Taste of Cyn

Feed Another Today

By Cynthia Sax on August 18, 2026

Look at this beautiful (well fed) horse, begging for treats. She has clearly not been fed in…minutes.

(grins)

One of the ways the Dear Wonderful Hubby and I show love is to feed others.

The equivalent of a can of tuna or a $1.75 donation given to a local food bank can provide 1 meal to 1 person.

One flower planted in the backyard can provide a meal for multiple bees.

Used coffee grounds dumped on the ground can provide multiple meals for the microbes living in the soil, which, in turn, enriches it, which, in turn, feeds some plants.

Feeding others also makes the Dear Wonderful Hubby and I feel good. We feel like we’re contributing to this wonderful world. We’re helpers.

Consider feeding another living being today, my friends.

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Muse Food – Rainbows And Other Meanings

By Cynthia Sax on August 17, 2026

An exercise expert I follow posted a video in which she described her skin as being ‘orange.’

That one throwaway sentence greatly decreased my enjoyment of the video. And it made me view her differently.

(big sigh)

In contrast, a gardening expert recently talked about how she loves rainbows.

That throwaway sentence greatly INCREASED my enjoyment of that video.

(smiles)

Words matter. They can have multiple meanings and be loaded with emotion not at all implied by their definitions in a dictionary.

Choose the words in your story carefully.

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Cynthia Sax Weekly Update – August 16

By Cynthia Sax on August 16, 2026

I’m working on the 2nd draft of the 8th installment of the Super Secret Project. It is flowing well. I love the characters and the world. And I’m enjoying myself. (smiles) That matters so much to me right now.

Have a wonderful week, my friends. (big hugs) Support a small business today. This support could be buying from the small business or sharing a small business’s post on social media or messaging them telling them they’re doing a great job. And yes, writers ARE small businesses. (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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It Is Okay To Do Nothing

By Cynthia Sax on August 15, 2026

I am admittedly a bit of a workaholic. I think many writers are. There’s always another scene to be written.

(grins)

But working all the time leads to burnout and unhappiness. And that, ultimately, decreases overall word count. It doesn’t increase it.

So I now schedule do nothing time into my schedule. (Truly, this is non-working time as we’re always doing something, even if that something is staring into space and breathing.)

I take naps. I sit in the garden and watch the butterflies flutter from flower to flower. I talk about absolute silliness with the Dear Wonderful Hubby. (smiles)

Life isn’t a race. Slow down, my friends. Enjoy it.

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Find Peace At (Or Around) Your Own Home

By Cynthia Sax on August 14, 2026

I saw a photo recently of people lining up at a National Park.

I suspect they went to the National Park to find peace, to enjoy nature. Instead, they found chaos and many, many unhappy people.

I think today, more than ever, we all need to create or find peaceful spots in or around our homes. This could be a quiet corner in a public library. Or in a backyard garden. Or under a tree in a nearby park. Or in the bathtub in our own homes.

Preferably it will have some nature. Maybe a potted plant has been set in that corner of the library. Or a stack of rocks has been placed near the bathtub. Or we have a cool branch we carry around in our backpacks (am I not the only person who does this?).

You deserve peace, my friends. (big hugs) And you shouldn’t have to travel far to find it.

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Throwback Thursday – Claiming Cure

By Cynthia Sax on August 13, 2026

Claiming Cure is the final story in the cyborg continuum…for now.

I definitely won’t be releasing any new stories in it this year. I don’t know about the future. But I hope to, some day, come back to it.

Because I love the cyborgs. I love their genetic matches. And I hope you love them also.

(smiles)

Claiming Cure

A proud cyborg medic meets his human match.

***

Cyra has tasks to complete before she dies.

There are patients to heal, a dangerous mission to undertake, and a world to save. She doesn’t have time to entertain uninvited guests.

Especially one coldhearted cyborg medic who thinks he’s better than her.

The male might be breathtakingly handsome. His sternly set lips might be extremely kissable. And his touch might draw out a passion she didn’t think she was capable of feeling.

But he’s also a distraction, one that might doom millions of innocent beings to a painful, horrible death.

Cure isn’t emotionless. He feels…greatly. Listening to that malfunction has caused other beings pain and suffering in the past.

He refuses to allow his desires to cloud his judgment now.

His resolve is tested when he’s forced to associate with the most provoking, alluring medic in the universe.

Cyra is his genetic match, the one being in the universe he is fated to protect, touch, claim. She’s clever and beautiful, and the need to hold her almost downs his systems.

But now is not the time to indulge his great wanting.

Cure has an assignment to complete.

If he fails to accomplish his goals, everyone he cares for, including his human female, will die.

***

Claiming Cure is a standalone Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.

It features two skilled medics determined to ignore the toe-curling attraction between them, a perilous impossible mission, and foes seeking to ensure they never heal another being ever again.

Buy Now:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/Claiming-Cure-Dauntless-Cyborgs-Book-ebook/dp/B0D26MWGKC

Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Claiming-Cure-Dauntless-Cyborgs-Book-ebook/dp/B0D26MWGKC

Amazon AUS:
https://www.amazon.com.au/Claiming-Cure-Dauntless-Cyborgs-Book-ebook/dp/B0D26MWGKC

Amazon Canada:
https://www.amazon.ca/Claiming-Cure-Dauntless-Cyborgs-Book-ebook/dp/B0D26MWGKC

Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/claiming-cure/id6499055867

Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/claiming-cure

Smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/1553992

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Plant More Seeds

By Cynthia Sax on August 12, 2026

I know. I know. You’re all gardened out. You want to start packing the garden up for the year.

It’s too early for that, my friends.

(smiles)

There’s still time to plant seeds, even in Canada, to get an additional harvest from fast growing vegetables like radish, bok choy and lettuce.

And these plants will keep the soil covered. Planting them will benefit your garden next year.

Let’s go!

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Sending You A Hug

By Cynthia Sax on August 11, 2026

Studies show that hugs make us live longer.

And virtual hugs work also!

(They aren’t as great as physical hugs but they do make a bit of difference in life expectancy.)

Hugs certainly make us live happier.

(grins)

I’m sending you so many hugs today, my friends.

(big hugs)

Hugs and love and all the good things.

(smiles)

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Muse Food – If You’re Creatively Stuck

By Cynthia Sax on August 10, 2026

If I’m creatively stuck, one of the things I try is

using another ‘tool.’

This ‘tool’ could be switching to handwriting for a bit. And then using pens with different colors of ink (different colors stimulate different parts of our brains).

This ‘tool’ could be moving from the writing cave to a busy coffee shop.

This ‘tool’ could be writing the scene from the perspective of a different character.

There are countless tools we can use to stimulate the muse. If you’re creatively stuck, try one!

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Cynthia Sax Weekly Update – August 9

By Cynthia Sax on August 9, 2026

I’ve halfway completed the 1st draft of the 8th installment of the Super Secret Project and this installment is action packed. It is so friggin’ exciting. (grins) I’m having a blast writing this longer story.

Have a wonderful week, my friends! (big hugs) Watch an ant trek off to do whatever ants do. Think of how big our world is to him. And then think of how big the universe is to us. We are so fortunate to be living on this wonderful world in such a large collection of systems! And I’m so fortunate to be sharing this planet and this time span with you, my friends! (more hugs)