Throwback Thursday – Chasing Mayhem
Mayhem is one of the wildest cyborgs in existence. He knows he’s wild. That’s why he chose the name Mayhem.
(grins)
Imee, his genetic match, is all about duty and survival. She has a terrible job to do and she does it. Well. Because the lives of her loved ones depend upon her.
Her job is about to get a whole lot more complicated.
Wild. Free. Hers.
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.
Imee’s sole mission in life is to keep her family alive. To do this, she must hunt rebels, returning them to the Humanoid Alliance’s evil clutches where they will be executed. She doesn’t allow herself to feel anything for her targets…until she meets a tall, muscular cyborg with wild hair and even wilder eyes.
With his sure hands, laughing lips and erotic holds, Mayhem makes Imee’s body sizzle and her resistance melt. Their love is doomed. She must deliver the warrior to his death or she’ll place her family’s safety at risk. But she can’t resist him.
Imee soon discovers that Mayhem, life, and love are never predictable.
Chasing Mayhem is Book 5 in the Cyborg Sizzle series and is a STANDALONE story.
It is also a BBW Cyborg SciFi Romance.
Buy Now:
Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Mayhem-Cyborg-Sizzle-Book-ebook/dp/B01IRPO9WY
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chasing-Mayhem-Cyborg-Sizzle-Book-ebook/dp/B01IRPO9WY/
Amazon AUS: https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B01IRPO9WY
Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/book/chasing-mayhem/id1136333685
Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/chasing-mayhem
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Gardening – What Could Have Gone Better This Season?
Last week, we talked about what went right this gardening season.
This week, let’s talk about the challenges.
What could have gone better? Which crops failed? What will we change during the next gardening season?
In the Sax garden, our eggplants failed. Many of the plants were immediately devoured by slugs and insects. The few plants that survived didn’t grow quickly enough to produce fruit.
In 2027, we plan to plant nasturtiums as a ground cover around the eggplants. We hope that these flowers will act as trap crops, distracting the slugs and insects away from the eggplants.
Our asparagus was also decimated, which was a challenging loss to accept as we had been waiting for years for that first asparagus harvest. Even the professional growers in our area lost their plants so I don’t think we could have done anything differently to save them.
We will be starting asparagus from seed in 2027. We’re hoping this will make them a bit tougher. And it is more economical in case we have another loss.
What were your gardening challenges this season?
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Ease Your Fears
When the Dear Wonderful Hubby plans to go to bed after I do, he turns on the light on his side of the bed. We joke about it being the anti-monster light. He knows I don’t like to sleep with the lights off unless he’s sleeping beside me, protecting me.
I’m not scared of the dark. I’m scared of sleeping alone (i.e. without someone I trust by my side) in the dark.
I accept this.
I’ve shared this with the person I love.
We take this small step to ease my fears.
Fears aren’t always rational but they ARE very real. If it doesn’t harm anyone else, take steps to ease your fears.
If you’re food insecure (as I am), for example, have an emergency case of beans in your pantry. If you’re scared of walking home alone, ask a friend to walk with you. If you’re scared of spiders, arrange to have your home cleaned (by friends or a paid professional or someone else) every week.
Do what YOU need to do to feel safe, my friends.
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Muse Food – Dragonflies And Camouflage
I spotted this dragonfly on the lovage plant. They believe I can’t see them because they are so perfectly camouflaged.
Does your hero or heroine (or villain or any other character) also not want to be seen?
What do they do to become ‘invisible’? Do they blend in so completely they are challenging to spot? Do they act like everyone else? Do they take on the locals’ accent? Do they wear black and stay in the shadows?
How do they use camouflage?
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Cynthia Sax Weekly Update – October 11
This week, I’ve started the first draft of the tenth installment of the Super Secret Project. I will likely release these as a trilogy of long novels. But I like to think of them as installments as I feel like I am progressing.
Instead of thinking ‘I’m still writing the second novel in the trilogy’, I can tell myself ‘I’m writing the tenth installment.’
It tricks my brain into staying motivated.
(smiles)
Have a wonderful week, my friends. (big hugs) Is there a big, maybe a bit daunting project you can break down into smaller ‘installments’? If so, consider doing this. And then reward yourself for completing each installment! And reward yourself for doing the breaking down of the project into installments! And reward yourself for successfully making it to today! (grins) You deserve to reward yourself, my friends!
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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What Can I Make With This?
The Dear Wonderful Hubby came home yesterday with SIX 8 ounce/250 g blocks of cream cheese. The grocery store was selling each block for $1 as they were near their best before date. They are usually north of $4 a block.
We are two people. We tend to go through one block a month using it as spreads.
So we have an opportunity to get creative.
Yesterday, I made fudge using one of the blocks. It was pretty dang good. And the fudge can be stored in the freezer.
I might use up two more blocks that way, freezing the fudge.
The Dear Wonderful Hubby is planning to make a cheesecake.
We might also make some dips. Or stuffed pasta. Or other things.
We’re having fun with this. (smiles) And we’re eating well.
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Why Are So Many Celebrities Dying?
When I feel down in the dumps about so many celebrities I know dying,
I remind myself
that this is because I’m fortunate to KNOW of a lot of celebrities.
My grandparents might have known only one hundred or so celebrities. Those were mostly movie stars, TV stars, singers, political leaders and sports folks.
I know of THOUSANDS of celebrities. There are the movie stars, TV stars, singers, political leaders and sports folks, yes, but there are MANY more of them.
My grandma had ONE TV channel.
I have a thousand or more TV channels.
She listened to ONE radio station.
I have thousands of radio stations featuring artists from all over the world.
Being Canadian, she knew the name of the President of the US and that was about it.
I know of Senators and Congress people.
I also know of streaming stars, YouTube stars, influencers, and so many other people.
My world is much bigger.
And I know of a LOT of people. So, of course, I will lose a LOT of people.
This is still sad but it is a fortunate place to be.
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Throwback Thursday – Dark Fire
Dare, the hero of Dark Fire, is a dragon…of sorts. His species can shift into a still humanoid form that has scales and can breathe smoke and fire. Oh, and he has retractable claws!
This makes Dare a formidable warrior.
But it also means he requires a mate sturdy enough to handle him.
The mate he receives is Faylee, a small delicate-looking human.
Dark Fire
What the Beast wants, the Beast gets.
Dare’s savage nature has made him an outcast among his kind. The silver-scaled Dracheon warrior can’t control his inner beast. It’s too strong. When his primitive instincts told him his destined mate was on Carinae E, he had no choice. He had to travel to the outlaw planet. There, he hoped to meet a female powerful enough to survive his Drache.
He finds Faylee, a delicate little human.
Faylee is the best thief on the planet. Everyone she encounters mistakes her for a young boy…except for a tall, shiny warrior from off-planet. When she gazes into Dare’s flame-filled eyes, he makes her feel, for the first time, like a desirable female. The fire-breathing male has her yearning for hot kisses, fierce embraces, and a future filled with love. She doesn’t realize mating with him might be the last thing she ever does.
Dare’s beast isn’t the only danger on the planet. An enemy from the past has returned and he’s determined to stop Dare and Faylee…permanently. They’ll need luck and the assistance of every warrior in the Refuge to stay alive.
Dark Fire is a STANDALONE SciFi Romance set in a gritty, dark world.
Buy Today:
Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Fire-Refuge-Book-4-ebook/dp/B07CW2Y8B7/
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Fire-Refuge-Book-4-ebook/dp/B07CW2Y8B7/
Amazon AUS: https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B07CW2Y8B7
Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/book/dark-fire/id1381353384
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dark-fire-22
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/824382
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Gardening – What Went Right This Season?
It is nearing the end of the growing season here in Toronto, Canada, and one of the things I like to do at this time of year is think about everything that went right this season.
Some successes were planned.
The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I focused on adding perennials to the garden and most of them did very well. They are adding a base of plant life that will return every year, whether we tend to them or not. I can see how this will build to create a fuller and more resilient garden.
Some things were happy accidents, however.
A butternut squash volunteer grew in a place I hadn’t thought of adding one to. And it covered up a bare unsightly strip of ground that had been bothering me for years. We will definitely plant another butternut squash there purposefully next year!
What went right for you this gardening season?
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You Can Stop
If something, that in the past you were doing because it gave you joy, no longer gives you joy, you can stop doing that something.
If something, that in the past you were doing because it earned you much needed cash, no longer earns you much needed cash, you can stop doing that something also.
You don’t have to read an entire book series. You don’t have to spend your entire working life at the same job. You don’t have to finish a movie. You don’t have to eat the whole cake. (Yes, I heard that gasp. – grins) You don’t have to continue a side hustle. You don’t have to separate lights and darks while doing the laundry this week.
If it no longer serves you (makes you happy or earns you an income or…), you can stop. You have that ability.
Stopping that action will also free up your time and energy for something else. Which is an awesome gift to yourself!
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