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Don’t Open That Door!
Reading is supposed to be a quiet activity. This seems reasonable until someone in a book hears a strange noise downstairs and decides to investigate. Alone. Without turning on a light. Suddenly, the reader has a few things to say.
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Wait—Who Are These People?
You open the next book in a series you enjoyed. There is that lovely little feeling of returning somewhere familiar. Then someone named Marcus walks into the room.
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The Books We Crave—and Why Genre Isn’t Always the Point
Sometimes I want danger, romance, and adventure—as long as none of it can reach me in my comfortable chair.
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Why Veronica Scott Wrote KIERCE: A BADARI WARRIORS SCIFI ROMANCE NOVEL
Thanks for having me back once more to talk about the story behind the story on my latest scifi romance! Coming to your blog to explain why I wrote each book is such a treasured part of my new release process. I think the first thing I need to say is that I really try…
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Get Lost in an Adventure
Did you watch the original TV show Lost in Space? Love or hate the movie adaptation (I hated it)? I have a love/hate relationship with “lost somewhere” movies, books, etc. On the one hand, I love “fish out of water” stories (characters in an environment not familiar to them), but after a while I get…
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#LookingBack at Why I Wrote STEAMROLLED
So I’ve been pretty slammed this summer and have not had time to corral authors into showing up here (other than the lovely Veronica Scott!). So I’m continuing my look back at some of my “why I wrote” posts. And because I just released a new book in my Project Enterprise series, I thought some…
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In Which I Remember TANGLED IN TIME
When I started writing Tangled in Time, it was not meant to be so, well, tangled. It was supposed to be a simple mystery story for an anthology with a Texas Landmarks theme. After…possibly six false starts, I almost gave up. Then I started wondering if I could write a short story using one of…
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Sweet Sounds of Summer
Since our move back to Wyoming, life has been very interesting. We’ve had an epic winter for snow (been thirty years…the last time we visited in the winter…hmmmm…) and much Life Happening. But the other night when I opened the windows and I heard the sound of the sprinklers going, I was carried back to…
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Remembering Why I Wrote Girl Gone Nova
So I finished The Key, aka The Big A** Book, with no plans to write more science fiction romance (you might recall that I didn’t know I’d written SFR at that point. I thought I’d written a) an action adventure that just happened to be set in space; b) a really, really long novel I…
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Found Girl Has Landed!
The eagle—I mean the book—has landed! Found Girl: Project Enterprise 6 is on sale! No more preorder! Yes, I might be happy dancing. In my sad, old lady, dead author way. H Humor me. It feels like it’s been an eternity coming. The last Project Enterprise book released, maybe four or five years ago? Yeah,…