Simply Effective

Rhian K. Bhatoe speaks out loud to her readers in this modern ‘spoken word’ style of poetry. She uses her words to highlight the questionable actions that take place in society today!

Using a unique and visual storytelling style in her poetry, Rhian makes it ‘simple’ for her readers to be immersed in her emotional and personal life experiences, whilst allowing them to self-reflect upon matters of the heart when dealing with love, life and loss.

With a passion for her community, family and friends, she uses love, humour and a little sarcasm, to capture the hearts of her readers. She offers some sound advice as her writing connects to everyday situations.

As Rhian takes her readers on this inspirational journey through life, she provides a deeper insight into emotional understanding and ways of forward-thinking! She suggests a positive outlook in difficult situations and to open up ourselves in all aspects of our lives.

Sisters of the Sixth Sun

A chance discovery in Mexico, in the year 2030, activates a dormant Aztec legacy, providing access to a veiled planet. Unaware that their findings represented a potential new destiny for the human race, the original four discoverers set about establishing a community, which they named Aztlan, after the mythical home of the Aztecs.

As the embryonic community developed, an inevitable conflict with the oppressive Terra Security Force on Earth loomed, the eventual confrontation which inadvertently delivered an unexpected, but needed dose of diversity into the Aztlan ranks; including an eclectic group of seven women, the sisters, with the required mix of energies to fulfil the original decree of an Aztec God.

Sisters of the Sixth Sun is an epic tale of adventure and relationships, culminating in an unexpected love story.

Skimmer - Deep Sea

A contractor sub-surface mining skiff is delivering deep sea minerals collected by its drones to the moonpools of a giant Chinese-owned GlobeCorpMining Harvester ship stationed in the Pacific Ocean. The artificial intelligence or AI operating the skiff and its drones is monitored by a small young crew. Onboard, one of them with family connections to mining in ‘the Area’ is coerced into acquiring a revolutionary AI technology being developed by another crew member. It becomes apparent that Xed Ocean Academy crew monitoring and communications security has been compromised. Another mining skiff has also disappeared off ‘the Area’ grid. As the situation becomes ever more desperate no one seems to know who is behind all the deception and why. Somehow the Sea Hunters who patrol ‘the Area’ and GlobeCorpMining are also involved. Against the odds, and with the Sea Hunters in pursuit the young crew must learn to work together and overcome betrayal.

Sleepless Nights

The angels reject me

So, the demons hug me

A deal with the devil

To love me; for I no longer fear peril

Gifting my soul away

My black heart he prudently conveys

The angels see their abandonment and mistake

But let their minds regretfully contemplate

For now, the devil lovingly hates me

Protecting and indulging; he allowed me to see

To fall in love with the darkness,

It was truly the angels who made me heartless…

Smar

Something strange has again landed on Topside of the Planet Smar. The Great Council has hurriedly put a small team of “volunteers” together to seek out what it is and discover what it’s doing. Sergeant Ha’an, the reluctant leader and soul survivor of a previous expedition to encounter an object from the sky, leads his equally reluctant band of misfits on their perilous journey across Topside. On the way, they meet up with Nerak, a fearless explorer and scientist, and she joins them on their quest. They meet up with Tega, an old scout, who leads them to the landing site and their epic encounter with the strange machines and what lies within them. They battle with their own personal demons whilst forming a lasting friendship. Meanwhile, in the city of Below, an unscrupulous journalist tries her best to get her story no matter who gets hurt in the process whilst the equally unethical Information Bureau does its best to stop her. What does the Great Council really know about the objects from the sky, the ancient civilisation and where the answers are to be found?

Smooth Like Whiskey

Bellamy is trying to get over her mental illness and accept her body for the way it is, stretch marks and all.

She never knew how one holiday could change everything, forever.

She’s clumsy, she’s curvy, she swears too much and drinks too much.

Then he comes along and makes her believe in love.

The most important kind of love, self-love.

He is escaping from his past, so travelling to Portugal for a month sounded like the perfect plan. Little did he know he’d meet the woman who will change him forever.

Six months after they part, fate has other plans for them.

Can you meet the right person at the wrong time? But more importantly what happens when you meet the right person again at the wrong time?

SOE Agent Code Name LILLY

Mary Dumont is a third officer in the Women’s Royal Naval Service working at the Admiralty Communications Centre in London in 1942 where she is recruited by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) to become a wireless operator-saboteur. Parachuted into France, Mary joins a small band of resistance fighters where she leads a double life, a schoolteacher by day, a wireless operator by night; all goes horribly wrong, Mary is captured and tortured by an SS major who is determined to obtain both her codes and the names of her companions. Mary makes a daring escape during an air raid, unknown to her, German Intelligence has infiltrated SOE, a double agent known to Mary has also been parachuted into France to capture a Dutch scientist who is escaping to England with plans for the German V1 flying bomb. Evading capture, Mary’s resistance cell must get the scientist to England before he can be handed over to the Gestapo, but first Mary must eliminate the German double agent. Just when she thinks it is safe on returning to England, Mary and her companions discover the identity of the traitor within SOE, they must try to eliminate him before he can return the scientist to the Germans.

Sojourns in Vana

Vorclaw must pay! General Baltus Blackpool continues to enact his revenge for his wife’s untimely death by placing the nation of Vorclaw under his military control and begins to hunt down the rulers of Vorclaw, known as The Council of Twelve.

Queen Ooktha, ruler of the arch-goblins, realises she is betrayed and is willing to sacrifice her followers and her own safety in order to garner revenge against the Blackpool brothers

– even if it means devastating her lover, Leif Foehammer!

Hundreds of miles far to the north, Leif and Bjorn Foehammer, Dru Blackpool and others are cut off from returning from their mission. They are forced to fight for their lives against the undead and other creatures. As they sojourn through the mountains to find a new way home, they encounter unexpected allies and a potential revelation about Leif’s past! But if they return, will it be a happy homecoming?

Someone Like You

What do you do when you're 17 and you find out you're pregnant? How do you tell your friends, your family? How do you decide what to do? Meet Amy. Amy is your neighbour, your friend, your cousin, Amy is just like someone you know. When Amy is 17, she finds out she is pregnant. This turns her seemingly average life upside down. In her final year of school and trying to figure out where to go next with her life, Amy must make a decision that, no matter what, will stay with her forever.

Something Special

This story is about a struggling bird whose head is filled with big dreams and great aspirations for her life.

The odds of success are stacked up against her and she soon finds out that she is out of everyone’s league. Upset, disappointed, and frustrated, the bird decides to take matters in her own hands. She begins to plot evil in her head, until one day her least favourite teacher from her least favourite class shows up, and this changes everything.

Sometime in August

Sometimes you need a lifetime to tell a story. Sometimes you only need four days.

Heather Thompson is a 20-year-old with an arguably great life: the makings of a dream career, supportive friends and family, and a relationship lifted right out of a romance novel.

But that doesn’t mean she isn’t struggling.

Sometime in August is an honest, no-holds-barred account of mental ill-health in a young adult, which follows four life-changing days in Heather’s life.

Song of Walls

The poetry collection Song of Walls by Poul Lynggaard Damgaard is a transformation of the poem when it meets the world, and when it meets the world again. The depth of the landscape in touch with the reeds.
‘The courage of the junction” is a poem published in The Long‑Islander, New York, 2018.
The beauty of nature is a point of reference.

Digtsamlingen Song of Walls af Poul Lynggaard Damgaard er en forvandling af digtet, når det møder verden, og når det igen møder verden. Landskabets dybde i berøring med sivene.  
‘The courage of the junction’ er et digt udgivet i The Long Islander, New York, 2018.
Naturens skønhed er et referencepunkt.