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  Shona Husk gives us the guest post this Saturday at Bitten By Romance’s Tour of the Universe. Follow the button above to stop by, read, comment, and learn. You might win prizes later. You’ll certainly come away with new ideas about science fiction romance. As before, we are skipping Sunday. We’ll be back on…

Read More Tour of the Universe, day 17
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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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Howdy, howdy! From here, you should either click on the button above, or follow the link below to visit with C.E. Kilgore. She loves romance set in wild new environments and cultures, where the setting can be as vivid as the romance. She writes: “The Corwint Central Agent Files series takes place on over a dozen…

Read More Tour of the Universe, day 3
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  Come on over to Bitten By Romance, for a tasty bite of Carol Van Natta’s ‘Galactic Concordance’ science fiction romance. She shares a major setting today: the city of Spires, on the planet known as Concordance Prime. Visitors who comment will be entered into a chance to win one of 2 ebooks in her series.…

Read More Tour of the Universe, day 2
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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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Sir Christopher Lee’s title for his autobiography. One of the most skilled, competent, badass character actors to ever grace stage or set. We in the US tend to think of him as a villain in Star Wars or the recent Tolkien movies, but he was so much more. He passed a few days ago, but…

Read More Tall Dark and Gruesome…
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…then revels condescendingly at her own faceplant, and then manages to sell a smug little literary essay about it while touting her ‘purer’ work. To round out the trifecta of writing-related articles this week, here is the National Post’s unintentionally funny ‘confession of a failed romance writer’. Jowita Bydlowska’s essay touches on every single stereotype…

Read More Yet another literary writer epicfails at genre…
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I’m linking to this post over on Tor.com, because Jacqueline Carey’s first fantasy series (from 15 years ago, now!) still stands as one of the most breathtaking and interesting fantasy arcs I’ve read. Some very literate and lucid writers are doing a critical re-read, and it’s worth following along. Especially for erotic romance writers who have…

Read More Kushiel’s Dart re-read on Tor.com
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For authors unfamiliar with show business, few words will evoke the sheer magic of ‘They’ve optioned my book!’ That means someone has paid an author a certain amount of money to allow least the possibility (the ‘option’) of making that story into a movie, television drama, series, webcast, etc. Hold on there, pilgrim. You’re not…

Read More Option daydreams and nightmares