A boy. . .a girl. . .a spaceship. . .
(I'd like to know who stole whom. . . ?)
BREAKAWAY (The Del and Gia stories) by @ksmithsf.bsky.social, in #ebook from Book View Cafe!
A collection of stories about a lost love, a stolen spacecraft, and life on the run.
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On the @WordWenches8 blog today @nicolacornick.bsky.social is revisiting some historical crushes from 2009 and asking readers to share their own favourite fictional crushes! wordwenches.com/weird-histor...
OK, I did it. I started a brand new series during Mercury retrograde. Now you'll have to listen to my complain about how tough this books is for the next three months! Anyone else in the same boat?
On @wordwenches.bsky.social, Susan rhapsodizes oh the joy of #pens!
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#readers #books if you haven't signed up for the @wordwenches.bsky.social newsletter yet, this is what you're missing: preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webvi...
What does being The Merlin of Britain truly mean?
Who does The Merlin protect--and from whom?
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GUARDIAN OF THE FREEDOM by Irene Radford is in #ebook, as the magical protection of England travels first to Europe & then the American Colonies.
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On the @WordWenches blog today Mary Jo talks about twins - in real life and in fiction. Are you a fan of stories featuring twins? So much scope for misunderstandings and swapping identities!
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forget impeaching, just blow him up as he does everyone else. The White House is half destroyed already.
Just reupping this image from my newsletter last week, that I hope people will feel free to save and liberally spred around the interwebs. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
@wordwenches.bsky.social February reviews of what the wenches have been reading! Find new books for your TBR stack and tell us of books you're loving! #books #reading
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fabulous cover!
*A secret meeting. . .the wrong interruption. . .a murder unsolved. Can she rely on a man she has never trusted?*
Book View Cafe is delighted to announce a #Regency CSI tale from @aliciarasley.bsky.social, MURDER AT THE BRIGHTON INN. Now in #ebook & #paper!
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Are you interested in tiny books? Today on the @wordwenches.bsky.social @annegracie.bsky.social is talking about the tiny books made by the Bronte children 200 years ago, using scrap paper and their brilliant imaginations. #readers
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On the @WordWenches today I’m talking about style icons, past and present, specifically Queen Marie Antoinette. Who is your favourite? Has anyone influenced you?
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you're getting it in front of loyal readers as well as new to you readers, so rah, rah, go go go!
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[ALT TEXT: EXORDIUM, Ruler of Naught, by Sherwood Smith and Dave Trowbridge]
[ALT IMAGE: Against a black background, a fire-forged rising phoenix in metal (that is gold but has bloomed at the lower edges to orange from heat) overlays a blazing golden sun. The sun is also tinted with flame orange, and the lower half of the sun is blacked out except for light reaching beyond the disk of darkness.]
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In the revised sequel to THE PHOENIX IN FLIGHT, Brandon vlith-Arkad, who fled the Mandalic Palace and his old life only hours ahead of assassination, is now heir to the Panarchy. He wants only to rescue his father, the Panarch.
But everyone wants a piece of him. The Dol’jharians, who smashed the Panarchy and took his father prisoner. A Rifter pirate and her crew, who helped him escape a doomed planet – twice – and now wonder what to do about a royal prisoner with the price of ten planets on his head. And the remnants of the government of the Thousand Suns, for whom he’d at best be an inconvenience.
The chase is on, and unexpected detours await.
Book 2 in the Exordium series
#ScienceFiction, #SpaceOpera, #collaboration, #SherwoodSmith, #DaveTrowbridge, #ExordiumSeries, #military/war, #swashbuckling](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gal2oc2fpdx3u4hqyrukmu7d/bafkreihrzth7itygfyetdssdoesoig7nmy66tasatomrld5xn56nmdzdri)
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ [ALT TEXT: EXORDIUM, Ruler of Naught, by Sherwood Smith and Dave Trowbridge] [ALT IMAGE: Against a black background, a fire-forged rising phoenix in metal (that is gold but has bloomed at the lower edges to orange from heat) overlays a blazing golden sun. The sun is also tinted with flame orange, and the lower half of the sun is blacked out except for light reaching beyond the disk of darkness.] ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ In the revised sequel to THE PHOENIX IN FLIGHT, Brandon vlith-Arkad, who fled the Mandalic Palace and his old life only hours ahead of assassination, is now heir to the Panarchy. He wants only to rescue his father, the Panarch. But everyone wants a piece of him. The Dol’jharians, who smashed the Panarchy and took his father prisoner. A Rifter pirate and her crew, who helped him escape a doomed planet – twice – and now wonder what to do about a royal prisoner with the price of ten planets on his head. And the remnants of the government of the Thousand Suns, for whom he’d at best be an inconvenience. The chase is on, and unexpected detours await. Book 2 in the Exordium series #ScienceFiction, #SpaceOpera, #collaboration, #SherwoodSmith, #DaveTrowbridge, #ExordiumSeries, #military/war, #swashbuckling
The revised version of EXORDIUM, Ruler of Naught, by @sherwood.bsky.social Smith and Dave Trowbridge, has arrived! #SpaceOpera #swashbuckling #SF
*He wants only to rescue his father. But everyone wants a piece of him. The chase is on, across a thousand worlds.*
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cat sprawling on couch back
Today @wordwenches.bsky.social Wenches, we‘re sharing our strategies for finding a smile in crazy times. #readers #books wordwenches.com/ask-a-wench-8/
now there's a happy thought... if I believed they voted.
For those poor souls following my adventure in kicking myself out of cozy mystery into who-knows-what-this-is, I changed my "he shot, she kicked, he hit" scene into a chase scene where the baddie gets hit by a sandbag and shoots himself. Am I getting closer?
creative, very creative. <G>
I do love burning things down but I need to keep this one! Sandbags are starting to look good.
ohhhh, he's been planning this... that may be my problem!
and recent news... but apropos!
I have just written the most awful terrible climactic scene I've ever written in 40 years. And this book was going so well... How does one dramatically kill a character in a movie studio?
ditto here in coastal SoCal. Military helicopters constantly. We have a marine base but it's never been this active.
Tired of ugly news? Have some flowers. How's your weather going?
On the @wordwenches.bsky.social blog today @nicolacornick.bsky.social muses on pockets, historical and contemporary. What a lot of trouble these little pieces of material can cause! wordwenches.com/the-power-of...
Romance lovers! How about an omnibus of *four* novels about the Sexy Public Servants Charity Calendar guys? Expect Hallmark sweet with some spicy heat. ❤️
It's THE CALENDAR HEROES by Michele Dunaway, now in #ebook at #BookViewCafe & other fine ebook establishments.
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On @wordwenches.bsky.social , Susan praises (and laments) #snow and more snow. How's your #winter going?
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I am tired.
I am going to have a brownie.
That is all.
