Cynthia Sax Weekly Update – May 8th
I continue to work on Grin And Bare Him, the second story in the Cyborg Unity series (releasing in October at the latest).
I’ll be writing the first draft for at least another month and then have two more drafts to complete before submitting the story to my Awesome Editor so you’ll be hearing the same update for a while. (grins)
The tomato seedlings are doing VERY well, so well I had to thin them. (grimaces) That was painful for everyone involved. Steve, the male-eating plant rule of Balazoid Minor (he appeared in North Bound), wouldn’t be happy with me. But it had to be done and it strengthened the remaining seedlings.
I hope you have a fantastic, magical week, my friends. (big hugs) Revel in nature, whether that nature is outside or is sitting on your windowsill. Breath deeply. Lower your shoulders. Uncurl your fingers. You’re awesome and you deserve time to relax, to restore your emotional wells.
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Provoking Odium
(This book description is still unedited.)
A Beautiful Cyborg
While accompanying his leader on a mission, Odium, an E Model cyborg, hears a distress call over the communication lines. The voice on that message makes his circuits surge with energy and all his systems light up. He has to respond to the mysterious female, would risk his lifespan and the lifespans of everyone on board the ship, to protect her.
A Human Female Others Call Beast
Briella gained her nickname due to not only her flying abilities and her fearlessness but also due to her scarred countenance. Her verbal-only relationship with the sexy cyborg who answers her distress call is a steamy yet short-lived fantasy. His kind is physically perfect and she is…not. He will uncover that truth when…if they survive the attack upon her freighter.
Provoking Odium is a STANDALONE Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.
It features a human female intent on remaining mysterious, a cyborg warrior determined to uncover her identity, and an enemy seeking to destroy them before they have the opportunity to meet.
Pre-order Today:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09NRXGLFW
Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09NRXGLFW
Amazon AUS:
https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B09NRXGLFW
Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/provoking-odium/id1605490349
B&N:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/provoking-odium-cynthia-sax/1140894003
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My Awesome Mom And Mom-In-Law
Tomorrow is Mother’s Day in North America.
The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I are fortunate to have both our Moms still with us. (knock on wood)
I sent my Mom yellow roses (her favorites) and chocolate from a florist local to her. She knows the owner, went to school with him, and he always delivers the flowers himself. They have a good chat, which makes my Mom as happy as the roses and chocolate.
The Dear Wonderful Hubby will be bringing his Mom chocolate and cash. The cash will be rapidly redistributed to people and causes Awesome Mom-in-law feels need it more than she does. She has a generous soul…just like her son. (smiles)
I’m lucky to have two such wonderful women in my life and I hope you have wonderful women (including everyone who identifies as a woman) in your life also, whether they are biologically your Mom or Moms of the Heart, mentors you can learn from and love. (big hugs)
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Provoking Odium
(This book description is still unedited.)
A Beautiful Cyborg
While accompanying his leader on a mission, Odium, an E Model cyborg, hears a distress call over the communication lines. The voice on that message makes his circuits surge with energy and all his systems light up. He has to respond to the mysterious female, would risk his lifespan and the lifespans of everyone on board the ship, to protect her.
A Human Female Others Call Beast
Briella gained her nickname due to not only her flying abilities and her fearlessness but also due to her scarred countenance. Her verbal-only relationship with the sexy cyborg who answers her distress call is a steamy yet short-lived fantasy. His kind is physically perfect and she is…not. He will uncover that truth when…if they survive the attack upon her freighter.
Provoking Odium is a STANDALONE Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.
It features a human female intent on remaining mysterious, a cyborg warrior determined to uncover her identity, and an enemy seeking to destroy them before they have the opportunity to meet.
Pre-order Today:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09NRXGLFW
Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09NRXGLFW
Amazon AUS:
https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B09NRXGLFW
Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/provoking-odium/id1605490349
B&N:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/provoking-odium-cynthia-sax/1140894003
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Cyborgs And The Arts
When the cyborgs were under Humanoid Alliance control, their lifespans consisted of waging war, restoring their energy levels and very little else. They were manufactured for battle and weren’t allowed to explore anything other than that.
Now that they are free, they have almost unlimited options. And one of those options is to venture into the arts – singing, dancing, painting, sculpting, other creative pursuits.
In Provoking Odium, they will explore a couple of the arts…with often comical results. (grins)
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Provoking Odium
(This book description is still unedited.)
A Beautiful Cyborg
While accompanying his leader on a mission, Odium, an E Model cyborg, hears a distress call over the communication lines. The voice on that message makes his circuits surge with energy and all his systems light up. He has to respond to the mysterious female, would risk his lifespan and the lifespans of everyone on board the ship, to protect her.
A Human Female Others Call Beast
Briella gained her nickname due to not only her flying abilities and her fearlessness but also due to her scarred countenance. Her verbal-only relationship with the sexy cyborg who answers her distress call is a steamy yet short-lived fantasy. His kind is physically perfect and she is…not. He will uncover that truth when…if they survive the attack upon her freighter.
Provoking Odium is a STANDALONE Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.
It features a human female intent on remaining mysterious, a cyborg warrior determined to uncover her identity, and an enemy seeking to destroy them before they have the opportunity to meet.
Pre-order Today:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09NRXGLFW
Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09NRXGLFW
Amazon AUS:
https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B09NRXGLFW
Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/provoking-odium/id1605490349
B&N:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/provoking-odium-cynthia-sax/1140894003
Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/provoking-odium
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Happy Star Wars Day
May The Fourth Be With You!
(grins)
The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I went to a special screening of Asteroid Hunters, narrated by Daisy Ridley, as a pre-Star Wars Day celebration.
This documentary meshed two of my favorite movie genres – disaster movies and scifi movies. And it featured several female scientists. It was awesome!
Daisy Ridley didn’t appear on screen but her voice is very distinctive. And her narration had a Star Wars feel to it..
On a tangent, since this IS Star Wars day, I thought I’d share this photo of the blaster Carrie Fisher, our dearly departed Space Mom, used in the original Star Wars movie. The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I spotted this in a Planet Hollywood years ago.
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Provoking Odium
(This book description is still unedited.)
A Beautiful Cyborg
While accompanying his leader on a mission, Odium, an E Model cyborg, hears a distress call over the communication lines. The voice on that message makes his circuits surge with energy and all his systems light up. He has to respond to the mysterious female, would risk his lifespan and the lifespans of everyone on board the ship, to protect her.
A Human Female Others Call Beast
Briella gained her nickname due to not only her flying abilities and her fearlessness but also due to her scarred countenance. Her verbal-only relationship with the sexy cyborg who answers her distress call is a steamy yet short-lived fantasy. His kind is physically perfect and she is…not. He will uncover that truth when…if they survive the attack upon her freighter.
Provoking Odium is a STANDALONE Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.
It features a human female intent on remaining mysterious, a cyborg warrior determined to uncover her identity, and an enemy seeking to destroy them before they have the opportunity to meet.
Pre-order Today:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09NRXGLFW
Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09NRXGLFW
Amazon AUS:
https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B09NRXGLFW
Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/provoking-odium/id1605490349
B&N:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/provoking-odium-cynthia-sax/1140894003
Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/provoking-odium
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Odium And Power
At the end of Seizing Power, Power had semi-made peace with many of the cyborgs on Mercury Minor.
Many but not all.
Odium still has an issue with the cyborg council leader. He had pleaded with Power to send a ship to rescue him and his brethren. Power never even answered him.
In Provoking Odium, the first story of the Cyborg Unity series (releasing in June), Odium will confront Power face-to-face and a passionate yet honest conversation will happen.
Whether or not Power wants to participate in it. (grins)
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Provoking Odium
(This book description is still unedited.)
A Beautiful Cyborg
While accompanying his leader on a mission, Odium, an E Model cyborg, hears a distress call over the communication lines. The voice on that message makes his circuits surge with energy and all his systems light up. He has to respond to the mysterious female, would risk his lifespan and the lifespans of everyone on board the ship, to protect her.
A Human Female Others Call Beast
Briella gained her nickname due to not only her flying abilities and her fearlessness but also due to her scarred countenance. Her verbal-only relationship with the sexy cyborg who answers her distress call is a steamy yet short-lived fantasy. His kind is physically perfect and she is…not. He will uncover that truth when…if they survive the attack upon her freighter.
Provoking Odium is a STANDALONE Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.
It features a human female intent on remaining mysterious, a cyborg warrior determined to uncover her identity, and an enemy seeking to destroy them before they have the opportunity to meet.
Pre-order Today:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09NRXGLFW
Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09NRXGLFW
Amazon AUS:
https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B09NRXGLFW
Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/provoking-odium/id1605490349
B&N:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/provoking-odium-cynthia-sax/1140894003
Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/provoking-odium
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https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1127119
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The Adventures Of A Colombian White-Faced Capuchin
The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I traveled to Roatán and while we were there, we visited a sloth sanctuary. The sloth sanctuary also hosted Colombian white-faced capuchins.
Most of them were in huge cages. This little guy was an escape artist.
The tour guide told us not to worry about him. When he got hungry, he’d return to a cage.
The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I laughed our fool heads off because we’d just watched this Colombian white-faced capuchin meet up with one of his caged buddies. The caged buddy had passed him food through the wires.
So no, we don’t think he’ll ever return to a cage. He has the best of both worlds. He’s free AND he doesn’t have to work too hard for food.
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Provoking Odium
(This book description is still unedited.)
A Beautiful Cyborg
While accompanying his leader on a mission, Odium, an E Model cyborg, hears a distress call over the communication lines. The voice on that message makes his circuits surge with energy and all his systems light up. He has to respond to the mysterious female, would risk his lifespan and the lifespans of everyone on board the ship, to protect her.
A Human Female Others Call Beast
Briella gained her nickname due to not only her flying abilities and her fearlessness but also due to her scarred countenance. Her verbal-only relationship with the sexy cyborg who answers her distress call is a steamy yet short-lived fantasy. His kind is physically perfect and she is…not. He will uncover that truth when…if they survive the attack upon her freighter.
Provoking Odium is a STANDALONE Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.
It features a human female intent on remaining mysterious, a cyborg warrior determined to uncover her identity, and an enemy seeking to destroy them before they have the opportunity to meet.
Pre-order Today:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09NRXGLFW
Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09NRXGLFW
Amazon AUS:
https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B09NRXGLFW
Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/provoking-odium/id1605490349
B&N:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/provoking-odium-cynthia-sax/1140894003
Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/provoking-odium
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Provoking Odium And Praecipua Trois
In Provoking Odium, the first story in the Cyborg Unity series (releasing in June), Briella, the human heroine, flies to Praecipua Trois to rescue some beings.
Praecipua Trois is a nod to Praecipua, the brightest star in the constellation of Leo Minor. Praecipua is Latin for “the Chief”.
Praecipua is a a red clump giant. Yes, that’s not the sexiest of names. (grins) Red clump giants are clusterings of red giants. These stars were originally similar to the sun, have undergone a helium flash and are now fusing helium at their cores.
Praecipua is also approximately 95 light-years from Earth’s sun.
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Provoking Odium
(This book description is still unedited.)
A Beautiful Cyborg
While accompanying his leader on a mission, Odium, an E Model cyborg, hears a distress call over the communication lines. The voice on that message makes his circuits surge with energy and all his systems light up. He has to respond to the mysterious female, would risk his lifespan and the lifespans of everyone on board the ship, to protect her.
A Human Female Others Call Beast
Briella gained her nickname due to not only her flying abilities and her fearlessness but also due to her scarred countenance. Her verbal-only relationship with the sexy cyborg who answers her distress call is a steamy yet short-lived fantasy. His kind is physically perfect and she is…not. He will uncover that truth when…if they survive the attack upon her freighter.
Provoking Odium is a STANDALONE Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.
It features a human female intent on remaining mysterious, a cyborg warrior determined to uncover her identity, and an enemy seeking to destroy them before they have the opportunity to meet.
Pre-order Today:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09NRXGLFW
Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09NRXGLFW
Amazon AUS:
https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B09NRXGLFW
Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/provoking-odium/id1605490349
B&N:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/provoking-odium-cynthia-sax/1140894003
Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/provoking-odium
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https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1127119
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Provoking Odium And Beginnings
Provoking Odium (releasing in June) is the first story in the Cyborg Unity portion of the Cyborg Continuum.
Rebel Cyborgs, the last series, focused on the two rivaling cyborg factions. Cyborg Unity will focus on the joining of these two factions.
This means we’ll meet up with cyborgs and genetic matches from the Homeland AND from Mercury Minor. In Provoking Odium, for example, Eirene Ours, Power, Lore, and many others make brief appearances. In the other stories, there will be more representation from the Homeland.
The Humanoid Alliance, the baddies, will unfortunately make appearances also. Their plans for universe domination are progressing and that puts every cyborg, every genetic match, every offspring in danger.
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Provoking Odium
(This book description is still unedited.)
A Beautiful Cyborg
While accompanying his leader on a mission, Odium, an E Model cyborg, hears a distress call over the communication lines. The voice on that message makes his circuits surge with energy and all his systems light up. He has to respond to the mysterious female, would risk his lifespan and the lifespans of everyone on board the ship, to protect her.
A Human Female Others Call Beast
Briella gained her nickname due to not only her flying abilities and her fearlessness but also due to her scarred countenance. Her verbal-only relationship with the sexy cyborg who answers her distress call is a steamy yet short-lived fantasy. His kind is physically perfect and she is…not. He will uncover that truth when…if they survive the attack upon her freighter.
Provoking Odium is a STANDALONE Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.
It features a human female intent on remaining mysterious, a cyborg warrior determined to uncover her identity, and an enemy seeking to destroy them before they have the opportunity to meet.
Pre-order Today:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09NRXGLFW
Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09NRXGLFW
Amazon AUS:
https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B09NRXGLFW
Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/provoking-odium/id1605490349
B&N:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/provoking-odium-cynthia-sax/1140894003
Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/provoking-odium
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https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1127119
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Provoking Odium And Beauty And The Beast
Beauty and the Beast is, hands down, my all time favorite romance trope. I could and DO read it again and again. I also love to write it.
Provoking Odium, the first story in the Cyborg Unity series (releasing in June), is a twist on the Beauty and the Beast trope.
Odium, the cyborg warrior, is the beauty. Cyborgs are designed to be the Humanoid Alliance’s view of physically perfection. Odium is grim yet extremely handsome.
Briella, his human female, is the beast. She has earned that nickname for a few reasons.
She’s extremely brave, is contacted by Beings For Peace, to rescue beings no one else could possibly save. Yeah. She’s a total bada$$. (grins)
Briella is also called Beast because she is severely scarred. And she tends to lean into her nickname, is gruff and a bit surly, keeping everyone at a distance, reinforcing the rough rumors about her.
She doesn’t ever expect to be loved…but then, she has never met a cyborg like Odium.
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Provoking Odium
(This book description is still unedited.)
A Beautiful Cyborg
While accompanying his leader on a mission, Odium, an E Model cyborg, hears a distress call over the communication lines. The voice on that message makes his circuits surge with energy and all his systems light up. He has to respond to the mysterious female, would risk his lifespan and the lifespans of everyone on board the ship, to protect her.
A Human Female Others Call Beast
Briella gained her nickname due to not only her flying abilities and her fearlessness but also due to her scarred countenance. Her verbal-only relationship with the sexy cyborg who answers her distress call is a steamy yet short-lived fantasy. His kind is physically perfect and she is…not. He will uncover that truth when…if they survive the attack upon her freighter.
Provoking Odium is a STANDALONE Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.
It features a human female intent on remaining mysterious, a cyborg warrior determined to uncover her identity, and an enemy seeking to destroy them before they have the opportunity to meet.
Pre-order Today:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09NRXGLFW
Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09NRXGLFW
Amazon AUS:
https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B09NRXGLFW
Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/provoking-odium/id1605490349
B&N:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/provoking-odium-cynthia-sax/1140894003
Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/provoking-odium
Smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1127119
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Throwback Thursday – Dark Strength
Today is St. Patrick’s Day! And since it is lucky to wear green on this day, I figure it is also lucky to read romances with green covers and/or with green heroes.
My favorite green hero whose story I’ve written is Balvan, the great green gatekeeper of the Refuge and the hero of Dark Strength. He isn’t exactly a gentle giant. (grins) Balvan is a warrior and he enjoys crunching skulls under his big boots. But he does love caring for wounded little creatures.
Elyce, the heroine, is definitely wounded and compared to Balvan, she’s little. (Anyone compared to Balvan is little.) She also deserves someone who will care for her and she finds that someone in the Refuge’s great green gatekeeper.
Dark Strength
The Bigger They Are, The Harder They Fall.
Balvan, the Refuge’s Gatekeeper, is huge, green, and has a reputation for crushing skulls. He’s a modified humanoid, genetically designed to be the ultimate warrior. One of a kind and considered monstrous by many, he never expects to find his mate, the one female meant for him.
Elyce, snatched from her home half a solar cycle ago, has finally escaped her brutal captors. She arrives at the Refuge barely alive. Only a blood transfusion from the largest male she has ever seen will save her life. But it will also bind her to him forever. Staring up, up, up at him, she wonders why she wants to be free. His gentle touch revives yearnings she thought dead. His lips set her skin ablaze. His massive muscles make her feel safe.
That feeling could be an illusion. Elyce’s captors want their slave back and they won’t stop until they have her. To give his mate her freedom, Balvan might be forced to give up everything he has – his role as the Gatekeeper, Elyce’s love, and his life.
Dark Strength is a STANDALONE Alien SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes violent universe.
Buy Now:
Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Strength-Refuge-Book-3-ebook/dp/B078SYYWH5/
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Strength-Refuge-Book-3-ebook/dp/B078SYYWH5/
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