I’ve been experiencing a particular type of (sometimes extremely entertaining – grins) situation more and more online.
I will talk about climate change on social media and someone will point to the explosions in my books and tell me those explosions contribute to climate change. I will talk about domestic violence on social media and someone will point to the violence in my books, call me a hypocrite.
I could talk about how those explosions aren’t happening here on Earth. Or that maybe climate change is fixed in the future.
But the most important thing is…
I’m not the books I write.
I might have things in common with the heroes or heroines. But they aren’t me. And I don’t approve of or like everything that happens in my stories.
For example, I don’t like conflict in my non-writing life. At all.
A well-written Romance Novel, in contrast, usually requires all sorts of conflict. A no conflict Romance Novel would be VERY short. (laughs) The couple (or more) would exchange ‘I love you’s on the first page and that would be it. They’d have their Romantic Happy Ever After. The story would be over. To craft a longer, more thrilling story, we NEED conflict.
In the Sax household, as another example, we try not to intentionally kill anything. Spiders live in our basement over the winter and we take them outside in the spring. I have a plant on the windowsill that has been dead for months and I water it weekly, hoping it will miraculously return to life.
In my stories, in contrast, beings die. All sorts of beings. Good, bad, other. The stories are set during war. It would be very unusual not to have any deaths during a war.
And my life is very boring compared to the lives of the beings in my stories. You do NOT want my stories to reflect my life. It would be 200 pages of someone sitting in front of a computer screen in her daytime pajamas.
Writers are not usually what they write. And you don’t want our stories to be a reflection of who we are and what we do. There’s a reason there aren’t many (or any that I know about) reality shows based on writers. We’re quite boring. (grins)
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Seizing Power
This cyborg believes he’s in control.
Power is the self-appointed leader of the cyborg council. Other members might debate situations. He makes the ultimate decisions.
When a threat to Homeland is revealed, he takes command of a fleet and ventures to the edge of cyborg-controlled space to investigate. He finds a rebellion led by a mysterious upstart he calls Cadet.
The plan Power derives is simple—he’ll quickly quash the uprising and teach its leader a lesson the warrior will never forget.
NO ONE challenges his authority.
Eirene Ours might be called a cadet by Power but she is NOT his subordinate. She is the arrogant E Model’s genetic match.
For much of her mature lifespan, she has desired the male, yearning for his dark-eyed gaze, craving his sure hands, longing for his respect.
That esteem was never granted. And Eirene Ours can no longer wait to earn it. There’s an external threat to their kind, a danger that might destroy them all.
Having lured Power to her home terrain, she now plans to use everything within her means — her fists, her daggers, her ship-destroying missiles — to pound that truth into her stubborn warrior’s thick metal skull.
The future of every cyborg is at stake. She can’t fail them.
Power will believe her. Or he will die.
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Seizing Power is an enemies-to-lovers Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.
It features an epic battle between two equally strong cyborg leaders, plans that go terribly yet passionately wrong, and a love that will shake the entire universe.
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