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April 2, 2016
You Need The Mirror 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!)
I’m really sorry I didn’t get around to everyone’s post last week to comment. Going to WonderCon threw my routine out the window. I’ll be making the rounds today, I promise!
The Lady of the Star Wind isanepic portal fantasy, which is undergoing formatting and will be released...
March 31, 2016
Guest Author Liza O’Connor BIRTH OF ADAM Artificial Intelligence
If you’re here for the SFR Brigade Presents excerpt, please go HERE.
Veronica: Today’s guest is Liza O’Connor, talking about her new book Birth of Adam and artificial intelligence (AI). Take it away Liza!
Liza: Artificial Intelligence isn’t sci-fi anymore. It’s reality.
Once a machine achieves self-learning (which has occurred with Watson & GoogleAI) it’s IQ can increase dramatically…in fact, measuring the IQ of a human will quickly become pointless. Compared to our AI’s we will all be dumb…e...
SFR Brigade Showcases ‘Titanic in Space’
Once a month the Science Fiction Romance Brigade authors showcase snippets from new work, WIPs, cover reveals or other fun things. The link is here for all the participants.
Because April is the 104th anniversary of the sinking of Titanic, I’m going to do one more excerpt from my SFR Galaxy Award-winning novel Wreck of the Nebula Dream. The story is loosely inspired by the Titanic, but set in the far future in outer space.
The hero, Nick Jameson, is attempting to rescue two children trapped i...
Veronica Is A Red Shirt in Star Trek Audiobook
I’ve been a Star Trek fan since the series began – used to watch it in black and white! (My family were late adopters of the color TV, much to my dismay.) And now I’ve finally had the opportunity to become a real member of the starship Enterprise crew, via a new audiobook version of Harlan Ellison’s “City on the Edge of Forever”. As a Kickstarter backer of the project, I have one spoken line in the audiobook….blogging about the whole experience over at USA Today Happily Ever After today…I hop...
March 29, 2016
Guest Author Ashley York THE SEVENTH SON Excerpt
Today my guest is Ashley York, who I met on the Weekend Writing Warriors snippet hop. She’s sharing an excerpt from her new book,The Seventh Son!
The story:
Drogheda, Ireland 1075
The sixth son bears a curse as certain as the seventh son bears a blessing. When Tadhg MacNaughton’s betrothed is ripped from his arms and married to another, he believes the legend is true.
Tisa O’Brien’s life slams into a downward spiral at the news she is no longer betrothed to the love of her life but to the tan...
March 27, 2016
Veronica Recaps The 100 Wondercon Panel
I hopped onto the freeway and buzzed down to the LA Convention Center for Day 3 of Wondercon, primarily to attend ‘The 100′ panel. Although as always the cosplayers are amazingly creative and the exhibition hall is full of of all the things I crave but I digress….
The panel began with thirteen minutes of footage from the next episode, which airs this coming Thursday. All I can say is, the action continues on many fronts nonstop and nothing goes quite as expected anywhere. It was amazing to se...
March 26, 2016
One Without the Other 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!)
The Lady of the Star Wind isanepic portal fantasy, which is undergoing a final edit and will be released after Star Cruise: Outbreakin the late April/early May 2016 time frame.
Sandy and Mark have been transported to an unknown world. This snippet is from quite a bit further...
March 21, 2016
Author Cara Bristol on Four Tips for Describing Sci Fi Romance Characters
Veronica: My guest today is Cara Bristol, author of Captured by the Cyborg, book 3 in her Cy-Ops series. She’s talking about character traits!
Cara: Readers of all genres like to know what the hero and heroine look like, but often in contemporary romance, whether a character has brown hair or blond, blue eyes or green, isn’t that essential to the plot. But in science fiction romance, character details can be critical.
In science fiction and sci-fi romance a character’s appearance contributes...
March 19, 2016
She Made Proper Sacrifice 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!)
The WIP isanepic portal fantasy, which is undergoing a final edit and will be released after Star Cruise: Outbreakin the late April/early May 2016 time frame.
Sandy and Mark have been transported to an unknown world. This snippet is from quite a bit further in the novel, afte...
March 16, 2016
Healer of the Nile Cover Reveal and Release
I’m happy to announce that my novella Healer of the Nile has now been released as a stand alone ebook. It was previously published last November in the Here Be Magic box set.
Here’s my gorgeous cover from Frauke Spanuth at Croco Designs!
The story:
1550 BCE
When Pharaoh sends injured warrior Tadenhut home to die, his noble family asks Mehyta, the local healer, to ease his path to the Afterlife. Mehyta discovers he’s trapped between Life and Death, caught in the dreamspace. Touched by his figh...
