Talking Cyborgs And Billionaires
I’m at Tina Donahue’s blog today, talking about why I love writing about both cyborgs AND billionaires.
http://www.tinadonahue.com/?p=14646
Here’s a snippet..
One of the many reasons I love Tina Donahue so much is because we both can’t seem to stick to one subgenre of romance. (grins) Tina’s previous release, Wicked Seduction, is a spicy contemporary. Her upcoming release, Surrendering To The Beast, which I’m super stoked about, is an exciting paranormal.
Releasing Rage is my most recent release. It is a sizzling hot, very dark SciFi erotic romance featuring a tortured cyborg hero and a determined curvaceous female engineer. My previous release, One Night With My Billionaire Master, is a delicious contemporary erotic romance.
Yes, Tina feels my pain. Or my joy.
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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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The Darkness In Releasing Rage
I’m at The Galaxy Express today, talking about Releasing Rage and dark erotic romance.
http://www.thegalaxyexpress.net/2015/09/guest-post-by-cynthia-sax-releasing.html
Here’s a snippet…
Releasing Rage is a dark story. It IS a romance. It has the expected romance ending. But it is also gritty and violent, which is unusual for me, but I couldn’t write a cyborg hero any other way.
Why?
Because cyborgs are (normally) designed by humans to be super soldiers. That’s their sole purpose. They don’t have hobbies or other interests. They can’t take different roles within the organizations they serve. They’re soldiers. They battle the enemy and that’s 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:
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The Story Behind Tattoos
I LOVE hearing the stories behind tattoos. My tattooed heroes always have a good reason for getting the tattoos they have.
Logan Ross, the sexy financier hero of One Night With My Billionaire Master, has a dragon tattoo, winding up his left side.
It is somewhat similar to this one.
Why did he get a dragon tattoo? As he says, “Bulls make money when the market goes up. Bears make money when the market does down. Dragons find treasure in every market.”
Hawke, the tattooed bad boy biker in Sinful Rewards, has a barbed wire tattoo around his right bicep. Why? Because the tattoo was in memory of his best friend and losing him was like losing his right arm. The two men were inseparable.
Rage, the cyborg hero in Releasing Rage, has a tattoo also. His model number is inked on his cheek. This reinforces that he’s viewed as a machine, as a product to be coded, not as the living, breathing being he is. Every being looking at his face will know what he is.
Do you have a tattoo? What is the story behind it?
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Note: If you purchased Mastered 2, you already have this story.
One night. No one must know.
This is the text I sent Logan Ross this morning. The billionaire financier is my father’s number one nemesis and has been pursuing me for months. He wants to own me, completely, promising exquisite pleasure balanced by equally intense pain, vowing to dominate me, to show me wicked things a virgin like myself shouldn’t be interested in.
But I am extremely interested, and I’ll risk everything—my job, my family, my future—to experience one night of total submission with this powerful Dom.
Will one night be enough for both of us?
Buy Links:
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Night-Billionaire-Master-City-Sizzle-ebook/dp/B00YDGYXBO
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SciFi Saturday News – Star Trek Beyond Leonard Nimoy Tribute, New Star Wars Characters, And Awesome Space Photos
These are some of the interesting SciFi developments I spotted this week.
Awesome Photo Of The Twin Jet Nebula
The Hubble Space Telescope snapped one of the most gorgeous photos I’ve ever seen. As Amanda Kooser shares
“A two-lobed nebula blossoms outward from a central star system. Jets of gas extend in elongated bubbles.” Read the entire article if you wish to learn more about nebula.
Astronauts Drink Recycled Urine
From the beautiful to the gross. (grins) Ellen Brait shares
“What’s the difference between American and Russian astronauts on the International Space Station? The Americans drink their urine, the Russians don’t.
“It tastes like bottled water,” Layne Carter, water subsystem manager for the ISS at Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center told Bloomberg. “As long as you can psychologically get past the point that it’s recycled urine and condensate that comes out of the air.”
Condensate is the collected breath and sweat of the crew, shower runoff, and urine from animals on board the station.”
A Closer Look At Ceres
I love referring to real planet names in my stories. I usually add something to them. Ceres would become Ceres IV because they’re not the same planet. But I think it’s important that we are familiar with the names.
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft snapped this awesome photo of Ceres. Ceres is small, no bigger than 590 miles at its widest point (compared to Earth at 7,926 miles – http://www.space.com/17638-how-big-is-earth.html ) but it is fascinating, a great setting for a story.
More Planets! Kepler 452b
“The discovery of Kepler 452b, a planet orbiting a star similar to our own sun and just 4 percent larger and 10 percent brighter, hit the news recently. Detected by the Kepler Space Telescope, the planet is a so-called “super Earth” with five times the mass of Earth and a 60 percent larger diameter. Kepler 452b orbits its star every 385 days, again very similar to our own world.”
“On the 20th anniversary year of the discovery that proved other suns host planets, the Kepler exoplanet explorer has discovered a planet and star which most closely resemble the Earth and our Sun”.
Star Wars, JJ Abrams and Kylo Ren
JJ Abrams continues to drive me and all other Star Wars fans crazy with teasers about Star Wars: The Force Awakens. This week, he was talking about Kylo Ren, the mysterious broadsaber wielding hooded character.
“Kylo Ren is not a Sith.” JJ Abrams shares. “He works under Supreme Leader Snoke, who is a powerful figure on the Dark Side of the Force.”
Star Trek Beyond Tribute To Leonard Nimoy
Because the Star Wars hype isn’t enough to drive me bonkers, the cast of Star Trek is adding to the excitement.
“The cast of ‘Star Trek Beyond’ have paid a moving tribute to the late Leonard Nimoy through a new video created as part of their Star Trek: To Boldly Go charity campaign — a cause that was near and dear to his heart.”
Zachary Quinto, Star Trek Beyond’s Spock, shares.
“Leonard was an actor, a champion of the arts and a true inspiration to so many. Through his legendary portrayal of Spock, he influenced countless scientists and artists, myself and the rest of the cast included. It was an honor and a privilege to know him and to call him a friend. Leonard’s love for the human spirit shone through everything he did. He touched lives around the world and he is greatly missed.”
So true!
What SciFi news did you find interesting this week?
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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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Interview With Rage from Releasing Rage
Kate Hill has interviewed Rage from Releasing Rage on Compelling Beasts today.
He’s a primitive C model cyborg, not one for chatter, so it is a very short interview. (grins)
Here’s a snippet…
Do you have a love interest?
There is one human female, Joan, whom I might allow to live longer than the rest. She… interests me. When I see her, smell her, touch her, my human side says she is mine.
But when she betrays me, as all humans do, she’ll die.
If you wish to ask him any questions, he’ll answer them.
Note: Cyborgs don’t lie and words are not Rage’s forte. Expect brief and to-the-point answers.
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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
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Cyborgs And Nudity
When Joan first meets Rage in Releasing Rage, he’s completely naked. He feels no shame about this. He’s accustomed to being bare, to being poked and prodded. The humans who manufactured him treat him like a weapon to be used, like a machine.
Machines don’t feel modesty. They’re taken apart and put back together, without any thought about their feelings. Excess clothing is impractical and viewed as unnecessary. It slows repairs and inhibits movement.
Rage, being an older cyborg, is aware that Joan, being human, is embarrassed by his nudity. At first, he doesn’t care about her feelings. He hates all humans. It gives him pleasure to embarrass her.
It gives Rage even more pleasure to humiliate her by demanding that she strip naked also. He does want to see all of her (he IS male) and he likes that they’re on equal footing. But he also derives some joy from her discomfort.
The younger cyborgs aren’t as angry as Rage is. They’re simply clueless. They’ve spent most of their lifespans naked and have no idea that this might be wrong. They don’t even have regular clothing. They have battle armor, which is uncomfortable to wear all the time, and nothing else.
What does this mean? You can expect quite a bit of nudity in future stories. Human heroines will not only see their heroes in the buff but they’ll see all of his friends naked also.
And the heroes won’t view that as wrong.
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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
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Billionaires And The Walk Of Shame
Walks of shame—many of us have done them, including the rich and the famous.
According to Wikipedia, a walk of shame “refers to a situation in which a person must walk past strangers or peers alone for an embarrassing reason before reaching a place of privacy. It often occurs the morning after a night out at a bar, nightclub, or party. People undertaking the walk of shame are understood to have spent the night at the residence of a sexual partner (or perceived sexual partner), particularly a one-night stand. The topic is often the subject of college newspaper commentary. The “walker” may often be identified by his or her disheveled appearance and incongruous evening attire, particularly on Saturday or Sunday mornings.”
Walks of shame are challenging to keep private, especially if you’re a high profile person such as a billionaire. In One Night With My Billionaire Master, Arianna wants to keep her one night with sexy billionaire, Logan Ross, a secret.
The problem is… His house is watched by the media. His every move is gossiped about.
So what does he do?
He buys a brand new taxi. The taxi passes through his gates into his private grounds. Arianna climbs into the back seat and hides, ducking down so no one can see her. The taxi leaves, appearing as though it has no passengers. No one follows an empty taxi. Arianna arrives home undetected.
Of course, she isn’t wearing last night’s clothing or looking disheveled either. Logan has a beautiful outfit for her to wear and all of the necessities a woman could want. He’s a classy, considerate man, our Logan Ross, which is one of the many reasons Arianna falls in love with him.
Have you ever done a walk of shame? Were you spotted?
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Note: If you purchased Mastered 2, you already have this story.
One night. No one must know.
This is the text I sent Logan Ross this morning. The billionaire financier is my father’s number one nemesis and has been pursuing me for months. He wants to own me, completely, promising exquisite pleasure balanced by equally intense pain, vowing to dominate me, to show me wicked things a virgin like myself shouldn’t be interested in.
But I am extremely interested, and I’ll risk everything—my job, my family, my future—to experience one night of total submission with this powerful Dom.
Will one night be enough for both of us?
Buy Links:
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Night-Billionaire-Master-City-Sizzle-ebook/dp/B00YDGYXBO
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Releasing Rage and Writing What We Want
I’m at Decadent Divas today, talking about cyborgs and writing what we want!
Here is a snippet…
“My advice to all writers is to write what you’re passionate about and not worry as much about what publishers want.
My advice to all readers is if a writer is super enthusiastic about one of her stories, there’s usually a reason why. That story is worth investigating.”
Read the full post here
http://thedecadentdivas.blogspot.ca/2015/08/sexy-cyborgs-and-writing-what-we-want.html
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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
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Sugarbabies – The Movie
I recently watched Sugarbabies, a made-for-TV-movie with older billionaire men and cash-poor female college students.
According to Wikipedia, sugar baby “is a slang term for a young female or male who is financially pampered/cared for by a ‘sugar daddy’ or ‘sugar mama’ in exchange for companionship.”
This IS a lower budget movie. Don’t expect Hollywood production or Oscar performances from every actor or actress.
But it was fun and interesting and there were some things I really enjoyed about this movie.
I loved that this movie featured a variety of heroines and their situations. Every heroine had a different reason for hooking up with an older, wealthier man, and their reasons weren’t purely financial. Yes, they needed help with their college tuition and other bills. But one heroine was seeking mentorship in business. Another heroine was seeking marriage. The main heroine, Katie, accidentally fell in love with her sugar daddy before she realized he was a sugar daddy.
The women were supportive of each other’s goals. They talked about how they would all be successful and how their different successes would help each other. They weren’t competitors. They were similar to the women I’m lucky to surround myself with.
I loved that NONE of the men pressured the women to have sex. As one character pointed out, these men could pay for sex if they wanted that. They wanted companionship, someone to listen to their problems, to spend time with them. Many of the women did have sex with their sugar daddies (not all did) but they initiated the sexy times. They were in control.
There was one thing that bothered me about this movie and that was how Katie was portrayed as feeling guilty for falling in love with an older, wealthy man. Her sugar daddy was handsome, sophisticated, listened to her, showed her things she wouldn’t otherwise be exposed to. If he had been broke ass, she would have shrugged it off as a failed relationship. Instead, she felt guilty about caring for him. Rich men are worthy of love too.
And I can’t fault the women for allowing the men to pay. My dear wonderful hubby wasn’t wealthy but he WAS living at home when we first met and he had fewer expenses than I did. So he paid for a lot of our dates. When we traveled before marriage, we needed to be chaperoned (due to dear wonderful mom-in-law’s religious beliefs) so we stayed with his family. He often booked the travel and often paid for it because traveling was more important to him (I was more worried about paying my rent).
This isn’t that different from the sugar daddy situation, except the scale is grander. The men wanted to attend fancy events. The women couldn’t afford it. The men could and so they paid (for everything, including the clothing and transportation).
Would you feel guilty about allowing a man to pay for a first date?
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Note: If you purchased Mastered 2, you already have this story.
One night. No one must know.
This is the text I sent Logan Ross this morning. The billionaire financier is my father’s number one nemesis and has been pursuing me for months. He wants to own me, completely, promising exquisite pleasure balanced by equally intense pain, vowing to dominate me, to show me wicked things a virgin like myself shouldn’t be interested in.
But I am extremely interested, and I’ll risk everything—my job, my family, my future—to experience one night of total submission with this powerful Dom.
Will one night be enough for both of us?
Buy Links:
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Night-Billionaire-Master-City-Sizzle-ebook/dp/B00YDGYXBO
ARe: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-onenightwithmybillionairemaster-1846744-147.html
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Talking Releasing Rage And Publishing Truths
I’m at Dena Rogers’ online home today, talking about my publishing truths.
http://dena-rogers.com/cynthia-sax-five-things-i-learned-from-publishing-a-book/
Here’s a snippet…
1. If a writer is passionate about a book, the book is more likely to sell well.
I’m super passionate about Releasing Rage, my latest release, a sizzling cyborg SciFi erotic romance. Because I’m excited about this story, I talk about it ALL THE TIME. I talk about it when I should be promoting other stories. My enthusiasm is contagious. Reading, reviewing and blogging buddies get excited too.
Readers, if you see a writer is super enthusiastic about a story she’s written, that story might be one to put on your to-be-read pile. There’s a reason why the writer thinks this story is special.
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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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