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Steamy SciFi Encounter at USA Today HEA

Over at the USA Today Happily Ever After blog, I’m interviewing science fiction romance author Eve Langlais, who specializes inhot and spicy…she’s a NYT and USA Today Best Selling author, whose books are consistently in the top of the Amazon science fiction romance best seller lists. I also have a few other recommendations to share, from steamy to not-as-much.

Quite a few SFR novels have cyborgs (short for “cybernetic organism”) – male and female – as the main characters/love interests. In the...

Will You? MAGIC OF THE NILE Weekend Writing Warriors

A fun way to sample new books and find new writers! Here’s the link to theWeekend Writing Warriorscentral page, so you can visit all the participants sharing excerpts today…

So we’ve moved on to the newly Released MAGIC OF THE NILE, which is the sequel to the book I had been sharing excerpts from. Last week we had the first eight sentences. Just so you know, she refused old Hotepre the Crocodile Keeper’s well intentioned suggestion that she attend the festival and he gave up, leaving to enjoy...

Why Are the Engines Off? WRECK OF THE NEBULA DREAM SFR Brigade Presents

(The link ishereto find this week’s excerpts from novels or WIP written by otherScience FictionRomance Brigade group members. A fun way to sample new books!)

Today’s selection is from WRECK OF THE NEBULA DREAM, my SFR Galaxy Award winning novel, loosely based on the Titanic,but set in the far future, on a luxury spaceliner. I’m switching off to excerpts from this book for a while, because April 14th marks the 102nd anniversary of Titanic’stragic encounter with the ice berg, leading to the sink...

Veronica Answers More Last Thing Questions

(Why yes, I am faffing around before working on the WIP, how did you know?)

(Random photo from my archives, randomly selected because I love sequins and bling and it’s colorful…)

It’s been a while since I did a magazine quiz and I love the “One Last Thing” quizzes inPeople magazine, so here goes with a few more:

Last sport I played:Volleyball at a party given by one of my co-workers. This was a few years ago, not the world’s most athletic person here. But as Readers of this blog may recall, I ha...

Blogging at USA Today HEA About Anxiety, Ancient Egypt and Me

April is National Anxiety Month (and probably some other “National Months” too, so many topics need attention)…so I’ve written a special column over at USA Today Happily Ever After blog on this subject.

Now I’m strictly a layperson, but as I understand it, almost everyone suffers stress and anxiety from time to time in our modern world. There are plenty of things to stress a person in the normal day – commuting to work, the big meeting with the boss or client, the final exam, making a speech e...

Every Broken Claw MAGIC OF THE NILE Weekend Writing Warriors

A fun way to sample new books and find new writers! Here’s the link to theWeekend Writing Warriorscentral page, so you can visit all the participants sharing excerpts today…

So we’ve moved on to the newly Released MAGIC OF THE NILE, which is the sequel to the book I had been sharing excerpts from. I’ll just jump in with the first eight sentences for now (and have played with the punctuation to make it eight sentences. I think!):

Patience running thin, Tyema tried in vain to focus on the endless...

Into the Burning House ESCAPE FROM ZULAIRE SFR Brigade Presents

(The link ishereto find this week’s excerpts from novels or WIP written by otherScienceFictionRomance Brigade group members. A fun way to sample new books!)

From my SFR Galaxy Award winning novel (whch also was voted into DABWAHA by Readers – thank you!), loosely inspired by the Sepoy incident in 1857 butseton another planet in the far future….

In the last few weeks I gave you the opening of the book and then as Andi has returned from thewedding of the Planetary High Lord’s daughter to her host...

My SciFi Encounter Today Is With Nalini Singh

I’m interviewing author Nalini Singh today over at USA Today’s Happily Ever After Blog for my“Sci-Fi Encounters” column.Ms. Singh is at the top of my personal Must Read List and everything comes to a stop in my household when she releases a new book in either series (or a new series LOL). I’m a huge fan of both her Psy/Changeling and Guild Hunter series, which feature amazing world building. I also have a not-so-secret crush on more than one of her characters LOL.

Heart of Obsidian( June 4, 20...

Discussing My Writing Process

My friend from the Here Be Magic author group, Jody Wallace, tagged me to participate in this meme. I love to answer questions – we all know that LOL – so here goes and Happy Monday to everyone!

What am I working on? Other than this blog post? And the dayjob stuff I brought home? Well, I’m on the second revision of my new science fiction romance/adventure, MISSION TO MAHJUNDAR. I’m also doing advance thinking for my next paranormal novel set in Ancient Egypt, tentatively entitled GHOST OF THE...

Who Is He? PRIESTESS OF THE NILE Weekend Writing Warriors

A fun way to sample new books and find new writers! Here’s the link to theWeekend Writing Warriorscentral page, so you can visit all the participants sharing excerpts today…

PRIESTESS OF THE NILE was my first published work and MAGIC OF THE NILE is the sequel to PRIESTESS.

You can read the beginning of Chapter One of PRIESTESShere on my website.

Merys has been tending an abandoned temple of the Crocodile God Sobek and doesn’t realize she’d been talking to him (in his human form and calling himse...