Amazon Tag Party - 08/30/2012

Welcome to the monthly SFR Brigade's Amazon Tag Party. Please find the list of this week's participating titles below. All you need to do is click on the title and it will take you to the relevant Amazon page. Happy Tagging!

A brief step by step guide:

1.Go to the Amazon buy page (links provided below)

2.Scroll down to the 'Tags Customers Associate with this Product' header. Please be aware that not all the tags show up on the books - you will; need to click 'show all (number of) tags' to see the full list. There's also a limit to how many tags you can agree with - 15 - so choose wisely my young apprentice!

3.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.)

4.If the tags are already there, just click on them to add your 'vote'

5.You can also type into the 'your tags' box to add your own (no need to save the page, just type and add)

6. Please also click the 'Like' button next to the title.

7. If you could also take a moment to 'Like' the author's Amazon page too, that would be awesome. :)

PLEASE NOTE! There's been some mention on Twitter by Liana Brooks and Jo-Anne Kenrick about 'malicious' tags , such as 'boycott', 'too expensive' and even 'delete'. While people are obviously entitled to their opinion, suggesting that a book should be tagged 'delete' is just plain nasty. If you happen to see any tags of this kind on a book during the tag party, please could you mention it in the comments and/or if you see a way to report it, then do so. Thank you.

Amazon Tag Party - 05/24/2012

Welcome to the weekly SFR Brigade's Amazon Tag Party. Please find the   list of this week's participating titles below. All you need to do is   click on the title and it will take you to the relevant Amazon page.   Happy Tagging!

A brief step by step guide:

1.Go to the Amazon buy page (links provided below)

2.Scroll   down to the 'Tags Customers Associate with this Product' header.  Please  be aware that not all the tags show up on the books - you will  need to  click 'show all (number of) tags' to see the full list. There's  also a  limit to how many tags you can agree with - 15 - so choose  wisely my  young apprentice!

3.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.)

4.If the tags are already there, just click on them to add your 'vote'

5.You can also type into the 'your tags' box to add your own (no need to save the page, just type and add)

6. Please also click the 'Like' button next to the title.

Amazon Tag Party - 05/17/2012

Welcome to the weekly SFR Brigade's Amazon Tag Party. Please find the list of this week's participating titles below. All you need to do is click on the title and it will take you to the relevant Amazon page. Happy Tagging!

A brief step by step guide:

1.Go to the Amazon buy page (links provided below)

2.Scroll down to the 'Tags Customers Associate with this Product' header. Please be aware that not all the tags show up on the books - you will need to click 'show all (number of) tags' to see the full list. There's also a limit to how many tags you can agree with - 15 - so choose wisely my young apprentice!

3.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.)

4.If the tags are already there, just click on them to add your 'vote'

5.You can also type into the 'your tags' box to add your own (no need to save the page, just type and add)

6. Please also click the 'Like' button next to the title.

Amazon Tag Party - 05/10/2012

Welcome to the weekly SFR Brigade's Amazon Tag Party. Please find the list of this week's participating titles below. All you need to do is click on the title and it will take you to the relevant Amazon page. Happy Tagging!

A brief step by step guide:

1.Go to the Amazon buy page (links provided below)

2.Scroll down to the 'Tags Customers Associate with this Product' header. Please be aware that not all the tags show up on the books - you will need to click 'show all (number of) tags' to see the full list. There's also a limit to how many tags you can agree with - 15 - so choose wisely my young apprentice!

3.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.)

4.If the tags are already there, just click on them to add your 'vote'

5.You can also type into the 'your tags' box to add your own (no need to save the page, just type and add)

6. Please also click the 'Like' button next to the title.

Amazon Tag Party - 05/03/2012

Welcome to the weekly SFR Brigade's Amazon Tag Party. Please find the list of this week's participating titles below. All you need to do is click on the title and it will take you to the relevant Amazon page. Happy Tagging!

A brief step by step guide:

1.Go to the Amazon buy page (links provided below)

2.Scroll down to the 'Tags Customers Associate with this Product' header. Please be aware that not all the tags show up on the books - you will need to click 'show all (number of) tags' to see the full list. There's also a limit to how many tags you can agree with - 15 - so choose wisely my young apprentice!

3.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.)

4.If the tags are already there, just click on them to add your 'vote'

5.You can also type into the 'your tags' box to add your own (no need to save the page, just type and add)

6. Please also click the 'Like' button next to the title.

Amazon Tag Party - 04/26/2012

Welcome to the all-new SFR Brigade's Amazon Tag Party. Please find the list of this week's participating titles below. All you need to do is click on the title and it will take you to the relevant Amazon page. Happy Tagging!

A brief step by step guide:

1.Go to the Amazon buy page (links provided below)

2.Scroll down to the 'Tags Customers Associate with this Product' header. Please be aware that not all the tags show up on the books - you will need to click 'show all (number of) tags' to see the full list. There's also a limit to how many tags you can agree with - 15 - so choose wisely my young apprentice!

3.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.)

4.If the tags are already there, just click on them to add your 'vote'

5.You can also type into the 'your tags' box to add your own (no need to save the page, just type and add)



For those wishing to submit their titles for tagging, a sign-up list will be open from Monday to Wednesday of each week for you to enter your own title for tagging (look for the tab in the SFR Brigade pages above). The criteria for signing up are:

1. It must be on Amazon

2. It must be SFR (includes Steampunk, Apocalyptic, Futuristic, Space Opera, Near Future, YA SFR and all the other subgenres that fall under that SFR umbrella.)

3. Must be written by a Brigader

4.Must have tags already added for taggers to agree with.

5.Priority will be given to new titles and/or those not tagged in recent weeks. Please try to give everyone a chance to have their title highlighted. List numbers will be restricted, otherwise it commits other members to spending a considerable amount of time tagging.

Amazon Tagging Party - Trial Run

After some discussion, we're trialling a new system for the tagging parties. In the SFR Brigade blogsite pages, you'll now see an Amazon tagging sign up. This is a linky tool which will be open from Monday to Wednesday, with the completed list being published on a Thursday for Brigaders to go tag titles. Please follow the instructions on the page - and let us know if there are any issues with it, or if you feel the system doesn't work for you etc. Any suggestions are always appreciated. :)

Please note - there is apparently a limit to how many tags someone can agree with, so choose your tags with care. :)

Battle Stations!

Brigade!

Do you know how long it's been since our last tag party? A long, long time.

The Brigade had a tradition of hosting a Tag Party on Thursdays. Tags are those little words and phrases that help Amazon's search engine sort through all the titles.

Any idea how many titles Amazon has? It's in the millions for print books and now over 800K for Kindle. Wow. Tagging gets us noticed on the search engine - makes it easier for the reader to find us amongst the teeming masses. (And, yes, I'm quoting a tag party there.)

Tagged books also give us a good idea of what's out there to read, and gives us an open comments forum for fun (spoiler free!) talk about the books. You're not required to buy or review the books, but you'll probably find yourself adding books to your TBR pile.

From the Twitter chatter, there's a lot of interest in getting this going again. All we need is some victims, and some volunteers willing to click a few buttons. A party host who is willing to organize everything and write the actual Tag Party post would be wonderful to.

Thursdays are in the middle of the week, everyone has a busy life, so let's put this to a vote.

YAY or NAY?

If YAY, would you be interested in hosting?

Thursday Tag Party for 7/20/11!

This morning was the end of an astounding chapter in space flight. Atlantis touched down, the last shuttle in service, for the last time. I don't think I'm the only one in the world, but hubby gave me an odd look when I teared up. A moment's silence for all the courageous men and women who took part in this amazing experiment over the decades.

And now, on to our terrestrial pioneers, our brave SFR writers to TAG!

For our new cadets, a brief Tagging flight manual:

* 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.)

* Don't forget your SFR Brigade Tag! (If it's already there, just point and click!)

* 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)

* Don't forget the "Like" button at the top of the page!

For a list of past Tag Party books, come on over to the Book Launch and Tag Party Books page. Tagging is always welcome.

On to our Tag targets for this week!




The Z Word by Bella Street















Space Slugs, Vol 1 (first time as a collection!) by Frances Pauli










If YOU have works, new or old, that you would like featured in the weekly Tag Party, or if you just want to drool over all the recent superhero/SF movies with me, please drop me a line at ravenesperanza@yahoo.com

Thursday Tag Party for 7/7/11!

Ah, the scent of new blood. Breathe in deeply my friends... *cough...cough* I think I many have been out in the heat too long. The summer sun is so bad for night dwellers.

What I meant to sat was, this week, I'd like to introduce you to our newest Brigaders with a book apiece to Tag!

For our virgin Taggers, a bit of Tagging Kama Sutra:

* 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.)

* Don't forget your SFR Brigade Tag! (If it's already there, just point and click!)

* 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)

* Don't forget the "Like" button at the top of the page!

For a list of past Tag Party books, come on over to the Book Launch and Tag Party Books page. Tagging is always welcome.

On to our Tag targets for this week!



Feral Collection by E.C. Belikov















Ambasadora by Heidi Ruby Miller















Midnight Reborn (Watchers Book 1) by D. McEntire










I've said it before folks, I'll say it again: if you don't tell me what YOU want, you leave the choices up to the demented pixie (me.) If you have works, new or old, that you would like featured in the weekly Tag Party, please drop me a line at ravenesperanza@yahoo.com

Thursday Tag Party for 6/30/11!

Last day of June, Brigaders - where does the time go? Today, I'm going to do something completely selfish. The covers for the last two books in the Anchorage series are up on the publisher's website, so it looks like the whole series will be out before the end of the year.

Time for an Anchorage retrospective with the first five books, with their rather varied covers. A work that took ten years off, er, of my life, Anchorage follows the descendants of a lost Earth colony as they gradually rediscover their place in the universe and on their own planet.

Never Tagged before? Couldn't be easier:

* 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.)

* Don't forget your SFR Brigade Tag!

* 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)

* Don't forget the "Like" button at the top of the page!

For a list of past Tag Party books, come on over to the Book Launch and Tag Party Books page. Tagging is always welcome.

On to our Tag targets for this week!






Marya - Anchorage Book 1

















Romenel: Voyage Into Twilight - Anchorage Book 2















Romenel: Obligations of Blood - Anchorage Book 3















Pelinas: The Enemy Within - Anchorage Book 4
















Pelinas: Child of the Koss - Anchorage Book 5












The Tag Party is always searching for your work, old or new. If you'd like your work featured in the weekly Tag Party, please drop me a line at ravenesperanza@yahoo.com

Thursday Tag Party for 6/23/11!

I know I usually start these with something fun and tongue-in-cheek, but today, we'll stay on the serious side. The Tags have returned to Amazon, as promised, but some of the recovery has been more successful than other bits of it.

Please check your Kindle books. Paperbacks were not affected. Some tag lists came back online whole and with all the picks intact, some did not, returning instead with "suggested tags" which may or may not have much to do with the work.

If you have a book for which the tags did not reload properly, please let me know. I'll be happy to rerun the title in the Tag Party.

And now, because of our little Amazon-induced hiatus, I have a little bit of a backlog of requests. On to the tagging. :)

First time Tagging? We promise to be gentle. (No! Put that down! I said gentle!):

* 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.)

* Don't forget your SFR Brigade Tag!

* 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)

* Don't forget the "Like" button at the top of the page!

For a list of past Tag Party books, come on over to the Book Launch and Tag Party Books page. Tagging is always welcome.

On to our Tag targets for this week!






Dreamspell Steampunk Volume 1 featuring Pauline Baird Jones and Heather Massey












Ashes by Arlene Webb
















Myths of the Gods by Leigh M. Lane (our own Lisa Lane)
















Splintered Energy by Arlene Webb











The Tag Party is always searching for your work, old or new. If you'd like your work featured in the weekly Tag Party, or if you know where Waldo is (he owes me $20), please drop me a line at ravenesperanza@yahoo.com

Amazon and The Vanishing Tags

I know some of you have been concerned about the missing Tags on Kindle books - and, yes, it happened universally to all Kindle editions. I sent some angry emails to Amazon and I did get a very nice reply.

Let me start by saying they did not do this on purpose. This was not an intentional corporate decision, it's a glitch.

Here's the bulk of the answer they sent:

"I have contacted our technical support team and they are currently working on the issue with Tags not appearing on the Kindle pages. I'm very sorry for any concerns this has caused and I can understand your frustrations.

They were not able to provide an exact date or time when they expect this issue to be resolved, but I will continue to monitor the situation with the technical support team until the problem is fixed. I will send you another email when I've received notification that the Tags are back on the Kindle products and have confirmed this myself. We appreciate your patience in this matter."

I'll keep you guys posted if I hear more. We'll have to see if the Tags return or if we all need to start over *groan*

Thursday Tag Party for 5/26/11!

Bacteria Use Caffeine as Food Source. Scientists recently discovered bacteria that can survive solely by consuming caffeine.*snort* Silly scientists. Writers have been doing this for decades.

For our Tag Targets this week, we have someone who I'm pretty sure is not a bacterium - Jennifer Hart!

First time Tagging? We promise to be gentle. (No! Put that down! I said gentle!):

* 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.)

* Don't forget your SFR Brigade Tag!

* 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)

* Don't forget the "Like" button at the top of the page!

For a list of past Tag Party books, come on over to the Book Launch and Tag Party Books page. Tagging is always welcome.

On to our Tag targets for this week!



Stellar Timing by Jennifer L. Hart
















No Limits (Coming December 27, 2011!) by Jenna McCormick (Jennifer's other name :) )








Please, please, please (I can make with the big eyes if i need to) - the Tag Party is searching for your work, old or new. If you'd like your work featured in the weekly Tag Party, or if you just want to help me drool over the new Thor, please drop me a line at ravenesperanza@yahoo.com

Thursday Tag Party for 5/19/11!

Mother Earth is unhappy with us these days. Floods, storms, earthquakes, and now? Last night there was an unheard of event - a tornado IN the city of Philadelphia. Cities don't get a lot of tornadoes because of the way the buildings interfere with air currents, Philly doesn't get them, period. But here it was, trundling down the street.

The weather, it is a-changing.

This week, I have requests from our own Frances Pauli and Sara Brookes - take it away, ladies!

For our first time Tag scouts, a brief manual:

* 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.)

* Don't forget your SFR Brigade Tag!

* 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)

* Don't forget the "Like" button at the top of the page!

For a list of past Tag Party books, come on over to the Book Launch and Tag Party Books page. Tagging is always welcome.

On to our Tag targets for this week!






Midnight's Shadow by Sara Brookes














Midnight's Ghost by Sara Brookes












The Dimensional Shift by Frances Pauli













As always - the Tag Party is searching for your work, old or new. If you'd like your work featured in the weekly Tag Party, or if you just want to vent about Neil Garman, please drop me a line at ravenesperanza@yahoo.com

The Tag Party Needs Content

Hello, Brigaders!

You may have noticed (or maybe not...) that the Tag Party has been absent the last couple of weeks.

Partly this is because I've been on the run from the Andromedan spaceport authority (look, the mooring grapples were on the fritz - it's not my fault!) but mostly it's because the Tag Party needs content. This is your party, folks. Let me know what YOU would like featured.

Back list books? New releases? Upcoming? A friend's work who's too shy to contact the Tag Party Lunatic? Send me whatever you have, with only three teensy stipulations:

1. It's up on Amazon
2. It's SFR
3. It's written by a Brigader

Any and all requests should go to ravenesperanza@yahoo.com - let's hear from some folks who haven't been featured before!

Thank you, end com

~Sandra

Thursday Tag Party for 4/21/11!

Now here's a thought to try to bend your mind around: some scientists theorize that the universe originally only had one dimension. Try to visualize that, oh, Brigaders. A line? A point? Just to add to the mind-bending, now someone's come up with a way to test this theory involving light and the earliest bits of the universe. (Here's the whole article: Primordial Weirdness)

For this week, we're going to bend a bit as well, as in genre bending - we have a steampunk and a horror on tap from our SFR Brigade authors.

For our first time Tag cadets, a brief tutorial:

* 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.)

* Don't forget your SFR Brigade Tag!

* 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)

* Don't forget the "Like" button at the top of the page!

For a list of past Tag Party books, come on over to the Book Launch and Tag Party Books page. Tagging is always welcome.

On to our Tag targets for this week!



Steamrolled (paperback) by Pauline Baird Jones




















Dark Faith featuring J.C.Hay











As always - the Tag Party is searching for your work, old or new. If you'd like your work featured in the weekly Tag Party, or if you want to share war stories from the galactic frontier, please drop me a line at ravenesperanza@yahoo.com

Thursday Tag Party for 4/14/11!

It's been fifty years, Brigaders. Fifty years since Yuri Gagarin first left our atmosphere on that incredible maiden flight of humans leaving the Terran nest, more than half a lifetime ago.

We've come so far; we've yet so far to go. As writers, and as readers, we play a part in getting there - we keep the furnace of imagination stoked. We are the keepers of the flame.

Today we have one from a brand new Brigader and one from a familiar face!

For our first time Tag-universe explorers, a brief pre-flight check:

* 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.)

* Don't forget your SFR Brigade Tag!

* 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)

For a list of past Tag Party books, come on over to the Book Launch and Tag Party Books page. Tagging is always welcome.

On to our Tag targets for this week!




Friend or Foe by Frances Pauli
















Blue Galaxy by Diane Dooley










As always - the Tag Party is searching for your work, old or new. If you'd like your work featured in the weekly Tag Party, or if you know where to get a telepathic translator for my cats, please drop me a line at ravenesperanza@yahoo.com

Thursday Tag Party for 4/7/11!

Back from L.A. - ah, what a marvelous city. Something for everyone. My favorite part of the trip was the Griffith Observatory. But, Sandra, the light pollution there must be horrendous!

Yes, though it wasn't in the 1800's when the observatory was built. Now it's a public observatory, which is the most wonderful of concepts. We got to view Sirius through the 12-inch Zeiss and one of the nice docents with the personal telescopes out on the lawn showed us Saturn's rings. (And they turned on the Tesla Coil! How cool!)

Their motto: Inspiring the future, one imagination at a time. I think that's what SF writers need to strive for as well. That, and Tagging. Oh, did I mention we have a couple of fun books to Tag? Oh, right...got all caught up.

For our first time Tag-universe explorers, a brief pre-flight check:

* 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.)

* Don't forget your SFR Brigade Tag!

* 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)

For a list of past Tag Party books, come on over to the Book Launch and Tag Party Books page. Tagging is always welcome.

On to our Tag targets for this week!


The Spiral Path by Lisa Paitz Spindler















Pelinas: The Enemy Within (Anchorage Book 4) by Sandra C. Stixrude

Tag Party on Vacation

The Tag Party Nut, er, Hostess is on vacation this week with family in L.A.

We'll return next week with actual books to tag - if you have a request, please send to:

ravenesperanza@yahoo.com