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Described by Publishers Weekly as a "steamy near-future escapade," Wanted and Wired is now available! Book 1 in the Tether science-fiction romance series What it’s about: A snarky, sexy sci-fi romance series with the perfect balance of humor, heat, and heart. Now that Texas has seceded and the world is spiraling into chaos, good guys come in unlikely packages and love ignites in the most inconvenient places... Rogue scientist • technologically enhanced • deliciously attractive Heron Farad should be dead. But technology has made him the man he is today. Now he heads a crew of uniquely skilled outsiders who fight to salvage what's left of humanity: art, artifacts, books, ideas -- sometimes even people. People like Mari Vallejo. Gun for hire • Texan rebel • always hits her mark Mari has been lusting after her mysterious handler for months. But when a by-the-book hit goes horribly sideways, she and Heron land on the universal most wanted list. Som...

  will Solitaire ever be home?   Science Fiction romance combines two of my favourite things, romance and sci-fi. While some people will argue that the only real sci-fi is all about the technology, what is the point of technology without considering the impact on human lives? And what is life without a little romance? The ES Siren series is at an end. Ours to Save (book 9!) came out last week (July 23rd). Like any good adventure I took it with friends (Mel Teshco and Denise Rossetti also wrote books in the series). We built our ships and filled them with people and then set off heading toward a new life on the planet Solitaire. When we started writing we had no idea how we were going to pull the world together or how the drama on the ship would unfold. 12 months in space....anything could happen. We had riots, and fighting, splinter groups and micrometeoroid showers. Among all the drama we had a couple of ménages form, a prisoner fell for a soldier, a scie...

This month I had 2 novellas released (one erotic SFR and the other a paranormal romance —I think I have discovered a new writing love in SFR). I also found myself thinking ahead to July when The Outcast Prince is released. I had to book some ads, plan some prerelease blogs, set up a goodreads giveaway of the ARC… And while I was doing that I was also doing edits and writing and prepping a couple of different talks I have to give. After a couple of years of doing promo I still have no idea what works, only that doing something is required. There are so many books out there, traditionally published and self-published, add into that the long ebook tail and there are millions on books on Amazon. Getting noticed requires promotion. On the other hand some of my oldest books are selling better now than when they were first released simply because I’ve written other books and new people have found me and gone to my backlist. Backlist matters. So while I’m not quite free of my day...

by Danielle Jackson  I’m pleased to announce the launch of fellow Sourcebooks Casablanca Author Kris DeLake’s new science fiction romance novel, Assassins in Love —in stores this week! Congratulations, Kris! I’ll let you all in on a little secret… you’ve met Kris DeLake before :) It’s one of the pen names of Kristine Grayson, who has visited the Casa Authors before, promoting her updated fairy tale series! Assassins in Love tells the tale of two brilliant assassins in a fascinating futuristic world, who need each other to finish one more job before calling it quits in the highly respected killing business. But it’s more of a challenge than either expected! The hero, Misha is a part of the Assassins Guild, an organization with many rules to adhere to during missions. Rikki, the feisty heroine, never wanted to join an organization that could limit her capabilities on a job. A series of mishaps plagues their every move, and if it’s not Misha helping Rikki with a bu...

By Cheryl Brooks Some of you may have seen this new cover on my blog or Wickedly Romantic , but unless you've looked closely at the sidebar lately, most of you probably haven't seen this one. So, allow me to officially present the cover of Fugitive , book 5 of The Cat Star Chronicles. I absolutely love it! Perhaps the most fun thing about writing science fiction romance is that the romance can take any form you like. Societies on different worlds can have any kind of taboo or requirement I choose to give them. The entire culture can revolve around the style of dress, or certain patterns of sexual behavior, which is what I did in Slave . The settings can be anything I like, too. I set Warrior on a planet whose inhabitants colonized it with the intention of returning to an earlier era of non-mechanization in an effort to live more in harmony with nature. The society later reverted to a patriarchal form of feudalism, which allowed me the freedom to write a "historical" ...

By Sharon Lathan I have long since accepted the twist of fate that brought me to the world of romance and have learned to laugh at the irony that this life-long reader of fantasy and sci-fi is now writing sappy stories of happily-ever-after! Vague twinges of guilt remain when folks mention popular romance authors with an awed respect that I could only honestly muster if suddenly face-to-face with JRR Tolkien or Isaac Asimov, but gradually I am being educated. Still, I can’t deny that when I curl up with a good book, I grab for something more in the sword-and-sorcery genre – after I finish reading all of the Casablanca novels that is. To honor my first love - and figuring some of you weirdoes who write about sexy alien-cats, vampire and witch affairs, and time traveling dragons might just know a little about what I am saying – I shall pay homage to my fav fantasy writers. J.R.R. Tolkien: Yep, the grandpa and master of all modern fantasy. No debate. I read The Hobbit when I was 12 and ...

Danielle's bird poop story is a tough act to follow, but here goes! For those who haven't met us yet, I'm Cheryl Brooks, a new author with Sourcebooks Casablanca, and that totally hot dude to the left is Cat! My first published novel is The Cat Star Chronicles: Slave. A native of Louisville, KY, I was transplanted to Indiana nineteen years ago and live on a farm with my husband, two sons, a dog, five cats, and five horses. I didn't start out as a writer—unless you count charting on patients or writing term papers in nursing school! I've been a critical care nurse since 1976 and an avid reader all my life, and romances have always interested me more than any other genre. I've always been a bit of a dreamer, and at the age of twelve, saw Star Trek and fell for Mr. Spock at first sight! Several years later, I went to see Star Wars and knew that the combination of romance and science fiction was something I wanted to see more of. However, if there was such a ...