Cynthia Sax Weekly Update – May 17
I continue to craft the first draft of the sixth installment of the Super Secret Project. I went a little backwards this week as I uncovered an awesome way to add much excitement to some scenes I’d already written.
Going backward, deleting and re-writing words is okay! It is part of the process and part of crafting a story we can be proud of!
(smiles)
Have a wonderful week, my friends. (big hugs)
I suspect you have something you’d like to redo also. This could be refolding the towels in the linen closet. Or repotting a beloved plant. Or rereading a scene in a book.
Redo it! Don’t be afraid of going backward.
Sometimes we have to make things ‘right’ before we can go forward.
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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There Is Beauty Everywhere
(This is a photo the Dear Wonderful Hubby took while we were in Taiwan.)
There is a theory in business called The Red Car Theory.
Once you notice a red car, you tend to see red cars everywhere.
This applies to everything.
If you look for something, you’ll start to ‘see’ it, to notice it everywhere.
So look for joy. Look for smiles.
Look for beauty.
And you’ll then see it everywhere. You’ll see it in the curve of a g on a printed page. You’ll see it in the dew clinging to a blade of green grass. You’ll see it in the spark of gold in a friend’s brown eyes.
You deserve beautiful moments, my friend.
Give them to yourself.
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Silly Is Wonderful
The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I spotted this giant flower-covered sculpture of a frog in Japan.
Some more ‘serious’ people would call it silly. Who needs a house-sized flower frog?
We thought it was wondrous. It made us smile.
I often tell very bad puns and jokes. Some people call them silly. They often smile when they say that.
The Super Secret Project is humorous. Some people will call it silly. I hope it makes people smile.
Because we all deserve joy. We deserve to smile. Studies say smiling makes us live longer.
Don’t be afraid of silly. Silly is wonderful. And silly is often needed.
You can make the world a better, happier place for someone with silly acts.
And isn’t that a great super power?
(smiles)
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Throwback Thursday – Testing Truth
I think of Testing Truth as my fairytale cyborg romance.
The human heroine is a princess. The cyborg hero is her dedicated (though rarely serious) warrior champion.
There’s a quest. And adventure. Love and, of course, the romantic happy ending.
(smiles)
Testing Truth
A fun-loving cyborg gets serious about love.
***
Truth lives each moment as though it were his last. The cyborg warrior rushes into danger, teases beings he shouldn’t provoke, accepts every call of adventure he encounters.
When a prissy little human princess floats into the Rebel structure Truth is occupying, seeking a mercenary to assist her and her unusual entourage, he volunteers to be her warrior. She claims their assignment is dangerous, warns him he might not survive the task.
That is exactly the type of fun he has been seeking.
Princess Nanette of the planet Royaume must rescue her estranged brother from an enemy prison ship. That is her duty, and she has been trained to always place the needs of her planet and her subjects before her own. Nancy doesn’t have the freedom to indulge her passions for a certain dark-haired, gray-skinned cyborg. Not permanently and not publicly.
But she is unable to resist the warrior. Truth, with his laughing eyes, smiling lips, and rough hands, tempts her as no one else ever has. He could be her one fleeting act of rebellion before she’s matched with the powerful ruler her planet requires.
If they survive their current mission.
Their love is doomed. Their lifespans are at risk. This cyborg and his princess will need the help of every ally they have if they wish to see another sunrise.
Buy Now:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08BTYN7TT
Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08BTYN7TT
Amazon AUS:
https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B08BTYN7TT
Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/testing-truth/id1520415369
Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/testing-truth
Smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1029497
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Aerogarden – Week 6
It is week 6 of having the Aerogarden, the mini grow station, and the herbs that germinated are looking great. This includes the Basil I seeded to replace the Thyme that didn’t germinate (and that Aerogarden, keeping their germination guarantee, reimbursed us for).
We are lightly harvesting everything except for the Parsley and the Genovese Basil. Those plants aren’t yet large enough to take leaves from.
The Dear Wonderful Hubby, especially, is loving having a little bit of fresh herbs with each meal.
He was surprised how much he likes the Dill. Previously, he’d only had store-bought fresh Dill and the dried stuff and that doesn’t compare to Dill picked right from a plant.
(smiles)
The Aerogarden is, IMHO, a success!
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There ARE Alternatives
I had to make an extreme change to my diet. At first, I was feeling a bit sorry for myself.
But then, I uncovered
There are new-diet-happy alternatives for ALL of my favorite foods! They aren’t exactly the same but they are close enough and they bring me joy.
This is often true in all aspects of life. There ARE alternatives. Losing one option often forces us to look for other options. And we tend to FIND these options when we search for them.
As the saying goes, when one door closes, another opens.
Look for the opening door!
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Muse Food – The Details Few People Notice
I recently shared this photo with you.
What you might not have noticed and I only noticed because I enlarged it on my screen is the millipede on the fallen tree trunk in the upper left hand corner of the photo.
Writers do this ALL THE TIME. Mystery Writers are especially skilled at this. They weave little details into their stories that might seem like throwaway lines, lines that don’t mean anything.
Yet they very much mean something. These details can be foreshadowing. They can hint that all is not normal in the world (The movie, The Sixth Sense, did this very well.). They can be the clue that solves the mystery.
Care about the little details. They are often the difference between a good story and a GREAT story.
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Cynthia Sax Weekly Update – May 10
I’m happily working on the 6th installment of the Super Secret Project. It is my escape from reality and from a rather turbulent world. And isn’t it AWESOME that we have stories to do this for us?
(smiles)
Have a wonderful week, my friends. (big hugs) Escape from reality a bit. Read an alien romance. Spend time phone-less in a park. Watch a K-Drama set in a fantasy world. Spend time with a furbaby.
You need this mini vacation for your soul!
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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It Is Okay To Have A Mental Health Day
My arthritis, due to the abrupt changes in weather, has been…intense. The news has been…a lot. The weather is gray.
So I’m having a mental health day today.
I’ve cancelled all of my plans, postponed all the work I can postpone, and I will stay in bed, reading and watching movies and taking it easy.
And that’s okay, my friend.
Life isn’t a race. Our to-do lists are something WE create, not the universe demands we do. They can be to-done (as the Dear Wonderful Hubby jokingly refers to it) tomorrow. Or the next day.
If you need a mental health day and can afford to take one, take one. Refill your energy wells. Regain your happiness. Give your brain and your body a break.
You deserve it!
(smiles)
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Divide The News And Protect Your Happiness
There’s…A LOT happening in the world right now. It can be overwhelming. And the revelations are often spirit sucking.
We have to stay informed to stay safe. But we also have to protect our mental health and safeguard our joy. Happiness is precious. We have to shield it.
One thing the Dear Wonderful Hubby and I do, that has helped greatly with balancing safety and joy, is…
We divide the news between ourselves and with other loved ones.
One loved one focuses on wars and military movements, for example.
He tells us if there’s anything we should do or know here at home regarding this.
He will also say things like “It’s really bad out there.” without going into gruesome details.
And, when we’re planning travel, we’ll let him know and he’ll inform us if there’s anything we should be aware of.
My specialty is climate and the environment.
I inform loved ones if there’s something they should know or take action on regarding these.
Yes, we need to be aware of anything that might harm us. But we don’t have to be aware of EVERYTHING dire happening in this big ol’ world in grim detail.
It is okay to only be knowledgeable of pieces of it.
Protect your mental health, my friends.
(big hugs)
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