Tour the Galaxy with a King #Pietas #SciFi
This week begins the cover reveal tour of the galaxy of blogs for my new book, Bringer of Chaos: Forged in Fire. Fire is science fiction with romantic elements. It has no profanity or explicit content, but…
A Wound of the Heart: Forged in Fire #MFRWhooks #SciFi #Pietas
Welcome to MFRW Book Hooks. Members of Marketing for Romance Writers holds this weekly blog hop as a way to encourage active participation in the group and with each other. A Wound of the Heart: Forged…
What a telepath focuses upon, she controls #SciFi #MFRWhooks #MFRWauthor
In this scene from Bringer of Chaos: Forged in Fire, Pietas and the search party sent to find him have stopped their upward mountain trek for a short break. Prior to their reunion the previous…
That feeling when you think you’re explaining–but you’re not #Pietas #scifi #MFRWhooks
In this scene from the military science fiction novel Bringer of Chaos: Forged in Fire, the hero, Pietas, has discovered a familiar item on an alien world. He points it out to Six, explaining in…
The sting of emotions bombarded Pietas #SciFi #PietasFans
When I wrote Bringer of Chaos, I knew the hero would not be a sympathetic character. I didn’t expect him to change, but as I wrote, trying to understand him, I began to see my…
Just Like Old Times: Everyone’s Angry #scifi #MFRWhooks
BookHooks is a blog hop where authors share only a small snippet of a story, an enticement to read more. Today’s snippet is from Bringer of Chaos: the Origin of Pietas. In this scene from…
What little remained of his heart… #SciFi #MFRWhooks
In this scene from Bringer of Chaos: the Origin of Pietas, the hero is performing a ritual to prepare for war. He’s asked his twin sister to assist him. The one woman who held the…
When Your Villain isn’t a Villain #writerslife #amediting
Villain: wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately; principal bad character in a film or work of fiction (WordWeb). I’d like to add to that: character who refuses to cooperate with your plot.…
Character Flaws: Narcissism, Writing Pietas #PietasFans #SciFi
One way writers allow readers to connect with a hero is to give him serious character flaws. In Bringer of Chaos: the Origin of Pietas, Pietas begins as an arrogant narcissist with a superiority complex.…
Joss and Pietas meet (from Forged in Fire, a sweet scifi romance) #excerpt #Scifi
This is the sequel to book one in the Bringer of Chaos series. The first was Origin of Pietas, the second is Forged in Fire. In it, we get a lovely flashback of his first…