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July 3, 2020
15 Black SF&F Authors to Add to Your Reading List
NOTE: This post first appeared in two parts in the Roswell Daily Record in June…
In view of the events taking place all around our country and the world right now, I thought I should devote this month’s column to recommending science fiction and fantasy books written by Black authors.
A source I turn to often is the WOC In Romance webpage …they update periodically and have the books slotted into genres/tropes for easy searching. I’ve discovered many new-to-me authors of color on their various l...
July 1, 2020
New Releases in #SciFi #Fantasy and Paranormal Romance for Wednesday JULY 1
As always, I recommend sampling before you buy! 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).
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THE BREEDING EXPERIMENT (VESLOR MATES BOOK 3) by Laurann Dohner
VS Note: Always happy to have a new book from Laurann!
Darla Mitts has been secretly protecting her younger sister, Becky, for years. She’ll do anything to continue, even if it means lea...
June 27, 2020
What’s The Emergency Weekend Writing Warriors
Now taking excerpts from my newly published scifi romance COLONY UNDER SIEGE: INTERSTELLAR PLAGUE.
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!)
May be edited a bit from published version.
The excerpt: I’ve skipped ahead again, to the next day after the colony’s social gathering and Saffia’s ride with Micah the Chief Range...
June 26, 2020
Interview: Anna Hackett on Completing HELL SQUAD #SciFi Series at 20 Books
This interview first appeared on the Amazing Stories Magazine blog…
When an author brings a successful series to a close after years of unspooling the continuing story, how does she feel? How do readers react? How hard is it to tie up all the threads? Anna Hackett has been writing the Hell Squad post-apocalyptic science fiction romance series since releasing Marcus (Hell Squad Book 1) in 2015. She recently concluded the series with Tane (Hell Squad Book 20). Since I’m in the middle of writing my...
June 24, 2020
New Releases in #SciFi #Fantasy and Paranormal Romance for Wednesday JUNE 24
As always, I recommend sampling before you buy! 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).
A big release this week of MAGIC AND MAYHEM UNIVERSE BOOKS…
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DAUGHTER OF THE ALIEN WARRIOR (TREASURED BY THE ALIEN BOOK 3) by Honey Phillips and Bex McLynn
Can a grieving alien warrior and a desperate mother overcome their painful pasts through the shared love of a child?
One...
June 20, 2020
What About the Wildlife Weekend Writing Warriors
Now taking excerpts from my newly published scifi romance COLONY UNDER SIEGE: INTERSTELLAR PLAGUE.
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!)
May be edited a bit from published version.
The excerpt from close to the book’s beginning, where we met Dr. Saffia Mandell at a colony social event. I’m skipping ahead. She’s dec...
June 19, 2020
Why I Wrote COLONY UNDER SIEGE INTERSTELLAR PLAGUE
As with all my novels, there was more than one motivator behind the plot. I’ve actually wanted to write this book for many years, including the plague part, but other books always seemed more pressing to my Muse and me. Then when the pandemic began and life became so stressful, I was having a hard time writing a single word of anything. The plot I felt most drawn to was this one, in part because I was setting it in a relatively small colony community and probably in part to work out some of my o...
June 17, 2020
New Releases in #SciFi #Fantasy and Paranormal Romance for Wednesday JUNE 17
As always, I recommend sampling before you buy! 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).
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WARLORD’S MERCY (CHAMELE BARBARIAN WARLORDS BOOK 5) by Cynthia Sax
VS Note: I really enjoy this series and Cynthia is an autobuy for me…per the author this book is based on a short story.
Other Chameles view him as the enemy. She sees the warrior hero he never believed he cou...
June 13, 2020
Will Anyone Notice Weekend Writing Warriors
Now taking excerpts from my newly published scifi romance COLONY UNDER SIEGE: INTERSTELLAR PLAGUE.
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!)
May be edited a bit from published version.
The excerpt from close to the book’s beginning, where we meet Dr. Saffia Mandell at a colony social event:
It seemed as if the entire c...
June 12, 2020
SciFi Romance Reads for the Ripped Bodice Bookstore Summer BINGO
The Ripped Bodice Bookstore in SoCal is conducting their fourth annual Summer Romance Bingo. I thought it would be fun to take their bingo card of categories, which you can view on their website and identify scifi romance titles that would satisfy the requirements for readers. I asked the members of The SciFi Romance Brigade on Facebook to recommend books and definitely allowed authors to recommend their own titles, although SFR Brigadiers are avid readers and also provided books from other auth...
