Duane Simolke's Blog, page 13
June 8, 2022
SciFi Adventure Featured at N. N. Light's Book Heaven
Read an excerpt from Sons of Taldra at N. N. Light's Book Heaven and read about many other book recommendations.
June 5, 2022
I’m happy to join in the #IndiePride Book Spotlight 2022...
I’m happy to join in the #IndiePride Book Spotlight 2022 Celebration with an Author Interview and a look at The Journey to Sons of Taldra.Watch for author interviews and more throughout Pride Month 2022 at the #IndiePride 2022 Master Post.
May 29, 2022
A Touch of Death (The Outlands Pentalogy #1)
A Touch of Death by Rebecca CrundenMy rating: 5 of 5 starsRebecca Crunden gives us a complex heroine in Catherine, raised in affluence while hearing a lifetime of lies about a dystopian society. A Touch of Death follows Catherine's journey into the Outlands with a man she despises: the brother of the man she loves. Along the way, we see the many ways the corrupt can justify cruelty, the
May 13, 2022
New SciFi Artwork: General Sydra, Woman Warrior
General Sydra, one of the Maintainers in Sons of Taldra. I won this free commission from OctaviaProject.Org by joining their mailing list. Other scifi writers who want to do the same should sign up right away. That group encourages young people and freedom of expression through science fiction. From their site: “Our free summer programs bring together young women, trans and non-binary
April 13, 2022
#QueerSciFi Pride: An Updated List of Taldra Links.
@duanesimolke In Taldra, a #FirstNation family protects the human home world. #BookTok #sciencefictiondoublefeature #ScienceFiction #SciFi #Native #NativeAmerican ♬ original sound - BookTok and SciFi Geek 🌈 Taldra: Two Science Fiction Adventures at Barnes & Noble (print and eBook). Taldra: Two Science Fiction Adventures at Amazon (print and eBook).Taldra: Two Science Fiction Adventures
April 6, 2022
Meet the Iroquois woman who leads the human home world!
Read the Feed My Reads Interview with Taldra, Leader of Valchondria. Explore Feed My Reads to read about other characters, books, and authors.Here's a Main Character interview with Taldra, from the #book Taldra by @DuaneSimolke - https://t.co/DMUC6WjaWP#book #books #author #authors #writer #writers #WritingCommunity #feedmyreadscommunity #BookTwitter #bookcommunity #bookstagram #bookblog
March 28, 2022
New SciFi Trailer
This new trailer for Sons of Taldra: A Science Adventure evokes the book cover.“Refreshingly different, and at its beating heart is some much needed diversity that slots in effortlessly and with purpose.” –Sebastian J. Brook, Doctor Who Online
March 19, 2022
Featured Free Writer Resource: SelfPublist.Com
Self-Publist.Com provides free book promotion and book services promotion. A bot also randomly generates tweets about the books at the Self-Publist Twitter account. Details about how to submit your book or service information appear at the site, along with forums and more. The landing page says, “Welcome to SelfPubList, a resource where you can list your self-published books for free! For those
March 17, 2022
SciFi in March
I'm enjoying Superman and Lois, The Flash, Star Trek: Discovery, and Star Trek: Picard, while wanting to see Halo's premiere. @duanesimolke #lgbtqpride #gayscifi #queerbook @duanesimolke Free at Smashwords.Com until March 28. #gaygeek ♬ I'm Gay - Scott Thompson & Joe Sealy Limited time offer for a free science fiction read at Smashwords.
March 1, 2022
Interview with Texas Artist Becky Blake
Feed My Reads provided a character interview of Becky Blake, one of the residents of my fictional West Texas town Acorn. Becky appears in some of the tales in The Acorn Stories. Read the full interview, and read about more books, at Feed My Reads: Main Character Interview with Duane Simolke and The Acorn Stories.
