Industry
Blogger Donna S. Frelick landed an agent with her SFR
manuscript UNCHAINED MEMORY. Read
all about it at Spacefreighters Lounge. Congratulations, Donna!
My new gig
I’m excited to share that I’ve been invited to blog for RT Book Reviews about science fiction
romance! My debut post is about the 5
Habits of Highly Successful SCI FI Romance Couples. Here’s a snippet:
Nurturing a romance can be tough even during the best of times. But what about when aliens are attacking Earth to steal all of our natural resources? How can a couple even begin to plan a date? Or imagine the challenges of executing a simple “getting to know you” conversation when an evil galactic empire is bent on the destruction and domination of one’s whole entire world!
Evil mega corporations don’t make it any easier with their Big Brother control issues and life-threatening products. Those types of workaholic villains can put a serious dent in a couple’s ability to carve out some “we time.”
Yet science fiction romance couples always achieve a Happily Ever After or Happily For Now no matter what the obstacles. How do they accomplish such a nigh impossible goal? What’s their secret?
Aquatic characters
revisited
After reading K.S.
Augustin’s entertaining EUROPA,
EUROPA, I spun off a previous
post about sci-fi romance aquatic characters with Swimming
Against The Stream: Why Aren’t There More Aquatic Heroes in Sci-Fi Romance?
(Heroes and Heartbreakers).
Authors blogging
At CONTACT – Infinite Futures, Ella Drake (METALMARK)
discusses space opera-steampunk mashups in—wait for it—Genre
mashup: Steampunk and Space Opera??
So when I started writing a space pirate story, somehow I ended up smooshing all sorts of things together. Gender role reversals (the pirate is the heroine. The virgin is the hero), pirate ships and space ships, and a play with symbols–false and real–using a royal amulet and …biomechanical bugs.
Find out why KICKING ASHE author (Perilous) Pauline
Baird Jones “hearts” Space Battles.
Current SFR giveaways
WARRIOR PRINCE by Nancy J. Cohen (The
Galaxy Express)
BLUE GALAXY and BLUE NEBULA by Diane Dooley (Smart
Girls Love SciFi & Paranormal Romance; Reading
Reality)
At Backward
Momentum, TK Anthony (FORGE) has a Decadent Publishing ebook and $20 Amazon
gift card up for grabs.
Totally epic video
Galaxy Express passenger Anne Elizabeth Baldwin kindly tipped
me off about a really cool video that features a firefighting
robot. Ain’t technology grand?
The music accompanying the images put me in the mood for an
equally epic SFR film that could include such technology. Think: THUNDERBIRDS
meets Ella Drake’s FIRESTORM ON E’TERRA. Sweet.
Joyfully yours,
Heather