About JJ Toner: I write WW2 spy stories and historical and contemporary detective stories, as well as some Science Fiction. I live in Ireland. What inspires you to write? I love to write the sort of books that I like to read. I haven't succeeded yet, but I'm getting closer... Tell us about your writing process. I take about 3-6 months to outline each book. I use Excel. I also do extensive research, sometimes travelling overseas to check out the details. It takes me 3-9 months … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – JJ Toner
Interview with Author – Clive Warner
About Clive Warner: Writing is my passion, but I began as a fanatical reader. Like most of my (pre Internet) generation, books came before movies, TV, and even radio. And so our world desires were fed by our imaginations and moulded by the books we read, and this imaginative fire is what I want to read, and what I want to write - for you. I've lived and worked in so many different parts of the world that you're as likely to find yourself in Nigeria or Yemen, or 300 years in the … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Clive Warner
Buyer’s Guide: The Selene Experiment by Wendy C Giffen
Targeted Age Group: 18 – 75 Category: Science Fiction eBook price range: $2.99 About The Selene Experiment: One Woman holds the Key to a planet’s fate. The new Science Fiction Adventure Romance series by Wendy C Giffen reveals a genetic link with inhabitants of other worlds — long ago a dying star sent humans fleeing across the galaxy. Separated and alone, they discover a gamut of life forms and experiences before they find various places to survive. But not for long: On the planet of … [Read more...] about Buyer’s Guide: The Selene Experiment by Wendy C Giffen
Playback Effect by Karen A Wyle
"O wad some Power the giftie gie us/To see oursels as ithers see us!" But what if we could see others as they see themselves? New technology records the highlights of emotional experience for others to share. Buy a helmet and you can feel the exhilaration of an Olympic ski jumper, or the heat of a lucid dreamer's erotic imaginings. Commit a crime, and you may be sentenced to endure the suffering you inflicted on others. But such recordings may carry more information than the public has … [Read more...] about Playback Effect by Karen A Wyle
Division by Karen A. Wyle
New technology, new choices . . . but who gets to choose? Conjoined twins Gordon and Johnny have never let their condition keep them from living full and fulfilling lives. Gordon looks forward to many years of closeness and cooperation. Johnny, however, faces their future with increasing restlessness, even dread. When the boys are in their teens, the new technologies of accelerated human cloning and brain transplants are combined into a single medical procedure. Someone whose body has … [Read more...] about Division by Karen A. Wyle
Beyond the Hidden Sky by Marcha Fox @startrailsIV
This book is bargain priced from 05/23/2014 until 12/31/2014 Choices, even seemingly small, insignificant ones, can have tremendous consequences as each character discovers in this fast-moving space adventure. Teenage siblings Dirck and Creena Brightstar have never gotten along, even in the best of conditions, so being confined in a cramped starship cabin as the family emigrates to another planet inevitably results in an explosive argument. Desperate for some time alone, Creena explores the … [Read more...] about Beyond the Hidden Sky by Marcha Fox @startrailsIV
Interview with Author – J. Clayton Rogers
Author Bio: I have lived in Virginia most of my life. I have always written, and the only thing better is reading. I would still be a confirmed bachelor, but 20 years ago Fate intervened when I was run down while riding my bike. Both of my arms were broken, as well as a wrist. A French woman in my apartment building took pity on me and took me in tow. Next thing I knew, I was married. What attracted me? Her French cooking? The fact that she was a bookworm? Her good practical sense? Perhaps. But … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – J. Clayton Rogers
Book Excerpt: Twin-Bred by Karen A. Wyle
About your Book: Can interspecies diplomacy begin in the womb? Humans have lived on Tofarn, planet of creeks and rivers, for seventy years, but they still don't understand the Tofa. The Tofa are an enigma, from their featureless faces to the four arms that sometimes seem to be five. They take arbitrary umbrage at the simplest human activities, while annoying their human neighbors in seemingly pointless ways. The next infuriating, inexplicable incident may explode into war. … [Read more...] about Book Excerpt: Twin-Bred by Karen A. Wyle
Interview with Author – Karen A. Wyle
Author Bio: Karen A. Wyle was born a Connecticut Yankee, but moved every few years throughout her childhood and adolescence. After college in California, law school in Massachusetts, and a mercifully short stint in a large San Francisco law firm, she moved to Los Angeles. There she met her husband, who hates L.A. They eventually settled in Bloomington, Indiana, home of Indiana University. Wyle has been a voracious and compulsive reader as long as she can remember. She majored in English … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Karen A. Wyle
The Ultimate Inferior Beings by Mark Roman
The End of the Universe is nigh ... Landscape architect jixX is way out of his depth when mistakenly appointed captain of a dangerous space mission. He’s never flown a spaceship before, but at least he’s not alone; none of his crewmembers have, either. To make matters worse, the ship’s computer thinks it’s a comedian. So the last thing jixX needs is an encounter with aliens, particularly a nutty bunch of religious fanatics. They believe in the existence of The Ultimate Inferior Beings, a … [Read more...] about The Ultimate Inferior Beings by Mark Roman
Book Excerpt: Reach: a Twin-Bred novel by Karen A. Wyle
About your Book: In this sequel to Twin-Bred, scientist Mara Cadell and the Twin-Bred she helped to create embark on a new and perilous journey -- except for one pair who remain on Tofarn, attempting to live in the human and Tofa communities. Meanwhile, events on Tofarn approach a crisis, in which former host mothers Laura and Veda are deeply involved. Targeted Age Group: YA and Adult Genre: science fiction The Book Excerpt: … [Read more...] about Book Excerpt: Reach: a Twin-Bred novel by Karen A. Wyle
