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Make Her Better Weekend Writing Warriors

(If you’re here for the SFRB Showcase, it can be found at this link.)

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!)

Today I’m giving a snippet from the WIPStar Cruise: Outbreak.Dr. Emily Shane has agreed to to take a temporary position as ship’s doctor on theNebula Zephyr luxury cruise liner. Upon arriving at the clinic,...

Not Going to Panic SFR Brigade Showcase

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.

This month I’m sharing another excerpt from my best selling novelStar Cruise: Marooned. This month’s follows directly from what I shared last month:

“I swear, you know as much as I do.” She leaned closer and lowered her voice. “Drewson was boning Pirankai in the private cabin when I got to the shuttle, coms off, so if th...

A Little Chaos: Romance and Gardening in French Sun King’s Court

“A LIttle Chaos” is a wildly underrated movie gem from 2014 that I just discovered this week, and wanted to share. Set in the 1600’s France as the Sun King Louis XIV was building Versailles, the movie stars Kate Winslet as Sabine, a self-supporting, determined and talented gardener/landscape designer. This fictional character is wonderful, standing up to the men in her profession and making a place for herself on the team creating the heavenly gardens the king desires. Alan Rickman directed t...

Victorian Hats and Caps for Wednesday Whimsy

It’s been rather windy of late where I live, which made me think of hats, so this week I’m sharing some of my Victorian trade (advertising) cards with that theme. I realize the hats and caps depicted are from different eras, but the cards are pretty much all Victorian.

I did another post about hats awhile ago, so for today’s quotes I’m going with the subject of wind. Speaing of which, the only song I ever learned in Spanish was “Windy” by The Association. Second random fact, the only song I e...

You Have A Lot To Learn 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 doing a different excerpt from Wreck of the Nebula Dreamthis week – I KNOW, I promised something new, but I do have a reason, which I’ll explain after the snippet, so as not to violate the Rules!

Nick and the others are working on a plan to escape the dying ship, which in...

Last Time Veronica Did A Magazine Quiz? Today!

I enjoy the One Last Thing quiz at the end of most issues ofPeople magazine, so here are a few selected questions from various issues:

Jake chasing the red dot

Last thing I misplaced: Actually it was the cats’ laser pointer toy and I finally had to give up and go buy a new one. On an ordinary day, it’d be my keys or my phone EXCEPT that I long ago learned to have one special place where those items go, and they’re not allowed to be put anywhere else. Or catastrophe ensues. I used to be really...

Victorian Veggie People for Halloween

I’ve been saving these Victorian trade (advertising) cards all year, since they make me think of Halloween. The Victorians seem to have been fascinated by the idea of people-vegetable hybrids. I feel lucky to have the small collection that I do, because sometimes these cards go for pretty high prices. And then, some of the cards are just too grotesque for my taste, so I skip those.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.William Blake

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Does She Outrank Me? 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 wasn’t sure what to post this week since we’re taking a hiatus fromHealer of the Nile while we wait for the anthology to be released. But yesterday Nalini Singh (who is one of my very favorite authors in the whole world) told me she’d enjoyedWreck of the Nebula Dream! I was...

SFR Audiobook Narrator Turns the Tables on Veronica Scott

The audiobook ofMission to Mahjundaris now available on Amazon, Audible.com and iTunes (sound sample below). Actor Michel Riffle and I’ve done a fun interview on the subject, over at USA Today Happily Ever After. This time, for the sake of variety, we’ve turned the tables and he interviewed me, asking questions about my science fiction world of the Sectors. We invite you to check out the interview!

Here’s the story forMission to Mahjundar:

An attempted assassination left Princess Shalira blin...

Strike up the Victorian Ladies Band! Wednesday Whimsy

I lucked into this set of Victorian trade (advertising) cards awhile ago. I have no idea what they were meant to advertise or who issued them. Also, they’re numbered, which implies they were part of some kind of set originally. Maybe as an inducement to collect them all by buying a certain product? Mine have numbers in the 90’s, so there must have been at least 100 in the series.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and g...