I saw this today and was instantly hooked. Yes, I bought it. What a great blurb! Medusa Uploaded By Emily Devenport A generation starship can hide many secrets. When an Executive clan suspects Oichi of insurgency and discreetly shoves her out an airlock, one of those secrets finds and rescues her. Officially dead, Oichi begins […]
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Good blurbs are hard to write. I found this on Book Bub today. I think it sounds interesting, so I got it! By P. DaCostaA sci-fi adventure for fans of Firefly! When Captain Caleb Shepperd finds a synthetic stowaway on his spaceship, he’s inclined to get rid of her quickly. Little does he know, she’s […]
Writing a log line or a pitch is a skill most authors struggle to master. I know I haven’t, and I’ve studied them for years. But some people really have the art down. So, I thought that once a week I would post one of the back material/pitches/log lines–old or new–that worked on me. Maybe […]
A dashing female Han Solo and her “Chewy” co-captain meet all the aliens in Guardians of the Galaxy in this exhilarating space adventure. I’m thrilled to see my science fiction adventure, about a female space captain and her Tabisee partner, finagled into a dangerous mission by some dubious aliens, is getting very good reviews. https://readersfavorite.com/book-review/flashing-dark
Surrendering to the Inevitable… Saura was plastered to the view port, staring into an area of space that appeared to be empty of stars. Her ears were forward, almost quivering, and her eyes held a distant look. “Do you want to do this?” Deep diving the vasty, guiding a ship through space without maps of […]
Chapter 1 Contact You wouldn’t think a one-and-a-half meter tall Tabisee would pack enough punch to make an adult Human stumble backward, but Saura does. Don’t get too impressed: Human spacers are such lightweights that a mild shove from a grav-dweller will send us staggering. Part of the reason for that is we don’t resist. […]
Humans are whores to money. I understand the strident voices out there that warn it will be too late when we discover we’ve been paid off to sit on the sideline and let someone else run the show. The thing is, I don’t think we’ll ever let that happen. We’ll take two steps to the […]
All those glinting implants tracing over the surface of her skin, all that tech and there wasn’t room for one stinking comm link on or in her? She said she could not risk an external distraction while linked in to a ship. “War ship?” I ventured a guess. She nicked me lightly with a claw. […]
No matter what you have heard, everyone breaks under torture. Some EA Special Forces have a chip in their head that can cut off the pain center of the brain if agony reaches a certain level. It can even kill them under certain circumstances to protect what’s inside their head. But not a low-level grunt […]
Taking the Stars... 