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Engines Are Easier Weekend Writing Warriors

Here’s the link to the Weekend Writing Warriors central page, so you can visit all the participants sharing excerpts today…a fun way to sample new books and find new authors! (Also welcome to the Sunday Snippet visitors!)

I’m now taking snippets from my newly released novel STAR CRUISE STAR SONG.

The snippet from close to the beginning of the book. Addy is at the spaceport on her way to join her new spaceship, the Nebula Zephyr cruise liner. I’ve jumped ahead a little bit and Addy and Ryder are ...

Why I Wrote My Other #SciFi Rock Star Romance STAR CRUISE SONGBIRD

NOTE: Portions of this post are from the Archive and appeared on Pauline B. Jones’s blog a number of years ago.

I thought it would be fun today to talk about my first scifi rock star romance, STAR CRUISE SONGBIRD while STAR CRUISE STAR SONG, my second such story, is still a new release

I’d always wanted to write a rock star romance because I LOVE the genre (and now I have two to my name – whee!) but if I sit down to write anything, it inevitably becomes science fiction. So when the second Pets I...

New Releases in #SciFi #Fantasy and Paranormal Romance for JAN 11

I have not read most of the new releases listed (although I always end up one-clicking a bunch as I prepare these posts L OL). 

‘AB’ denotes audiobook and the Amazon buy link.

Still a little slow, as far as the volume of new releases but it looks like next week will be pretty busy!

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CHARLIE’S ORDER (RED PLANET JUNGLE BOOK 7) by Miranda Martin

He’s a member of the enemy Order, but his dragon staked its...

Distracting Weekend Writing Warriors

Here’s the link to the Weekend Writing Warriors central page, so you can visit all the participants sharing excerpts today…a fun way to sample new books and find new authors! (Also welcome to the Sunday Snippet visitors!)

I’m now taking snippets from my newly released novel STAR CRUISE STAR SONG.

The snippet from close to the beginning of the book. Addy is at the spaceport on her way to join her new spaceship, the Nebula Zephyr cruise liner. A man asks her to help him get on board and avoid a wa...

7 SF&F Literary Role Playing Game (LitRPG) Novels to Try

Note: This post first appeared in the Roswell Daily Record.

January can be time for new things and I’ve decided to try reading a new-to-me genre of cyberpunk science fiction known as LitRPG.  The name stands for “Literary Role Playing Game” and is fiction combining science fiction/fantasy elements set in a world resembling a computer game, often with the characters scoring points, levelling up and having to operate within the rules of the ‘game’ they’ve found themselves in. I think it’s a nice m...

New Releases in #SciFi #Fantasy and Paranormal Romance for JAN 4

I have not read most of the new releases listed (although I always end up one-clicking a bunch as I prepare these posts L OL). 

‘AB’ denotes audiobook and the Amazon buy link.

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CADENCE: ALIENS LOVE SINGLE MOMS #1 by Tasha Black

Being a single mom is the hardest most heartwarming job in the world… and sometimes out of it! When Cadence learns about a free day care center for single moms in her neighborh...

Come With Me Weekend Writing Warriors

Here’s the link to the Weekend Writing Warriors central page, so you can visit all the participants sharing excerpts today…a fun way to sample new books and find new authors! (Also welcome to the Sunday Snippet visitors!)

I’m now taking snippets from my newly released novel STAR CRUISE STAR SONG.

The snippet from close to the beginning of the book. Addy is at the spaceport on her way to join her new spaceship, the Nebula Zephyr cruise liner. A man asks her to help him get on board and avoid a wa...

Veronica’s Choices for Most Memorable SciFi/Fantasy/PNR Romance Covers of 2022

I see literally thousands of book covers in my chosen genres every year (over 5000 in 2022!) while putting together the weekly  New Releases Reports. Looking at the covers each week is one of the best parts of doing the report!

Yet certain covers linger in my memory. Continuing my annual tradition, here are the MOST memorable-to-me covers of all the wonderful artwork I saw in the last twelve months, for scifi romance, fantasy and paranormal romance, plus PNR cozies, anthologies and steampunk for...

New Releases in #SciFi #Fantasy and Paranormal Romance for DEC 28

I have not read most of the new releases listed (although I always end up one-clicking a bunch as I prepare these posts L OL). 

‘AB’ denotes audiobook and the Amazon buy link.

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KONNITCH (ALIEN MARSHALS AND MATES BOOK 3) by Julie K Cohen

Konnitch – Konnitch needs a decoy for a dangerous op on Earth. The only qualified human is smart, fast, and too independent for her own good. Worse…. she sparks his ma...

Why I Wrote #SciFi Wreck of the Nebula Dream (“Titanic in Space”)

From the Archive, since the “Titanic” movie is getting so much attention these days…(I wish it was the movie of my book but sadly, it’s not LOL. It’s very well done, however!)

Since I was a little girl, I’ve always been fascinated by stories set during a disaster – the events, how could the characters have known or sensed what was about to happen, what do they do, what could they have done, what would I do…Growing up in Upstate New York, the closest I personally got to disaster as a child was p...