The day is finally here! My new novel, The Blighted City, hit the shelves in the early hours of this morning. I’m excited for it to do well, I look forward to the reviews creeping in, and I appreciate any support you give me. If you’ve read and enjoyed my short story, Night Of The […]
Here’s the first scene of my short story, Night Of The Taking, a minor first entry into the Fractured Tapestry series preceding the upcoming debut novel. If you enjoy the first scene, you can read the rest for free by downloading it from Amazon via this link. Enjoy. Agony tore through Lonaris’s abdomen. The cries […]
Very happy to receive this review for my short story, Night Of The Taking. Thanks, Yvonne! I hope you also enjoy The Blighted City, although it is quite different and much longer. via #BookReview : Night of the Taking by Scott Kaelen @ScottKaelen
The inspiration for this poem came a couple of years ago after hearing that the Rosetta spacecraft had discovered large-structured carbon-based molecules on Comet 67P. Naturally, this fueled my poetic desire to start a monologue with the Invisible, Non-Existent One. I can also give credit to the likes of Isaac Asimov, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Hawkins, […]
Following on from creating the cover for Heaven’s Key, the first Demon Hunter novel by Electa Graham, it was my privilege to also create the cover for its sequel, The Devil You Know. Particularly close to my heart was the setting for this second novel in the series – the medieval rural town of Richmond, […]
This is one of my favourite poems. I wrote it in 2016. It was born from my interest in palaeontology and also my contempt for organised religion. Let me know what you think in the comments! I, Architect I was the Primer, the Converger Aeternum, I was here before the celestial birth. I am the […]
The thing about people was that they tended to lack the imagination to conjure a legend from nothing. Every legend had a source, no matter how small or, in this case, how large. The sprawling city before Jalis came as no surprise, but time had a way of exaggerating history’s finer details. She glanced back […]
The Blighted City Chapter One The Chiddari Contract Scene One The battle’s almost over. The thought filled Maros with a shameful sense of triumph as he glared at his final challenge. Across the clearing, the cottage’s shuttered windows returned his gaze with prodigious disinterest. “Just another hundred yards. Get on with it,” he admonished himself. […]
