Five Facts about TETHERED, a #newrelease from @PippaJayGreen #scifirom
1. The story started with the working title of Succubi, and to begin with that was the only name the main female character had too. After all, the first and only scene I’d gotten down at the time was my heroine committing her first act as a succubus. That scene changed and got moved later on in development, but I still refer to it as my ‘Succubi in Space’ story.
2. The blurb won the SFR Brigade Pitch Contest in 2012. It wasn’t until I went back and looked it up that I realized how long ago I’d started the story – December 2011! The pitch contest was a fun event organized by the Science Fiction Romance Brigade (of which I’m a proud member), and I pretty much threw the blurb together just for the event as I hadn’t written much of the story and didn’t know how it was going to end. Feedback there actually helped me hone the blurb, and resulted in a name change for my heroine.
3. The idea hit me fully on Christmas Day and I had to sneak off to my bedroom to make hasty notes throughout the holiday. Of all the days of the year, this is one I CANNOT take time out to write. But somehow I managed to. I’d rather muse didn’t do that to me again though.
4. It was the first thing I’d written that didn’t have its own soundtrack…unless you count Christmas Carols. Normally music either sparks off a story or helps set the tone for what I’m writing. Even in hindsight, I don’t have a soundtrack for Tethered. I feel somehow…bad about that. Feel free to suggest some! However, the title itself did come from a song by Eliott Minor.
5. The idea originally came from a discussion on Twitter about under-represented mythical and legendary creatures in speculative fiction. I love Twitter. It’s my main hangout. Great to network, chat, brainstorm – if I had to give up all social media bar one, Twitter is what I would keep. And all the great tweeps I follow there, and who follow me.
TETHEREDby Pippa Jay
She can kill with a kiss. But can assassin Tyree also heal one man’s grief, and bring peace to a galaxy threatened by war?
For Tyree of the Su, being an assassin isn’t simply something she was trained for. It’s the sole reason for her existence. A genetically enhanced clone—one of many in Refuge—she’s about to learn her secluded lifestyle, and that of all her kind, is under threat by a race capable of neutralizing their special talents to leave them defenseless.
For Zander D’joren, being a diplomat has not only cost him his appearance, but also the love of his life. Scarred, grieving, he must nonetheless continue in his role as co-delegate to the fearsome Tier-vane or risk a conflict that could only end one way.
Now both of them need to keep each other alive and maintain a perilous deception long enough to renegotiate the treaty with the Tier-vane, or throw their people into a war that could wipe out Terrans and Inc-Su alike. But there’s more at stake than humanity, whether true or modified. Can the love growing between them save them both? Or merely hasten their destruction?
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After spending twelve years working as an Analytical Chemist in a Metals and Minerals laboratory, Pippa Jay is now a stay-at-home mum who writes scifi and the supernatural. Somewhere along the way a touch of romance crept into her work and refused to leave. In between torturing her plethora of characters, she spends the odd free moment playing guitar very badly, punishing herself with freestyle street dance, and studying the Dark Side of the Force. Although happily settled in the historical town of Colchester in the UK with her husband of 21 years and three little monsters, she continues to roam the rest of the Universe in her head.
Pippa Jay is a dedicated member of the Science Fiction Romance Brigade, blogging at Spacefreighters Lounge, Adventures in Scifi, and Romancing the Genres. Her works include a YA science fiction novel—Gethyon—published through BURST (Champagne Books), three self-published short stories (Terms & Conditions Apply, The Bones of the Sea, and Reboot), and she’s one of eight authors included in a science fiction romance anthology—Tales from the SFR Brigade. She’s also a double SFR Galaxy Award winner, been a finalist in the Heart of Denver RWA Aspen Gold Contest (3rd place), and the GCC RWA Silken Sands Star Awards (2nd place).
You can stalk her at her website http://pippajay.co.uk, or at her blog http://pippajay.blogspot.co.uk, but without doubt her favorite place to hang around and chat is on Twitter as @pippajaygreen.
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