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Thursday, October 8, 2015
Saturday, October 3, 2015
An Interrupted Wedding 5 - Snippet for #WeWriWa from Grand Master's Mate
Welcome to another
Sunday with Weekend Writing Warriors.
Here, writers showcase their stories with 8-10 sentences. Join the fun and read
our snippets.
Today, I’ll continue the
horrid wedding scene from my WIP, Grand Master’s Mate, Book 3 in the trilogy. Violet
and her Grand Master, Athanor, are at the wedding of her friends when the Red
Queen, Morrigu, drops in, explosively.
You can
read last Sunday’s snippet here:
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Steeling
for combat, Violet called to Athanor, “Fetch
my sword. I’ll divert her attention.”
Sensing
him teleport the Sword of Tyr, she opened her hand to clasp the hilt. Purple fire
swept from the pommel to the tip of the blade. Jumping out of Athanor’s
protective envelope, Violet aimed the sword at the Red Queen.
Insane
hatred beat into her mind and Violet staggered under the impact of Morrigu’s
fury. Firming her mental shield, she took a step forward and thrust the blade
at the Red Queen. Psi blasted her backwards, a chair slammed against her leg
and she fell. Holding the sword steady, Violet twisted aside and landed on her
outstretched palm. Bouncing back onto her feet and swiveling to face the Red
Queen, Violet was blocked by the horrendous psi pressure.
Books 1 & 2 of
the Trilogy are published.
Book 1 is 99c until Oct 5th
Permafree Short Story in the Universe of the Grand Masters
Thursday, October 1, 2015
SFRB Showcase - the Grand Master's Trilogy
Welcome
to the October Showcase. Remember to stop by the other posts and leave your comments.
Today,
I’ll showcase a longer excerpt from my Trilogy and I have a free short story
about Mars for the early birds visiting my post.
Excerpt
from Book 2, Grand Master’s Game:
They popped into the central ring of Moon
Station by the row of portal cylinders, finding an eerie silence and none of
the usual bustle of travelers entering and exiting the portals. No lights or
buzz of machinery from the inner hub, housing the air handler and climate
controller for the station. Sunlight filtered through the transparent dome
overhead, and the sensors on Violet’s suit indicated the air was breathable
without leaks in their segment of the Station.
“Hades,
we’re stuck here!” Athanor swore in a flare of rage. To Violet’s astonishment,
his eyes were dull and his disguised face had reverted to the grim hawkish
features. “I’ve lost power.” His explanation was unnecessary.
Closing her eyes, Violet assessed her senses.
Nothing! She gasped, “So have I.”
Athanor said, “We are fortunate the
atmosphere was retained in this section.”
Kondric pulled off the headpiece of his suit,
wrinkled his nose and nodded. Following his example, Violet rolled off the
headpiece and sniffed cautiously. She identified the stale smell of recycled
air.
The workmen placed their toolboxes by the
nearest portal cylinder and swung the door open. Kondric watched them with
interest. Shaking back his long hair, Athanor wandered over to the transparent
barrier separating the inner ring from the outer terminal. Violet gazed beyond
the outer ring of the station to the crater pocked surface of the moon. Nearby,
she spotted the blue-tinted dome of the low gravity sanatorium, and in the
distance, the cranes and towers of the mining operations.
The hiss of air alerted her. Rotating towards
the sound, Violet saw the air-locked door to the next section of the ring slide
aside. Massive creatures bounded through the door. Twice the size of a man,
they were a nightmare cross of spider and wasp with eight legs, stubby wings,
yellow and black stripes, and huge mandibles like a pair of scythes. They were
inhumanly fast.
One hurtled straight at Violet, jaws open
like giant scissors.
The giant striped spider leaped at Violet and
she dodged aside. Too late! Her attacker jammed her neck in its pincers and
dragged her off her feet. She swung from its mandibles, her hands and feet
struggling for purchase on its hard carapace. One small part of her mind
wondered how she could still breathe. The rest of her brain searched for an
escape. In the background, the yells, screams, thudding blows, and the muffled
boom of an explosion told of her companions’ battles. An acid odor filled the
air and the enormous head loomed over her face, eight giant eyes next to hers.
Energized by terror, Violet grabbed hold of
one pincer and scraped her fingernails across the nearest eyes. She’d hit a
sensitive spot. The spider-wasp jerked violently, flinging Violet’s body from
side to side. Her legs thumped on the floor. Biting back the pain, she clawed
at another eye and twisted her legs, bracing her knees against the base of its
fore limbs. The jaws held firm on her neck. She was stuck.
Something grabbed her arm. A large hand
thrust a dagger into the monster’s eye, twisting deep into the head. A blood
stained hand in a familiar black leather sleeve. Green blood spouted around the
blade. The monster jerked and stilled, its jaws still clamped on her neck.
Athanor had stabbed into its brain. His grim face hovered over her startled
eyes, his teeth bared in a fierce grimace. He grasped the ends of the horrid
mandibles, gritted his teeth and exerted his full strength to open the
jaws.
Violet toppled onto Athanor’s knees. In the
background, the stump of heavy footsteps preceded a shout of command and the
zap of heavy weapons.
The cavalry had arrived, belatedly.
Grand Master's Pawn is still only 99c.
Blurb for Book 1
Young
empath, Violet Hunter, travels the galaxy on missions for her mysterious Grand
Master using the vast web of teleportals. Life-threatening cracks appear in the
portals and Violet agrees to investigate the disruptions. When she discovers
the perpetrator comes from within the ranks of the Twelve Grand Masters, Violet
penetrates their curtain of secrecy to fulfill her task. Armed with only her
erratic powers and a mishmash of allies, she must challenge the most powerful
beings in the galaxy.
Blurb for Book 2
Violet
and Athanor Griffin spin across the galaxy, seeking solutions to the worsening
portal crisis. Failures of the interplanetary portals sever transport and
communications and people will starve without vital shipments of food. Athanor devises
a risky plan to flush out the perpetrators, the vicious Red Queen and her
unknown allies among the powerful Grand Masters. In the inevitable battle with
their enemies, Violet and Athanor must recruit allies and overcome their worst
nightmares.
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Monday, September 28, 2015
New Release - Stranded with the Cyborg by Cara Bristol
Released September 22 - Stranded with the Cyborg (Book 1 of the Cy-Ops Sci-fi
Romance series)
Blurb:
Penelope Aaron, the former Terran president’s daughter, regrets
how she got Agent Brock Mann booted from the security force. But now that she’s
an interplanetary ambassador about to embark on her first diplomatic mission,
she still doesn’t want him tagging along. Especially since he seems to
be stronger, faster, more muscled, and sexier than she remembers. And
pretending to be her husband? This mission couldn’t get more impossible!
Ten years ago Penelope Isabella Aaron had been a pain in
Brock Mann’s you-know-what. Much has changed in a decade: “PIA” as he code-named
her, has grown up and is about to attend her first Alliance of Planets summit
conference, and Brock has been transformed into a cyborg after a near-fatal
attack. Now a secret agent with Cyber Operations, a covert paramilitary
organization, Brock gets called in, not when the going gets tough, but when the
going gets impossible. So when he’s unexpectedly assigned to escort
Penelope to the summit meeting, he balks at babysitting a prissy ambassador.
But after a terrorist bombing, a crash landing on a hostile planet, and a
growing attraction to his protectee, Operation: PIA may become his most
impossible assignment yet.
Excerpt
“Ten years have
passed. Penelope is different now,” Carter said.
Brock doubted that.
“Does she know about me?”
“That you’re a
cyborg? Of course not. She hasn’t been told anything about the program or even
that you’re the one who’s been assigned to her.”
“Yeah, spring it on
her. That will go over well.” He could envision the tantrum, and, after she
calmed down, the scheme she would devise to circumvent the decision. The last
time he’d seen her, she’d been emerging from his quarters half-dressed, a
triumphant smile tilting her lips. Shortly thereafter, two fellow agents had
come to arrest him.
President Aaron had
exonerated him, the transcripts from the investigation had been sealed, and
he’d been offered reassignment. Instead, he’d taken a position with an
anti-terrorist investigative organization. His unit got attacked; his fellow
operatives had died. Carter, who’d been working with Cy-Ops all along, had
swooped in and saved his ass.
“I’m not saying I’ll
do it, but, hypothetically, if I had a computer meltdown and agreed, what would
be my cover story? I couldn’t tag along as her bodyguard because that would
unsettle the Xenians.”
Carter poured another
shot of Cerinian brandy and downed it. He met Brock’s gaze dead-on. “You’d accompany
Ambassador Aaron as her husband.”
“Oh, hell no!”
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Author bio
Multi-published, Cara Bristol is the author of more than
20 erotic romance titles. She writes science fiction, contemporary, and
paranormal erotic romance. No matter what the subgenre, one thing remains
constant: her emphasis on character-driven seriously hot erotic stories with
sizzling chemistry between the hero and heroine. Cara has lived many places in
the United States, but currently lives in Missouri with her husband. She has
two grown stepkids. When she’s not writing, she enjoys reading and traveling.
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