The Final Installment - Portals: Volume Seven #scifi #romance #free #sampler #sfrb

Scifi Romance 1st Chapter Sampler
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The last volume in the Portals project - a series of free scifi romance first chapter samplers to tempt your appetite - released yesterday, bringing them up to a total of seven. Hopefully we have brought you a broad spectrum of scifi romance to try and so pick your favourites for future reads. Enjoy!

Not picked up the previous volumes? Go to the main website for all the retailer links for each volume HERE.

Welcome! You have arrived at a portal to the galaxy.

Enter, and you'll be introduced by award-winning authors to worlds beyond imagining, with heroes & heroines who dare to take it to the edge and beyond. Count on these adventurers to take their best shot … at their enemies and at romance!

Contains 12 first chapters, with links to purchase any or all of the complete books, should you wish. 

Published by the Science Fiction Romance Brigade

"Blaze of Glory" - FREE!

You heard it here, folks!

Samhain Publishing has decided to make the first book in my superhero trilogy, "Blaze of Glory", FREE from September 1 - 14th.

*****
Saving the world is easy for a superhero—unless you’re a fraud.

Jo Tanis is a superhero, fighting evil on the city streets, using her ability to feed off electromagnetic energy and fire off charges—and it’s all just a show. The Agency captures her and others like her when their powers begin to manifest, pitting them against each other in staged, gladiatorial fights. An explosive implant on the back of her neck assures she’ll keep right on smiling for the camera and beating up the bad guys.

When Earth comes under attack, suddenly the show becomes deadly real. Unable to deal with a real alien, the “supers” are falling in droves. Millions of innocent civilians are going to die…unless Jo can cobble together a team from among the fake heroes and villains the Agency enslaved. Including Hunter, who not only promises to show her how to deactivate the implants, but seems to know more than he should about how the mysterious Agency operates.

Forcing a rag-tag bunch of former enemies to work together is the least of Jo’s problems. The trick is determining if Hunter is friend or foe—and becoming the hero everyone thought she was before the world is destroyed for real.
*****

Here are the links!

Amazon

Barnes & Noble

Sony

Apple

Samhain

If you've been waiting to try out the series now's a great time to check it out!

The second book is also available and the last book, "Heroes Lost and Found" will be out in October - but why not grab the first one now and start reading?

;)

One small step against Piracy?

A short while ago, author Allie Ritch did a post on ways for people to have free reads without using pirate sites and ripping off authors and publishers. You can read the post here. In it, she lists some alternative places to get legally free reads, such as Smashwords and All Romance eBooks. So I had a thought. It won't stop pirating, and it won't stop people resorting to them, but perhaps if we could list a page of free reads here on the SFR Brigade blog, and make a joint effort to promote it, perhaps we can dissuade some of those readers from going for illegal copies. I'd like to know your thoughts. My idea is to have a page on this blog where we can list Brigade members permanently free reads, whatever the genre (the more, the merrier in my view), and to list sites or Goodread groups where giveaways are listed. Temporarily free reads such as special promotions or short term codes/vouchers could be listed in the comments on the page, and deleted as they expire. I'm happy to co-ordinate and list free titles/sites, but if we could all work to promote it, and if all the admins could occassionally check in to delete out-of-date comments, that would help. I know it won't stop pirating or the people who do it, but if we can redirect a few readers to legitimate sites, it's got to be worth doing? What are your thoughts?

Short Story Anthology Just Released

The newer, larger, improved edition of my 13-story Mixed Bag (only 99 cents) titled Mixed Bag II: Supersized with 25 stories is now available at Barnes and Noble and Amazon Kindle.

Here's what you get in the supersized edition. There is something for everyone here. While some of the stories are for an adult audience, there is no erotica. Unless ant attacks are your thing or if Big Foot drives you wild with desire.

Fish Story - Science Fiction
The Vision - Horror/Fantasy
Chilpequin 22 Miles - Fantasy
Coward - Horror
Heather's Pain - LitFic
The Delegate - SciFi
No Deposit, No Return - LitFic
Taxman - Humor
The Country Faire - Horror
Fair's Fair - Fantasy
If You Could See Her - Romance
Ma 'Yote and Her Cubs - Nostalgia LitFic
Invasion - Horror
The Cursed Valley - Fantasy
Shasta Lake - LitFic
Big Bessie's Place - LitFic
The Hunter - Horror
The Great Writing Competition - SciFi
A Good, Honest Dog - Non-fic
A Visit to Potter's Field - Fantasy
Extraordinary Rendition - LitFic
Jonathan Swift Finds Nemo - Alterate History
Lemons - Children
Neighborly - LitFic
A Grab Bag of Drabbles

I'd appreciate tagging on Amazon if you have a chance. Comment here and I'll give you a coupon at Smashwords for a FREE copy:

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Happy Valentine's Day and a Hearty Woot!

Happy Valentine’s Day!

It’s a lucky day for my hubby. I woke up to some good news, so even if he forgets to get me a Valentine, he’s good.

First off, GIRL GONE NOVA won a Reviewer’s Choice Award here: http://tinyurl.com/ReviewerChoice

OUT OF TIME is up for Best Book of 2010 here:

http://tinyurl.com/LASRBestBook (if you feel inclined hop over and give me a vote so I won't look too lame!)

If you like FREE stuff, I’ve got five free shorts at All Romance eBooks. http://www.allromanceebooks.com

And print editions of my LONESOME LAWMEN have released on Amazon and B&N! The best price is, of course, the digital bundle THE LONESOME LAWMEN TRILOGY and if you buy, be sure to pop over to www.lldreamspell.com and enter the contest to win a great prize bundle, including a Kindle! And speaking of Lonesome Lawmen, I’m having a release party here:

www.CyberLaunchParty.blogspot.com with more prizes on the line! (2/14 only!)

I see my lonesome guys released on Fictionwise!

And I launched another contest at AuthorIsland: http://tinyurl.com/AI-PBJ-contest

Here’s hoping your Valentine’s is wonderful!

Perilously,

Pauline

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