Showing posts with label Linda Andrews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Linda Andrews. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 5, 2015
New Release—Hadean 2: Survivor Road
I just released the second part of my apocalyptic series. This one based on a GMO trigger, but somewhere in the back of my mind I kept making a big deal of the rain. Sure, I live in the desert and I love the rain, but really was there a hidden meaning in it.
And then it clicked, no company would admit to the liability of bringing a nation to the brink of extinction, so there had to be a scapegoat somewhere about. Something that occurred naturally, something that could cause people to go crazy.
Rabies fit the bill.
And many would have bought it, except for one thing—the rain. You see another name for rabies is hydrophobia. Because of the effect on the muscles involved in swallowing those infected with rabies are afraid of the water.
In the words of the A-Team, I love it when a plan comes together.
And then it clicked, no company would admit to the liability of bringing a nation to the brink of extinction, so there had to be a scapegoat somewhere about. Something that occurred naturally, something that could cause people to go crazy.
Rabies fit the bill.
And many would have bought it, except for one thing—the rain. You see another name for rabies is hydrophobia. Because of the effect on the muscles involved in swallowing those infected with rabies are afraid of the water.
In the words of the A-Team, I love it when a plan comes together.
Insanity is tearing America apart.
Mobs of crazies own the streets and club anyone who provokes their wrath.
Government officials are dead or are being hunted to extinction.
The National Guard is killing everyone in sight
The Air Force is bombing anything that moves.
Is this the legacy of genetic tampering or a terrorist attack with weaponized rabies?
As madness consumes the Vally of the Sun, a group of family and friends will run the gauntlet to escape the city.
They will depend on each other for safety and comfort.
They will trust in each other’s sanity.
Unaware their worst enemy is already among them, waiting to strike.
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Meeting up with Old Friends
You see, in this series we follow the main couple though all the adventures and toss in a little romance with the secondary characters to boot, so that's good. But I want my hero and heroine to be happy.
Which makes for a pretty boring book:(
Because books are all about the conflict and how that strife is the forge in which are characters are shaped and grow.
Oh boy have I tortured my characters. My human female Nell has become less human, and my cyborg Admiral has become more.
But now, it's war.
And you know what they say, all's fair in love and war.
But I don't want to hurt Bei or Nell. Partly because some of my fans will kill me, but also because they've earned their happily ever after. So I find myself sitting down and saying, no, don't do that. That's mean. Leave them alone. Ah, man. That's just not right.
But that makes a story. One that people will want to read. One that people will cheer and root for the characters to triumph over.
I'll admit it was an unexpected problem to encounter. But I too must overcome my fear of conflict. Especially as we have 3 more books to go before I can truly give them their HEA. Now I just have to find that happy distance so their conflict isn't the kind that is annoying.
Wish me luck!
Friday, October 25, 2013
Moony For Love
Did you all see that moon October 19-20? It was nearly red as it crept past the horizon, then turned orange as it rose, finally becoming the usual white high in the sky.
Also known as a Full Hunters Moon, its technical term is a waning gibbous moon. Not quite as romantic.
And a full orange moon is romantic. In addition to the lunar pull that affects the 70% of water in the human body as it does the tides, it's a perfect symbol for celestial love and lunar romance.
Here are a few sci-fi explorations of moonrise love... including a title by our own Linda Andrews.
Blue Maneuver: The extraterrestrials have landed and they're human.
Rae Hemplewhite didn't believe in aliens until a close encounter with out-of-this-world technology drags her into the extraterrestrial security program. Helping alien refugees adjust to life on Earth is difficult enough, but her first clients have a price on their heads. Plus, her new partner seems torn between the urge to kiss her or kill her.
And that's the good news.
The bad news: Alliances are forming in deep space. If Rae doesn't keep her witnesses alive long enough to transfer their top secret information to the right faction of humanity, Earth will become a battlefield.
Rae Hemplewhite didn't believe in aliens until a close encounter with out-of-this-world technology drags her into the extraterrestrial security program. Helping alien refugees adjust to life on Earth is difficult enough, but her first clients have a price on their heads. Plus, her new partner seems torn between the urge to kiss her or kill her.
And that's the good news.
The bad news: Alliances are forming in deep space. If Rae doesn't keep her witnesses alive long enough to transfer their top secret information to the right faction of humanity, Earth will become a battlefield.
For other sci-fi and paranormal reads, click here to see an Amazon list.
Probably one of the most famous moon romance films is Moonstruck:
"The moon brings the woman to the man, capiche?"
For other moon-based films, click here.
A big moon makes people a little looney (get it?). Mix that with love, and the story lines are endless...
Friday, July 12, 2013
New Release: Syn-En Registration
For the first week only, Registration will be 99 cents. So pick up a copy and if you like it tell your friends the first book, The Syn-En Solution, is free for the month of July. I'll post the links as they go live.
Driven from Earth, Admiral Beijing York led an armada of Synthetically-Enhanced human soldiers and its civilian crew to settle an alien world. Their new society is beginning to flourish when Bei is informed that no human, Syn-En or otherwise, can be free until the species registers on a distant planet. Determined to protect humanity, Bei and his wife lead an advanced scouting team to secure their liberty.
And an ancient enemy is waiting to intercept them. The Founding Five won't give up their favorite slaves or medical guinea pigs without a fight.
Now Bei must decide if freedom is worth the price when he may have to sacrifice everyone he loves to win.
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Friday, February 15, 2013
New Release
I'm very happy to say that my latest, a Valentine's Day themed romantic comedy is now available.
How's a girl supposed to stay single with the entire town wants her married? Alessa Lombard has a plan to avoid the marriage trap. It's not that she's opposed to marriage. Wedded bliss if fine for other people. Now all she needs is the help of the town's newest bachelor to help pull off a fake romance.
Determined to fall in love, Sloan Dugan immigrates to the magical town of Amores. Surely in the town devoted to love, he'll find a woman who doesn't use trickery and deceit.
But Cupid has other plans. Soon Alessa and Sloan will find themselves playing the game of love. Will winner take all?
Friday, January 18, 2013
Post-Non-Apocalypse Therapy
Apocalytic and Dystopian fiction has been a hugely popular in our post-modern culture, and the Mayan apocalypse was almost anticipated with glee.
Now that we found out the Mayans were wrong, it won't be long until we're nostalgic for the good old days of mass panic and destruction.
Luckily, Apocalytic and Dystopian fiction is still available on our shiny, non-scrap-metal e-readers and phones. Phew!
So indulge in a little Post-Non-Apocalypse Therapy and read a book. Amazon alone carries 3, 316 apocalypse themed books. A couple of us Starbound Lovers bloggers have apocalypse-specific reads for your perusal:
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Six months after an Influenza Pandemic swept across the globe, the world
is starting to emerge from quarantine. But Pestilence Free Day is
short-lived. For an unseen enemy has just been unleashed.
Five people. Seven days.
A brilliant scientist with an apocalyptic forecast
A soldier that needs an enemy to fight
A college student venturing into a changed world
An insurance salesman who exploits every opportunity
A juvenile delinquent desperate to leave his past behind
Redaction: Humanity is about to be erased from the Book of Life
Five people. Seven days.
A brilliant scientist with an apocalyptic forecast
A soldier that needs an enemy to fight
A college student venturing into a changed world
An insurance salesman who exploits every opportunity
A juvenile delinquent desperate to leave his past behind
Redaction: Humanity is about to be erased from the Book of Life
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It's been said that a sure sign of the coming apocalypse is an 80s
roller skate disco movie coming to DVD (with special features). In the
science-fiction novel series Apocalypse Babes, a stylish group of
twenty-something friends are torn from the Babylonian arms of 2006 West
Hollywood and flung nearly thirty years into the past. It might be
because one of them purchased the taboo film in a nostalgic moment,
setting off a chain of events more disturbing than a roller skating
conga line. They wake up in an apocalyptic but strangely familiar
landscape, complete with a hidden mountain compound and retro
survivalists, hinting at hidden and retro secrets they must face if they
want to survive.
So grab your gas masks, MREs, and some apocalypse reads, and settle in for some pulse-pounding, chaotic storylines in lieu of the real thing.
For now.
Friday, April 27, 2012
Hello Everyone,
My name is Linda Andrews and I'm proud to be part of this new blog. We have some amazing writers on this blog and I'm proud to say that I've read works by pretty much all of them. So who am I besides my name?
Here's my bio:
Linda Andrews lives in Phoenix, Arizona with her husband, three children and a menagerie of domesticated animals. While she started writing a decade ago, she always used her stories to escape the redundancy of her day job as a scientist and never thought to actually combine her love of fiction and science. DOH! After that Homer Simpson moment, she allowed the two halves of her brain to talk to each other. The journeys she’s embarked on since then are dark, twisted and occasionally violent, but never predictable.
As you can see, I walk a little left of normal. But don't let that scare you. To quote A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "I'm mostly harmless."
Welcome and remember to leave a comment for a chance to win a $25.00 amazon gift card.
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