Muse Food – Physical Space
There are many reasons why ‘Only One Bed’ is such an appealing trope and one of them is because there is a very small physical space the characters have to inhabit.
And that space can be even smaller. That one bed could have been designed for a single person.
Changing the physical space the characters inhabit can significantly change a scene.
A hero whispering in the heroine’s ear in a confined closet where they are forced to press up against each other, for example, is a very different experience than a whisper in a massive ballroom.
A heroine floating alone in the vast expanse of space is a very different experience than the heroine floating alone in a bathtub.
A battle scene inside a building is different than a battle scene in a wide open field.
Can you change the physical space your characters are inhabiting to make the scene more powerful?
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Cynthia Sax Weekly Update – July 5
I am working on the 2nd draft of the 6th installment of the Super Secret Project. I love this story. It makes me smile to write and to read and that’s so very special.
Have a wonderful week, my friends. (big hugs)
Help a being without being asked this week. Catch and release an indoor ladybug/ladybird. Allow her to return to the great outdoors. Hold a door open for someone. Put out a handful of sunflower seeds for your Mafia Squirrels. Give a plant a much needed drink of water.
Helping others, without any expectations of acknowledgment, helps us. It makes us feel good.
And I want you to feel good, my friends. You deserve joy!
Cyborg Sizzle Escape Omnibus
Half Man. Half Machine. All Theirs.
* * *
While these cyborg warriors battle to escape their cruel manufacturers, they find the human females they are destined to love for all eternity.
This omnibus includes the first seven stories in the Cyborg Sizzle series: Releasing Rage, Breathing Vapor, Being Green, Crash And Burn, Defying Death, Chasing Mayhem and Jumping Barrel.
All of these Cyborg Romances are set in a dark, gritty, often violent universe.
Releasing Rage
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.
Breathing Vapor
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.
Being Green
Green, a cyborg warrior, cares for one being—his plant Windy. When Windy becomes sick, he’ll do anything to heal her, even venture across the universe to visit a worlds-renowned plant doctor.
He doesn’t expect to find love.
Crash And Burn
Crash was manufactured to be one of the best warriors in the universe. The cyborg has spent many human lifespans fighting the enemy. But, unlike his battle-loving brethren, he doesn’t enjoy killing. When he escapes the Humanoid Alliance, he vows to never end another life.
Then he meets Safyre, an infuriating human female, and he considers breaking his vow.
Defying Death
Cyborgs don’t show emotion. Death learned that lesson early in his long lifespan. To survive, he hides his fierce passions behind a stoic wall. He calls no warrior friend. He never admits to caring for any being.
Even the human female he’s destined to love.
Chasing Mayhem
Mayhem has spent his lengthy lifespan obeying the Humanoid Alliance’s rules. Finally free from their cruel control, the cyborg warrior plans to cause chaos. He infiltrates a remote settlement, provokes the savage locals until they want him dead, and allows himself to be captured by the sexiest little Retriever he has ever laid his mechanically-enhanced eyes on.
Jumping Barrel
Barrel requires an Expert for the Tau Cetian orphans. He’s looking for a female who is willing to commit to a lifespan-long role, who is comfortable with moving off planet, and who, preferably, has the ability to speak the offsprings’ first language.
His female, however, is looking for a hero.
Buy Now:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/Cyborg-Sizzle-Escape-Omnibus-Continuum-ebook/dp/B081VFHF1S
Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cyborg-Sizzle-Escape-Omnibus-Continuum-ebook/dp/B081VFHF1S
Amazon AUS:
https://www.amazon.com.au/Cyborg-Sizzle-Escape-Omnibus-Continuum-ebook/dp/B081VFHF1S
Amazon Canada:
https://www.amazon.ca/Cyborg-Sizzle-Escape-Omnibus-Continuum-ebook/dp/B081VFHF1S
Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/cyborg-sizzle-escape-omnibus/id1488934271
Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/cyborg-sizzle-escape-omnibus
Smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/992060
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Your Feelings Are Never Wrong
You – “I’m sad.”
Your Friend – “You shouldn’t feel sad. You have (this) and (this) and (this).”
Our loved ones mean well when they respond like this. They want to ‘fix’ our feelings. They love us and they want us only to experience happiness.
But we are feeling the way we are for a reason. The feelings we’re having aren’t wrong…for US.
Sure, we can try to change them. When I feel stressed, for example, I go out into the garden and look at the greenery. That reduces my stress.
Sometimes, however, I just allow myself to FEEL. I have sad moments. I have angry moments. I have worried moments.
Loved ones might not understand why I have these moments but consciously or subconsciously I know why and these are legit and right emotions for ME.
We are complex beings. We have complex feelings.
These feelings are never wrong.
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Thrash And Respect For The Genre
Spoiler Alert – This post will talk about Thrash, a fun and quite gory shark movie, and it WILL contain spoilers. If you haven’t yet watched this shark and natural disaster movie, you might wish to skip this post.
The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I recently watched Thrash, a shark-as-a-danger movie set during a natural disaster, and we both enjoyed it.
It was clear to us that the people involved in Thrash greatly enjoyed both shark movies and disaster movies also.
There were visual and vocal nods to other movies in those genres. Shark Week was mentioned. The flooding scenes were awesome and were echoes of flooding scenes in other disaster movies.
There was a Great White as the hero scene that had me cheering. It reminded me of the T-Rex as the hero scene in Jurassic Park.
Thrash was a celebration of the two genres of movies and I felt the love. I think other viewers did too. It was a joy to experience.
If you’re writing a romance novel, don’t be afraid to show your love for the genre.
Your readers love the genre also. That’s why we’re reading in it.
(smiles)
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Throwback Thursday – Grin And Bare Him
Most of us, I believe, want peace. We don’t want to fight. We don’t want to battle others and/or the universe.
But sometimes that’s necessary. To protect ourselves. And to protect loved ones.
That’s the place Grin finds himself in. He wants peace. But, to protect his genetic match, he will have to wage war.
Grin And Bare Him
This cyborg will be the warrior his female requires.
Cyborgs are manufactured to fight.
Almost all of the half organic, half mechanical warriors enjoy battle. Tremendously.
Grin, a K model, is one of the rare exceptions. When he escaped his cruel creators, he set down his weapons and allocated his processors to less-violent pursuits. He projects he’s left his war-waging planet rotations behind him forever.
Then he meets his beautiful, beguiling female—the one being he’s destined to protect, claim, love for all eternity—and his plans for peace are completely decimated.
Mohini needs a ship.
She has a dangerous mission to complete, and the first step in that assignment is arranging transport to an enemy-controlled planet. The vessel she has set her sights on is guarded by the sexiest cyborg she’s ever seen.
To gain access to his ship, Mohini is prepared to kiss, caress, and seduce the muscular male. The mission is her focus. The pleasure she experiences will merely be a bonus.
A female has to do what a female has to do to save the universe.
Grin And Bare Him is a Fake-Mate Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.
It features a humanoid female undertaking a dangerous mission, a cyborg intent on keeping her alive, and an enemy who has no idea what they will soon unleash.
Buy Now:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09ZCWMSDV
Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09ZCWMSDV
Amazon AUS:
https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B09ZCWMSDV
Amazon Canada:
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B09ZCWMSDV
Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/grin-and-bare-him/id1622100495
Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/grin-and-bare-him
Smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1145153
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Perennials Take Time And Care
(This is a stock photo. Our plants aren’t as pretty. – grins)
I sowed a gazillion Good King Henry seeds (Good King Henry is a perennial spinach substitute).
Only 3 of those seeds sprouted.
But 3 seedlings are all we need and all that plant needs to reproduce.
Because it is a perennial vegetable that lives for 20 years or so.
Those 3 plants over 20 years could create 180 new plants. Those 180 new plants could also each create 3 new plants a year.
So the poor germination and the time and the work it takes to get those 3 seedlings to maturity are worth it to us.
This high level of care perennials need is why many experts suggest only adding 3 new perennials to our gardens every year. They need babying and fussing over. They need our time. And our time is limited.
Perennials are an investment but they are SO worth it!
(smiles)
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Celebrate Everything
(These two butterflies are definitely celebrating. – grins)
Today is the last day of the sixth month of 2026. It is roughly halfway through the year.
The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I are having a mini (low carb) cake to celebrate.
Because we can. And because we take any excuse to celebrate.
Life is worth celebrating, my friends. Every day is a special occasion.
And that deserves cake.
(smiles)
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Muse Food – Love Vans And Time As A Setting
The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I spotted this van while trekking around South American and we both immediately thought of the 1960s, the hippie era, a time when some young people embraced peace and love and unity.
Time can be a powerful setting.
It can influence language and fashion and thinking, whether the heroine is viewed as a rebel, for example, or the average girl.
Certain colors and images on covers, for example, can convey a time period like the rocket shaped spaceships on the 1970s SciFi Romances or the high waist gowns on Regency Romances.
What time is your story set in? How does that factor into your plot?
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Cynthia Sax Weekly Update – June 28
I have 1,500 words left to write in the 1st draft of the 6th installment of the Super Secret Project and I hope to complete this today.
(smiles)
I’m still loving this story. I’m still taking my time telling it, savoring every word. It is one of my current joys in life (along with the Dear Wonderful Hubby and gardening and reading and friends and…and…).
Have a wonderful week, my friends. (big hugs) Do something you enjoy today. Eat a piece of decadent chocolate. Re-read your favorite scene in your favorite romance novel. Take a nap in the middle of the day and dream of sexy cyborgs. Embrace happiness. You deserve joy!
Cyborg Sizzle Escape Omnibus
Half Man. Half Machine. All Theirs.
* * *
While these cyborg warriors battle to escape their cruel manufacturers, they find the human females they are destined to love for all eternity.
This omnibus includes the first seven stories in the Cyborg Sizzle series: Releasing Rage, Breathing Vapor, Being Green, Crash And Burn, Defying Death, Chasing Mayhem and Jumping Barrel.
All of these Cyborg Romances are set in a dark, gritty, often violent universe.
Releasing Rage
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.
Breathing Vapor
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.
Being Green
Green, a cyborg warrior, cares for one being—his plant Windy. When Windy becomes sick, he’ll do anything to heal her, even venture across the universe to visit a worlds-renowned plant doctor.
He doesn’t expect to find love.
Crash And Burn
Crash was manufactured to be one of the best warriors in the universe. The cyborg has spent many human lifespans fighting the enemy. But, unlike his battle-loving brethren, he doesn’t enjoy killing. When he escapes the Humanoid Alliance, he vows to never end another life.
Then he meets Safyre, an infuriating human female, and he considers breaking his vow.
Defying Death
Cyborgs don’t show emotion. Death learned that lesson early in his long lifespan. To survive, he hides his fierce passions behind a stoic wall. He calls no warrior friend. He never admits to caring for any being.
Even the human female he’s destined to love.
Chasing Mayhem
Mayhem has spent his lengthy lifespan obeying the Humanoid Alliance’s rules. Finally free from their cruel control, the cyborg warrior plans to cause chaos. He infiltrates a remote settlement, provokes the savage locals until they want him dead, and allows himself to be captured by the sexiest little Retriever he has ever laid his mechanically-enhanced eyes on.
Jumping Barrel
Barrel requires an Expert for the Tau Cetian orphans. He’s looking for a female who is willing to commit to a lifespan-long role, who is comfortable with moving off planet, and who, preferably, has the ability to speak the offsprings’ first language.
His female, however, is looking for a hero.
Buy Now:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/Cyborg-Sizzle-Escape-Omnibus-Continuum-ebook/dp/B081VFHF1S
Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cyborg-Sizzle-Escape-Omnibus-Continuum-ebook/dp/B081VFHF1S
Amazon AUS:
https://www.amazon.com.au/Cyborg-Sizzle-Escape-Omnibus-Continuum-ebook/dp/B081VFHF1S
Amazon Canada:
https://www.amazon.ca/Cyborg-Sizzle-Escape-Omnibus-Continuum-ebook/dp/B081VFHF1S
Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/cyborg-sizzle-escape-omnibus/id1488934271
Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/cyborg-sizzle-escape-omnibus
Smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/992060
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Simply Enjoy Things
I sometimes don’t discuss things I’ve enjoyed, like movies or books or gardening, with others. At least not immediately.
Because I don’t want to analyze those joys. I don’t want to debate whether or not I should enjoy them. I don’t want to hear all the reasons the other person didn’t like those things.
I want to simply enjoy them. I want to turn off my brain a bit and feel.
It is okay. No, it is more than okay. It is GOOD to simply enjoy things.
To look at a sunset and not worry about the storm brewing miles away. To smell a flower and not think about whether or not they are native to our areas. To read a great romance novel and not ponder if it is advancing the genre.
Simply enjoy some things, my friends.
Allow yourself that happiness.
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