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

Children of Scarabaeus – release day!

Hi Brigaders. My second novel Children of Scarabaeus from Harper Voyager hits bookstores today! It's the sequel to Song of Scarabaeus, a sci-fi adventure with a touch of romance. The sequel amps up that romance as Edie and Finn, forced by a "leash" to stick together, attempt to escape the clutches of the Crib empire only to be captured and drawn back into its nefarious plans.


Head over to my blog and follow my blog tour for chances to win the book and other cool things. You can read the first few chapters of the book here.


Edie Sha'nim believes she and her bodyguard lover, Finn, could find refuge from the tyranny of the Crib empire by fleeing to the Fringe worlds. But Edie's extraordinary cypherteck ability to manipulate the ecology of evolving planets makes her far too valuable to lose. Recaptured and forced to cooperate - or else she will watch Finn die - Edie is shocked to discover the Crib's new breed of cypherteck: children. She cannot stand by while the oppressors enslave the innocent, nor can she resist the lure of Scarabaeus, the first world she tried to save, when researchers discover what appears to be an evolving intelligence.


But escape - for Edie, for Finn, and for the exploited young - will require the ultimate sacrifice... and a shocking act of rebellion.

Fool For Love Contest Needs Entries!

For those of you preparing to hit the contest circuit this spring, the Virginia Romance Writers Fool For Love Contest deadline is coming up fast, on Friday, April 1. The contest is particularly short of entries in the Paranormal/Futuristic/Fantasy/Time Travel category (this means us), which should consist of unpublished romance manuscripts of 40,000 to 120,000 words in length. The final round judge for the P/F/F/TT category will be Amanda Barnett, Senior Editor of The Wild Rose Press. First Place winners in each category will be awarded a $50 prize; Second and Third Place winners receive a certificate good toward the contest entry fee for Fool For Love 2012. Check out the VRW website for more information. http://virginiaromancewriters.com/ Or email FoolForLove2011@gmail.com .

CRUSHED SUGAR is Released!

Good morning, Skiffy Rommers!  In the hustle and bustle, I forgot to do a few things to celebrate CRUSHED, including announcing it here.  Oops.  Well, guess what, I've released my *prequel* novella, CRUSHED SUGAR!  It is romantic, but not an official Romance with an HEA.  And there isn't much Science Fiction in this one, because it's set three months *before* SUGAR RUSH and the Heroine has no idea there are vampiric alien/hybrids around.  She is a geek though, kind of like MacGyver's kid sister.  'Course, that show was ten or so years ago, which means she'd be more like his daughter.  In any case, she's not Buffy the Vampire Slayer and this isn't Twilight either.  My teenage daughter explains it this way-.
"Buffy slays 'em, Bella kisses 'em, and Ophelia addicts 'em to Nintendo DS."
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So, if you're looking for a girl-geek heroine, please check out my Young Adult series, including Crushed, which is the first story, chronilogically in the series, although not the first released.
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You still have time to enter the Grand Prize Drawing too!
   Release of CRUSHED SUGAR by Kimber An