Taste of Cyn

Keeping Skills Honed

By Cynthia Sax on February 17, 2021

I take, on average, one writing craft workshop a month.

This surprises some newer writers. I’ve been published for well over a decade, have been writing since I could hold a pencil, have hit the USA Today Bestseller List a few times.

Why would I continue to take craft courses?

I do this because skills can always be improved and I find it fun to add to the tools in my writer toolbox. I think readers deserve the best d@mn stories I can produce. Some stories can only be told using certain skills, skills I might not yet have.

And these courses are food for my muse. It excites me to hear how other writers tackles issues, how they think differently than I do. It draws me out of my own head, allows me to see problems from a different angle.

If the workshop host offers a critique (Angela Knight often does this with the workshops she gives), I always submit a sample of the story I’m currently working on. Getting a new perspective on it is often priceless. The feedback strengthens the entire story.

I whole-heartedly recommend writers continue to take workshops. Every writer is different. The workshops might not benefit you as they benefit me. But it is worth a try.

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Containing Malice

This tormented cyborg craves vengeance…and her.

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Malice, a C Model cyborg, has spent his long lifespan enslaved by the Humanoid Alliance. His cruel manufacturers have hurt him in all the ways a male could be hurt.

His enemy has now added a new weapon to their arsenal—a tiny human medic with soft hands and a delectable scent. She experiments on him multiple times a shift, delivering pain…and frustration.

He wants her. He also seeks retribution.

Once Malice frees himself, he plans to achieve both of his goals, taking Medic Illona captive and ending her research…permanently.

Illona is as much a prisoner as the cyborgs she experiments on. Since her arrival at the Human Alliance’s secret laboratory, she has carefully, stealthily, crafted a plot to free her test subjects. To conceal her covert activities, the medic has been forced to harm beings rather than heal them.

The being she has damaged the most is also the cyborg she fiercely desires— Malice, a huge, gray-skinned, blue-eyed C Model with massive hands and a voice deeper than space. He hates her, has good reason to do so, and, when he’s freed, there’s a high probability he’ll kill her.

Illona will take that risk to ensure he survives.

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Containing Malice is a STANDALONE enemies-to-lovers Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.

It is the first of five core stories in the Rebel Cyborgs Series.

Book 1: Containing Malice
Book 2: Under Strain
Book 3: Baring Grudge
Book 4: B Free
Book 5: Seizing Power

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