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    Rounding Up Some Embrace the Romance Posts

    September and October were pretty crazy around Casa Jones North as I ramped up for the launch of Embrace the Romance: Pets in Space 2, and thanks to all of you, it was a lovely launch indeed. 🙂 Thank you, thank you for helping us raise dollars of Hero Dogs and hit the USA Today…

  • Book Your Trip Now!

    When ever anyone asks if I would sign up to go to Mars, the answer is always a resounding NO. I have many reasons why I don’t want to go to Mars: I am old. I do not want to leave my family. #GrandmaProject I don’t actually like adversity. I have seen NO ONE guaranteeing…

  • News! EMBRACE THE ROMANCE: PETS IN SPACE 2!

    I’ve been sitting on this news since January! Seriously, I’ve been dying! And then we got the cover and I had to sit on that! (Isn’t it pretty???) When Veronica Scott and I decided to do Pets in Space, we had no idea what an amazing journey we’d begun. The partnership with HeroDogs (such a…

  • Squirrels With Dissenting Opinions

    Since the release of Pets in Space, we’ve been all about the pets around here, but I have not only been owned by domestic pets. Here’s a story you may have missed when it first posted: I have been owned by many pets, but I have also—entirely without planning—coexisted with what the hubs and I like…

  • Building a New World #PetsInSpace

    The dream of his childhood was slipping through his fingers, and he was helpless to stop it. His shoulders slumped with the weight of defeat. He was like a ship without a nav system or gravity, listing to starboard and floating aimlessly through space. My Pets in Space story, SPACE RANGER, begins at a time…

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    Why Veronica Scott Wrote Star Cruise: Stowaway for #PetsInSpace

      Thanks for having me as a guest to talk about why I wrote Star Cruise: Stowaway. Of course you and I are the Founding Mothers of the Pets in Space anthology, so it’s exciting for us to see it come to fruition and go live! From the beginning I knew I was going to…

  • These are a few of her favorite things…

    People close to me know that there are a few non-negotiables in my life. I will always have pets. (My husband is slightly allergic to cats. Yet, he puts up with them because he knows I love them. We compromise, and have Bengals, a cat breed with a different kind of coat and dander from…

  • An alien, a challenge, and a guarantee

    Spark of Attraction is a science fiction romance between the captain of military warship and a young woman, an archivist for New Utopia. Aliens attacked the New Utopian settlement, killing most of the colonists. As the nearest spaceship, the Crimson Hawk responded to distress call and rescued the remaining survivors. Miranda’s sole possession is a…

  • Interview with K-Nine from A Mate for Matrix

    I’d like to welcome S.E. and K-Nine to the blog today, as part of the upcoming release of Pets in Space!  S.E.: Welcome, K-Nine. Thank you for joining us today. K-Nine: Thank you for having me. I’m glad the Earth is still around so that we could talk. S.E.: LOL. Me, too. Tell me a little…

  • Soul Kitty #PetsInSpace

    The chance to be part of the Pets in Space Anthology is so exciting. I’m a military vet who has always loved dogs and cats. “Doggie” was one of my first words. “Kitty” soon followed. As soon as I could string together a sentence, I asked for a pet of my own. To appease me,…