In the opening scenes of my science fiction romance, Passages, the hero, Quinn has no idea the woman he thinks is his grandmother is actually an electorg. Eve, the heroine, is the unlucky one to discover the masquerade, and tell Quinn. I slid a fingernail under one crusty end and lifted. The scab moved, exposing—“Wires. […]
Hello and welcome to my SFR contribution, a snippet from my novel Passages. Just as in real life, some science fiction machinery never works like you think it ought to, which my hero Quinn discovers in this excerpt: I passed the packed shelves and glanced at the book bindings. Some titles stood out. A few […]
Thanks for stopping by one of Science Fiction Romance Brigade’s weekly peeks into the SFR genre. In this installment from my science fiction romance Passages, the hero Quinn receives a surprise from one of his newly converted guards. I cracked the door. Noise came from below. Palming my knife, I crept down the stairs. A […]
For my Six Sentence Sundays I shared any snippet that appealed to me. Yet, for SFR Presents, I feel like it has to be sciency. So… In the early chapters of my story Passages, Quinn has forgotten all the apparatus available to an electorg. “No.” I moved back to the map. “And these numbers are […]
I’m here a day early! This week I’ve joined a small but growing weekly post group that’s very much in my corner of the universe—Science Fiction Romance Brigade Presents. I’ve been an *cough* inactive member of the SFR Brigade for a few years, but I do write SFR, a genre mash-up that walks the border […]
I have a shout out on the Spacefreighters Lounge blog! Thank you to my fellow science fiction romance writer Laurie A Green for the congrats on being newly agented. I met Laurie several years ago through RWA’s fantasy chapter. She is the founder of Science Fiction Romance Brigade, a community of SFR writers. Check out […]