Twitter Squadron Alert!

Twitter Squadron...Start your engines!  We have a major event coming up -- an indepth interview with stellar author Linnea Sinclair along with a big giveaway -- at 3:00 PM Pacific time.  Do your pre-flight checks and get ready to rummmmmmble!

Let's get the word out by land, by sea, by subspace frequency--and especially--by Tweet!   :) 

Please remember to use the #sfrb hashtag on your tweets so other Brigaders can pick up your messages and retweet them. 

You're cleared for take off.

Deep Space Communication

UK astronomers have found an object in deep space sending out radio waves while moving at, it appears, superluminal speeds.

“The new object, which appeared in May 2009, has left us scratching our heads - we’ve never seen anything quite like this before,” said Dr Muxlow. “The object turned on very rapidly within a few days and shows no sign of decaying in brightness over the first few months of its existence. The new young supernova explosions that we were expecting to see in M82 brighten at radio wavelengths over several weeks and then decay over several months, so that explanation seems unlikely.”

The object is not quite in the middle of M82, where astronomers would expect to find the kind of supermassive central black hole that most other galaxies, including the Milky Way, have. Which leaves the possibility that it could be a smaller-scale "microquasar".

We won't know for sure what it is for years to come. But if we start getting reruns of an alien version of I Love Lucy I will be endlessly amused.

Survey: Who's Going to RT BookLovers?

We need to get a head count of any Brigade members planning to attend the RT BookLovers convention coming up next month so we have an idea how many buttons we'll need and to help your crewmembers know who they can look for. 

We know Linnea Sinclair, Jess Granger and Laura Scarlett are planning to attend.  Who else will be there?   

Blog Tour (A Little Late This Week)

We're still looking for a volunteer to manage our Tuesday (*ahem* okay, Saturday this week) Blog Tour. [*dangles point incentives in front of crowd of restless Brigaders*]

So continuing our Getting to Know You tour, here are links to members blogs that feature something of interest for SFR Brigaders.

Our first stop is Kaye Manro's blog where member Laurann Dohner talks about her April 16 release, Kissing Steel, second in the Cyborg Seduction Series from Ellora's Cave.  Laurann discusses her adventures as a writer and gives more information about the other titles in the Cyborg Seduction series.

Next up, we have Spacefreighters Lounge, where you're always welcome to drop into a hover chair and have yourself a Billins...  Donna S. Frelick always writes well thought-out and inspiring articles such as this week's Quest for Fire, about the search for ideas and muse fuel.

And what's this?  While perusing J. C. Hay's site, I stumble upon the announcement of the February release of Impulse Power from Samhain featuring romantic SF stories by three (count 'em three!) SFR Brigade members--Robert Appleton's The Mythmakers, Nathalie Gray's Metal Reign and J. C. Hay's Hearts and Minds.  (You all have been entirely too quiet about this project.)  I also understand a December release in paperback is in store.  Hmm...do I see a book tagging project in the near future?

Jody Wallace offers a Free Panther on her blog.  This is a very interesting concept in serializing stories via text to cell phones that you really should see.  It includes a link to the site. I'm intrigued!

Clare Dargin posts on a subject that's near and dear to my heart, and maybe the hearts of many SFR writers and any who dream of what's yet to be, The Manned U.S. Space Program is not Dead.

That's just a few of the goings on at your fellow Brigader's bases of operations.  But don't stop here.  When you have a few free minutes, check out the links to some of your fellow crewmember's site.  We've added a blog roll (still under construction) to the bottom of this site so you can scan some of the most recent posts and images. Go ahead and make the rounds. You never know where your voyage of discovery might take you.