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Over on the Bitten By Romance site today, we are featuring A.R. DeClerk for the next stop in our celebration of science fiction romance, its unusual settings, and rich backstories. If you’re bored by contemporary romance, cardboard billionaires, and predictable places, try a little science fiction sizzle! Oh, and we will be drawing prizes from…

Read More Tour of the Universe, day 16
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S.E. Smith takes over the Bitten By Romance site today, for a new entry in our science fiction romance Tour of the Universe! Day 14 means we’re getting near the midpoint of the tour. That also means you still have plenty of chances to visit the site, comment on previous entries, read new ones, and…

Read More Tour of the Universe, day 14
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If it’s Saturday, that means Jody Wallace has taken over Bitten By Romance! Stop by to see what she’s contributing to the Tour of the Universe. Read. Comment. We won’t bite (much). Housekeeping note: as we did last week, we’ll take a break on Sunday. But entry #12 will be up bright and early Monday…

Read More Tour of the Universe, day 11
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All September my fellow authors and bloggers are celebrating science fiction romance. Lisa Lace is today’s featured guest, over on Bitten by Romance. Follow the button, stop by and leave a comment! You could win a copy of my debut M/M erotic romance space opera, Moro’s Price. It has these two idiots in it. Or…

Read More Tour of the Universe, day 7
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If you’re in the US, that means Labor Day weekend – so in between celebrations, wander over to Bitten By Romance’s science fiction romance blog tour. Today, they’re featuring Rinelle Grey’s isolated, dying planet Zerris, and the tough choices its unwilling colonists have made to survive.

Read More Tour of the Universe, day 5
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Publishing is such a weird business. I have fairly strong internet analytical evidence that a review I wrote over a year ago has been responsible for at least a couple hundred sales…of someone else’s book. I’m happy for them. It’s a good book. At the same time, I wish my self-promo could go so well…

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Publishing is a weird business, even to someone on the outside like myself. Over the summer, I’ve watched a newish author run afoul of some alleged very bad behavior by a junior agent who should have known better, apparently abetted or condoned by a senior agent who *certainly* should have known better. In this case,…

Read More Agents’ submission records
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During the month of September, I’ll be part of this shindig: http://www.bittenbyromance.com/2015/08/tour-of-universe-2015-schedule.html There will be excerpts, behind-the-scenes backstories, prizes…and maybe…just maybe, a special announcement. I’ll also be giving away a digital copy of my debut M/M romance novel Moro’s Price, as well as this glass and fiber necklace: Bear with me while we finalize exactly…

Read More Bitten By Romance’s ‘Tour of the Universe’!
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Less than a year since I got to use this image of a Space Shuttle lifting off: On sub: two words, two decades behind them. My crazy romance/quest/fantasy novel is out on agented submission now, at its full 91,000+ words. Its fate is out of my hands at the moment. It reminds me of when…

Read More On sub!
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…if you haven’t already got a decent flatbed scanner. What kind? As long as it’s tabletop scanner with a decent sized image areas (must be able to at least handle 8.5×11″ image area) with good reviews, you get them in various brands from $40 all the way up to $1000 or more. You’ll pay extra…

Read More Artists: buy a tabletop scanner
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I finally got the first eleven pieces uploaded to my little piece of SaatchiArt.com! This batch includes glass micromosaics and beaded tapestries, but acrylic paintings and jewelry will follow soon. The link: http://www.saatchiart.com/mariancranedesigns Whether this portal produces sales or not, it’s a great display site for my older work…and hopefully a better venue for new pieces.…

Read More My art on SaatchiArt online
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I wrote this post just over a year ago, and in that time I’ve seen more and more abuses of Twitter’s generally-fun-and-useful pitch contests. It’s become bad enough that in two recent SF and Romance pitch contests I followed, over half of the ‘favorites’ were from brand new and unknown publishers, or worse: from companies…

Read More Twitter pitches in publishing #2
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My fiendishly talented friend and beta-reader AG Carpenter has a new story out in the self-published wilds: Legacy. Blurb: When a skin-changer looking for passage to Lake Ponchartrain collapses at her feet, Willa Arch finds herself drawn into a conflict between the iron-willed Queen Elsbett of Brittania and Queen of the Dead, Marie Laveau. But survival…

Read More Legacy, by A. G. Carpenter