#SFFSAT Snippet: Refugees On Urloon

For the next few weeks I'm posting snippets from my upcoming SFR release, Refugees On Urloon. This snippet is from my heroine Svana's POV.

Her heart beat faster as she walked outside toward the beach. I am not going to participate in the fertility festival, she reminded herself. Still, it was the closest thing to a party she had attended for years, the last being a small festivity when her daughter turned sixteen.

Liam would be there. He might participate, with an Urloon woman. Or maybe a crew member. The thought made her throat tighten. Oh just be honest, she scolded herself. You want him to participate with you--you want it to be an Urloon marriage. Like a romance tale.

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#Writemotivation Moving Along

My WIP titled Starpath is now at 10k--halfway there! Am pleased with how clean it is coming out, preplanning seems to be the big key for me. I think it gives my brain some time behind the scene to mull over the plot and characters to avoid dead ends and plot snaffus.

Am still doing other author  things too, like working on my blog tour for April. I may take time to get my three back list books formatted and self published, but am thinking I might do that all in one weekend, when this rough draft is completed. It would get me away from this story before editing. We'll see.

My Website: I revamped it to a more scifi look. Plus I had a black background and I just don't like them that much, so the new site is light. I received permission to use a NASA Saturn picture, which thrilled me a lot! http://www.melisseaires.com

Current WIP, Novella/Novel Dilemna, News

I'm over 8k on the novella I'm writing for a submission call. Titled Starpath.

Blurb:

Talia, a grunt tech worker, gets the job of a lifetime when she is hired by Roan, lead singer and business manager of an interstellar mega-star clash band, The Rampage. What she doesn't know is that The Rampage is a money making front for a population of landless, secretive cat shifters, and the job she is going to perform for them takes place on a planet in the midst of a deadly civil war. The job itself is simple data retrieval, on a system she knows well. Getting to the job--that is the issue! That is outside her comfort level. So is Roan.

This is a space opera and, yes, veres into sci-fantasy/mixedgenre/slipstream with my population of cat shifters. But I so love the white tiger shifter clan I wrote in the now unavailable Tiger Juice (paranormal romance). I decided to set the clan in the far far future. They are disgustingly athletic and fit, while Talia spends twelve hours a day in a float chair working a 3-d display, then returns home to her mentally diminished Grandpa. Her life is a dull grind with few things to look forward to.

Had a nice chat with fellow SFR author Kaye Manro about getting busy on something novel length  and the idea is brewing that Starpath has enough meat in it to expand--so I may abandon the whole novella/submission call idea. Thoughts are brewing.


Other News--I'm one of the 10 Unknown Scifi Romance Authors You Should Read in Heather Massey's blog on Heroes and HeartBreakers! Thrilled and honored. Garsh.


Backlist News-- Have covers(scroll down a few blogs) for three out of contract works. Will be nice to have them for sale again--so weird to look at my Amazon page and not see books!

#SFFSAT snippet #3 Starlander's Myth: Meet Sophie

Here is my last snippet for now from my steampunk spacewestern romance, Starlander's Myth. My last two snippets were from my hero Jack's POV. This snippet is from my heroine Sophie's POV.

Sophie held her daughter tight as the small flitter zipped through the thin air of the bubble. Her heart was still racing. She wanted to tear off her clothes, grab Flora and fly to safety. But there was no safety. And this wasn’t a real wilderness where she and Flora could hunt while in form and survive. This was a dead asteroid with air pumped in under a bubble for the miners. A temporary place.

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#Writemotivation March 2012 Oh gosh!

I started off really well but then came down with a head cold. My plan is to stay up until 11 at night writing, which is normally no problem, but I've been dozing off around 8:30, so not getting much done. Hopefully tonight will go better!

This one is by me. Book was formerly titled Shadow Rescue.

 

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                            Erin Dameron-Hill

                Formerly Cybot Awakens

I recently got covers for three of my out of contract books, so will be getting them up at least on Amazon and B&N later this month. Have covers! I have no plans to promo these, but at least some of my backlist will be available.

But now that I have the cover I'm thinking of changing the title. Oh well.

SFFS Snippet #2 from Starlander's Myth

Here is a second snippet from my steampunk spacewestern romance, Starlander's Myth.

 “Now, this is an exceptionally secret procedure, Mr. Galto. Assure me again that we are in a secluded area. I don’t want to have to shoot some miner who stumbles on our little exhibition.”

“Nothing to worry about, Mr. Snurr. The claim over that ridge is Jack Starlander's but he's got a nice vein of cryst on the far side of his land that'll keep him busy for some time. We are unobserved.”

Jack didn’t appreciate Galto knowing so much about his operation but he was a mite pleased Galto was wrong about his whereabouts.

“Starlander? One of the infamous Starlanders?”

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#Writemotivation March 2012 GOALS

photograph by Hugh Lee and licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. 

MY MARCH GOALS

 In March I am writing a novella. I've been planning it for a month and hope to fly through the writing portion at 2k per day. The novella has to be a minimum of 20k with the max at 40k.

Also have a big blog tour in the planning for my April 9th release of Refugees On Urloon. I need several blogs with content other than Blurb/Excerpt, so will be writing those, too.

Of course, I will continue with  SFFSAT  because it is so fun!