GHOST PLANET Press Release! #sfr #sfrb #scifi #romance #sfrnews
Mark your calendars, sci-fi romance fans! Sharon Lynn Fisher’s RWA RITA finalist GHOST PLANET (Tor) is the April 2013 selection for Felicia Day’s Vaginal Fantasy Hangout book club.
Actress-producer-writer Felicia Day is a true geek and a reader of science fiction romance. In addition to her many credits, she runs the Vaginal Fantasy Hangout, a lively, entertaining, and no-holds-barred online book club. Members include Veronica Belmont, Kiala Kazebee and Bonnie Burton. The VFH team is sassy, outspoken, and passionate about books.
The GHOST PLANET video discussion will go live on April 30 at 8 PM PST.
Watch the video and join other VFH viewers at the GHOST PLANET Goodreads discussion thread.
Want to know more? Visit the main Vaginal Fantasy Hangout Goodreads page. You can access all of the Vaginal Fantasy videos here, including ones featuring science fiction romances by authors Linnea Sinclair, Nalini Singh, J.D. Robb, and Meljean Brook.
We hope the VFH team enjoys GHOST PLANET and would appreciate any support you can offer via tweets, posts, and any other way you like to spread SFR news!
GHOST PLANET
A world in peril. A bond deeper than love.
Psychologist Elizabeth Cole prepared for the worst when she accepted a job on a newly discovered world – a world where every colonist is tethered to an alien who manifests in the form of a dead loved one. But she never expected she’d struggle with the requirement to shun these “ghosts.” She never expected to be so attracted to the charming Irishman assigned as her supervisor. And she certainly never expected to discover she died in a transport crash en route to the planet.
Reincarnated as a ghost, Elizabeth is symbiotically linked to her supervisor, Murphy – creator of the Ghost Protocol, which forbids him to acknowledge or interact with her. Confused and alone – oppressed by her ghost status and tormented by forbidden love – Elizabeth works to unlock the secrets of her own existence.
But her quest for answers lands her in a tug-of-war between powerful interests, and she soon finds herself a pawn in the struggle for control of the planet…a struggle that could separate her forever from the man she loves.
Visit Sharon Lynn Fisher’s Web site and connect with her on Twitter and Facebook.
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Goodbye to WordPress
After fighting a constant battle to figure out WordPress, I’ve decided it’s no longer worth my time. There’s so much more I need to do, and that will be more worthwhile. Since I’m in the process of setting up a website and have a Blogger site that I CAN work with easily, this site will become redundant. I’m going to leave it up and live because of the resources on here (and which I will keep updated) – the Book Reviewers list, the contact details etc, but I’ll be blogging from my other site here
My apologies, but WordPress has beaten me.
SFFSAT #47
Hello! Welcome to another #sffsat post. Still with Samaritan this week. I’m afraid I left you hanging an extra week, and I can’t promise to give much away with this snippet either. 
Two more pounced in unison, and Quin swept her blade in from the right to impale the nearest. The blow knocked it into its companion. Again, several of the creatures devoured the fallen, but one fastened its teeth into Quin’s ankle and she yelped. She slashed at it with her blade, felt it slice through. The creature convulsed and jerked away, whining and injured, to fall victim to its own pack.
So many casualties, or perhaps it was the scent of blood, sparked the whole pack into a frenzy. They surged forward. Quin opened her hand, palm outward, and a blue-white ball of energy scattered the creatures like shattering glass.
© 2009-2012 Copyright Philippa J. Green All Rights Reserved
You can check out the other authors in SFFSAT by going to the main blog here.
SFFSAT #46
Hello! Welcome back to another #sffsat post. Thanks to all those who stop by and comment. We’re still with Quin in the abandoned city, and at long last I’m giving you a clear sight of the things in the shadows. You might have preferred to miss it…
Quin bunched her free hand into a fist as the shapes sidled closer. Several whimpering sounds came from the creatures as they were forced to edge into the light by the sheer volume of their companions. Sleek, canine shapes like short-legged greyhounds, their hides night-black and gleaming, eyes fierce white stars in the narrow skulls as they crept closer, hemming her in. Quin shivered. Their long pointed heads looked like skulls with the skin stretched too tight, razor teeth protruding from their jaws. Even though they were small and their limbs fragile-looking, the sheer number could probably drag her down with ease.
One, either less cautious or more desperate than the rest, leapt at her. More by instinct than skill she slashed at it with the blade and it fell back with a yelp. Within seconds its nearest companions ripped its body to shreds and ran back into the shadows to eat their scraps.
Cannibals, Quin shuddered, but that gave her another fragment of hope: if she could kill two or three to distract at least some of the pack …
…aaaand you’ll have to wait until next week to find that out. BTW, the image isn’t exactly how I see these nasty little critters but the ‘skin’ is right and I love the picture.
You can check out the other authors in SFFSAT by going to the main blog here.
Upcoming – the SFR Brigade’s Midsummer Blog Hop
Hello there!
On Friday 22nd June (Pacific Time) the SFR Brigade will be holding its first ever Blog Hop to celebrate Midsummer. 37 fabulous science fiction romance authors will be telling you mystical or scientific stories related to the event, and they’ll each be giving away a prize – books, gift cards, swag bags…and lots more!
Plus there’s TWO GRAND PRIZES!
1st Prize – a Kindle Touch or Nook Touch
2nd Prize -a library of science fiction romance titles from over 20 authors (these will be mostly ebooks with one print anthology), and an Anabanana Gift Card.
All you need to do to enter is pop along to the blogs listed below and comment on as many as you want (only ONE comment per site will count as an entry). Each time you comment at a stop, you’ll earn one entry into the grand prize – so the more sites you visit, the greater your chances of winning. The winners will be drawn at random on the 24th June and announced on this site. The list of participating authors can be found below this post. Spread the news!
SFFSAT #45
Hello, welcome to another #sffsat snippet. Thanks to everyone who stopped by to comment last week. Continuing with Quin’s disturbing trip through the abandoned city, and she gets a closer look at the things in the shadows. Now she wishes she hadn’t…
Quin took a moment to wipe her sweat-slicked palms down her clothing before gripping her blade in readiness. Her breath came in short, ragged gasps as she braced herself. The shapes gathered together and wove closer, focusing in on her presence. They kept themselves out of the light as if afraid of its touch, circling around the dark edges in a seething mass.
One blade isn’t going to be much help. The thought focused her mind with cold clarity and she reached inside herself for the wayward tendrils of her psi powers. They came grudgingly, tiny sparks of blue-white energy that spiked over her skin as they trickled into her hand. Flickers of miniature lightning gathered around her fingers, but even without looking she could tell how feeble they were. One shot of telekinesis was all she could rouse.
© 2009-2012 Copyright Philippa J. Green All Rights Reserved
You can check out the other authors in SFFSAT by going to the main blog here.
SFFSAT #44
Hello, welcome back to another #sffsat snippet this fine morning. Thanks to everyone who stopped by to comment last week. This time, Quin is still making her way through the abandoned city. At least, she’d thought it was abandoned…
A skittering sound caught the edge of her hearing and she stopped. Fear prickled down her spine as though tiny claws had raced over her skin. Could be sand sliding off a building, something caught in the breeze …
Something moved on the edge of her vision, and she spun toward it, heart pounding. Okay, now I’m officially freaked out. More scrabbling sounds came from different directions, and she backed hurriedly toward a doorway for cover. Dark shapes darted between the shadows cast by the buildings. Sleek, small shapes that moved too fast for her to identify. Lots and lots of shapes.
© 2009-2012 Copyright Philippa J. Green All Rights Reserved
You can check out the other authors in SFFSAT by going to the main blog here.
SFFSAT #43
Morning all! Long time, no see and all that. Welcome to another #sffsat snippet. With Keir out and about, I’m working on a new #scifi short story I’m hoping to self-publish in the near future (actually, I’ve been saying that about it since January, but hey!). This is Samaritan. Quin, the heroine from Keir but some years before, has found herself on a dead planet who knows where, and rescued by a strange construct she nicknames Sam (taken from good Samaritan). Sam has brought Quin to a city and ‘requested’ that she find her own way to a tower in the centre. But Quin isn’t entirely happy…
Buildings rose around her. They were all of the same dark metallic material as the shelter that she’d shared with Sam, and just as layered in dust. The buildings were dark and silent. No trace of power glimmered anywhere. The only sound came from her feet shuffling through the sand, her steps cautious and the blade clenched in her right hand.
“I don’t like abandoned cities,” she told the air as she walked, more to fill the silence than in the expectation anyone could hear. “I mean, there’s always a good reason why they’re abandoned, isn’t there? Something this big–well, I can’t imagine everyone just got up one day and decided to leave. And I’m guessing that the force-field was designed to keep something out. Or to keep something in?”
© 2009-2012 Copyright Philippa J. Green All Rights Reserved
You can check out the other authors in SFFSAT by going to the main blog here.
Keir Book Tour – Last Day!
It’s the last day! Wow, this tour has been a blast – thanks to everyone who has followed along and commented, and to everyone who has participated. 
However, this is your final chance to go back to any of the posts to win an ebook copy of Keir, an Amazon Gift Card or the special swag bag over on my blog here. It’s also the last day that you can buy Keir at half price on the Lyrical Press blog here – just $2.50.
In the meantime, I’m visiting the wonderful Jessica Subject here, talking about my path to publication, why I write scifi and what’s yet to come. I’ll also be with the lovely Liana Brooks here telling you why red hair rocks! And there’ll be another chance to win an ebook copy of Keir.
Stop by any of the previous posts by clicking on the links below.
May 1st-14th
1st – guest post on Writing Demons into Science Fiction with Chantal Halpin
2nd – guest post on Casting Keir with Lauri Owen and interview on the TBR blog
3rd- guest post on Tattoos at Kerrianne Coombes blog
4th – an interview with Lyndi Alexander and a guest post on Time-Travel with Gayle Ramage
5th – Science Fiction Fantasy Saturday and a guest post with The Masquerade Crew
6th – Six Sentence Sunday
7th – official release day on this blog and announcement on SFR Brigade blog.
8th – interview up at The Galaxy Express and guest post on Naming Keir at Layna Pimentel’s blog. and a guest post on World Building at Sonya Clark’s blog
9th – guest post on why Keir is oh so blue on the Spacefreighters Lounge and guest post on Falling into SFR at Backward Momentum
10th – guest post with Misa Buckley on Doctor Who
11th – guest posts with Kaye Manro on Science Fiction with a Medieval Twist and Laurel Kriegler on the Origins of Quin
12th – Science Fiction Fantasy Saturday
13th – Six Sentence Sunday
14th – guest post with Liana Brooks on Red Hair and an interview with Jessica Subject
Thanks to everyone for hosting me, and to those who followed along. It’s been the best!
