A dragon who calls up storms #scifi #dragons #fanart
My character Pietas has always been the villain, but I had it in my head to write his origin story. I knew he was well aquainted with storms, personal, psychic, physical, and spiritual. So when…
Tour Inside the Nizamrak Building #scifi #IAN1
I named the Nizamrak Building after my friend and mentor, the late author Barbara Karmazin. Nizamrak is Karmazin backward. BK, as she was affectionately known, loved the idea of having a site named after her.…
Take me #BacktotheFuture Remember the Day #scifi
Remember this day in movie lore? Wednesday, October 21, 2015 — that’s the day set into the Flux Capacitor in the movie “Back to the Future” starring Christopher Lloyd and Michael J Fox. The flick…
Hearing About the Towers #NeverForget911
I was working at home on 9/11/2001. I was an administrative assistant back then. I had not yet published my first book, and was just sitting at my computer, working away. My son called from…
Cover Reveal: An Immortal’s Guide to Tarth #SciFi #ASMSG #IAN1
An Immortal’s Guide to Tarth is a tongue-in-cheek look at what relocating would be like for the immortals in my books if they moved to the Tarthian Empire. A bit of non-fiction, written in a…
4 Star Review for At the Mercy #scifi #amreading
Reviews for Mercy “At the Mercy of Her Pleasure is a story filled with vice and a political empire whose leader, the Conqueror, has no scruples about its application for her own benefit. Add to…
Tropes as Elements in Fantasy and #Scifi @MelissaSnark #IAN1
Tropes are literary themes that recur across a genre. Think of tropes as the ‘brilliant detective’ of murder mysteries or ‘the virginal heroine’ in Regency romances. Tropes are more than character descriptions, however. They can relate…
Oh Mercy: Rewriting a #Scifi Favorite #IAN1
I’m editing a previously released scifi romance in preparation for re-release. It’s mainstream scifi (but was erotica). Taking out the graphic content means the story itself shines for a whole new audience. The story deserves…
A #gem of a #scifi book
A gem — and charming too I got a sweet review: “This gem of a scifi book offers tips for scifi writers, and secrets for fans of Kayelle Allen’s Tarthian Empire series.” This is more…
Remember #reading the first book in a #series? #IAN1
Remember reading a series? When you picked up the first book, it held such promise. There would be more to learn, more to see, more worlds for you to explore. When you finished it, you had…