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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Throwback Thursday – North Bound
Steve, the sentient plant ruler of an entire planet, is one of my favorite minor characters I’ve ever written. Though he is not AT ALL minor. He is dominant to his very roots. Nothing happens on his planet without his approval.
And this includes any off world visitors. Like a cyborg second in command seeking to explore Steve’s planet.
Thankfully, North has a local warrior female to help protect him and his team.
IF she wants to do that.
(grins)
North Bound
A mission-focused cyborg battles a captivating and dramatic distraction.
***
North, the second-in-command of a cyborg crew, has two priorities—he has to explore and collect data on Balazoid Minor, a small planet in their sector, and he must bring his three-being team back to the ship alive and fully functional.
When he encounters his brash, bravado-wielding female, the one being genetically designed for him, he recognizes her for what she is—a distraction that might get him and his brethren killed. He WILL claim her, but only on his terms, when his mission is complete and everyone he is responsible for protecting is safe.
Myrina the Magnificent is the best warrior on her planet and possibly the universe. She has captured an unparalleled fourteen males for her all-female tribe. Once she has secured the fifteenth male, she will be a legend. Her name will live forever. She’ll earn the undying adoration of her sisters. Glory will be hers.
The male in her sights—and in her snare—is a huge, gray-skinned, blue-eyed cyborg with a skill for war and lips designed for kissing. One emotionally charged battle is all it takes for Myrina to realize she wants North for herself. She won’t share his caresses with anyone.
Their forbidden love might be destined to be, but it won’t be easy to maintain. Myrina will have to fight her sisters, an all-powerful male-eating plant, and her cyborg’s unbending will to make North hers and hers alone.
***
North Bound is a STANDALONE Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.
It is the fifth of six core stories in the Cyborg Space Exploration Series.
Book 1: Choosing Chuckles
Book 2: Doc’s Orders
Book 3: Dominance And Dissent
Book 4: Passion Surge
Book 5: North Bound
Book 6: Testing Truth
Buy Now:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0853DFY1B
Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0853DFY1B
Amazon Australia:
https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B0853DFY1B
Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/north-bound/id1500291657
Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/north-bound
Smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1006230
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Aerogarden – Week 5
We now have seedlings in all 6 of the Aerogarden’s (the mini grow station’s) pods!
Woot!
The Thyme didn’t germinate. Aerogarden kept their germination guarantee and reimbursed us for that. I quickly popped in a couple Genovese Basil seeds and they germinated super quickly.
We’ve harvested some Dill and this past week, we did our first harvest of the Thai Basil. And everything seems to be growing strong.
We’re very pleased with the Aerogarden. It is super easy to grow in and it is nice to have fresh herbs literally on our kitchen table.
(smiles)
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Savor The Moment
There is so much to do, so many tasks to complete, places to go, people to meet with.
We often find ourselves rushing from one to another.
And this steals some of our joy from completing these tasks, visiting these places, meeting with our people.
Consider slowing down for a moment.
Sip your coffee while listening fully to a friend speak about her day. Notice the softness of the fabrics as you take your clothes out of the dryer. Take a deep breath and look around you before going to the next place on your list.
Savor this moment, my friends. It will never come around quite the same way again!
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Happy Star Wars Day!
May The Fourth Be With You!
Someone will grumpily tell you today that Star Wars Day is a silly celebration.
That is the point.
It IS a silly celebration (if you define silly as being non-serious). And silliness is greatly needed in today’s often stressful world. We need to laugh and smile and have fun. That’s essential for our mental wellbeing.
Wear your Star Wars shirt today. Mock fight children with light sabers. Play the Imperial March as you take your daily walk. Tell the neighbor “These are not the droids you’re looking for.”
Have fun with today, my friends. Make the world a sillier place!
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Cynthia Sax Weekly Update – May 3
I have completed the 5th installment of the Super Secret Project! Woot!
Today, I’ll read over the 4th installment, ensure there aren’t any glaring errors in it (There will be at least one non-glaring error in it. There’s an error in EVERY story. – eye roll – It doesn’t matter how well it is edited.).
And then tomorrow, I start the 6th installment! Yay! I’m excited about that!
Have a wonderful week, my friends. (big hugs) Spend some time outside if you’re able. Look at the sky. Touch a plant. Listen to the birds. Feel the breeze on your skin. We are part of…everything and isn’t that marvelous?
(smiles)
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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Leave A Compliment
A friend commented that “The internet makes it so easy to be cruel.”
She’s right.
But it also makes it so easy to be kind.
It takes less than a minute to leave a comment on a post, telling a friend the photo they posted (and was clearly proud of) is beautiful or the poem they shared speaks to our soul or the dinner they made looked delicious.
That compliment will change at least one life, make someone’s world a little bit better, a little bit happier.
And isn’t that an amazing power to have, my friends?
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Write Like No One Is Reading
Professional writers usually have a reader (representing a group of readers) in mind when we’re crafting our stories. We live off the earnings from our stories. There has to be a market for them.
This is a bit…restricting. Our characters can’t do or say or think this or that or the reader will put down the story.
My best writing, however, often happens when I write like no one, except myself, will ever read my stories.
That’s how Releasing Rage happened. I wrote that cyborg romance for myself.
And that is what I’m doing with the Super Secret Project. I’m writing it for myself.
If other readers love it and there’s a market for it, great. I’ll be happy the Super Secret Project makes them happy.
(And the Dear Wonderful Hubby will be happy to have the funds for exciting things like…food. – grins)
But it is being written like no one else will ever read it, without this mythical reader’s preferences in my head.
And it has been SO MUCH FUN.
If you can afford the time (and the loss of income), writing buddies, consider writing something (a novel, a short story, a line) purely for yourself.
This might give you joy also.
(smiles)
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Throwback Thursday – Dominance And Dissent
Dissent is a champion of captured, tormented creatures everywhere.
Because the J Model cyborg was once a captured, tormented creature.
When he meets Greer, he feels her fear and her pain. He admires her will to survive.
And he knows…
the best way to care for the human female he loves is to eventually let her go.
Dominance And Dissent
To earn the love of his curvy human, this cyborg will have to set her free.
***
Dissent has one primary mission—to find his female and protect her.
He doesn’t know who she is, where she’s situated, or what she looks like. That doesn’t stop him from searching the universe for her. He’s a cyborg and he’s determined. He WILL track her down.
While the J Model warrior is exploring a settlement on a merchant planet, he hears a defiant scream. Dissent has finally located the one being he’s genetically compatible with. He rushes to his little human’s side, ready and willing to defend her, eager to claim his female…forever.
Greer has only one dream—to be free. She’s been a slave her entire lifespan, has been subjected to soul-crushing abuse and pride-shredding humiliation. When an opportunity to escape presents itself, she takes it. Steps away from independence, she’s apprehended.
As she looks death in the face, waiting for the final strike, a tall, handsome cyborg warrior saves her. He exudes power, makes her tremble with desire, is unlike any of the males she’s ever known…except in one heartbreaking way.
He wants to own her.
As Dissent and Greer battle for dominance, danger looms. An enemy from the past has returned. He’s heavily armed, he’s not alone, and his sole goal is to kill both of them.
***
Dominance And Dissent is a STANDALONE Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.
It features an overprotective cyborg, a defiant slave, and a ravenous baby creature who is determined to eat his way through an entire settlement.
Buy Now:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07XJYNZ8P
Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07XJYNZ8P
Amazon AUS:
https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B07XJYNZ8P
Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/dominance-and-dissent/id1479567688
Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dominance-and-dissent
Smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/957853
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Aerogarden – Week 4
This is week 4 of using the Aerogarden, the mini-grow station the Dear Wonderful Hubby and I received as a gift.
Five of the pods have seen germination. One of the pods (the Thyme) didn’t have any activity.
Aerogarden guarantees germination. The Dear Wonderful Hubby called their helpline and they gave us a refund for that pod.
There were some questions (as they are trying to fix problems and stop that from happening to other growers in the future) but the process was easy peasy.
Aerogarden truly does stand behind their guarantee.
Some of the pods had multiple germinations.
The Thai Basil, for example, had SIX seeds germinate. That is way too much for one little pod to handle. So I pulled out three of the seedlings and transplanted them in their own more traditional dirt-filled containers. And all three of the seedlings survived this rather traumatic experience.
(smiles)
The Dear Wonderful Hubby (the fresh herb lover) should have a lot of Thai Basil in the future.
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