Beginnings, Endings and Releasing Rage

By Cynthia Sax on October 19, 2015

How do you feel when a beloved series ends?
Are you sad that it is ending or excited to see what the writer writes next?

I’m talking about beginnings and endings at Liza O’Connor ‘s online home today.

http://multiuniversesoflizao.blogspot.ca/2015/10/endings-new-beginnings-by-cynthia-sax.html

Here’s a snippet…

Putting on my reader hat, I’m always torn when a series I love ends. On one hand, I know I’ll miss the characters and the world the writer created. I’m also a bit worried that I won’t love the next series as much as I love the current one. On the other hand, the next series could be even better! Writers normally refine their craft with every story they write, every series they plot. The odds that the next series will be even more terrific is pretty darn good.

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Half Man. Half Machine. All Hers.

Rage, the Humanoid Alliance’s most primitive cyborg, has two goals—kill all of the humans on his battle station and escape to the Homeland. The warrior has seen the darkness in others and in himself. He believes that’s all he’s been programmed to experience.
Until he meets Joan.

Joan, the battle station’s first female engineer, has one goal—survive long enough to help the big sexy cyborg plotting to kill her. Rage might not trust her but he wants her. She sees the passion in his eyes, the caring in his battle-worn hands, the gruff emotion in his voice.

When Joan survives the unthinkable, Rage’s priorities are tested. Is there enough room in this cyborg’s heart for both love and revenge?

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Releasing Rage, NaNoWriMo and Kick Starting The Muse

By Cynthia Sax on October 19, 2015

What do you do to kick start the muse? #NaNoWriMo #Writingtips

I’ll often change where I physically am.

I’m talking about that today on Tara Quan’s online home

http://www.taraquan.com/blog/cs

Here’s a snippet…

Tara and I both love to travel. (hugs Tara) For me, there’s nothing more inspiring, more likely to kick start the muse than a different neighborhood, city, country.

When Rage and his cyborg brethren in Releasing Rage were escaping the Humanoid Alliance, traveling through space to get to the Homeland, I pictured the time the hubby and I took a commercial flight during a meteor shower.

When the cyborgs were restricted to the battle station, I recalled how I felt when we took a transatlantic cruise. We were confined to a vessel in the middle of an ocean. We couldn’t leave even if we wanted to. We saw the same faces every day. We were on the captain’s timetable, at his mercy.

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Half Man. Half Machine. All Hers.

Rage, the Humanoid Alliance’s most primitive cyborg, has two goals—kill all of the humans on his battle station and escape to the Homeland. The warrior has seen the darkness in others and in himself. He believes that’s all he’s been programmed to experience.
Until he meets Joan.

Joan, the battle station’s first female engineer, has one goal—survive long enough to help the big sexy cyborg plotting to kill her. Rage might not trust her but he wants her. She sees the passion in his eyes, the caring in his battle-worn hands, the gruff emotion in his voice.

When Joan survives the unthinkable, Rage’s priorities are tested. Is there enough room in this cyborg’s heart for both love and revenge?

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Releasing Rage and Enemies To Lovers

By Cynthia Sax on October 17, 2015

Do you love enemies to lovers storylines?

I DO!

I’m talking about this on Teresa Noelle Roberts’ online home today.

http://www.teresanoelleroberts.com/?p=2097

Here’s a snippet…

“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.” – Elie Wiesel

One of my favorite storylines in SciFi romance is enemies to lovers. The couple (or more) starts the story hating each other with a fierce, world-burning passion. They end the story loving each other with the same ferocity.

Teresa does this storyline oh so well. (Edit: Thank you so much, Cynthia!) As Rahal says to Xia in Bad Kitty, “You make death threats seem like the most erotic thing ever.” There’s the hint of danger throughout the early scenes. We’re not sure if the temporary peace between them will hold.

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Half Man. Half Machine. All Hers.

Rage, the Humanoid Alliance’s most primitive cyborg, has two goals—kill all of the humans on his battle station and escape to the Homeland. The warrior has seen the darkness in others and in himself. He believes that’s all he’s been programmed to experience.
Until he meets Joan.

Joan, the battle station’s first female engineer, has one goal—survive long enough to help the big sexy cyborg plotting to kill her. Rage might not trust her but he wants her. She sees the passion in his eyes, the caring in his battle-worn hands, the gruff emotion in his voice.

When Joan survives the unthinkable, Rage’s priorities are tested. Is there enough room in this cyborg’s heart for both love and revenge?

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Releasing Rage And Dealing With Mid Story Writer’s Block

By Cynthia Sax on October 17, 2015

Getting ready for NaNoWriMo ?

I’m talking about mid story writer’s block on EJ Frost ‘s online home

https://emmafrostuk.wordpress.com/2015/10/17/dealing-with-mid-story-writers-block-with-cynthia-sax/

Here’s a snippet…

I found EJ’s post on techniques she’s using to finish Throwing Fire so interesting. I thought I’d share my own tricks for defeating mid story writer’s block.

This is a common problem for ALL writers. If we’re fortunate to have long writing careers, we will all experience what I like to call word constipation. It’s always great to have a toolbox full of techniques to try when this affliction strikes. I usually keep trying techniques until there’s a break-through and the words flow once again.

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Half Man. Half Machine. All Hers.

Rage, the Humanoid Alliance’s most primitive cyborg, has two goals—kill all of the humans on his battle station and escape to the Homeland. The warrior has seen the darkness in others and in himself. He believes that’s all he’s been programmed to experience.
Until he meets Joan.

Joan, the battle station’s first female engineer, has one goal—survive long enough to help the big sexy cyborg plotting to kill her. Rage might not trust her but he wants her. She sees the passion in his eyes, the caring in his battle-worn hands, the gruff emotion in his voice.

When Joan survives the unthinkable, Rage’s priorities are tested. Is there enough room in this cyborg’s heart for both love and revenge?

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Anna From The Seen Trilogy

By Cynthia Sax on October 17, 2015

Awww… Laurell Emily Grey​ mentioned me in an interview.
(getting misty eyed)

http://authorclassifieds.com/2015/10/16/a-naughty-night-of-terror-interview-laurell-emily-grey/

Here’s a snippet…

Q: If you could be a character in any book for one day what title and character would you choose and why?

Laurell Emily Grey: Well this is a tough question!! So many wonderful books out there by so many talented authors. I think I would like to be Anna Sampson from Cynthia Sax’s novella He Claims Me. Part three of the Seen Series. Hot sex scenes, lovely conflict, and I loved the ending. Side note, because of this Series, I found a true love for reading (I hated reading for years.) So thanks to Cynthia, I began to be addicted and never looked back.

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He Watches Me From Cynthia Sax

He Watches Me From Cynthia Sax

She desires to be seen. He wants to watch.

Anna Sampson has a naughty secret. Every night, she slips into her neighbor’s yard and swims naked in his pool. She fantasizes that the dynamic young billionaire watches her nightly nude aquatics, his brilliant green eyes gleaming with lust.

She discovers this isn’t pure fantasy. Gabriel Blaine has been watching her via his security cameras, and now that he has returned to L.A., he doesn’t plan to stop. That’s all he wants—to watch. Anna knows she shouldn’t allow him and she certainly shouldn’t want more, but she craves Blaine’s attention, needing his gaze fixed on her body.

Part One of The Seen Trilogy

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Releasing Rage – Is Joan Weak?

By Cynthia Sax on October 16, 2015

One of the most common questions I receive from readers, especially non-BDSM readers, is ‘Why does Joan submit to Rage?” Some readers believe this response makes her weak.

Weak is not a word I would use to describe Joan. She has endured the death of her family, survived war, was one of the only females in her classes, has dealt with a lifespan of discrimination. She knows who she is, what her worth is, and is almost too single-mindedly fixed on achieving her goal—helping the cyborgs who helped her. She is not a weak female.

Why does she act submissively when she first meets Rage? Joan is intelligent. She grew up on an agri-lot, a futuristic farm. When faced with a predator, say an enraged wolf, she knows the worst action a being can take is to be equally aggressive. Aggression feeds aggression (like the ‘Great Evil’ in The Fifth Element). The situation would quickly escalate, spinning out of control.

So she submits, showing Rage a respect, a deference that surprises him and disarms his anger. He doesn’t know how to deal with it.

As this technique clearly works with Rage and Joan is an intelligent female, she continues using it and she finds she enjoys submitting. Rage is appeased. She achieves her goal—he allows her to help him. She also savors the break from being alone, from making ALL the decisions ALL the time.

Joan doesn’t have to prove her strength by fighting Rage unnecessarily. She knows she’s strong. Would she battle him if she felt strongly about a decision? Definitely. She was willing to die to protect Rage. She would certainly battle her warrior cyborg if it meant protecting him.

Submission doesn’t mean weakness.

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Half Man. Half Machine. All Hers.

Rage, the Humanoid Alliance’s most primitive cyborg, has two goals—kill all of the humans on his battle station and escape to the Homeland. The warrior has seen the darkness in others and in himself. He believes that’s all he’s been programmed to experience.
Until he meets Joan.

Joan, the battle station’s first female engineer, has one goal—survive long enough to help the big sexy cyborg plotting to kill her. Rage might not trust her but he wants her. She sees the passion in his eyes, the caring in his battle-worn hands, the gruff emotion in his voice.

When Joan survives the unthinkable, Rage’s priorities are tested. Is there enough room in this cyborg’s heart for both love and revenge?

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Talking Baby Cyborgs And Releasing Rage

By Cynthia Sax on October 16, 2015

I’m at Readers Retreat today, talking about Releasing Rage and baby cyborgs. (Note: there is the cutest baby cyborg in Breathing Vapor)

http://readersretreat.com/2015/10/releasing-rage/

Here’s a snippet…

In Releasing Rage, I also wanted to explore two things

1) Why would a being (a cyborg) manufactured as the perfect soldier rebel against his manufacturers? Loyalty is part of the soldier code.

And

2) How ARE cyborgs manufactured?

Yes, I wanted to learn about cyborg babies!

Warning: They’re absolutely adorable.

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Half Man. Half Machine. All Hers.

Rage, the Humanoid Alliance’s most primitive cyborg, has two goals—kill all of the humans on his battle station and escape to the Homeland. The warrior has seen the darkness in others and in himself. He believes that’s all he’s been programmed to experience.
Until he meets Joan.

Joan, the battle station’s first female engineer, has one goal—survive long enough to help the big sexy cyborg plotting to kill her. Rage might not trust her but he wants her. She sees the passion in his eyes, the caring in his battle-worn hands, the gruff emotion in his voice.

When Joan survives the unthinkable, Rage’s priorities are tested. Is there enough room in this cyborg’s heart for both love and revenge?

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Talking Genetic Engineering And Releasing Rage

By Cynthia Sax on October 15, 2015

If you genetically engineer a human with one trait, what trait would you choose? Why?

I’m talking about cyborgs and genetic engineering at Travis Luedke ‘s online home

http://thenightlifeseries.blogspot.ca/2015/10/genetically-engineered-heroes-and.html

Here’s a snippet…

Want the perfect lover? The perfect assassin? The perfect being?

Design him or her.

This isn’t yet possible but it isn’t as ridiculous a suggestion as it was a decade ago. We’ve cloned animals (and, I suspect, humans – though no one will admit to this). We’ve replaced defective genes with effective ones. There are experiments happening right now in laboratories that could change who or what we are.

It is this ‘could’ that fascinates many SciFi romance writers, including Travis and myself.

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Half Man. Half Machine. All Hers.

Rage, the Humanoid Alliance’s most primitive cyborg, has two goals—kill all of the humans on his battle station and escape to the Homeland. The warrior has seen the darkness in others and in himself. He believes that’s all he’s been programmed to experience.
Until he meets Joan.

Joan, the battle station’s first female engineer, has one goal—survive long enough to help the big sexy cyborg plotting to kill her. Rage might not trust her but he wants her. She sees the passion in his eyes, the caring in his battle-worn hands, the gruff emotion in his voice.

When Joan survives the unthinkable, Rage’s priorities are tested. Is there enough room in this cyborg’s heart for both love and revenge?

Buy Now:
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Talking Releasing Rage and Killer Heroes

By Cynthia Sax on October 14, 2015

How bad do you like your bad boys? Can they be killers?

I’m talking about killer heroes (yes, Rage – grins) at Renee N. Meland’s online home today.

https://reneenmeland.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/guest-post-with-cynthia-sax-usa-today-bestselling-author/

Here’s a snippet…

In Renee’s The Extraction List, Cain is a cold-blooded killer. He wouldn’t hesitate to end a life to save Riley’s. In Releasing Rage, my most recent release, Rage is a cyborg warrior. He was designed to kill and he enjoys it. Killing is part of who he is.

But like any bad boy hero, these killers have their own set of rules.

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Half Man. Half Machine. All Hers.

Rage, the Humanoid Alliance’s most primitive cyborg, has two goals—kill all of the humans on his battle station and escape to the Homeland. The warrior has seen the darkness in others and in himself. He believes that’s all he’s been programmed to experience.
Until he meets Joan.

Joan, the battle station’s first female engineer, has one goal—survive long enough to help the big sexy cyborg plotting to kill her. Rage might not trust her but he wants her. She sees the passion in his eyes, the caring in his battle-worn hands, the gruff emotion in his voice.

When Joan survives the unthinkable, Rage’s priorities are tested. Is there enough room in this cyborg’s heart for both love and revenge?

Buy Now:
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Releasing Rage and Loretta Chase’s Lord Of Scoundrels

By Cynthia Sax on October 14, 2015

Releasing Rage is a SciFi erotic romance and Loretta Chase’s Lord Of Scoundrels is a delightful Regency romance. It doesn’t sound like they have anything in common, right?

Well, Loretta Chase’s wonderful story is my benchmark book. The book I compare my writing to. Many writers have these and I’m talking about it today on Monette Michaels’ blog.

https://romanticimperative.wordpress.com/2015/10/14/muse-wednesday-cynthia-sax/

Here’s a snippet…

I’ve been inspired by a zillion different authors. Barbara Cartland was my first introduction to romance. Christine D’Abo was my first introduction to erotic romance. Laurann Dohner was my first introduction to both SciFi erotic romance and stories with cyborg heroes (which is the niche Releasing Rage falls into).

But there’s one romance novel that I reach for whenever I feel a fit of the lazies, whenever I think ‘this story is tight enough’, and that’s Loretta Chase’s Lord Of Scoundrels.

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Half Man. Half Machine. All Hers.

Rage, the Humanoid Alliance’s most primitive cyborg, has two goals—kill all of the humans on his battle station and escape to the Homeland. The warrior has seen the darkness in others and in himself. He believes that’s all he’s been programmed to experience.
Until he meets Joan.

Joan, the battle station’s first female engineer, has one goal—survive long enough to help the big sexy cyborg plotting to kill her. Rage might not trust her but he wants her. She sees the passion in his eyes, the caring in his battle-worn hands, the gruff emotion in his voice.

When Joan survives the unthinkable, Rage’s priorities are tested. Is there enough room in this cyborg’s heart for both love and revenge?

Buy Now:
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