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I haven’t updated this site in a while as I’ve been focusing my efforts on my substack. For the latest news about my books, go here: cameronmcvey.substack.com/

Once again it’s been a while since I’ve attended to the blog here on my website. But this time I can say that I really, truly have been busy writing. Not just fake busy writing. If you take a look at the BOOKS section of the website, you’ll see that I’ve posted some new titles….

The Netgalley page for “We Are All K.C. Hall” has been archived. It was up for a week or so but then…long, boring story that I don’t want to put up here. However, there are a handful of nice reviews for the book which I will post below. I will also provide the link to…

The second book in the on going K.C Hall series is now (as of 6/19/22) available in both print and digital editions on amazon.com K.C Hall Is On Her Way In the second book, we find K.C. dealing with her growing popularity and, well, a whole bunch of other stuff including a woman named Kalindra,…

“Book Review: We Are All KC Hall” Reviewed by Madeline Barbush An emotional novel about the person behind the movie star. We Are All K.C. Hall follows an up-and-coming movie star during a critical time in her life. We get an interesting glimpse into the not-so-glam tribulations of being a person with a high public…

I searched the authors of The Bestseller Code and within seconds came across the website: authors.ai. The site offers a service for authors based on the work detailed in The Bestseller Code. It’s been a few years since that book came out and the algorithms have been further refined and updated to be even more…

We Are All K.C. Hall is now available on kindle (soon to be available in print). We Are All K.C. Hall

The Bestseller Code I work at a library. I saw this book come across the circulation desk when it came out a few years ago. I instantly dismissed it. “Number crunchers. Techies. What do they know about writing!?!” I did this without even looking at it. Smug? Yes. Very smug. It came across the desk…

This will be short. I’ve been working with a system (authors.ai) that has helped significantly with my writing. It helped me write my latest  science fiction story, “First Encounters” (available for pre-order at the link below). That book started out as an entirely different story. Putting it (and myself) through the authors.ai review process helped…

The book that started as L.A.ser Boy on the day after Thanksgiving 2017 will be released on Friday 9/17/21 on Amazon. L.A.ser Boy’s book morphed into the life and times of Alva Albish. Her story is now told in four parts: Zenda’s Story Alva’s Story Valia’s Story Alva’s Return Collectively, these stories are The Curated…

A couple of months back, I purchased a “Don’t Panic” shirt pin. For those of you who don’t recognize the phrase, it comes from “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams. When I purchased the pin, it fit my mood perfectly. After wearing it a couple of days and receiving many comments on…

Last week, I was informed that I had a close contact with someone who tested positive for Covid. So, now I am home under quarantine for 14 days. I have been working away on the sequel to “Curated Worlds,” sending out queries and cleaning up various and sundry details of social media. I tell myself…

It’s been months since I’ve posted. “The Curated Worlds of Alva Albish” was complete back in June. Just a few weeks ago, after messing around with some other book ideas, Alva and her friends drew me back in. So, yes, now there will be a sequel to Alva’s adventures. In fact, there will be two…

As noted on the home page, here is the a series of author’s notes that will serve as the very last page of the book. They are short notes about a few events in my life that served as grist for the mill while writing Curated World’s. I hope you enjoy them. Author’s note, the…

I haven’t posted here in a long time. The past year was busy with the stuff of life. Death and loss dominated but there were bright spots, too. My wife and I have kept to ourselves these past few months supporting each other in turn as needed. We have gone into our grief cave and…

Yup, I planned to be back here blogging a long time ago but life took some twists. Some good, some bad – that’s how life often is. Anyway, back to the books and other things. Other things first. This upcoming weekend I will be on a panel at FanX Salt Lake City. Here’s the link…

As noted on the welcome page, I’ve taken L.A.ser Boy down from Amazon. As readers of my earlier posts know, I have been hard at work on the succeeding books in the Long Invasion series. I still am. As I was revising books two, three and four (the Big Redo as I call it), certain…

It’s been a bit since I’ve posted. But now I’m back. I have been working steadily on Book Four of the L.A.ser Boy series. I’ve tried out a number of ideas, options, plot twists and character arcs over the past couple of months. Some of them have, well, stunk. I wrote them, let them sit…

…when I start to look at the length of my series and ask whether I should divide the books into smaller sections. My books tend to be around 100K words in length. For comparison, Rowling’s first Harry Potter book was shy of 70K while the last book in the series was over 200K. 100K is…

5/17/19 – I just added a few pages of a short story I’m working on to the works in progress page. The story is about a man sharing the details of his dreams in an online database. I should have the story ready by the end of July. That’s all for now.

It’s been a little over a week since I got back from FanX Salt Lake City. My wife and I had an amazing time. We saw old friends, had great food, attended many cool presentations (John Cleese, Zach Levi, Alice Cooper) and even attended a Lynda Carter concert. The panel I was on, Eighty Years…

As I mentioned last post, I will be running a free book promo via the Kindle system. “Mat the Cat” will be free this Saturday and Sunday, April 20th and 21st. It’s a road trip story with a bit of a twist. Mat needs to find his cat. Marcy goes with him. Then things get…

For the past few years I’ve been attending FanX Salt Lake City. First, I went simply as a fan. But for the past two-ish years, I’ve been blessed to be part of various author panels. FanX Salt Lake is this upcoming weekend, April 19th and 20th, at the Salt Lake Convention Center. I will be…

Mat the Cat is available in the kindle store right now. Click on the title to go to the amazon page. It’s a light-hearted, fun story of a regular guy in a not so regular situation. The paperback version will be ready in a few days. Also, I’ve gone back to editing Far Shores of…

I’ve been working on a short story for the past few months. “Mat the Cat” is the story of Mat, his new friend Marcy and his stuffed tiger, Stuffy. It’s a bit of an odd thing, if I do say so myself. Odd in a fun way. The tone is light and easy. Both Mat…

As I’ve been writing the Long Invasion series, I’ve gradually come to grips with the somewhat daunting fact that yes, I do want to create my own superhero universe. I’ve been reading superhero comics since I was five years old. It’s been a joy to watch the MCU on the big screen this past decade….

It’s been a while since I updated the “Long Invasion” series which stars Lorenzo Almanzo, the titular L.A.ser Boy, and a cast of many, many characters. For those of you of a certain age, the phrase Kree-Skrull War will bring up certain memories. I read that Avengers storyline when I lived in England for one…

It’s been a while since I’ve added to the website. I could come up with all sorts of reasons why but the truth is football season takes up a lot of my time. My wife and I spend all Sunday watching games during the season. We even do our best to stay up for the…

I am 100K words into the rough draft of Book Two of The Long Invasion. Given how Book One went, I expect that I’ll be publishing Book Two in mid-January.  The basics of the story are all in place but I still need to do a great deal of fine tuning and massaging of details,…

I recently attend the Salt Lake Fan X comic convention, both as a fan and as a panel member. I’ve been going to Fan X for several years now. It’s a great time, very easygoing, family friendly, happy place of a comic convention. I haven’t been to other comic conventions but the stories I hear…

Think about your favorite story when you were a kid. I bet it had a fantastic, science fictional or “not of this world” element. Science fiction is grown up fairy tales. Science fiction is a way for us to understand the world. Science Fiction is reality beyond reality. Science Fiction is truth, not fact. Science…