What's on my reading list this week? Ambasadora by Heidi Ruby Miller

Back in June, I had the good fortune to interview Heidi Ruby Miller about her futuristic novel, Ambasadora.  Finally, I've had the time to slip into the pages of this entrancing tale, and I'll be posting my review this week!

Meanwhile, let me refresh your memory about the novel and this fabulous author:

A few weeks ago, I read a fantastic how-to book entitled Many Genres, One Craft.  Besides being a great step-by-step manual for aspiring and published authors, there were a multitude of fantastic bits and pieces from other writers.  Each week, I've made it a point to introduce my readers to the authors spotlighted in the book.

Heidi's wrote the following articles in Many Genres, One Craft: "Tomorrow's Kiss: The Duality of SF Romance","Be an Archetype, Not a Stereotype", "Touring Virtually", "The Shifting Grail: In Search of a Good Read", and  "I'll Scratch Your Back and You Review My Book".  Great stuff and, if you haven't picked up your copy yet, you don't know what you're missing!

Besides writing informative how-to's, Heidi writes novels where stories where the relationship is as important as the adventure. She loves science fiction, high-heeled shoes, action movies, Chanel, loud music, and of course, romance.

Heidi also teaches creative writing at Seton Hill University, where she graduated from their renowned Writing Popular Fiction Graduate Program.  The writing guide Many Genres, One Craft, which she co-edited with Michael A. Arnzen, is based on the Seton Hill program and her novel Ambasadora was her thesis there.

 You can find out about Heidi at http://heidirubymiller.blogspot.com/

Meanwhile, you can find a copy at http://www.amazon.com/Ambasadora-ebook/dp/B004ZR9WOY/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_2

In addition, don't forget, Many Genres, One Craft can still be found at http://www

BLURB:

If everyone told you love wasn't real, would you still be willing to die for it?

Sara Mendoza and Sean Cryer are.

In their multi-partner, caste-ruled society, love and jealousy are considered emotional fallacies, nothing more than fleeting moods and sentiments biased by hormones. Relationships and conceptions in this world obsessed with celebrity, beauty, and power are based on DNA and lineages…or should be. But not everyone believes in the ruling traditions of the all-powerful Embassy. A quiet rebellion prowls the dark underground of this shiny world where techno-militants calling themselves fraggers grow in numbers and bravado. The Embassy intends to silence the fragger movement before the heresy of equality spreads throughout the system.

Sara Mendoza is part of the Embassy's plan. Captured, tortured, and falsely accused of treason, she is given a chance to win back her freedom. She only needs to charm information from one of the fragger leaders, then kill him. But by the time she figures out the Embassy's intel is flawed and that Sean Cryer is her true mark, she's already in love with him.

Sean knows why Sara is on his ship from the start, but as a lonely, anti-social doser, he doesn't value his life, only his ideology within the fragger organization. Against his better judgment, he becomes her protector, each day caring more about a future he was always afraid to hope for.

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