• Adult Novellas,  E books,  Scifi

    Why Scifi?

    10/28/2013 /

    Why?

    Because there aren’t enough books with minority protagonists as leads or who are  integral to a story.

    Scifi novels that WCS will have on sale shortly:

     

    Miss Brighton’s School for Exceptional Young Ladies

     

     

    I hope to have this sampler out as a free download on Wednesday:

     

    1st WSC Scifi Sampler, featuring Second earth ruled by women, and Sir Leonidas Sinclair, the man of many centuries

     

     

     

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  • Blog,  E books,  Scifi,  Urban Fantasy

    I Scifi. Do U?

    08/20/2013 /

     

    Gotta share this tumblr post by way of Racebending.com:

    Let me tell you a story about media representation and how it informs creativity

     

     

    I love science fiction. Octavia Butler and Ray Bradbury are a few of my early writing influences, and so we’ve got a couple of scifi offerings coming up this fall: QUEENSREALM and OFFWORLD

    How to categorize these ebooks on Amazon will be a challenge, so don’t be surprised to see them bouncing in several different categories once they’re released. For example, my daughter and I decided to put HEAVEN in both African American women’s fiction and also a sub category of teen fiction, because of the adult content. However, whenever Amazon changes its algorithms (like this week, when the site went down without explanation) after making a comeback up the charts, we’re now working hard to regain the traction we had before Amazon’s site snafu.

    More sneak peek offerings to come, which include a five chapter excerpt of  OFFWORLD:

    OFFWORLD Promo

     

    Pictured: from left to right: Kadek No’am, Janhoy 1st Class. Upper right: The Child King, Tydaris Ridae, Cura Regis Divine. Lower right: Leonidas Sinclair, Man of Many Centuries

     

    Credits for Steampunk model with braids: wardrobe and styling: Kit Stolen.

    Photographer: http://nadyalevphoto.com/?/projects/anachronaut/

    Steampunk model with leather mouth piece: Famke Backx, photographer

    Goggled hat Steampunk model: inhauscreative photography

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  • Contemporary Romance,  E books,  New Adult

    On A Mission

    04/01/2013 /

    A big reason why I like self-pubbing is because I get to create my own covers and promotional materials. The cover below is a work in progress, because I’m experimenting with just how much of this YA scifi hero should remain be visible. Now that I look at it, I’m thinking about having the letter Z get pulled down by his fingers, so I’ll probably end up editing this today. As I think that letter should look more like vapors. So his fingers will get more clarity.

     

    Mock up of a new scifi hero, part of the Millenials Series

     

    Mock up number 2:

     

    Haze scifi novel mock up 2

     

     

    This is part of a bigger push in my own books, to focus on minority males, specifically African, African American and Asian as leading males.

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  • E books,  Scifi

    First Look: Queensrealm, a scifi fantasy adventure

    03/12/2013 /

    “The tyranny of man must be defeated by the treachery of woman”

    Queensrealm

     

     

    A woman is a weapon.

    Her hair shall be braided or long flowing, not only as an enticement for males, but to use as a noose for strangulation and thick enough to conceal poisonous thorns. She should possess a soft, willing mouth to coerce a kiss, while housing an object sharpened to inflict the utmost pain. Breasts can and must cradle a dagger, fingernails need fortification with metal tips dipped in white toad venom.

     

    The only tears that dare flow are those of elation at our victories, verily, for females to rule Second Earth unchallenged, remember this doctrine well my sisters; the tyranny of man must be defeated by the treachery of woman.

     

    Read an excerpt from this scifi-fantasy novel here

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