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At Spacefreighters Lounge and Romance Cooks

I'm over on the Spacefreighters Lounge today, with a post about skin colour - things that can affect it and how scientists are working on a way to change our skin, hair and eye colour with something as simple as a tablet.I also have a recipe up at Romance Cooks here with a luxury leek and potato soup. Romance Cooks is a fabulous new site where you can check out some tasty food and find some new books too. :)

The Crimson Pact Volume III - Review

My review of The Crimson Pact Volume 3 is now live on the Fantasy Book Review site here. There's anything from romance with vampires and demons to dystopian scifi - something for everyone.

Super Zero by Rhonda Stapleton - Review

My review of Super Zero by Rhonda Stapleton is now live on the Critique book site here. A sweet and warmingly romantic superhero story.

Aristeia - Guest Post by Wayne Basta

Please welcome science fiction author Wayne Basta to the blog, as he kicks off the tour for his upcoming release ARISTEIA: A LITTLE REBELLION, the second book in the series.



Aristeia: A Little RebellionUnlike her brother, Saracasi Ocaitchi has always known that her loyalties belong to the ideals of freedom and democracy, not the government of the Alliance, and that protecting those ideals would require a fight. But now that the rebellion she has dreamed about has finally begun, she must come t...

The Rasmus - live

The 21st May 2012 now holds a special place in my heart. It's the day I finally got to see my favourite band live at last. Woo hoooooo! After missing their UK concert in 2009, I never expected them to ever come back. They aren't huge here. So as soon as their tour was announced at the start of this year and with a London stop listed, I hung on the computer waiting to buy tickets and shrieking in frustration as I saw others getting theirs early!

For those of you who don't know it already, I'm a...

Interview with dark fantasy author NR Allen

Please welcome author NR Allen to the blog on the recent release of her book Blood of the Revenant.

Short Blurb:

As Gabriel begins to unravel the dangerous secret that surrounds the strange and dark place called Returning City, he is drawn into a very deadly mystery, one that threatens to destroy not only him but everyone he has ever cared about. 

Purchase link:http://www.amazon.com/Blood-of-the-Revenant-ebook/dp/B007XH6A34/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1335894339&sr=8-1 
 Please...

In the meantime...

There's no #sixsunday post from me this week, but I was interviewed by the very lovely Lorna Suzuki over on her site here. Find out how I work round writer's block, my plans for the next five years, and how I spend my free time. There's also a new review for Keir up at the Hearts and Stars review site here.

"Overall, KEIR is a great story, even if I wanted to bang Quin and Keir's head together over the UST, and I highly recommend it to lovers of science fiction and fantasy."

Intermission...

There will be a short break while I collapse in a corner with the end of the tour. In the meantime, for your entertainment...

One Year Published - The Bones of the Sea

So, the book tour is over and my first novel is 'out there'. Woo hoo! I've been lucky to achieve so much in such a relatively short time, bearing in mind that Keir, as an entire novel, is not yet three years old.
But today, another little project of mine has hit a milestone. My scifi short story - The Bones of the Sea - has been up on Smashwords for exactly a year now. The whole thing was an experiment. For one I haven't written short stories since I was at school, so this was a real challenge...

Keir Book Tour - Winners and Acknowledgements

Winners
And so, the tour is over and it's back to normality. Using Random.org and assigning all the participants a number, I have drawn the winners from all the stops on the tour. So:

For an ebook copy of Keir: Liz Culver, Jessica Subject, Lauri Owen, Laurel Kriegler, Donna Frelick, DL Jackson, JC Cassels, Shelley Munro, wyndwhisper and Cheryl Corbin
For the grand prize: AKJ Tigger
For the $10 Amazon Gift Card: Chantal Halpin, Dragonflywords, Alix Cameron, and marybelle

Congrats to you all, and I...