As the daughter of multimillionaires, Jennifer has everything she's ever
needed, except time. Diagnosed with a form of incurable cancer, she has
six months to live, and her dreams of working for National Geographic
to save African elephants and polar bears are shattered. Her only hope
is an experimental cryogenic freezing program, which will keep her in
stasis until doctors can find a cure.
The cure comes three hundred years
too late, and she wakes to a futuristic world where animals are all but
forgotten. Descendants of her brother adopt her, and she's thrown back
into high school. Exara, the class beauty, calls Jenny the Neanderthal
girl, and she becomes more of a sideshow than a member of the senior
class. Only Exara's gorgeous boyfriend, Maxim, sympathizes with her.
Her developing feelings for Maxim are only the beginning of her
problems. There aren't any more animals to save, so Jenny involves
herself with a rebel group called the Timesurfers, explorers searching
the galaxy for another planet to inhabit to clone long-dead animal
species. She must choose between her blossoming feelings for Maxim and
her lifelong dream.
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Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Four Ways Short Fiction Will Make You A Better Writer by Cherie Reich
Four
Ways Short Fiction Will Make You a Better Writer
by
Cherie Reich
It seems like some writers balk at
the thought of writing short fiction. They insist they write novels and can’t
write a short story because it always ends up into a novel. I say anyone can
learn to write short fiction and can learn from writing short fiction.
Although novel-length works and
short stories seem quite different and are in several ways, they also display
similarities. They usually have characters, theme, and plot, but a novel is
spread throughout time, a short story is a mere moment. With a novel, you can
explore the characters in a greater depth through subplots. A short story is
more focused with usually one plot and limited characters.
When I started writing novels, I heard
it was good to bulk up your writing résumé by writing short stories. As I was
writing and submitting short fiction to magazines and anthologies, I ventured
into flash fiction. I noticed when I went back to writing novels that my
writing was more concise and leaner. I was learning what was important and what
wasn’t.
So how can writing short fiction
help you? Let me list some ways it’s helped me.
1. Be concise. With a limited number of words, you learn what is
really important.
2. Practice makes perfect or, at least, better. Have trouble with
dialogue? Focus on a dialogue-heavy story. My weakness was descriptions, so I
worked on writing description-heavy flash fiction that focused on a setting.
3. Think small. By focusing on one plot or a character’s growth
through a scene, I was able to figure out how to move the story in a shorter
time period, which helped transition to writing scenes in a novel.
4. Experiment. Short fiction allows you to try different genres or
ways to write without fear. It’s much easier to throw away a thousand words of
something that’s not working than eighty thousand.
Have
you written a short story?
Check out Cherie's Collection of Fantastic Short Stories!!!
The
kingdom hangs in the balance.
War threatens Foxwick on all sides.
The dreaded Shadowlands gains more
souls. From the shrouded trees in Greymist Forest to the arid Blackden Barrens,
monsters roam in search of their next victim. Sirens lure ships beneath
Merrilea Sea. In cold and snowy Wintermill, royals plot to claim Foxwick as
their own, even if they must use dragons and sorcery. Marriage between
Foxwick’s king and Lochhollow’s princess creates a perilous alliance. Although
brave Valdale will come to Foxwick’s aid, the cost may be more than a true
friend can stomach.
Set over a hundred years, these
seventeen fantasy short stories explore the people, creatures, and lands in and
around the Kingdom of Foxwick.
Add on Goodreads here.
Available in print and e-formats!
Cherie
Reich is a speculative fiction writer and library assistant living in
Virginia. Her short stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies, and her
books include the horror collection Once
Upon a Nightmare, a science fantasy collection titled Fall of Gravity, and the fantasy series The Foxwick Chronicles and The
Fate Challenges. Reborn is her
debut novel. She is Vice President of Valley Writers and a member of the
Virginia Writers Club and Untethered Realms. For more information, please visit
her website.
Friday, December 5, 2014
Thursday, December 4, 2014
Skating at Somerset House by Nikki Moore
Out on 4th December
Book 1, #LoveLondon Series; Skating at Somerset House by
Nikki Moore
There’s nothing Holly
Winterlake loves more than Christmas and skating, so working as an Ice Marshall
at London's Somerset House is a dream come true.
Noel Summerford hates the
festive season and is a disaster on the ice, so taking his godson to Somerset
House is his idea of the nightmare before Christmas!
Things are bound to get
interesting when these two collide…
With a forty foot Christmas
tree, an assortment of well meaning friends and relatives, and a mad chocolate
Labrador, will this festive season be one to remember … or forget?
Available to buy at http://www.amazon.co.uk/Skating-Somerset-House-Love-London-ebook/dp/B00P5V4T4C
More books in the #LoveLondon series coming soon!
Released over December 14 to May 15 by HarperImpulse;
Bk 2, New Year at The Ritz (Short Story)
Bk 3, Valentine's on Primrose Hill (Short Story)
Bk 4, Cocktails in Chelsea (Short Story)
Bk 5, Strawberries at Wimbledon (Short Story)
Bk 6, Picnics in Hyde Park, (Novel)
Monday, December 1, 2014
Christmas at Thorncliff Towers by Marina Myles
Christmas
at Thorncliff Towers
A
Cursed Princes Novella
Marina
Myles
ISBN: 9781601832863
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Book Description:
The
Werewolf’s Servant
Thorncliff Towers is done up for
Christmas, secure against wind and wolves. But Karina Petri is shut out, too,
and the gypsy witch wants what’s inside. She envies the gifts, the feast, the
pretty clothes, of course. But her true desire is for the love of Constantin
Stoica. Her smolderingly handsome childhood friend agreed to serve Lord Draven after
his brother was caught stealing last year. He suspects Karina was involved—and
it would take more magic than she possesses to make him forgive…
Constantin has always been drawn
to Karina’s dark curls, flashing eyes, and reckless ways. But trusting her has
proven dangerous before, and this night holds more to fear than most. The wrong
decisions could cost him his job, his safety—even his life. But letting Karina
go could cost him his heart…
About
the Author:
Marina Myles’s love of books
began as soon as she read her first fairy tale. During her college days, she
received degrees in English Literature and Communications—and enjoyed the
unique experience of being a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader.
Now that she lives under the
sunny skies of Arizona, she hasn’t left her glamorous life behind completely.
After all, she gets to divide her time between her loving family, her loyal
Maltese, and worlds filled with fiery—but not easily attained—love affairs.
Visit her at www.marinamyles.com
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