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Read Only Wednesday - Dark Beyond the Stars, a #spaceopera anthology #scifi

Read only Wednesday is when I share a recent or current read, or something I've just added to my TBR pile. This week I have a female authored anthology of space opera shorts. I picked this up after reading about a 'review' by a male SF author claiming that SF is a male only genre. *cue raging* So of course I bought the anthology, tweeted about it and featured it as my read for this week. I'm pretty sick of being told that women can't/shouldn't/don't write science fiction. It's like saying men...

Tuesday #Teaser - Raven Pirate Assassin Spy by Landra Graf #fantasy #fairytale

“Merci, mon petites.” The albino’s voice sounded like gravel in the cylinder-shaped microphone. “I’ll be breaking for a short time. Youse keep yourselves amused and stay out of trouble.”“Remember…let me do most of the talking,” Ian said as soon as the crooner stood and started making his way to the edge of the stage.The captain merely nodded, taking in the other members of the band, who didn’t leave their spots on the stage.Instead, they started playing again, a perky jazz tune with a good me...

Spiced Elderberry and Brownies

I have a fondness for fruit cordials, especially to the Bottle Green Spiced Berry one. To me, commercial squash is a vile thing, yuck. But as with most things I get attached to, the spiced berry one has become harder and harder to find, and just recently disappeared completely. Every year I have resolved to make my own using elderberries, since we have a tree at the bottom of our garden. This year I finally got around to making some, so while the berries are available I thought I'd share my r...

#ScienceFiction #Fantasy Saturday 81 - What Happens to a Corpse in Vacuum? #scifi #romance

Hello! Welcome to my snippet for this week's round of #sffsat. At the start of September I was notified that my second Venus Ascendant story - working title Revived - had finaled in the Rebecca, a contest run by the Land of Enchantment Romance Authors (one of the many excellent chapters of the RWA). This was my third entry into the contest (and I cut it fine, right up to the end of the already extended deadline because I couldn't make up my mind, lol). I've missed out on a final place by...

Scream! For the Cure - Why Cate Peace is Screaming #cancer #charity

“The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.” – C.C. Scott
Thanks to Pippa for allowing me some space on her blog!
I wanted to take some time to talk about something important to me, and I’m sure to a lot of you, too. Cancer. The Big C. That word. Ugh. I don’t know anyone who hasn’t been affected by it in some way.
According to the Cancer Institute, an estimated 1,658,370 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in the United States and 589,430 people will die from the disease...

The Books Are Coming Down

For as long as I've been published, I have done my best to put my books on as many retail sites as possible, in as many formats as possible, in order to give my readers choice and enable them to find me. But over the next few weeks, the majority of my titles will be coming down from retailers as I make them Amazon exclusive. The reason? I sell very little anywhere other than Amazon, and Amazon exclusivity allows me to loan my books through KU, do free days, discounts etc. These, I hope, will...

Read Only Wednesday - A Madness Of Angels by Kate Griffin #UF #amreading

It's been a while since I've done one of these. Read Only Wednesday was an attempt to get myself reading a book a week (or at least reading something, even if only a short story). Writing now takes up so much of my time that reading, once my greatest pleasure and part of the reason I wrote, took a very decided back seat. But I spent the summer trying to make a dent in my TBR pile, and after 20 titles and reviews (which you can find on my Goodreads profile, or posted weekly at Critique de Book...

Meet the #Author Monday: Atthys Gage #YA #fantasy

Please tell us a bit about yourself: I'm a late bloomer. I didn't start writing until I was halfway through my 40's (that's almost ten years ago now.) I didn't have my first drink until I was 20. I didn't get married until I was 32. I had my first kid at 36. That probably makes me sound circumspect and virtuously patient, but really I'm just sort of lazy and unfocused.
Tell us about "Flight of the Wren": Wren is my third completed novel. It was all ready for publication with Lycaon Press when...

#ScienceFiction #Fantasy Saturday 80 - Demons walk the streets of the future #sffsat #UF #PNR

Hello! Welcome to my snippet for this week's #sffsat, and long time no see, right? It's been a crazy, crazy year, and I've just come back from a seven week break from the internet. Well, mostly off the 'net. To celebrate my return to blogging and to #sffsat, my futuristic paranormal romance No Angel is free to download today, so I thought I'd share a snippet to tempt you. Here, my incubus hero Lucien has just left Hell and a meeting with His Infernal Highness, and is brooding over the almost...

#Free #ebook Days! No Angel #futuristic #urbanfantasy

A Futuristic UF Short
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Amazon (inc KU)To celebrate my return to the internet after a seven week break (and the four month closure and renovation of my blog), I'm running a couple of free days on my futuristic UF short No Angel. For the 11th & 12th of September, you can download it legally for FREE from Amazon HERE (and it's also available to borrow via Kindle Unlimited until the 4th November).

Blurb:
How far would you fall for love?

Centuries ago, guardi...