AJ, I am still working through the book, but your reference to Enkis Calendar got me going, so I went looking, and found this:
http://www.galacticchannelings.com/en...

It is interesting that Garham Hancock has postulated from many other sources, a similar scenario as described on the web page, although his thoery is a lost human advanced civilization existed greater than 13,000 years ago, but the Enkis Calendar seems to have a lot in common with his observations of many of the paleolithic sites found today. Great work, and really good story mixed in with factual data that you used to bolster the storyline. Nice Sci Fi work, and I listen to it on an pretty endless basis when driving. Keep at it, and let me know when your next work comes out. I will leave a review on Amazon when I finish.

Oh, yes, I do understand that, I read several who do their own publishing or use Amazon (H Paul Honsinger, Ryk Brown). The one virtue they both say is a more rapid publishing process. Ryk explains some of the issues on his website.

Its more a matter of volume when it comes to turning a profit on a book, this is why reviews are so important to a independent author. Believe it or not the profit from being independent is better than with a publisher.

In stories with villains who are the main antagonists, I like them to have a sympathetic aspect. They're best when you can see how they got to where there are. Some tragic flaw, preferably a flaw we can identify with, got out of hand.

OK, AJ, I'm in, managed to get the Kindle app to work on the phone and just let you produce $2.99 (or whatever pittence they let you have...) I will add a review when I get done...

FYI AJ, here is a brand new vid on YT from 3rd Phase of the moon claiming Snowden is backing up your story idea to some degree:

https://youtu.be/pj9IRKo030Y

Hmmm..I did not know they had one. I will look into it. I am always up for a good story....

You could load the kindle app on your phone, laptop or tablet? Its a novella, not long enough for a paperback (about 100 pages). I'm hoping to make a paperback available by combining it with the 2nd novella in the series.

AJ! I have to get a KIndle? Really? Hmmmm....

You might want to look at a book in the "Event Group" series called "Overlord" by David L Golemon. Sounds like it is along these lines...

Well, if you have it on audiobook I will take it, as that is all my time allows, I drive 1.5 hours each way and work 12 hr shifts. However, just looking at your short description, there is several YT videos that purport to have the videos from a Russian Team that drilled down, went down into a huge lake, and disappeared for days, only to supposedly come back up and tell of people eating monsters or aliens in the lake. I also like the fact they used SecureTeam10 on the article, while I am open minded, they have forecasted the end of the world several times, and ooopsss.
There are enough YT videos that are so out there you can never think it would happen, but it sure makes for good fiction!
Although another possibility may be that Antarctica was once un-iced, possibly before that last Ice Age, and that there was an advanced civilization there, that could be the source of the "Gods" stories many civilizations had. Graham Hancock has a plausible theory built around that idea, and this "anomaly" could be the site of their civilization. They supposedly had advanced technology, and power sources, so that could be a source of a magnetic anomaly. Now, there is a story line for you, written from the perspective of one of these people, and about their civilization, and maybe it's fall......

Sorry for the poor grammar. Made a change to my post and didn't check it;^)

After Ender's Game my feeling was that he was going to wuss out, sympathy for the aliens. I just lost interest.

I read on, and it went downhill after the first novel. Card doesn't approach to Heinlein.

Date stamps on my draft revisions and an editor. :)

I liked Ender's Game. I never read beyond it though.

The first two sentences are a joke. The second paragraph is serious. I should have used joke tags of some sort.

So you have proof you came up with it first. Maybe someone there sold the idea to The Sun.

I don't get why they would reject it when you already have a book with some sales and positive reviews. I'm half way through and it reads like a story by Ben Bova. I think maybe in writing you have get your name famous and then you can turn out stuff like some of the recent Orson Scott Card books, and people will still read them.

In fairness it is 2 miles below the ice, about as deep as the deepest mine in Africa (2.4 miles). It took the Soviets, now Russia, twenty years to drill that deep on and off in Antarctica (deadly weather, no resources except what you bring).

Thanks for adding it to your list. :)

Hard to believe that they don't have a better idea of what exactly is buried in this region, with Xrays, microwaves and sound waves...come on now, they must know.

Added to my list...AJ.

Actually, I wrote the story to submit to TOR publications as a contest entry well before the article. Unfortunately TOR rejected it without explanation. Weird.

The book was released after the news article, but I don't see how you could have worked the article into a story so quickly. You must have been editing the novella around the time this article was published!

I will try to do that. I'm a slow writer and have been so busy, it's hard to make the time.

thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it. TVR was meant to be interesting, thought provoking and fun...if you would, please post a review on amazon or goodreads. I'm having a hack of a time getting reviews for some reason, particularly on goodreads.

Btw, good book. I enjoyed the read.

True :)