Saturday, July 31, 2010
Brigade member Kylie Griffin wins the Golden Heart!
Long and Short Romance Reviews Gives Girl Gone Nova 4.5!
Here's a big woot (and a big thank you) for a new review from Long and Short Romance Reviews! And the love keeps coming because Girl Gone Nova is also up for their Book of the Week! I hope you'll stop by and cast a vote for your favorite review of the past week. And here's my favorite parts from the review (well, I loved it all, but here's some snips):
Girl Gone Nova by Pauline Baird Jones
Rating: 4.5 Books
Reviewed by Cholla
About my heroine:
"Doc is probably the most creative and inventive character I’ve met to date. Able to adapt to any and every situation within the blink of an eye, there isn’t a job too difficult for her...or so she thinks. And then she meets Hel – Leader of the Gadi people and everything changes."
About my hero:
Hel is a paradox of his own. His public side is all professional. He’s the calm and serene diplomat at all times, both out in public and with his advisors. However, when he’s backed into a corner, you definitely do not want to be the one standing in his way."
And then the big finish:
"Girl Gone Nova is an action-filled science fiction treat! Stuffed full of intrigue, time-traveling, wisecracks and every girl’s dream of love and happily-ever-after, it’s a sure-fire hit with any lover of the genre. Ms. Jones has a talent for bringing unusual characters forth and making them seem like ‘one of the guys’, it’s a talent you’re sure to remember for a long time to come, as is her amazing novel, Girl Gone Nova."
To read the whole review, click here. And to vote for a "Book of the Week" review click here. Girl Gone Nova is a connected, follow-on to The Key, which won the Dream Realm Award and a Bronze IPPY. And I take the books in a steampunk/science fiction romance direction this December when Tangled in Time releases.
Okay, I know I love it when I get a great review quote. Anyone else have a favorite to share? It's Saturday, so let's toot some horns!
perilously,
Pauline
Perils of Pauline
Friday, July 30, 2010
Coffee Time Romance Reviews Kaye Manro's FORBIDDEN LOVE
Remember when this released back in May? I'm excited to share with my fellow Brigaders the Coffee Time Romance review of my sensual little SFR eBook FORBIDDEN LOVE...
This is an interesting review, and earned four cups by one of CTR's highly regarded reviewers. It is great to know that we SFR authors are out there and getting noticed. Another great thing-- FL is now available at Amazon and is a kindle edition! I'm so pleased and impressed.
FORBIDDEN LOVE (CTR Review)
Reptilian specialist Dr. Maya Belle loves spending her days studying and caring for her beloved scaly desert friends. However, the government uses this desert as training grounds, and she fears for their existence as much as their safety.
Scouting missions like this are part of the reasons T’Kon of Asconage loves space travel, but it did not take long to realize that this planet is not ready to meet his people. They are a violent and combative species, and he sees no reason to interact with them.
Everything is going according to plan as T’Kon readies his craft to leave this solar system, when suddenly he is plummeting to the planet below. As Maya recovers from the freak sandstorm, she finds herself looking at the embodiment of her greatest dream and desire. This…man/alien is absolutely the most amazing creature she has ever laid eyes on, and for the first time in her life, she feels a soul-deep connection unlike anything she has ever experienced. T’Kon is struck by the same heady sense, and the feeling that this human female is everything his body craves, but how can they ever be together when they are worlds apart?
This quick read is as hot as the desert sun and just as scorching. Maya takes to her alien like a duck to water, which may seem odd, but when in relation to her profession feels almost natural. T’Kon is much more of a mystery, and one that I would love to see unfold in episodes to come. If you enjoy sci-fi combined with some blistering hot romance, these two are sure to rock your galaxy.
Lori Gardner
Coffee Time Romance Reviewer
Okay, you've got it! Book 2 in this series, FORBIDDEN DESTINY with more FTL adventures featuring T'Kon and Maya, coming in the near future...
FL did generate some fantastic attention. Here's a question for those of you who have already read FORBIDDEN LOVE. Did the CTR reviewer hit it right on, or is there somehthing else you would have said or added?
See you around the Galaxy!
Kaye Manro
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Thursday Tag Party for 7/29/10!
OK, so it's not really that. But it is an easy, fun way to support SFR and your fellow authors. Amazon has the Tag system all set up for you, all you have to do is supply the tags.
A brief step by step if this is your first Tag Mission:
- Go to the Amazon buy page (I've included the links below)
- Scroll down to the Tags Customers Associate with this Product header
- Look for these tags: SFR, Scifi Romance, SF Romance, Science Fiction Romance and Paranormal Romance - please feel free to add any extra tags you feel are appropriate to the work (i.e. Space Opera, Military SF, etc.)
- If the tags are already there, just click on them to add your 'vote'
- If not, type them into the 'your tags' box to add them (no need to save the page, just type and add)
Our lovely lineup for this week:
Alien Mate by Eve Langlais
Forbidden Love by Kaye Manro
Fire Griffin by Jane Toombs
Hearts and Minds: An Impulse Power Story by J C Hay
SFR denizens untie! Er, unite. If you are a member with a book on Amazon or if you know of a member's book we've missed. contact me at ravenesperanza@yahoo.com and I'll add you to the rotation. Feel free to contact me with anything else as well. Well wishes. Gypsy curses. Tales of old Ulysses. I'm flexible. Happy tagging!
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Polls, Polls, Polls...
Below are a series of polls about your reading habits, SFR and the SFR Brigade community, in general. Please take a moment to answer the polls and comment with further thoughts.
See you next week!
Pony up!
http://www.epicauthors.com/
I just checked out my entry in EPIC and I noticed there's not one, science fiction romance. There are two in the erotic science fiction romance category. Hey, what's going on, Brigaders? This is a chance to Buffy-size those paranormals and we're falling short.
EPIC is a great contest for ePublished novels and I'd love to see some more names next to my entry and in the science fiction romance category.
Come on, Brigaders, pony up.
:)
Monday, July 26, 2010
SFR Discussion on Goodreads
If you have a few minutes, pop on over, check out the topics and add your own input to the chats.
If you hear of any other active SFR discussions, let us know.
Hailing On All Frequencies!
Just a reminder that there will be no HOAF news posted in the first week of August as I'm attending the RWA® National conference in Orlando, Florida.I'm looking forward to meeting up with fellow-Brigaders and sporting the new SFRB badge with pride as I mingle in the crowd.
NEW RELEASES
Lisa Lane's new book, PANDORA'S HOPE, the sequel to her erotic SFR novel, LUST IN SPACE, is set for release by Ravenous Romance in early August. Exact date is still TBR.
Eve Langlais's ALIEN MATE is now available, and ALIEN MATE 2 will be released with Amira Press on July 23rd.
Eve Langlais also has THE HUNTER available from Amira Press.
29th July - Tracey O'Hara
7th August - Sherrilyn Kenyon
14th August - Keri Arthur
21st August - Anna Jacobs
Ella Drake for her novella FIRESTORM ON E'TERRA
Intragalactic smokejumper and former refugee Wilson Dex takes the latest in a long line of risks, a mission to quell the firestorm on planet E'terra.
Equipment from his transport ship malfunctions, forcing by-the-book Commander Samantha Varde dirtside to help Dex though she suffers from landsickness.
While fighting the ill-timed and against-code heat between them, they have hours to reprogram a torpedo, fly into a tornado, and chute into a firestorm, all to save the colony before the storm flames out of control.
Katherine Allred for her futuristic CLOSE ENCOUNTERS
The Bureau of Alien Affairs needed a special GEP agent with empathic abilities to handle their most extraordinary assignments--and a rogue geneticist saw to it that Kiera fit their specifications. Bit she turned out stronger, faster, smarter and more impervious to harm than anyone anticipated. A reluctant "superhero", Kiera wishes she were nromal, but it is not to be.
On Orpheus 2, the indigenous Buri race faces extinction, a prospect the powerful Dynatec corporation welcomes and, in fact, may be actively hastening. As a special agent for the Bureau of Alien Affairs, it is Kiera's job to protect these beautiful, exotic aliens...and to discover what there is on Orpheus 2 that Dynatec feels is worth killing for. But the magnetic allure of the breathtaking Buri leader is proving a dangerous addiction. And now, to save Thor's people, Kiera will need a power she's never before possessed--something hidden in the unexplored recesses of her heart.
Jess Granger for her futuristic BEYOND THE RAIN
In a universe torn apart by civil war, a warrior and a slave must fight for their freedom, for their lives, and for a love that may destroy them both…
After five years behind enemy lines, Captain Cyani is ready to retire to her homeworld of Azra as one of the Elite — the celibate warrior sisterhood that rules the planet. But first she must complete one final mission to rescue her fellow Union soldiers. The last thing she expects to find is a prisoner, chained and beaten — but radiating feral power and an unbroken spirit…
Soren is a Byralen, an enigmatic people who possess a unique hormone that they use to bond with their mates — and that is sold as a sexual narcotic in the shadow trade. For years, he has endured torture at the hands of his captors as they leeched his very essence. The last thing he expects is to be freed from slavery by a beautiful warrior woman with radiant blue eyes.
Driven by her rigid sense of honor, Cyani frees Soren even though her life hinges upon the success of her mission. But after so many years in bondage, his hormones are so unbalanced that he will die if he does not bond with a woman. Can the lovely but distant warrior be the woman he needs to survive, or will the forbidden bond destroy them?
- Ella Drake
- Jess Granger
- Erica Hayes
- Jodi Redford
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Out of This World Summer Blog Tour
Contact me at Lisa_Lane *at* cerebralwriter *dot* com for details.
About Pandora's Hope:
Captain Nora Bradley, fiancé and First Officer Robert Smith, and crew have developed quite the reputation: their current tactical officer is an astral clone of the one they started with; a race of shape-shifting aliens currently travels the stars as an impostor “Pandora’s Hope”; and everyone is still recovering from the embarrassing and life-changing ship-wide orgy caused by their bout with the “space flu.” Worst of all, though, is that the more Nora tries to plan their wedding, the more Robert gets cold feet....
Now that the ship is back on mission, with a glorified babysitter from Space-Corp on its way, it seems that the ship-wide fun might be forced to an end—but first impressions always prove wrong on Pandora’s Hope, and the new addition to their crew, “Quality Control Officer” Patrice Jocar, might have more in common with her new peers than they think. In this second installment of the Lust in Space series, the crew of Pandora’s Hope explores more exotic intergalactic regions, picking up the most unlikely of refugees and encountering new alien species—while their wild and sexy antics continue. Will Nora and Robert’s relationship survive another excursion into deep space, or will the experience tear them apart for good?
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Anchorage Is Also A Planet
Errrm...isn't that sort of like saying because a series is named "Paris", it must be a Western? There is, after all, a Paris, Texas.
Just to set the record straight - I'd like to make it clear that Anchorage is also a planet. It's not on the charts and since it's so far from the regular routes, it's not a tourist destination, but plenty of people call it home. Some of them are even human...
Anchorage - seven books, one planet. Let the gravity well suck you in:
Book 1: Marya -
A prophecy foretelling the heir’s death, an assassin among his protectors, dreams of a sinister, hidden city–and Marya’s trials have just begun.
Book 2: Romenel: Voyage into Twilight -
Something is hunting fearless mercenary commander Romenel Devar. He’ll die if he can’t stop it but he doesn’t even know what it looks like.
Available Now at Red Rose Publishing
Book 3: Romenel: Obligations of Blood -
To the west, a plague of monsters and revelations from the past Romenel would rather leave buried. To the east, a dynastic war and bloodshed to come…
Releasing August 19th!
Book 4: Pelinas: The Enemy Within:
Exiled and ill, Pelinas takes refuge with his father’s enemies. But his mind hides terrible secrets from him and he struggles over who he can trust.
Book 5: Pelinas: Child of the Koss:
Duke Per believes only he is fit to rule. His sons will pay the price for his bloody obsession and only the youngest has the means to stop him.
Book 6: Emily: Rediscovery:
The Montagna Mining Company crosses the galaxy for gem deposits. What they get instead is an epic culture clash and the instigation of civil war.
Book 7: Emily: Shadow and Light:
An embittered warlord, a half-wild ex-assassin, a rogue pilot and an anthropology professor—and these are the only hope to save the world?
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Psssst
Yeah, she's bad.
Bring on the Buffy award!
Thursday Tag Party for 7/22/10!
Here's the thing about tags. The more times a tag 'vote' is added, the farther up in Amazon's search lists the book lands. More tags = more visibility. And we all know what that means. (Yes, yes, besides having to duck into the nearest weapons' locker to escape your fans.)
A brief step by step if you're a virgin tagger:
- Go to the Amazon buy page (I've included the links below)
- Scroll down to the Tags Customers Associate with this Product header
- Look for these tags: SFR, Scifi Romance, SF Romance, Science Fiction Romance and Paranormal Romance - please feel free to add any extra tags you feel are appropriate to the work (i.e. Space Opera, Military SF, etc.)
- If the tags are already there, just click on them to add your 'vote'
- If not, type them into the 'your tags' box to add them (no need to save the page, just type and add)
The Key by Pauline Baird Jones
In Enemy Hands by K S Augustin
Beyond the Shadows by Jess Granger
Wild Cards and Iron Horses by Sheryl Nantus
Tag, tag, tag! It makes the kitties happy and helps your fellow SFR authors! If you would like your book or another member's book featured, please drop me a line at ravenesperanza@yahoo.com. (Otherwise we have to rely on Finn, who can't read, and me, who everyone knows is cracked.)
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
SFR Interviews John B Rosenman
Beyond Those Distant Stars (published by Mundania Press) is about humanity on the brink of annihilation. Mysterious, rapacious, seemingly invincible aliens have invaded the galaxy and crushed us in battle after battle. At the same time, Stella McMasters, a woman in her mid-thirties, is at the tag end of her military career. Because of a radioactive accident, the only way they can save her is to remove most of her body and turn her into a cyborg with superhuman strength and speed. They also give Stella her first command of a ship.
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