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Cynthia Sax Weekly Update – January 31st

By Cynthia Sax on January 31, 2021

I finished the revisions of the first short(er) story in the Medieval Beast Shifter omnibus (releasing under C.S. Sax in March). It featured a unicorn shifter hero and is SO much fun.

This upcoming week, I’m revising the second story. It features a phoenix shifter hero and a fire sorceress. (grins) It will be a blast also!

But the BIG news is Containing Malice is releasing on Tuesday! Yay! I think you’ll really enjoy this first story in the Rebel Cyborgs series. Malice is very angry and a bit damaged. Illona is very damaged and a bit angry. They are magical together. We’ll learn more about Cadet and the Rebel Cyborgs. There will be a couple mentions of Power and a hint at the conflict he faces with Cadet.

This is a great week to stay at home and read. Not that we truly need an excuse to do that. (laughs) Have an awesome week, my friends!

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Containing Malice

This tormented cyborg craves vengeance…and her.

***

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 will take that risk to ensure he survives.

***

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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Containing Malice And Before Release Rituals

By Cynthia Sax on January 30, 2021

Containing Malice releases on Tuesday! Woot!

I’m super excited, can’t wait to hear what you think of this new cyborg romance story and series.

While I wait, (having completed my revisions for the unicorn shifter short story this week) there are a few things I usually do before a book releases.

I craft my newsletter. This will be sent out on Tuesday, Release Day, and will feature some fun facts about Containing Malice and some VERY bad jokes.
I eat chocolate. Well…I always eat chocolate. That is one of my key food groups and it fuels my muse. But I eat more of it than I usually do.
I worry I haven’t uploaded the finished copy to Amazon and other booksellers. I HAVE uploaded it. I’ve checked it a gazillion times. And if I haven’t done this by now, it is much too late. The story is locked at booksellers. But I worry because…that’s what I do.
I re-read the story about to release and find a gazillion typos I can’t correct because the story is locked. This happens EVERY time. There are no error-free stories out there. None. Yet I will torment myself by looking for these errors much too late. (grins)
I will look at pre-orders. If pre-orders are lower than they are for the previous story, I will often not-so-stealthily reach out to reading buddies (I know almost EVERYONE who reads and pre-orders my stories. Many of you have been with me from Releasing Rage or prior stories and you are part of my family.). If pre-orders are higher, I try not to do this. I know everyone is super busy and I also know you will reach out to me if you want to chat.
I eat more chocolate. (grins) And I bake brownies. I will often send some to my Awesome In-laws. The Dear Wonderful Hubby’s youngest brother loves the brownies.

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Containing Malice

This tormented cyborg craves vengeance…and her.

***

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 will take that risk to ensure he survives.

***

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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Containing Malice And The Pandemic

By Cynthia Sax on January 29, 2021

Some writing buddies and I were discussing the impact the pandemic had and is having on our writing. I shared that Containing Malice was definitely influenced by the Great Pause.

I had envisioned this first story in the Rebel Cyborgs series being set in an underground laboratory years before COVID-19 happened. Underground laboratories are super cool. (grins) Of course, I would want to set a story there.

But being confined to my own home during the pandemic gave me a tiny glimpse into what Illona, Malice, Valor and Febris were dealing with. I didn’t have total freedom of movement. The outside was a bit scary, was the great unknown. I felt restricted and confined.

Having experienced that made writing this story easier in some ways. I had a taste of what they were enduring. But more difficult in other ways. It was more real for me, more emotional.

I hope you feel that emotion in this story and it adds to your enjoyment of it.

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Containing Malice

This tormented cyborg craves vengeance…and her.

***

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 will take that risk to ensure he survives.

***

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

Pre-order Today:

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Containing Malice, Releasing Rage And Tone

By Cynthia Sax on January 27, 2021

I believe Containing Malice, my next cyborg romance release, and Releasing Rage, my first cyborg romance release, are similar in tone.

Malice, like Rage, has very little hope for the future. He has been cut off from the rest of the universe and doesn’t realize his brethren are free. He doesn’t know cyborgs have genetic matches, that the feelings he has for his enemy is due to her being his female, the one being he is meant to be with. He has no idea offspring are possible for cyborgs.

He’s angry and frustrated and he thinks the most he could ask for in life is freedom and the satisfaction of revenge against his enemies (including Illona).

Malice and Rage are, of course, different beings. Malice reacts differently from Rage to the revelations and to his growing feelings toward one of his enemies.

Containing Malice is a unique story, is in no way Releasing Rage revisited. But it DOES have the same darker tone to it. And I really like that about this story.

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Containing Malice

This tormented cyborg craves vengeance…and her.

***

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 will take that risk to ensure he survives.

***

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

Pre-order Today:

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Cyborg Sizzle Featured In RDR Online

By Cynthia Sax on January 26, 2021

Woot! Cyborg Sizzle was featured in Veronica Scott’s awesome article on Science Fiction Romance series starters in the RDR Online (Roswell Daily Record)!

Here’s a snippet from the article..

” “Breathing Vapor” and “Ghost of a Machine” are two of my favorites, although “Dark Thoughts” in the spinoff “Refuge” series is my favorite of her titles. “

You can read the full article here – https://www.rdrnews.com/2021/01/25/from-afar-series-starters-in-science-fiction-romance/

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Containing Malice

This tormented cyborg craves vengeance…and her.

***

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 will take that risk to ensure he survives.

***

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

Pre-order Today:

Amazon US:

Amazon UK:

Amazon AUS:

https://books.apple.com/us/book/containing-malice/id1536770487

Apple Books:

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Containing Malice – Final Scene Of The First Chapter

By Cynthia Sax on January 25, 2021

Containing Malice releases next week! Woot!

This week, I’m sharing the fourth and final scene in its first chapter.

You can read the first scene from the first chapter of Containing Malice here:

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“The skin covering your cheeks.” Her hands shifted higher. “Your nose.” She traced his primitive profile. “Your brow.” She smoothed his black eyebrows. “Your forehead is also dark.”

His lips had flattened into a grim white line.

She wanted to kiss that flesh. Badly.

When she was first assigned to him, she told herself she desired him because she was lonely, because she was hungry for touch, for contact with another being.

Before the beings on her planet had lost their battle against the Humanoid Alliance, before she’d been taken prisoner, she’d enjoyed brief encounters with male medics, with others. She loved sex, loved kisses and caresses and having a hard cock inside her.

But her attraction to Malice had been extreme, had made her previous wantings seem shallow by comparison. And she didn’t feel any connection with Valor, the E Model cyborg.

Malice was the only male who interested her. She lifted his head, felt along the back of his skull, searching for injuries. His warm breath wafted against her flight suit-covered breasts, permeating the fabric, spreading over her skin.

Stars. She yearned for him.

Her toes curled in her boots.

She released him. Their gazes met.

His eyes were excitingly wild. His nostrils were flared.

Could he smell her need? Her face heated and she lowered her gaze.

Her eyes widened.

The cyborg was fully erect now. His long, thick cock jutted from his hairless base.

She swallowed. Hard. “Your breeding programs are functioning properly.”

It wasn’t the first or the three hundredth time she’d seen him in that state. Yet it always left an impact on her. She dreamed of him over rest cycles, woke needy and wet.

It was shameful. A medic shouldn’t react that way.

She yanked her hands away from him and straightened. “The repairs should temporarily decrease the nanocybotics count.” She extracted her handheld from her pocket again. “I’m performing a scan to verify this.” She gazed down at the handheld’s small screen, using the moment to control her unseemly desire. “The nanocybotics count has decreased.”

Malice glowered at her.

If she stayed where she was, she’d kiss the fury off his handsome face. That would be wrong, wrong, wrong. She hurried to the bottom of the sleeping support.

His feet were bare, were as large as the rest of him. The Humanoid Alliance kept the cyborgs naked when they weren’t fighting. She’d never seen Malice don the body armor and boots stored for him in a nearby chamber. Yet there wasn’t a single scar or callous on his soles.

“I’m testing range of motion.” That could be done with simply running diagnostics on him. He was a cyborg. His systems tracked that information.

But that would be completed quickly.

She set the handheld on the sleeping support by his right leg. The moving of the device was deliberate. If the Humanoid Alliance beings were accustomed to her putting her equipment down often, they might not notice, in the future, when she didn’t retrieve it.

Illona had spent almost a solar cycle planning the cyborgs’ escapes, had tried to think of everything they might need, everything she might have to supply to them.

They would only be given one opportunity. She couldn’t bungle it.

“I’m testing your largest toe on your right foot.” She clasped the tip of his toe between her right thumb and index finger. “I’m bending it as far as possible downward.”

The range of motion tests, if she was thorough, should eat up almost half a shift.

That was time she wouldn’t have to spend inflicting pain on Malice.

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Containing Malice

This tormented cyborg craves vengeance…and her.

***

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 will take that risk to ensure he survives.

***

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

Pre-order Today:

Amazon US:

Amazon UK:

Amazon AUS:

https://books.apple.com/us/book/containing-malice/id1536770487

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Cynthia Sax Weekly Update – January 24th

By Cynthia Sax on January 24, 2021

I’ve completed the second AND the (quick) third draft of Under Strain (releasing in May) and have sent it to my awesome editor.

I love Strain. He is delightfully damaged. His female is intriguingly unusual (she IS human but she has been isolated on a planet for a long time and that has changed her) and she is his perfect match. They are wonderful together. I think you’ll greatly enjoy this story.

This upcoming week, I’m working on the next collection for C.S. Sax. Medieval Beast Shifters will likely be releasing at the (dragon) tail end of March. The first story I’m revising has a unicorn shifting hero. It is so much fun.

Have a great week, my friends. (big hugs) Find the magic, the joy in it. It is all around us but it can be more challenging to find. Searching for it IS worth the effort, however. Life is meant to be enjoyed.

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Containing Malice

This tormented cyborg craves vengeance…and her.

***

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 will take that risk to ensure he survives.

***

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

Pre-order Today:

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https://books.apple.com/us/book/containing-malice/id1536770487

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Containing Malice And Human Baddies

By Cynthia Sax on January 22, 2021

A reading buddy asked me why the baddies in my stories are almost always human.

It makes sense that if a being was to manufacture a warrior, they’d create him/her in their own image. The expected image for cyborgs is human.

It was also logical, for me, that they would experiment with other species in their quest to manufacture the perfect warrior. That is why the creators of the modified humanoids (in the Dark Thoughts/Refuge series) are the same humans.

Are there bad non-humans in the universe? Of course, there are, and I hope to eventually explore these very different baddies.

But in the Rebel Cyborg series, the baddies will continue to be human.

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Containing Malice

This tormented cyborg craves vengeance…and her.

***

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 will take that risk to ensure he survives.

***

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

Pre-order Today:

Amazon US:

Amazon UK:

Amazon AUS:

https://books.apple.com/us/book/containing-malice/id1536770487

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Containing Malice And Enemies-To-Lovers In Cyborg/Alien Romance

By Cynthia Sax on January 20, 2021

Containing Malice is an enemies-to-lovers romance…using the cyborg romance/alien romance definition of it.

I have to constantly remind myself to add that last explanation because the enemies-to-lovers trope is VERY different in other romance subgenres.

In many of those other subgenres, the hate directed at the love interest is often personal. The hero or heroine hates the other person for who they are, what they’ve done or said or implied.

In cyborg and alien romance, the love interests have often decided they hated each other long before they knew the other individual(s) existed. They hate the love interest’s species or affiliation or planet of origin and they have good reason to do so.

Often the two factions have been at war. Loved ones have been killed by the other faction. There’s pain and hurt and anger and this is directed at ALL members of that faction.

The love interest is originally seen as merely a representation of his/her species or affiliation or planet of origin. They are not viewed as individuals…at first.

This is TRUE enemies-to-lovers. The love interests are on opposite sides of actual fight-to-the-death battles, staring across enemy lines.

They then find out they are more similar than different. Their ‘enemy’ has as valid a reason for fighting as they do. I love that part of a story, when they realize that hey, maybe they shouldn’t be trying to kill the other being. (grins) It is magical.

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Containing Malice

This tormented cyborg craves vengeance…and her.

***

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 will take that risk to ensure he survives.

***

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

Pre-order Today:

Amazon US:

Amazon UK: