Self Publishing Vs Digital First Publishers
Self-publishing vs Traditional (digital) publishers
Which do you prefer?
I like both and I’m talking about why at
http://sfrcontests.blogspot.ca/2015/10/traditional-publishing-vs-self.html
Here’s a snippet…
I wrote Releasing Rage, my cyborg SciFi romance, without knowing where I’d publish it. It is a dark, raw, emotional story. When I pitched it to my agent, she told me she couldn’t sell it.
A part of me was relieved. I wanted total control of this series. I wanted to decide how many stories I’d write in it (traditional publishers usually decide this and this decision is almost always based on the previous release’s sales). I didn’t want anyone to smooth the edges off this story.
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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:
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Releasing-Rage-Cyborg-Sizzle-Book-ebook/dp/B00ZOL1DRO
On ARe: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-releasingrage-1850041-340.html
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Releasing Rage And Romances Set During Wartime
Do you love romances set during wartime?
I’m talking about Releasing Rage and why I love wartime settings on S.A. Hoag’s online home today.
https://topaz08.wordpress.com/2015/10/12/guest-post-cynthia-sax/
Here’s a snippet…
This gives them a sense of urgency. Relationships usually move faster. If they wait for that first kiss, that first sexual encounter, they might never experience it. They’re more likely to take a chance on love. This might be his or her only opportunity.
And when they find love, it is like a miracle, a burst of color in a gray world. Lives are being taken. Friends might be killed. Yet they’ve been given this gift, this wonderful connection with another being. What did they do to deserve it? What will they do to keep it? What would happen if they thought they lost it?
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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:
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Releasing-Rage-Cyborg-Sizzle-Book-ebook/dp/B00ZOL1DRO
On ARe: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-releasingrage-1850041-340.html
On B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/releasing-rage-cynthia-sax/1122455646
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Releasing Rage and Different SciFi Heroes
Do you love alien heroes? Bounty hunter heroes? Cyborgs? Clones?
I’m talking about different types of #SciFi heroes and some reader expectations for them on Deborah A Bailey’s blog
http://dbaileycoach.com/brightbooks/2015/10/types-of-sci-fi-heroes-by-cynthia-sax/
Here’s a snippet…
Human heroes, in futuristic SciFi, are fascinating also. How might men change in the future? Will their jobs be different? Will they act differently? Could an incident (like a disease) change the way men and women relate to each other?
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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:
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Releasing-Rage-Cyborg-Sizzle-Book-ebook/dp/B00ZOL1DRO
On ARe: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-releasingrage-1850041-340.html
On B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/releasing-rage-cynthia-sax/1122455646
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Releasing Rage – The Homeland
Rage and his cyborg brethren have two primary goals—to escape their human masters and to reach the Homeland.
They don’t know much about this Homeland. They’ve never seen it. But they hear it is a planet controlled and ruled by cyborgs, a planet outside of Humanoid Alliance reach. Their enemies, the humans, aren’t allowed on the surface. It is a place where all cyborgs are free.
While enslaved, the cyborgs fantasize about this Homeland. It becomes almost an utopia for them, a perfect place… for cyborgs. Most cyborgs love fighting and breeding. Their vision of a perfect place isn’t yours or mine.
For Gap, a young female-crazy cyborg, his utopia has quite a few unattached females, all of these females seeking a strong warrior to help protect them. On this planet, he can show off his fighting prowess, earning a female of his own.
Rage knows there’s unlikely to be unattached females in Homeland. Female cyborgs were manufactured for only a very short time. There aren’t many of them remaining. He realizes he likely won’t have an opportunity to breed in the Homeland.
He views the Homeland as a place where he continues to fight, he’s a warrior through and through, but he decides the battles he wages. After a long lifespan of being at other beings’ mercy, he’ll finally be free, finally have total control over what he does, who touches him, whom he fights.
One of the fun things in this series is uncovering how other cyborgs envision the Homeland, what their visions of utopia are. It is a view of their secret hopes and dreams.
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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:
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Releasing-Rage-Cyborg-Sizzle-Book-ebook/dp/B00ZOL1DRO
On ARe: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-releasingrage-1850041-340.html
On B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/releasing-rage-cynthia-sax/1122455646
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First Excerpt From Breathing Vapor
I’m sharing a first short excerpt from Breathing Vapor today at Decadent Divas
http://thedecadentdivas.blogspot.ca/2015/10/the-second-story-challenge-by-cynthia.html
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Vapor is the most advanced cyborg the Humanoid Alliance has ever developed. He’s a finely honed weapon, a warrior without parallel, half man and half machine. No lock can contain him. No being can stop him. Whatever he wants, he takes.
He wants Mira Breazeal, the Designer’s daughter.
She’s his one temptation, his sexy target. Vapor shouldn’t crave her caresses, steal her kisses, make her scream with ecstasy. The cyborgs want her dead and they would question his loyalty if he didn’t kill her. The humans would shoot him on sight if he dared to touch her.
Their love is forbidden. Their desire could be lethal. One human and one cyborg will risk everything for a moment of passion.
Pre-order Now:
Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/Breathing-Vapor-Cyborg-Sizzle-Book-ebook/dp/B015UN87JC/
Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Breathing-Vapor-Cyborg-Sizzle-Book-ebook/dp/B015UN87JC/
ARe: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-breathingvapor-1897324-340.html
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Talking About The Future With Sam Cheever
What do you think the future will look like?
1,000 years from now, how will humans have evolved? Will they have giant thumbs due to excessive scrolling? (grins) Will there be (gasp) Nutella in this future?
I’m at the always awesome Sam Cheever ‘s online home, talking about visions of the future.
http://samcheever.com/blog/cyborgs-halflings-and-visions-of-the-future-by-cynthia-sax/
Here’s a snippet…
Because while technology might advance and our physical appearances might change, I believe, in our hearts, we’ll remain the same. Whether we’re on Earth or on a new planet, we’ll laugh, cry, be courageous or fearful, and, most of all, we’ll want love.
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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:
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Releasing-Rage-Cyborg-Sizzle-Book-ebook/dp/B00ZOL1DRO
On ARe: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-releasingrage-1850041-340.html
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Read, comment and win!
Start Saturday with some sexy snippets from myself (a smutty snippet from Releasing Rage), Katlyn Conrad, Aurora Russell, Lisa Carlisle , and our fabulous host, Author A. M. Griffin !
Comment on A.M. Griffin’s post and you can win a $5 gift card!
http://amgriffinbooks.blogspot.ca/2015/10/saturday-snippets-giveaway.html
Definitely NOT safe for work.
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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:
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Releasing-Rage-Cyborg-Sizzle-Book-ebook/dp/B00ZOL1DRO
On ARe: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-releasingrage-1850041-340.html
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Releasing Rage, Sidequels and Sequels
When I sent Releasing Rage to be formatted, I sincerely thought Crash’s story would be next. I had it plotted in my mind. I was all set to write it.
Then I realized that I had a batch of cyborgs unaccounted for. Rage and his cyborg brethrens on the battle station are to be replaced by the latest models, the K model cyborgs. These extremely advanced warriors are being trained, to soon be transported.
So what happened to those warriors?
I wanted to know this too!. As Releasing Rage readers realize, this story has to start before Rage’s story ends. This means telling a parallel story (or sidequel), a story happening at the same time as Releasing Rage but with different characters and a different setting.
One of the many things that really excites me about Breathing Vapor, this sidequel, is that it is set in a cyborg manufacturing facility on a faraway planet. Woot! We get to explore how cyborgs are developed and trained. And we meet more baby cyborgs! They’re absolutely adorable, these future warriors.
Vapor, the hero, is a very much full grown cyborg. He’s the best of his batch, more advanced than any previous model, and sexy as hell. His scenes with Mira, his heroine, will steam up your eReader.
Breathing Vapor will be releasing in November. Being Green, the freebie short story I’m sending to all newsletter buddies, will be releasing in December. Being Green is a sequel. It happens after both Releasing Rage and Breathing Vapor. All future stories will be sequels also.
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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:
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Releasing-Rage-Cyborg-Sizzle-Book-ebook/dp/B00ZOL1DRO
On ARe: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-releasingrage-1850041-340.html
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Talking Cyborgs and Missions With Diane Burton
I’m talking about different types of missions at Diane Burton’s online home today.
http://dianeburton.blogspot.ca/2015/10/cynthia-sax-on-cyborgs-socialites-and.html
Here’s a snippet…
I LOVE reading, writing or watching stories/movies with missions, whether it’s a quest for the Holy Grail, a CIA themed thriller or a delicious SciFi romance. The characters have a purpose. They’re often going on a trip. There’s danger and twists and the constant question about whether or not they’ll be successful.
Whenever I hear the word mission, I think Mission Impossible, the Tom Cruise movies. I usually hum the theme song hopelessly off-key. I think spies and secrets and life or death situations. The action is heart pounding. The stakes are high. If they fail in their missions, the world and humanity will be in peril.
I also envision Indiana Jones and his quests to uncover archaeological treasures. Again, there’s action and secrets and thrill after thrill. The stakes are as high. The Nazis might win or a plague might take over the world or there will be some other dire consequence.
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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:
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Releasing-Rage-Cyborg-Sizzle-Book-ebook/dp/B00ZOL1DRO
On ARe: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-releasingrage-1850041-340.html
On B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/releasing-rage-cynthia-sax/1122455646
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Talking SciFi Heroes With Pippa Jay
I’m talking about different types of SciFi heroes at Pippa Jay’s online home today.
http://pippajay.blogspot.ca/2015/10/guest-post-talking-cyborgs-other-scifi.html
Here’s a snippet…
Releasing Rage is the first story in Cyborg Sizzle, my sixth SciFi romance series. I love the diversity within SciFi Romance. I’ve written about aliens, androids, bounty hunters, clones, and now cyborgs.
The type of hero in a SciFi Romance gives me some indication of the main themes the story might tackle. Yes, every character is different. There are a variety of sexy cyborgs in Releasing Rage. They’re all unique. Type doesn’t mean a cardboard, one dimension cutout character or plot. But there are common themes or questions asked and answered with each type of hero.
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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:
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Releasing-Rage-Cyborg-Sizzle-Book-ebook/dp/B00ZOL1DRO
On ARe: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-releasingrage-1850041-340.html
On B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/releasing-rage-cynthia-sax/1122455646
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