computer Programming for Flow over Side Weirs’ granted me access to the university Computer Centre. I remember it as a circular building, though perhaps it was octagonal. More importantly, it
- [An AI that thinks it’s a werewolf or ‘nonsense on stilts’](https://matthewkipwell.com/an-ai-that-thinks-its-a-werewolf-or-nonsense-on-stilts/) - Newsletter - July 2022 A while ago, I was thinking back to when I studied what used to be called ‘computing’ and people wrote programs. In those primitive times, when only Macs (nobody talked about ‘Apple’) had graphical user interfaces, I remember once using what we thought was a pretty funky language called prolog to
- [Small bang! And the website was created ...](https://matthewkipwell.com/small-bang-and-the-website-was-created/) - Well, the website is more or less there at last. It's not been quite as easy as I'd hoped, but never mind. (Last website I created I did most of it myself in HTML. What a dinosaur!) Next thing is to get some links so you can download the two freebies I'm about to upload

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