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Good Awards Day for GHOST OF THE NILE

Had to share! Today I found out that GHOST OF THE NILE is a

Finalist in the 2016 RONE Awards, and I was also notified that the cover art had won the Paranormal Category in the RCRW “Cover Me Contest”.

Frauke Spanuth of Croco Designs get all the credit for the cover art win – she does such gorgeous work! I love collaborating with her on my ancient Egyptian covers.

Congratulations to all the Finalists in both contests!

Here’s the story for the novel:

1550 BCE

Betrayed, murdered, and buried wit...

When the Great City Perished 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 Snippetvisitors!)

Since LADY OF THE STAR WIND is still my newest release – and doing quite well, thank you to all the Warriors for your support! – I’ll keep going with this book. Only now let’s give Mark a turn.

Mark and his companions, including the unconscious Sandy, have been rescued by a c...

Veronica Takes a Magazine Quiz

It’s been too long since I did one of these quiz posts! I found a new one in a back issue of Porter magazine, which interestingly and very cleverly is run by the net-a-porter.com clothes-selling site. I like to look at high fashion photo shoots sometimes for writerly inspiration and there have been some good interviews.

At any rate, a few months ago, they interviewed Hannah Bronfman “DJ turned app developer and founder of…HBFit…” I liked some of the questions, so here goes with my answers.

Po...

Already Too Late Weekend Writing Warriors

(If you’re here for the Blue Moon Blog hop, go HERE.)

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 Snippetvisitors!)

Since LADY OF THE STAR WIND is still my newest release – and doing quite well, thank you to all the Warriors for your support! – I’ll keep going with excerpts from the scene we’ve been pursuing here.

From about 1/4 of the...

Blue Moon Blog Hop New Excerpt STAR CRUISE OUTBREAK

Here’s the link to find all the participants http://sfrcontests.blogspot.com and here’s the link to the Rafflecopter for the Blog Hop Prize

I sort of snuck into this blog hop because I don’t have any blue moons or blue aliens but I do have a pretty blue cover on my latest science fiction romance novel and the life saving medicine in the book is blue!

Before we get to the excerpt, I’m giving away ONE ebook copy of any ONE of my six science fiction novels to three randomly selected commenters o...

Veronica Recaps The 100 Season 1 Episode 1

Since the finale of Season Three is this week, I thought it might be fun to go back and re-watch Episode One of Season One, like a time traveler, coming from their future. Especially with this series, I have no idea if the writers knew in Season One the kinds of twists and turns they were going to create over the next three years, but I thought it’d be fun to look for clues. SPOILER warning – I will talk about events in all three seasons.

Clue one – this episode has no twisty, insider referen...

Old Matters Lie Between Us 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 Snippetvisitors!)

LADY OF THE STAR WIND has been released! Buy links and stuff below the following excerpt, which picks up where we left off when I was sharing snippets from this book before.

From about 1/4 of the way into the novel: Sandy was bitten by a snake named Sherabti, went into the g...

Exclusive Cover Reveal LADY OF THE STAR WIND

I’m doing an exclusive cover reveal today over at USA Today Happily Ever After for my new scifi romance novel – Lady of the Star Wind. Another gorgeous cover from Fiona Jayde! I hope you’ll hope over and check it out. The book will be available from the usual ebook sellers next week.Meanwhile, here’s the story (I have an actual excerpt over at USAT/HEA):

Are they merely luckless lovers … or a legend come back to life?

Mark Denaltieri, ex-Sector Special Forces, has been hired by the Outlier...

Guest Author Ed Hoornaert ESCAPEE

Veronica sez: Today Ed is my guest, talking about his latest science fiction romance novel Escapee (Repelling the Invasion), which he says was loosely inspired by the 1951 movie “The African Queen,” with Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn. Ed and I ‘met’ doing the Weekend Writing Warrior snippet hops and we’re also in the Science Fiction Romance Brigade together. Take it away, Ed!

The blurb:

“The African Queen in outer space…”

Catt Sayer just wants to survive. The working-class fugitive de...

You Understand Make Believe? Weekend Writing Warriors

(If you’re looking for the SFR Brigade Presents, the link is here.)

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 Snippetvisitors!)

Here’s the third snippet from STAR CRUISE: OUTBREAK, which released in April. In recognition of Mother’s Day in the USA, best wishes to all Moms, and I picked an excerpt involving a child on the cruise liner,...