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#eNovAaW Women of Words Wedneday Book Blitz

Multi-Author Book Blitz ~ September 23 - 27
Wednesday, September 23

NO PERFECT DESTINY by Jackie Weger
(Romance)TRAILS IN THE SAND by P.C. Zick
(Women's Fiction)



No Perfect Destiny by Jackie Weger Genre:  Romance
Leah Spenser owns a decrepit car, a budget that won’t stretch, and the moxie to make a decent life. She lives in the present until one sun-drenched day, a past she has outrun imperils her future and threatens all she holds dear. When her boss announces that someone is embezzling company funds, history begins to repeat itself. Detective Leo Garvey has her in his sights as the number one suspect and more. Leah knows she must be careful, that nothing good could come from his attraction. Leo doesn’t see it her way. Guilty or innocent, she is the one. Convincing Leah the past can only be escaped by embracing something better seems to fall on deaf ears. While Leo works to uncover the truth, Leah determines it will never surface.

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Meet Jackie Weger

Jackie Weger has more than a million books in print world-wide. For half a lifetime Jackie moved with the times and jobs until she settled on St. Augustine, Florida where she renovated a hundred-year-old house in historic Lincolnville, a community established by freed slaves in 1866. In 1995 she put her career on hold to care for elderly and handicapped members of her family.  Later she moved to Central America with her companion dog, a Shar-pei named Simon. She and Simon lived in a small Pacific Rainforest village in a thatched-roofed bohio while making intrepid excursions into the Darian, the San Blas Islands and outer islands in the Pacific.  Says Weger: “I was living high on adventure until I one Christmas I was gifted a Kindle. I fell in love with it. Next I discovered indie publishing, and that’s an adventure in itself.” Now living in a rural Texas community Jackie is enjoying indie authorship and connecting with early fans and new—an adventure all  its own.

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Trails in the Sand by P.C. Zick Series: Florida Fiction Series, #2Genre: Women's Fiction
Caroline Carlisle loved Simon from the moment she first laid eyes on him when she was nine years old. Unfortunately, he married her older sister, and thus set a southern family on a collision course with its past. After the death of her sister that makes Simon a widow, the two finally marry and attempt to make a family with Simon’s daughter Jodi. Jodi has other ideas, and they don’t include welcoming a new step-mother who also happens to be her aunt.

As Caroline starts to report on the oil spill threatening the sea turtles on Florida’s Panhandle beaches, she begins to uncover the secret of her own mother’s past, which includes her brother’s suicide and a teenage pregnancy. With Caroline’s sharpened reporter skills, she digs until she brings all the secrets to light, including her own.

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Meet P.C. Zick

P.C. Zick describes herself as "a storyteller no matter what I write." And she writes in a variety of genres, including romance, contemporary fiction, and nonfiction. She's won various awards for her essays, columns, editorials, articles, and fiction.

Many of her novels contain stories of Florida and its people and environment, which she credits as giving her a rich base for her storytelling. "Florida's quirky and abundant wildlife - both human and animal - supply my fiction with tales almost too weird to be believable."

Her fiction contains the elements most dear to her heart, ranging from love to the environment. All of her novels contain elements of romance with strong female characters and descriptive settings. She believes in living lightly upon this earth with love, laughter, and passion, and through her fiction she imparts this philosophy in an entertaining manner with an obvious love for her characters, plot, and themes.

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An interrupted wedding 3 #WeWriWa from WIP Grand Master's Mate

Welcome to another Sunday with Weekend Writing Warriors . Here, writers showcase their stories with 8-10 sentences. Join the fun and read our snippets.
Today, I’ll continue the horrid wedding scene from my WIP, Grand Master’s Mate, Book 3 in the trilogy. Violet and her Grand Master, Athanor, are at the wedding of her friends, when another Grand Master, the Red Queen, Morrigu, dropped in, explosively.
You can read last Sunday’s snippet here:  http://auroraspringernovels.blogspot.com/2015/09/snippet-2-from-horrid-wedding-for.html
Leaping to his feet, Athanor raised his arms high above his head. Psi flared and sheets of blue light rippled around the terrified wedding party, creating a protective enclosure. Dropping his public disguise, his black locks tumbled to his shoulders and his right eye blazed with blue psi light. His mind merged with Violet’s and he griped, “She looks more devilish than ever.” “Let me help.” Pressing her hand on his shoulder, Violet supplemented his energy. Athanor concentrated on protecting the innocent attendees of the ceremony from Morrigu and from his own deadly psi emissions. He couldn’t easily attack Morrigu at the same time. Grimacing in fury, the Red Queen zapped red rays at Athanor, again and again.
Books 1 & 2 of the Trilogy are published.Grand Master’s Pawn: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TP1N5PMGrand Master’s Game: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0104OFJJ8
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Attack on Illoris - Snippet for #SFFSat

Welcome to another Saturday of Science Fiction & Fantasy and read snippets exchanged by several writers. http://scififansat.blogspot.com/
For a change of pace, my contribution this week is from my unedited WIP, Grand Master’s Mate, Book 3 in the Grand Master’s Trilogy. Note: the dragons are reptilian sentients. I’ve jumped to later in the same chapter with an action scene starting in the great hall of the Black Dragon’s eyrie. You can read last week’s snippet here – http://auroraspringernovels.blogspot.com/2015/09/snippet-for-sffsat-from-wip-grand.html
Violet swung to Ythris and cried, “Athanor’s in trouble!”“Leave them to us,” Ythris roared. His huge black wings cracked down and he disappeared. Following their leader, four brown dragons popped into the void. “They’ve scattered black dust to block his power,” Violet covered her face with her hands and prayed the dragons would be in time. Istrelle sang words of comfort, “Ythris told me of the putrid dust in the Red Queen’s dungeon. He will disperse the dust.” A minute later, the Black Dragon reappeared, bearing Athanor in his foreclaws. Green goo slathered the Grand Master’s survival suit. His blue eyes blazed with revived power. Violet ran to hug him. “Wait,” he barked and shook off the slime from the amoeboids. Then, he hugged her. When they broke apart, Athanor growled, “The attackers were Umloa’s people and they expected to find a Grand Master.” “They knew nothing about the dragons’ immunity,” Ythris rumbled, shaking his scales. 

Books 1 & 2 are published.Grand Master’s Pawn: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TP1N5PMGrand Master’s Game: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0104OFJJ8
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Inspirations for Sentient Aliens in Science Fiction Stories

Science fiction authors and readers love aliens. My aim is to inspire writers with ideas from weird aliens in fiction and from the perspective of a scientist with a life-long interest in the diversity of life on our planet. Writers can make their alien creations believable by describing them using different senses - sight, sound, smell. Biology facts will be interspersed with fictitious life forms. Weird biology fact: We have traces of viral DNA in our genomes. First, what are aliens? Aliens are intended to have inhuman characteristics. I will use broad categories of humanoid, animal based and other. 
Human-like aliens are common in science fiction stories, and a degree of physical compatibility may be desirable, although not essential. Humanoids predominate in video media, partly because they are easier to represent. Consider Dr Who: even the exterminatingDaleks are mutated humans in a robotic shell. 
In my series, Atrapako on Eden, the Atrapako are another extreme example. They have adapted to the harsh conditions on their planet by developing thick scales and claws as well as other physiological changes.   Animal-like aliens are also common, and many resemble people in fur. Felines are popular, such as the lion-like Hani of C.J. Cherryh, Anne McCaffrey’s Hrubbans, and the Kzinti of Larry Niven. Mythological Dragons are clearly related to reptiles and fall into the category of animal-like aliens. I have dragons and other reptiles inhabiting the Planet Sythos in my story, Grand Master’s Pawn. Their voices sound like hisses or croaks. One early example of non-humanoid aliens is described in the War of the Worlds (1897) by WG Wells. 
Piers Anthony in his Cluster series created a variety of non-humanoid sentient aliens. He used the unifying theme of aura as a means of communication and exchange of minds into different bodies. In Thousandstar (1980), a humanoid woman falls in love with an alien resembling a giant amoeba (my description).  Adrian Tchaikovsky has fun with insect characteristics in humans in the Apt series. My book, A Tale of Two Colonies, describes a planet inhabited by giant arthropods. Carnivorous insectoids also inhabit a planet in Grand Master’s Pawn. Weird biology fact: Insect metamorphosis means that delicate winged butterflies with six legs are the adult forms of squiggly, voracious caterpillars with many legs and prolegs. Think of the myriad varieties of animals living in the sea. Many are spineless invertebrate animals such as jellyfish, sea cucumbers, and squid.  I have an octopus-like creature in Grand Master’s Pawn, and a tentacled worm in Grand Master’s Game.Weird biology fact: squid communicate by changing color. 
Intelligent plant-based aliens are less common. They include Tolkien’s Ents, which are essentially walking, talking trees. Carnivorous plant-like aliens are popular, such as the walking plants with lethal stings from John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids (1951).  I introduced a planetoid Grand Master shaped like a giant flower with three petals in Grand Master’s Game. She walks on her roots and rustle her leaves to speak. Weird biology fact: carnivorous plants can move fast, but they cannot walk. On the other hand, some seeds fly! Can you imagine intelligent microbes? Bacteria, aka prokaryotes, can survive in extremely hostile environments, in soil, ice, boiling springs. They communicate via chemical messages and exchange pieces of DNA, like the genes for antibiotic resistance. Different bacteria can combine in a colony called a biofilm. What fascinating elements for novel aliens!  My book, Grand Master’s Game, includes an amoeboid called Umloa. He communicates by smells. 
Weird biology fact: the descendants of ancient bacteria live in your cells as the energy producing mitochondria.  Aliens can include entities of gas or pure energy. Sir Fred Hoyle, the eminent English astronomer, disputed the Big Bang theory. His 1957 novel, The Black Cloud, explores the idea of an intelligent interstellar cloud. Aliens can be entities of pure energy, although they may be obvious of us.  

I hope some of these weird life forms will inspire you to create unique and believable aliens in your stories. 
Science Fiction Books by Aurora SpringerThe Lady is Blue: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00K1N951Q  Dragons of Vkani: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LS1EU6K/Grand Master’s Pawn: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TP1N5PMGrand Master’s Game:http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0104OFJJ8A Tale of Two Colonies: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MFY8A5QCaptured by the Hawk: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MYHSC52
  Author Bio:  Aurora Springer is a scientist morphing into a novelist. She has a PhD in molecular biophysics and discovers science facts in her day job. She has invented adventures in weird worlds for as long as she can remember. In 2014, Aurora achieved her life-long ambition to publish her stories. Her works are character-driven romances set in weird worlds described with a sprinkle of humor. Some of the stories were composed thirty years ago. She was born in the UK and lives in Atlanta with her husband, a dog and two cats to sit on the keyboard. Her hobbies, besides reading and writing, include outdoor activities like gardening, watching wildlife, hiking and canoeing.
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Snippet 2 from the horrid wedding for #WeWriWa

Welcome to another Sunday with Weekend Writing Warriors . Here, writers showcase their stories with 8-10 sentences. Join the fun and read our snippets.
Today, I’ll continue the wedding scene from my WIP, Grand Master’s Mate, Book 3 in the trilogy.  Violet and her Grand Master, Athanor, are at the wedding of her friend, Tessa. The bridegroom, Phineas, won an award for inventing an instrument to measure psychic energy. The Council of Grand Masters is likely to ban such a device, but Athanor approved its use in a battle with Morrigu. Note 1, exposure to the unshielded power of a Grand Master can be lethal. Note 2, some of the wedding guests are aliens.You can read last Sunday’s snippet here:  http://auroraspringernovels.blogspot.com/2015/09/an-interrupted-wedding-1-snippet-from.htmlLast week, we ended with an explosion. Boom; a red explosion shattered the glass panes in the curved wall of the atrium.
. Screams mingled with the tinkle of glass shards on the stone-tiled floor and menacing psi pressure vibrated through the room. Eyes flaring ruby light, Morrigu dropped into the central space. Her long blonde braids and four red-skinned arms were a nightmarish hybrid of Celtic and Hindu myths. Tessa crumpled in a dead faint. Phineas caught her in his arms and backed away from the horrid scarlet beams of the Red Queen. Sweeping her gaze around the atrium, Violet was startled by the devastating effects of Morrigu’s raw power. Half of the wedding guests had collapsed in psychic trauma and the rest were rigid with shock. His face blanched, Srini clutched at the chair back in front of him and slid to the floor. Ears folded back and trembling, Lira bared sharp teeth and spat at the terrible apparition. The shelly carapace of Professor Gullish sprawled on the floor, thin legs twitching in the air and pink underbelly exposed.


Books 1 & 2 of the Trilogy are published.Grand Master’s Pawn: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TP1N5PMGrand Master’s Game: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0104OFJJ8
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Snippet for #SFFSat from WIP Grand Master's Game - Illoris

Welcome to another Saturday of Science Fiction & Fantasy and read snippets exchanged by several writers. http://scififansat.blogspot.com/ For a change of pace, my contribution this week is from my unedited WIP, Grand Master’s Mate, Book 3 in the Grand Master’s Trilogy. Note: the dragons are reptilian sentients and the Brululians resemble giant lobsters. I’ve jumped to later in the same chapter with an action scene starting in the great hall of the Black Dragon’s eyrie with the fight taking place on the moon Illoris. You can read last week’s snippet here – http://auroraspringernovels.blogspot.com/2015/09/snippet-on-sythos-for-sffsat-from-wip.html
Placing her hands on his shell, Violet poured healing empathy into the Warden. Reaching a clawed forelimb to the wounded Brululian, Istrelle sang, “Let me aid our brave Warden Gulpah. Save energy for your Griffin.” Stepping aside, Violet sensed the silver dragoness radiate her despised empathy to ease the Brululian’s pain. Her Griffin, Athanor, had remained on Illoris to deal with the invaders. Shutting her eyes, Violet focused on their resonating crystals and saw through the amethyst he wore. Many transparent amoeboids oozed out of the portal. The coppery Seltos swooped back and forth, ripping into the enemy with his sharp claws. Athanor blasted holes in their membranes; they shriveled and died. More poured through the portal and filled the portal station with their pulsing bodies. One pushed a metal box and cracked open the lid. Gray smoke billowed from the box. “Port out!” Violet’s thought arrowed to Athanor. “Hades!” Athanor groaned. Their link snapped.


Books 1 & 2 are published.Grand Master’s Pawn: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TP1N5PMGrand Master’s Game: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0104OFJJ8
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An interrupted wedding #1 - snippet from WIP for #WeWriWa

Welcome to another Sunday with Weekend Writing Warriors . Here, writers showcase their stories with 8-10 sentences. Join the fun and read our snippets.
Last weekend, I forgot to attach my link, but some folks found me anyway. So today, I’ll share a snippet from my WIP, Grand Master’s Mate, Book 3 in the trilogy. Excerpted & punctuated to fit. Violet and her Grand Master, Athanor, are at the wedding of one of her best friends, Tessa. Athanor anticipates trouble since the bridegroom, Phineas, has just won an award for inventing an instrument to measure psychic energy. The Council of Grand Masters is likely to ban such a device, but Athanor thinks it could be useful.
The Director of the Center for Life Science opened the ceremony. His slow, sonorous voice tended to send his listeners to sleep and today was no exception. Violet kept her senses tuned to Athanor, fearing he would fall asleep and inadvertently expose everyone to his raw power when he woke. His mind hazed and she sent him a mental pinch. Suppressing a yawn, he sent unconvincingly, “I’m awake.” His thoughts sharpened and he griped, “Next time, remind me not to accept an invitation to a wedding.” “You weren’t invited,” she snickered mentally and squeezed his hand. The mediator offered a blessing and Phineas slid the ring over Tessa’s slender finger. Violet’s eyes misted, anticipating their happiness. Boom; a red explosion shattered the glass panes in the curved wall of the atrium.

The first two books in the Grand Master's Trilogy are published. Grand Master’s Pawn, Book 1: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TP1N5PMGrand Master’s Game, Book 2: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0104OFJJ8
Please return to www.wewriwa.com to sample the works of the other writers.

Snippet on Sythos for #SFFSat from WIP Grand Master's Game

My contribution this week is from my unedited WIP, Grand Master’s Mate, Book 3 in the Grand Master’s Trilogy. For this trilogy, I gave the Grand Masters superpowers. Note: the dragons are reptilian sentients and the Brululians resemble giant lobsters. I’ve jumped to later in the same chapter with an action scene switching between the great hall of the Black Dragon Ythris and the portal station on the moon Illoris. You can read last week’s snippet here – http://auroraspringernovels.blogspot....
The Brululian Warden reared in front of its cabin in a valiant attempt to protect its babies. Gulpah’s shell was coated in green slime and two of its thin limbs had snapped at the joints and hung useless. Undeterred by the wounds, Gulpah’s large foreclaw pinched into the squirming gel of its assailant. Athanor shoved Violet towards the cabin. He stood tall, blasting blue psi beams into the attackers. Dodging past the struggling Gulpah and his opponent, Violet dashed inside the cabin and swept the three little Brululians into her arms. She peered outside. Leaping to Violet’s side, Athanor caught her arm and barked, “I’ll port you to safety.” She grabbed one of the middle limbs of Gulpah and psi surged, flipping Violet and the Brululians into the void. The great hall of the eyrie appeared around them. Violet released her grip on the Brululians and the shelly little creatures raced to the arms of Gullish and their siblings. She bent over the Brululian to examine his injuries. Gulpah panted, “My children are safe. I can grow another leg.” 

Books 1 & 2 are published.Grand Master’s Pawn: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TP1N5PMGrand Master’s Game: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0104OFJJ8
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Changing Genres – Contemporary Fiction to Romance by P.C. Zick

My librarian never-married aunt read The Fear of Flying by Erica Jong nearly forty years ago when it was first published. She wrapped the cover in brown paper. No one else knew her secret, except me, the hippie niece. 

I remember her showing me the title of the first chapter in her plainly wrapped paperback and giggling about the F-bomb being used in print. Through my 1970s’ haze, I laughed with her about the use of that particular word printed in a novel, let alone in the first chapter’s title. She made me promise to tell no one, particularly her sister, my mother. 

Her embarrassment at reading a racy novel sums up my feelings about romance novels, until a year ago. 

I read my share of romances as a form of pure escapism during my years of teaching high school English. Discussing the metaphors and symbolism in Moby Dick by day and reading Judith Krantz by night, I kept my spare time reading tastes to myself. Maybe I didn’t put a plain brown wrap around the covers, but I didn’t carry the book outside of the house or talk about it in the teacher’s lounge either. 

I was a hypocritical snob. 

However, it was that secret reading that finally pushed me to the computer to begin my own novel. I read one too many poorly written romances and other works of fiction. I kept saying to myself, “I could do better than this.” I’m not one to make those kinds of statements without backing it up, and so one summer, I sat down and wrote my first novel, contemporary fiction with illusions that might even be literary. 

When I started writing fiction seriously nearly twenty years ago, my novels contained elements of romance:  love conflicts, sympathetic heroines, hunky heroes, happy endings. But my novels also contained many threads with sometimes complicated plots intersecting and colliding. I kept charts with lines drawn between characters. I created visual spiders on my bulletin board and wrote novels as long as 130,000 words (Trails in the Sand 2013). I wanted my themes to contain “important” messages. 

When I joined the Indie Author movement in 2012, I learned romances sold much more than my works of contemporary fiction. But I still continued to work on what I thought of as “serious” fiction. 

However, many readers want quick, simple, and happy. They want pure escape from complicated and messy lives. Once I came down from my lofty precipice of literary snobbery, I realized not all romances need to be bodice ripping silliness, dripping in sappy declarations of undying love. 

I discovered that some of my online colleagues were writing romances with depth in their themes, even though the plots were much less complicated than I’d been writing. I enjoyed reading those works and found myself unembarrassed to shout it out through reviews, my blog, and social media. 

“Romance in a Month” announcements from fellow colleague Rachelle Ayala filled my Facebook groups. I admired Rachelle, so I decided I’d give her new online course a chance in May 2014. Over the course of a month, I wrote a draft for my first romance, Behind the Altar, which led me to write a sequel, Behind the Bar. I’m now working on Behind the Curtain, the third book in this series. I’ve also written two other romances for box sets with other romance writers, with plans to write several more for publication in 2016. 

It may seem as if I’ve sold out, dumping contemporary fiction out of a moving vehicle. I haven’t. I still plan on writing more in my Florida fiction series, expressing themes about landscapes, wildlife, and the environment. I have notebooks filled with my ramblings for the plot of several different books. 

But in each of my romances, I’ve woven threads of people living conscious lives. In my first romance, the main character runs a soup kitchen for homeless vets. In my newest release, Third Base, the heroine, a young millionaire, and the hero, an All-Star baseball player, both give back by being involved in organizations such as Habitat for Humanity and Wounded Warriors. 

I can write romance with one main plot line that leads to a happily ever ending, and still include important issues of the day about helping others, living consciously, forgiving trespasses, and healing hurts from childhood. 

It’s all storytelling, no matter the genre. 

As with readers who want simple and happy as a contrast to complicated lives, the same can be applied to the writer. My life became extremely complicated during the past year with moves, planned retirements, and a sick husband. Writing has always been my escape and an important passion, so why not make that escape the least complicated part of my life? 

When I’m asked what advice I have for new writers, I always say the same thing. I tell them to write, and write again. If writing simpler and happier stories keeps me writing, then that’s what I’m going to do for now. And then when I’m ready for a new challenge, there are still other genres awaiting me. I’ve never written a cozy mystery, a paranormal novel, or historical fiction, just to name a few. There’s a wealth of writing still left in these old fingers, and I plan to create stories for as long as I can. 

Now that’s my happy ending, without the brown paper wrapping. 


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September celebrate baseball with P.C. Zick’s new release Third Base - http://www.amazon.com/Third-Base-P-C-Zick-ebook/dp/B0105DXNVYBio P.C. Zick began her writing career in 1998 as a journalist. Her first novel was published in 2000. She's won various awards for her essays, columns, editorials, articles, and fiction. She describes herself as a "storyteller" no matter the genre. 

She in Florida for thirty years, and she finds the stories of Florida and its people and environment a rich base for her contemporary fiction. Florida's quirky and abundant wildlife—both human and animal—supply her fiction with tales almost too weird to be believable. Her romance series, Behind the Love, is also set in Florida. 

She writes two blogs, P.C. Zickand Living Lightly. She has published three nonfiction books and nine novels. 

Her writing contains the elements most dear to her heart, ranging from love to the environment. She believes in living lightly upon this earth with love, laughter, and passion.


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Surviving the Oddities of Terranue by Liza O'Connor

The Oddities of Terranue
There’s a lot of strange issues with the planet Terranue.
First, the entrance into Terranue is very rough, far rougher than it should be. And the pilot could tell you if you’re friends with him, that the roughness occurs when they fly into a thick orange haze. But why is there a thick haze? When they land the sky is blue and the sun is shining.
Second, there are T. rexes, giant grizzly bears the size of elephants, and saber-tooth lions roaming about the planet.
Third, there are five seasons, three of which are deadly.
Marybell, the organically grown sentient computer, carbon dates the planet and it is considerably older than the universe it is in. How is that even possible?

There are also blue bulls on the planet (Sargon), who look a great deal like the large blue bull that Tamsarandem (a Three-bonded soul) brought with them, and the oldest bull claims he can remember back to the very first big bang. That’s a great deal older than this universe.
Also Zousan’s father, the conniving cheating Cronus, has planted something terrible inside the planet that will destroy everything in a short while.
As matters play out, from these facts, Marybell postulates the following: a) The First God is alive, b) doesn’t like cheaters and c) supports The Path of Light.
Or maybe they’re just incredibly lucky? In the Multiverses, anything can and will happen.What do you think?  Could an ancient planet just appear in a new universe?


Surviving TerranueByLiza O’Connor Blurb Leading a colony of frightened people on a new world is rarely easy. The human colonists of Terranue have as their leader, Tamsarandem, the only Soul-bond of Three that has ever existed. Unfortunately, some perceive the innate kindness in the shaman’s choice of leaders as a weakness, thus, challenges begin. From the moment they arrive on the planet, self-survival instincts take hold among the colonists, putting the survival of the colony at risk. To survive, they must act for the good of the colony rather themselves, even when their natural instincts tell them to do the opposite. First, they must befriend the dominant intelligent life form on the planet, long-haired blue cattle, only slightly smaller than the blue bull Tamsarandem brought with them. Second, they must find a way to survive three of the planet’s five seasons. Otherwise, they’ll be baked, frozen, and pummeled to death. Third, they must protect themselves from the giant bears, saber tooth lions, and T. rexes that roam their planet. But worst of all, deep within the planet, a seed of evil grows, waiting to devour every living creature on the surface.Every day in their new paradise is a challenge to survive. Despite all the advantages the Gods have provided, success is neither easy nor certain, and people are rarely as good as they need to be.
ExcerptZousan worried over the twenty-six percent probability of The Path of Light succeeding in every single universe. It made no sense! The chances of the same percentage occurring was less likely than every sentient being in existence choosing the correct zega lottery’s seven hundred game symbols. No. This had his father’s hand written all over it. Damn Cronus! Why couldn’t he just be proud of his son’s success? Why was he driven to crush and devour his children? Was his ego so fragile?While Zousan wasn’t crazy about most of his offspring, he certainly didn’t spend a second on conniving ways to destroy them. He just left them behind when his father allowed him his own multiverse. He happily escaped the man’s tyranny, taking his one sweet offspring, Athena, with him. While his other children were a pain in the ass, he absolutely adored his talented, brilliant daughter.Without her, he would have failed early on, since she was the only one Cronus had ever shared the secret of creating life with. Fortunately, his father adored Athena and had showed her how to make life when she was but a little girl, long before Zousan demanded his own multiverse which he assured his father would be far superior to his.“Pane have you found the source of trouble?” he asked his top shepherd. Pane was the result of one his worthless Gods sharing a bit too much love during Zousan’s efforts to stop sentient beings from killing each other. Normally, God DNA would take precedent, resulting in a handsome new baby God. However, in this case, the sentient being’s DNA proved better than the worthless God’s, so Pane’s appearance resembled an orangutan. However, he was without doubt the finest shepherd Zousan had ever known. The fellow had a soothing baritone voice, great instincts, superb work ethics, and a true compassion and wish to not only keep his sentient beings alive, but to ensure they were happy and thriving.
Sales LinkBook 3: Surviving TerranueAmazonBook 2: Surviving OutboundAmazonBook 1: The Gods of ProbabilitiesAmazonAll books are free for KU subscribersAbout AuthorLiza is a multiple genre author of 16 novels. A Late Victorian Series, The Adventures of Xavier & Vic, plus a spinoff, A Right to Love, is an ongoing series.    A Long Road to Love is a humorous Contemporary Disaster Romance series of five books. She has two single books. One is a humorous, bad boys contemporary novel with ghosts, called Ghost Lover, the other is Untamed & Unabashed, a spinoff from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.Now, she’s rolling out her Science fiction series (with romance & humor) called The Multiverses. The first four books are slotted for last half of 2015.  In addition she hopes, if she hasn’t dropped from exhaustion by then, to re-release a sometimes humorous/suspense thriller called Saving Casey
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