New Release - Altered Destiny

My newest release from Triskelion Publishing is now available! I had great fun writing Altered Destiny, a SF Fantasy filled with elf-like al...

I Need a Hero...ine

I've got the seeds for a WIP for another anthology traveling around in my head. One of the minor characters I got somewhat attached to ...

Read It And Weep

I don’t know about the rest of you, but sometimes I can break into tears over something I’m reading. What makes it even worse? When the word...

Babysitting

Hi Everyone, (This post should have come through yesterday but I had 'issues' with Blogger. Normally, I'd just skip my turn but ...

Smurfish, Mother-Smurfer...Do You Smurf It?

So this week's special topic here at Star-Crossed is Alien Languages. I understand that Tolkien wrote the entire Lord of the Rings body...

Once Upon A Time in Winzles

Once upon a futuristic time in Winzles there lived super-saviors. It’s a town pretty much like any other, where the old was overtaken by the...

Alien Language for Writers 101

This week our theme is Alien Languages. I’m going to confess right now the only alien language I’ve ever heard is what’s babbled out of a on...

Wowza is the same in any language

Okay, I was supposed to come up with a post on alien languages today and I admit it, I dropped the ball. I went food shopping, ranted to a f...

A Calculated Risk

Available today from Amber Heat ! A Calculated Risk by Bernadette Gardner ISBN-13: 978-1-60272-000-8 (Electronic) Tarrant Kane was bred for ...

Sale!

Hi Everyone! I just wanted to announce that Linda Wisdom and I have sold our second erotic paranormal novella to Triskelion Publishing. No o...

Procrastination

Procrastination. I'm good at it. Here I am, I should have started book 14 in my Heart & Soul series. A Love's title. Deadlin...

When Technology Runs Amok

Or just plain doesn't want to cooperate with us. Take my phone for instance. Now, it's not my secondary line which has the DSL runni...

Zing Me Baby!

No lie, my boyfriend snagged me in part because of what I thought was an ingenious one-liner. He said, “If I said you had a beautiful body w...

Neat Science Factoids

On a number of my loops, readers ask where I get some of my ideas. Well, they come from all over the place to be honest. I like to read; boo...

Hero Archetypes

Writing in science fiction, paranormal and fantasy genres allows for an eclectic mix of hero types. Who is your favorite? The Swashbuckling ...

Shaking the Tree: Or Mixed Genres

I think I've probably wrote on this before, but I've recently found a new love for mixing fantasy and sci-fi. What's made me emb...

Speculating on Speculative Fiction

Something spurred my brain into thought-mode the other day. In a review of Alien Communion over at Dear Author.com, Jayne made a remark th...

Best-laid Plans

What is it they say about best-laid plans? Oh, yeah…they never work out! Which is a given in most cases for me when I try to plan anything. ...

Valentine's Kisses

Sexy & Romantic glitter graphics from www.sexiluv.com You’ve exchanged the boxes of candy or the gifts of jewelry or flowers, read the r...

Everyone Says I Love You

Love is of course the essence of romance novels. The creation of love, the ‘falling’ into it, is what makes the story important for me. I wa...

I'm back!

Oh man, I missed my last entry or two because of visitors (love 'em, God bless the pair) and because I'm tech challenged and couldn&...

Ooo, L'Amour

This week's theme here at Star-Crossed is Valentine's Day. Traditionally, V-Day has been a high time in the world of romantic ficti...

He haunts her dreams....

My new paranormal release is available today from Amber Heat! The Demon Of Pelican Bluff By Jennifer Colgan ISBN-13: 978-1-59279-674-8 (Elec...

Got Romance for V-day?

Every Sunday I post a new Romantic Tidbit on my About Skylar page ( www.maseysplace.com/about_skylar ) to give readers ideas to express thei...

Undue Influence

So I've got a huge list of futuristics on my TBR pile that I'm itching to read and am afraid to touch. Why? Because I'm afraid o...

Various Thoughts on a Frigid February

Courtesy of SparkleTags.com Is everyone gearing up for the big romance week? For that special day, February 14 -- Valentine's Day? Guys ...

The advantages of a blackout

I would have posted earlier today, and probably on another topic, but mid-morning, as I was carting a basket of laundry throught the house, ...

Posta Culpa/Posta Trade-a

This is my "mea culpa" post ::blush:: . See, I was supposed to post on the first, but I moved on the 30th and well, I missed my p...

I don't know how it always happens....

...but it always manages to be my day to blog when I have to work. Since I work nights, I'm sleeping during the day and then limited com...