Hey there! First up, I'm glad so many of you loved Queen Marie of Romania as much as I did! (Here's that newsletter in case you missed it.) I really enjoyed reading your responses. After spending last week around the turn of the 20th century, this week we're shooting far into the future to explore fabulous new fictional worlds! In other world, I have a fun new book bundle deal for you. ;) Presenting... The Universe of Adventure Sci-Fi Bundle! This StoryBundle is curated by independent authors John Wilker & Dave Walsh, and Ghost Pirate Gambit is one of the featured books. One of the things I love about the bundle is that John and Dave acknowledge that science fiction comes in so many flavors. This collection isn't just all aliens, or military, or action-adventure. (Or sci-fi crime, like my collections tend to be!) Instead, John and Dave have picked out a lovely smorgasbord for you. Here's what they have to say: Through the ages, science fiction has been many things to a great many people. It’s never been just one thing. Just one type of story. There's sci-fi that's quiet and contemplative, sci-fi that sticks to our understanding of modern science, then there's sci-fi that spans different galaxies and times, or even sci-fi that warps our understanding of reality. Here's how it works
Check out the StoryBundle here. P.S. Are you a book reviewer? I'm firing my review crew back up again, so if you'd like to be added (or re-added) hit reply and let me know where you usually review books (Amazon, Kobo, Goodreads, your own social media, etc.). |
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Hey there! Happy September, y'all. I'm slow-rolling back into work this week, waiting for my brain to catch up with the fact that I'm back in Pacific time, not GMT. Today I slept until 6:15, which was a major win! I think I'm back on track. My husband and I spent the past month in Scotland. The first week was at a conference — WorldCon, which will be held in Seattle next year! The following three weeks were spent squelching our bikes around the Scottish countryside, being pummeled by what...
Hey there! I first heard about the butterfly effect in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel Interesting Times, where he introduces the quantum weather butterfly (Papilio tempestae). According to the Discworld wiki, these butterflies "have wings of an undistinguished yellow with black mandelbrot patterns, and fractal edges of infinite length." They can create weather by flapping said wings. Normally these butterflies use this quality for courtship or survival, but, from what I recall about the...
Hey there! Monday, July 15th was the one-year anniversary of my eye injury — so I’ve been dealing with a whole lot of feelings this week. Many of them have been light and joyous, as I reflect on my amazing community and how incredibly lucky I am. But also... it's been a year, y'all. Celebrating my "pirate birthday" (as my husband has been calling it) has got me thinking a lot about perspective and point of view. By complete coincidence, my ocularist Christina King (the artist who makes my...