Hailing On All Frequencies!

NEW RELEASES

Erica Hayes' new release POSION KISSED comes out on September 28th, 2010 from St.Martin's Press.

Sandra Stixrude's book, ROMENEL:OBLIGATIONS OF BLOOD (Anchorage Book 3) was released on August 19.



J.C.Hay's HEARTS & MINDS is out now with Samhain Publishing.

THE ANTAREN AFFAIR by Erica Anderson is out now with Ellora's Cave.

EXTREME LIQUIDATION by Gary Starta an is available now from Lyrical Press.

Belinda McBride's BLACK PLANET II: LITTLE FOXES is now available from Changeling Press LLC.

Belinda McBride also has BELLE STAR available at Loose ID LLC.

A NOBLE SACRIFICE by Ciara Gold is available from Champagne Books.

Vijaya Schartz's latest book, RED LEOPARD:CHRONICLES OF KASSOUK BK 2 from Desert Breeze Publishing, Inc. is now available.










BLOGGING

Kylie Griffin is back from attending the Romance Writers of New Zealand conference in Auckland. She has several photo posts up of her time spent travelling around the Land of the Long White Cloud. Click here to visit her blogsite. 

NEW MEMBERS 

Welcome to the following new Brigaders!

• Erica Anderson
• Rachel Savage
• Gail R. Delaney
• Vijaya Schartz
• Jennifer L. Hart
• Gary Starta
• Misa Buckley
• Julia Rachel Barrett
• Belinda McBride
• Mandy McCartney
• Darlene Reilly
• A. I. McMahan
• Becca Sheridan-Furrow
• Elizabeth N.
• Sandra Sookoo

MEMBERS NEWS

Belinda McBride's M/M short story The Flower Boy has been accepted by Dreamspinner Press for their MYTHS & MAGIC: LEGENDS OF LOVE anthology. It's due for release in October 2010.

Gail Koger's SFR novel, THE WARLORD'S COMEUPPANCE, scored a 4-Star review fro Night Owl Reviews. Check out the review here.

A huge woohoo! to A.R. Norris who's sold to Desert Breeze Publishing (I believe details of this sale has already been posted in my absence, thanks, Laurie!)

And also congrats to Brigader Lisa Paitz Spindler on the sale of her SFR novel (which she describes as a space opera with a heroine who's a space pirate!), PHASE SHIFT (to be retitled). It's due for release around spring 2011.

CONTEST NEWS

Congratulations to Brigader Michelle de Rooy! She had a whopper of a DownUnder conference season - in Australia & New Zealand.

She placed 2nd in the RWOz Emerald:Single Title contest, 2nd in the RWNZ Clendon Award contest & received the Clendon Award Readers' Choice trophy, and was highly commended in the RWOz Valerie Parv Award.

Sharon Fisher is a finalist with ECHO 8, her SFR with paranormal elements, in the Golden Gateway (from the Heart Romance Writers) in the Paranormal/Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Time Travel Category. The final judge is Latoya Smith from Grand Central Publishing. Good luck, Sharon! 

REMINDER

Have you updated your SFR Brigade Twitter Squadron listing lately?  We have new members!

BOOK REVIEWS, SIGNINGS & GIVEAWAYS

Sandra Sookoo has a couple of free reads on her website - two short stories called Culinary Magic & Once Around the Circle.

Verona St.James continues her Summer of SFR with a review of SONG OF SCARABAEUS by Sara Creasy. 

INFORMATION OF INTEREST
Dorchester Publishers has let go its two top editors--editorial director Leah Hultenschmidt and senior editor Don D'Auria. Chris Keeslar remains on staff as senior editor. For more details check out this article from Publishers' Weekly.

Brigader Anna McLain sent in this little tid-bit  - How Star Trek Artists Imagined the iPad...23yrs Ago . Long live, Star Trek!