Lexxie Couper's Blog, page 30

First Page – Hidden Phase

Sci-fi romance sucks me back in over and over again. I love the truly unending scope for creativity the sub-genre allows. Women capable of slipping into an orgasming person's mind? You betcha. Artificicial Intelligence with more heart and soul than a human? Definitely. Alien lifeforms capable of existing in multiple dimensions and the one dimension [...]

Weigh-In Wednesday – Week Two

You know how the second you decide you're going on a diet you crave everything you can't have? That didn't happen to me. I think because I didn't actually say "I'm going on a diet", I said "I'm going to lose weight" Whether that was it or not, I didn't crave suar. On the other [...]

First Page – Savage Retribution

Savage Retribution was the turning point for my career. For one, it was a novel, finishing out at 67,000 words, a number I'd never dreamt I could ever write when this journey began. And for another, it was released by a publishing house other than Changeling Press. Man, how my life would change the day [...]

First Page – Spaceport: Highest Bidder

I love sci-fi stories. Love them. It comes from growing up watching Dr. Who, Star Trek and Star Wars. When M, the owner of Changeling Press announced she was creating a multi-author sci-fi series set on a distant space station always skirting the authority I knew I had to write something for it. That something [...]

Six Sentence Sunday – Dare Me

For this #sxisentencesunday I'm featuring Dare Me. It releases at the end of the month. All I can say is when I subbed this to my editor, she told me I made her cry and that the book was "awe-inspriring". Enjoy… Rob Thorton took one look at his best mate and burst out laughing. The [...]

First Page – Captive Heat

After writing a werewolf in space with The Boundaries, what better place to find another one than in the snow. And who better to find him than a fiesty Australian snowboarder. Captive Heat was a 3000 word tale I wrote in one night at the kitchen counter while cooking dinner. The most wonderful Emma Ray [...]

First Page – A Sprite's Tale

I mentioned this one before Christmas. Take one sexy, cheeky nephew of Santa trying to do the right thing, add a mischievous Australian bushland sprite, mix with a mid-air sleigh disaster just off a secluded tropical beach and enjoy… I have to confess, I was well and truly into my flippant, sarcastic, cheeky stage of [...]

First Page – Viva Los Regalos: Kat and Mouse

I loved this book sooo much. So much. It was fun to write, had my first Australian heroine and hero, an Australian Federal Police Officer and a notorious cat burgular, a dead Elvis as a gambling resort king-pin and Asmodeus, the first "real" demon character I wrote about. Viva Los Regalos: Kat and Mouse was [...]

First Page – Crooked Triangle

So after two twisted erotic sci-fi series and a futuristic rom-com Christmas tale about a malfunctioning sex-bot and Santa's erstwhile nephew, what do I write next? A dark investigation into the powerplay of a power couple, of course, complete with an escaped con, a secluded cottage and a glass dildo. And how did I come [...]

First Page – Batteries Not Included

My first attempt at comedy, mixed with sci-fi. Oh, and I flexed my creative muscle and wrote two menage scenes…before I'd ever read a menage scene written by anyone else. Yes, Batteries Not Included is a very different book, but it has the best A.I. I think I've ever written and it's a Christmas story [...]