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Tuesday Teaser - Prophecy by Lea Kirk #scifi #romance #spaceopera

Excerpt:A firm hand clamped over her mouth. “Alexandra.”Her eyes flew open. Eyes as deep and blue as the Pacific bore into hers. She knew this man.“I am Gryf, Alexandra. It is over. The invasion is over, and you live. Your brother lives. Remember?” He kept speaking, repeating his words until a switch seemed to flip in her head and her brain tuned back into reality.It’d been a dream; her memory replaying the events of the attack. Again. A tremor wracked through her. Four days in this cell, fou...

Last Day #giveaway #NetGalley #timetravel #scifi #romance

Today is a bonus day - the 29th February - and it's the last day for a couple of fun things.

First up, it's the last day to get Keir from NetGalley to read and review for free HERE.


Second, it's the last day to enter the international Goodreads giveaway for Keir's Fall in print. You can just click on the widget below.

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When in doubt, Figure it out. #amwriting #scifi #romance

When writers should trust their gut.
In the process of writing my latest project, a sci-fi novella, I came across a problem I’ve never encountered before. I flew through the first part of the story, giving life to my characters and manipulating them into the situation that would become the climax of the adventure story. Then I came to the final chapter. The work was nearly done, the story ready to be wrapped up. The story, however, refused to cooperate with my vision. After three distinct revi...

Tuesday Teaser - The Impcatcher by Peter Vialls #fantasy

A high-pitched, manic giggle cut through the velvet blackness of the wine cellar as the echo of breaking glass faded. I took a deep breath, and the alcoholic fumes from the shattered bottle left me feeling light-headed for a moment. I had dropped the lamp when I dodged the missile. Doing this job, there's no way I'd use a modern bound-imp lamp, so I'm stuck with an oil lantern. The glass had not survived the accident, and now the old stone chamber was stygian. A slight clacking sound to my le...

I Can't Write This (and what I did on my holiday) #amwriting #giveaway

I'd planned to read and review over the nine day half term holiday with my monsters and away from social media. Instead, I spent the time revising my planned May release and side story in the Redemption series - Reunion at Kasha-Asor. You'd think that after releasing 14 titles and three and a half years as a published author, writing would and should be easy. But it isn't.
The worst thing is that the changes I need/want to make to Reunion aren't even that hard. They don't require me to spend a...

Thursday Teaser - It's All True #YA #zombie #dystopia

YA Zombie Dystopia Novella
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Kobo | Smashwords | B&NBuildings zipped past, each identical, each untouched by time and decay. It should be ruins. His mind couldn't wrap around the idea of the city being undamaged while the people in it had been destroyed. There should be some evidence.A flicker of movement down a side street had his heart leaping into his mouth. "Stop!"The autocar slowed...

Read Only Wednesday - Chain Reaction by Zoe Archer #scifi #romance

Read Only Wednesday is where I highlight something I've just read, am about to read, or have on my TBR/wishlist. This week it's Chain Reaction by Zoe Archer (just 99 cents at the time of purchase, but you might need to grab it quick to get it for that price).

Blurb:
Elite 8th Wing pilot Celene Jur was taken captive after a mysterious device temporarily disabled her ship's controls. Three solar months later, when Celene receives intel on the man who built the device, she's ready to get the basta...

Tuesday Teaser - Lifeline by Judy Griffith Gill #scifi

Excerpt:

Admiral Joe Storn slammed his palm against the emergency airlock release. "Hell and damnation!" The self-appointed Committee of Captains had changed the code. Again. That hatch should have gaped open like a toothless maw to spill awake personnel onto a planetary surface after a catastrophic landing. For three days, he and his best AI team had met nothing but failure, but he wasn't done yet. His boots rang on the deck as he strode past the many empty cabins on Ship One, flagship o...

Meet the #Author Monday - Carol Van Natta #spaceopera

Please tell us a bit about yourself:I’m an independent science fiction author with a space opera romance series (Overload Flux, Minder Rising, Pico’s Crush) and the co-author of a retro science fiction comedy. I share my Fort Collins, Colorado home with various cats and a sometime mad scientist (who would graduate to full time, if only it paid better). I grew up reading and watching science fiction and fantasy, and wanting to be a doctor, but I pretty well sucked at chemistry, so I chose scie...

Writing Update and Going AWOL #giveaway #NetGalley #amediting

From tomorrow I'm off the internet until the 21st for my usual school based holiday break from social media. But never fear! Various things will continue to run on automatic to keep you entertained (or not) while I'm gone. In the meantime, a quick update:

Zombie Girl: Dead Awakened - a YA dystopia novella set in our near future - will re-release on Monday the 15th across various online retailers. This was the last title I had contracted with the now deceased Lycaon Press, and the last I hadn't...