Interview With Cara Bristol
I sat down (virtually) with Cara Bristol for a short interview. Her latest release is Mated with the Cyborg (Cy-Ops Sci-fi Romance 2), with a sexy cyborg hero!
Cynthia Sax: What is one thing that excites you about Mated with the Cyborg?
Cara Bristol: Excite, scare. Potato, potahto. Lol. I took some big risks with this story and the series overall by making the villains religious terrorists. As you know, religion is a touchy topic that is best avoided in polite company. I pretty much run into it head-on in Mated with the Cyborg. But be clear: it’s an erotic sci-fi romance.
Cynthia Sax: Where did you get the idea for Mated with the Cyborg?
Cara Bristol: First, I fell in love with cyborgs because they’re the ultimate alpha males—so who better to save the world, or in this case, the galaxy? My cyborgs are cyberoperatives, spies working for a covert paramilitary organization fighting to save the galaxy from terrorism. The terrorism part was inspired by present day threats.
In Mated with the Cyborg I wanted to put the hero in a precarious spot where he finds himself attracted to the enemy. Mariska, the heroine, is the daughter of the villain. Her people (Lamis-Odg) are the ones the galaxy is fighting against, but she herself is innocent of any wrongdoing. Her father is a terrorist; she is not.
Cynthia Sax: How does Mated with the Cyborg start?
Cara Bristol: Kai, my cyborg hero, goes undercover as an android on the enemy’s space station to gather intel on the terrorists. He’s assigned to the general’s daughter. She thinks he’s a spybot who reports her actions back to her father. In the opening scene, her father informs her he’s sending her to become the concubine mate of alien. Kai realizes that will lead to her death. He wants to save her, but can’t abandon his greater mission.
Cynthia Sax: Does someone in Mated with the Cyborg have a secret?
Cara Bristol: The heroine’s father wants her dead with a capital D. Why he wants to kill her is a big secret. Also, early on, she is veiled because she has a facial deformity. I think readers will be surprised when they see her through Kai’s eyes. It’s the “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” thing.
Cynthia Sax: Thank you, Cara Bristol, for joining us today!
Cara Bristol’s Website: http://www.carabristol.com
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Kai Andros’s orders were simple. Get in. Gather the intel on the terrorist organization. Get out. Then he met her. Mariska. Beautiful. Innocent. Ignorant of her father’s atrocities. And marked for death. His orders said nothing about saving her. But he did. He went off-mission. Can a rogue cyborg outrun both Cyber Operations and the terrorists to save the woman he loves? Mated with the Cyborg is an action-packed erotic sci-fi romance between a man with a mission and a woman with a secret that jeopardizes their lives and the fate of the galaxy.
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Interview With Cara Bristol
I sat down (virtually) with Cara Bristol for a short interview. Cara Bristol’s Terran is one of my all time fave SciFi erotic romances. Her latest release is Stranded with the Cyborg, a Cy-Ops Sci-fi Romance, with YES, a cyborg hero! Woot!
Cynthia Sax: What makes Brock, your hero, so very lickable?
Cara Bristol: Brock is a cyborg who works for a covert operations force. He’s like James Bond, but doesn’t need gadgets—his special abilities are hardwired into his brain and physique. Cyborgs are the ultimate dominant, macho alpha heroes. They kick some serious ass. They’re rough, tough, and strong. But very smart too. In a lot of sci-fi romances, the hero is an alien, which can be difficult for some readers to fall in love with (what’s not to love about horned blued-skinned aliens with two…ahem). Cyborgs are human, but with some mechanical and computerized parts. They are uber alphas, but when they fall for the heroine, they fall hard.
Cynthia Sax: What is your favorite line from Stranded with the Cyborg?
Cara Bristol: When Brock and Penelope are walking through the Intergalactic Shuttle Port, she’s mugged—her bag is stolen by an Arcanian. Brock catches the thief. This little scene takes place:
Pia ran up and grabbed his arm. “Stop, you’re going to kill him.”
Brock’s nanocytes transmitted to his brain exactly how much pressure he was applying. “No, but I’ll make him hurt real bad.”
I love it. He is so matter-of-fact! But leaping to her defense shows that even though he doesn’t want to protect her, he will. His sense of duty is that strong. He doesn’t like Penelope at this point in the story, but he’ll go to mat for her.
Cynthia Sax: How does Stranded with the Cyborg start?
Cara Bristol: Hero Brock, a cyberoperative, was about to take a much-needed vacation at a sex resort, when he’s called back to work. He’s informed his new mission is to protect the Terran ambassador while she attends an interplanetary summit meeting. The catch? The ambassador is his old nemesis who lobbed false allegations against him and derailed his former career. He is not at all happy to be assigned to her. The scene sets up the tension between the two of them.
Cynthia Sax: Is Stranded with the Cyborg part of a series and will you be writing more stories in this series?
Cara Bristol: Stranded with the Cyborg is book one of the Cy-Ops Sci-fi Romance series. I haven’t decided how many I’ll write (three, four, five?). Each book will focus on a different cyborg hero who works for the covert Cyber Operations force. Book two, which I’ve tentatively titled Mated with the Cyborg, will be published January 5, 2016. The individual novellas will be written to be read as stand-alones, but they will be linked by reappearing secondary characters, the Cy-Ops organization, and locations. For instance, the Darius 4 pleasure resort, which is mentioned in Stranded with the Cyborg, becomes one of the main settings in Mated with the Cyborg.
Cynthia Sax: Thank you, Cara Bristol, for joining us today!
Cara Bristol’s Website: http://www.carabristol.com
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Penelope Aaron, the former Terran president’s daughter, regrets how she got Agent Brock Mann booted from the security force. But now that she’s an interplanetary ambassador about to embark on her first diplomatic mission, she still doesn’t want him tagging along. Especially since he seems to be stronger, faster, more muscled, and sexier than she remembers. And pretending to be her husband? This mission couldn’t get more impossible!
Ten years ago Penelope Isabella Aaron had been a pain in Brock Mann’s you-know-what. Much has changed in a decade: “PIA” as he code-named her, has grown up and is about to attend her first Alliance of Planets summit conference, and Brock has been transformed into a cyborg after a near-fatal attack. Now a secret agent with Cyber Operations, a covert paramilitary organization, Brock gets called in, not when the going gets tough, but when the going gets impossible. So when he’s unexpectedly assigned to escort Penelope to the summit meeting, he balks at babysitting a prissy ambassador. But after a terrorist bombing, a crash landing on a hostile planet, and a growing attraction to his protectee, Operation: PIA may become his most impossible assignment yet.
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