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Weekend Writing Warriors DELETED Scene from WRECK OF THE NEBULA DREAM

Only this week and next week to continue with excerpts from my SFR novel WRECK OF THE NEBULA DREAM, loosely based on theTitanicsinking in 1912. In deference to the WeWrWa peeps who’ve read my book and are still kindly commenting, I’m doing my #8Sunday sentences today from a deleted scene so you’ll have something NEW to read. (Since I always do a Happily Ever After ending, it’s not too much of a spoiler to say they do get rescued….eventually….is it?) This scene takes place on the Sectors battl...

Expanding My Blogging Horizons

I’m very excited to share the news that I’ve been invited to join the Word Whores group blog!

An excellent group of bloggers I’ve been following for quite some time, who write about all aspects of this craft and profession that we authors love so dearly…and now I’ve been invited to join in the fun, which made me VERY happy. I was honored! My first official post for them is today, combining an introduction (who am I? existential question LOL) and my take on the group’s topic of the week, which...

Flash Mob Recreates Rembrandt Painting Night Watch

Wish I’d been there to see this in person – so much fun!

Wednesday Whimsy I Barged Down the Nile In My (Finish This Sentence)

Yup, Maidenform Bra LOL. Is this a terrific vintage 1960s ad or WHAT? I’m framing it and putting it in the area of the condo where I write my Ancient Egyptian paranormal romances.

Egyptian themes have been used in advertising for a very long time of course. I’m getting to have quite a collection of Egyptiana, as I call my bits and pieces of interestingstuff and I’ve been picking up genuine old print ads recently. I thought I’d share a few items from my growing ephemera hoard today…

Although thi...

Is Gold the New Pink? GoldieBlox!

Last year I decided to take part in a Kickstarter project as a Backer, to see how the process worked – I thought it would be fun to have a project to root for. I kept my eye open for a suitable effort and very shortly was charmed by GoldieBlox in October. Their motto (as stated in a Kickstarter post) was “Gold is the new pink” and their goal was to tell the world “…our daughters are more than just princesses! GoldieBlox deserves to sit on the shelves next to Bob the Builder and Thomas the Tra...

Weekend Writing Warriors No Need For Concern Says the Captain

I’m still doing excerpts from my SF novel WRECK OF THE NEBULA DREAM until April 14th, the 101st anniversary of theTitanic’ssinkingbut after that I’m switching off to something else. I appreciate all the comments and feedback! I solemnly promise only 8 sentences this week and thanks for letting me cheat by 2 sentences last week!

Last week our hero Nick woke up in the middle of the night to find the spaceliner’s engines off. After some conversation with the Ship’s AI and also an officer Nick had...

Wreck of the Nebula Dream – How to Survive a Cruise Ship Disaster

With all the cruise ship problems in the news lately, I’ve been seeing advice articles for what to do if the ship you’re vacationing on suffers a disaster. I collected some of the common questions and decided to see how my characters on theNebula Dream did,compared to what experts suggest. It may be a bit of a challenge to do without providing spoilers….

Can you make preparations in advance for a cruise ship disaster, just in case? On theTitanic,most passengers and crew totally bought into the...

Weekend Writing Warriors Why Are The Engines Off?

I’m still doing excerpts from my SF novel WRECK OF THE NEBULA DREAM until April 14th, the 101st anniversary of the Titanic’s sinkingbut after that I’m switching off to something else. I appreciate all the comments and feedback! This scene occurs in the middle of the second night out, when Nick awakens suddenly, realizing theNebula Dream’s engines have shut down. He’s just asked the Ship’s AI what’s going on. (Um, it’s really 10 sentences but they’re short and you don’t mindtoo much – do you?...

It’s All About the Characters

I’m writing over at Michael J. Martinez’s blog today about WRECK OF THE NEBULA DREAM. He poses a tough question to his visitors – “What makes your book so gosh darn special anyway?”

Since there are only variations on 5 to 8 basic stories in the world, or so they say, I decided my answer to Mike was going to be about the characters – thepeople who are trapped on board the wrecked, drifting ship behind enemy lines…

Nick Jameson, Sectors Special Forces, just off a bad mission and fighting his own...

Wednesday Whimsy Queen Cleopatra

What with talking so much about my science fiction romance lately, I’ve been missing the Ancient Egyptian paranormal world! so I decided to show you my latest acquisition of what I call “Egyptiana”. I saw this bust of the queen at the Cleopatra Exhibit last year, in the gift shop, but it wasn’t for sale. I’ve since tracked it down, from Toscano Designs, and now it’s MINE!

Cleopatra is nearly 2000 yearsafter the Egyptian era I write about ( I specialize in 1550BC with a very paranormal twist)....