Starbound Lovers

Allow me to introduce myself. It won't take long. Basically my "real" life is vanilla bland, so my bio is short and pretty boring. Here goes: I'm Elysa Hendricks. I'm 5'6" tall. I have brown eyes and curly hair. I'm an author, a wife, a mother and a daughter. Everything else is subject to change without notice.



Because physically I'm clumsy, I have no sense of balance, and I'm a BIG coward, my rule for living is: "Boring is good. Excitement is vastly overrated." Once I tried riding a motor scooter. After a wobbly start I ran it into a ditch. When my so-called friends told me it's like riding a bicycle and I had to try again, I then wiped out. I guess I forgot to mention I'm no good at riding a bicycle either. In my younger years before I discovered I'm a klutz I broke my foot trying to ride a skateboard.  Heights terrify me. I get dizzy just watching movies about mountain climbing. After watching JAWS I decided I didn't like swimming in places where I couldn't see what was underneath me. So forget me doing things like sky diving, water skiing, or motor cross racing. Adventure is NOT my middle name. I like things calm and safe. How I managed to live through raising too adventure junkie sons is a miracle I'll never comprehend.

But in my fiction I break my rule into itsy bitsy tiny pieces and scatter them in space during a solar storm from a space ship, preferably a pirate one. I grew up reading Robert Heinlein, H.G. Wells, Issac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and watching cheap, trashy sci-fi movies and TV shows. Still watch them - hubby is a videoholic. Without risking a single hair on my head (and I have lots of them) I can get all the adrenaline rush I need from fiction.

Though I read and write all types of romance fiction: sweet contemporaries, gritty western historicals, and fantasy, my favorite is sci-fi romance. In my books I can be brave and daring. I can climb those impossible alien mountains. Wrestle shardak bears and water worms. Fight space battles. Have sex with a hot hero or two. All while wearing my flannel PJs, and sitting in the comfort of my cozy office with my fur babies in my lap.

But while I might avoid adventure in my own "real" life, I love hearing from readers and other authors about theirs: http://elysahendricks.com/



STAR CRASH is my first futuristic sci-fi romance.

When Star Trek meets Planet of the Apes, what's a girl to do?

After recon pilot Cora Daniels crash lands on an alien planet she finds herself a prisoner of the Flock: a race of birdlike humanoids. Trapped in their zoo she discovers they intend her to mate. To breed. To be part of their human herd.

She's placed in a cage with a man - a powerful, virile man, but not just any man - Alexander. Was he her lost love, who'd disappeared so long ago? Here he was: naked, glistening, a warrior trained by the Flock to fight for their amusement. How could the brilliant man, the tender lover she remembered have become this animal born to dominate and destroy? Was he a pawn of the Flock or would their flight to freedom be a long-sought reunion?

STAR CRASH is available from Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Star-Crash-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B007T2J9T0/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1337177350&sr=1-1