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The Very Last Six Sentence Sunday

I wasn’t one of the original Fab Four, but I have been doing Six Sentence Sunday for a long, long time now and it is with some sorrow that I say good-bye to this very fun exercise.

Thank you Sara Brookes—for everything.

So, for my last entry, here are the first six sentences from Knightly Desire, my coming-soon Fantasy Romance from Ellora’s Cave. And I’m super excited to share the cover later this week!

Brant’s horse shifted uneasily beneath him as he surveyed the valley. For five days, he and his men had chased the barbarians on their haphazard course of destruction across the countryside. Now the bulk of the enemy lay below, entrenched in the shadows of the thick forest. He intended to engage them today and drive them back across the border into their own lands, where they belonged.

Something stirred among the gnarled, twisted trees and an involuntary shiver prickled his spine, the stories of the ancient creatures that supposedly roamed the wilds looming large in his mind. Brant was too old to believe in such tales, but he was also old enough to not entirely disbelieve them either.

Thank you everyone for such a great run! I LOVED doing this weekly post with every single one of you!

Filed under: Six Sentence Sunday Tagged: Erotic Romance, Fantasy Romance, Knight, Knightly Desire, Sexy Men, Six Sentence Sunday, Warrior

Saturday Video – Raised By Zombies

This was too cute not to share.

Filed under: Saturday Video Tagged: Cartoon, Guy J Collins, Raised By Zombies, Saturday Video, Zombies

Sometimes I Think of You

Sometimes I think of you late, late, late in the darkest hours of the night when everything is still and quiet and only we were ever awake. And sometimes my eyes flick to the phone, silent after so many years, and my heart remembers how we once were.

Filed under: A Love Story Tagged: A Love Story, Lisa Fox, Long Distance, Nostalgia, Phone, Sexy Men

Winter Blues

I hate, hate, hate, hate, HATE the winter. Just call me when it’s over, okay?

Filed under: Ramblings Tagged: Awful, Staying in Bed, Winter

Sex In Space by Misa Buckley

Special guest Misa Buckley is here today talking adding romance to science fiction.

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Sex In Space

Or, Adding Romance to Science Fiction

Does Science Fiction need Romance? Well, it doesn’t need it, I suppose. You’ve got your spaceships and hyperspace or ion engines and alien species. What more does it need? After all, it’s all about the adventure, right?

But how do we experience the adventure? I don’t know about you, but I experience it by recognising myself in one or two of the characters. Putting myself in their place, in their skin, I can see the universe through their eyes. That is why the Doctor’s companion is often human. That’s why Arthur Dent was an ordinary man. Those characters are meant to represent us, and the human condition. And there are two things common to the human condition: dying, and falling in love.

Love is a strong theme for any genre, and it comes in a variety of flavours. Love can be found, lost, and found again. It can cross space and time and species. Heroes can be fools for it, while villains can find themselves redeemed. It can be the love of friends or the passion of lovers. You can’t argue that love has no place in sci fi (well, I guess you could, but I’m not going to listen)

I love characters that fall in love, especially when they do so reluctantly. Or against the odds. I prefer following their fall right to the bedroom. Not everyone does, that I understand, but I like to have a pay out for rooting for their relationship. I like to witness that final step towards a rounded relationship, though sex is neither a beginning nor an end. It just moves things up a level.

Perhaps that’s not the most persuasive argument for sex in space, but it’s the best I’ve got

Bio: Misa Buckley is a sci fi geek who escapes the crazy of raising five children by creating imaginary characters who experience adventure, romance and really hot sex on their way to a happily-ever-after. You can keep up to date with Misa’s latest news by following her on Twitter (@MisaBuckley) or at her website (www.misabuckley.com)

Blurb: A year after the accident that put her in a wheelchair, Amber Gerald has more or less gotten used to living with her impairment. It doesn’t make a difference to running a comic book store anyway, and the customers have been the best support group she could have wished for.
 
When she rescues an abandoned cat, Amber has no idea that she’s interfering in the mad scheme of a time travelling bank robber. Or that the man that walks into her store dressed like Blade is about to become her bodyguard.
 
Between being an unwitting owner of an android cat and falling for a cybernetic bounty hunter, Amber finds her life a whole new level of weird as science fiction becomes a very real factual threat.
 
Coming 4th March 2013 from Champagne Books
 

Filed under: Guest Blogger Tagged: Misa Buckley

Hero Inspiration of the Day

Parker Hurley

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Filed under: Hot Men Tagged: Bad Boy, Hero, Hero Inspiration of the Day, Inspiration, Nearly Naked, Parker Hurley, Sexy Men

Hitting the Send Button

I’m blogging today over at Flirty Author Bitches, talking about submission jitters. Check it out!

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HITTING THE SEND BUTTON

Filed under: Flirty Author Bitches Tagged: Flirty Author Bitches, Jitters, Lisa Fox, Publishing, Sexy Men, Submissions, Writing

Six Sentence Sunday

Here are a few more from my fantasy romance Knightly Desire, coming soon from Ellora’s Cave. Edits are almost done!

Gabrielle is spying through the keyhole.

He crossed the room to the small table where she had left smallclothes, a pair of breeches, and a shirt for him to wear. Her eye followed him, admiring the way his ass flexed as he walked, the fluid grace in the movement of his lean muscles under his tanned skin.

He turned his back to her as he dressed, slowly pulling on the clothing piece by piece. He paused again, seemed to take another deep breath and then faced the door. His gaze drilled through the hard wood and Gabrielle could feel his eyes boring into hers. Realization made her stomach clench. He’d known all along that she had been looking.

Be sure to stop by the OFFICIAL SITE and check out all of this week’s snippets!

Filed under: Six Sentence Sunday Tagged: Erotic Romance, Fantasy Romance, Knight, Knightly Desire, Nice Ass, Six Sentence Sunday

Saturday Video – Are You a Psychopath?

Very, very, very interesting.

Filed under: Saturday Video Tagged: Are You a Psychopath?, Big Think, Psychology, Saturday Video

So, So, So, So Lazy

I don’t know what it is, but I haven’t felt like doing anything recently. Any advice on how I can break out of this funk?

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Filed under: Ramblings Tagged: Advice, David Gandy, Lazy, Lisa Fox, Sexy Men, Uninspired