One For Me. One For The Squirrels

By Cynthia Sax on July 20, 2022

We’re lucky in the Sax household to be surrounded by wildlife. We host the Mafia Squirrels, Rocky the World’s Largest Raccoon and his ever-expanding family (there were THREE adorable babies this year), Grandson of Bun Buns and other rabbits, a multitude of birds and a gazillion insects.

That means our veggie garden is truly that – OUR garden. We share it with the critters.

So we plant extra. This tomato plant might be for us. This tomato plant beside it is for the slugs. Yet another plant is for the squirrels.

I assume 1 out of 3 veggies planted is ours.

That might have been optimistic. (grins) But we’ll still have enough.

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Provoking Odium

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 their ship to protect her.

A Human Female Others Call Beast

Briella gained her nickname due to her flying abilities, her fearlessness, and 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 both before they have the opportunity to meet.

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Mohini And The Dance Party

By Cynthia Sax on July 19, 2022

Some reading buddies have asked me why Mohini wasn’t present at the dance party at the end of Provoking Odium. She also wasn’t mentioned.

This is because…

She’s having her own adventure off-planet. (grins) Briella doesn’t mention what Mohini is doing because she doesn’t know what her friend is doing. Mohini’s mission is top secret.

We’ll find out more about it in Grin And Bare Him (releasing in November).

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Provoking Odium

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 their ship to protect her.

A Human Female Others Call Beast

Briella gained her nickname due to her flying abilities, her fearlessness, and 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 both before they have the opportunity to meet.

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https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09NRXGLFW

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Muse Food – Decadence And Baddies

By Cynthia Sax on July 18, 2022

When the Dear Wonderful Hubby and I toured The Breakers in Newport, Rhode Island, the recorded guide mentioned some of the walls in the Morning Room were covered with platinum leaf.

Platinum is one of the most expensive materials on Earth today. And it was super expensive also in 1895 when the mansion was built.

To use platinum as decoration is and was an in-your-face display of wealth.

It is something a baddie in one of my stories would do. The local population is starving and this baddie is using precious metals as wallpaper.

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Provoking Odium

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 their ship to protect her.

A Human Female Others Call Beast

Briella gained her nickname due to her flying abilities, her fearlessness, and 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 both before they have the opportunity to meet.

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https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09NRXGLFW

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Cynthia Sax Weekly Update – July 17th

By Cynthia Sax on July 17, 2022

This cat is magnificent. (grins) I love his fluffiness.

I’m continuing to work on the first draft of Grin And Bare Him, the second story in the Cyborg Unity series (releasing in November). I’m getting close to the end. Grin and Mohini are still alive, which is a great thing for a romance. (laughs) But they are in danger and I don’t know what will happen next.

Have a magical week, my friends. (big hugs) Go on an adventure. Read a romance novel from a new-to-you writer. Try a dessert you haven’t yet experienced. Take a different (yet safe) route while trekking around your neighborhood. Life is short. Fill it with new things.

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Provoking Odium

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 their ship to protect her.

A Human Female Others Call Beast

Briella gained her nickname due to her flying abilities, her fearlessness, and 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 both before they have the opportunity to meet.

Buy Now:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09NRXGLFW

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The Tomato Saga

By Cynthia Sax on July 16, 2022

Up north, when I was a kid, we didn’t care if a tomato was indeterminate (never stopped growing) or determinate (only grew to a certain size).

Heck. I didn’t even know there were different kinds of tomatoes when I was younger. We harvested seeds from the previous year’s tomatoes to grow.

Were they heirloom, hybrid, beefsteak, other? We didn’t know.

And it didn’t really matter. Our growing season was so short, if we started the tomatoes from seed outside, they never grew very tall.

Frost would come when the tomatoes were still green. We’d pick them, wrap them in newspaper, put them in the cool unfinished basement to ripen.

Each plant, if we were lucky, would give us about 4 or 5 tomatoes. That was a good harvest for us.

I warned my city-boy Dear Wonderful Hubby we’d likely get 4 or 5 tomatoes per plant this year. We had a lot of successful plants (around 30 of them). That yield would give us enough tomatoes for the year plus we’d have some extras to give to loved ones.

I miscalculated.

(sheepish grin)

We started the tomato plants inside the house and we’re growing them in the south (of Canada) now. We have a MUCH longer growing season.

And I think some of the plants are indeterminate because they seem to produce more flowers every dang day.

Anyhoo… if all those flowers bear tomatoes, we’ll likely have enough tomatoes to feed our entire neighborhood.

That is a happy problem to have.

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Provoking Odium

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 their ship to protect her.

A Human Female Others Call Beast

Briella gained her nickname due to her flying abilities, her fearlessness, and 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 both before they have the opportunity to meet.

Buy Now:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09NRXGLFW

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What Is Dave Doing Now?

By Cynthia Sax on July 15, 2022

Fun is part of a writer’s life and one of my joys is finding a minor character in my story to name Dave. I do this as often as possible.

Dave, in the cyborg world, is usually loyal to the Humanoid Alliance. He’s human and male. He also often dies…in different and interesting ways.

In Provoking Odium, he is thrown against a tree. Hard.

Dave isn’t always a terrible being. Sometimes, he’s merely inept. Sometimes, he’s helpful.

But he’s always a Dave. (grins)

***

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Provoking Odium

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 their ship to protect her.

A Human Female Others Call Beast

Briella gained her nickname due to her flying abilities, her fearlessness, and 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 both before they have the opportunity to meet.

Buy Now:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09NRXGLFW

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Taking Precautions

By Cynthia Sax on July 13, 2022

In Provoking Odium, the cyborgs are installing and testing satellites. These devices will monitor and protect their borders.

Because the Humanoid Alliance, their enemy, is yet again expanding their horrid empire. And the cyborgs know that eventually their foes will attack their sector.

The cyborgs are taking these precautions on the page. But there are thousands of warriors working off the page on tactics to neutralize the Humanoid Alliance’s undead armies and their armies of robots.

The cyborgs are preparing.

They process war is coming.

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Provoking Odium

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 their ship to protect her.

A Human Female Others Call Beast

Briella gained her nickname due to her flying abilities, her fearlessness, and 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 both before they have the opportunity to meet.

Buy Now:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09NRXGLFW

Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09NRXGLFW

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https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B09NRXGLFW

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Muse Food – Snails And The Small Alien World Around Us

By Cynthia Sax on July 12, 2022

One of the places I look when I’m searching for inspiration for alien worlds is…

at the insect or tiny creature level.

There are an abundance of truly strange little critters all around us.

Look at this beautiful snail I found on our driveway, for example.

She is bringing her colorful home with her.

Her entire form flows and undulates as she moves. She is headed somewhere. I don’t know where or for what reason but I can imagine all of this.

And look at the textures on the branch, the gazillion shades of green, the glistening slime the snail has left behind her.

I find all this…inspiring.

***

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Provoking Odium

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 their ship to protect her.

A Human Female Others Call Beast

Briella gained her nickname due to her flying abilities, her fearlessness, and 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 both before they have the opportunity to meet.

Buy Now:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09NRXGLFW

Amazon UK:
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Provoking Odium And Possessiveness

By Cynthia Sax on July 11, 2022

In Provoking Odium, Odium initially views Mohini as a rival for Briella’s attentions.

He hasn’t yet claimed Briella, is frustrated by the distance between them, by their long distance relationship. And he knows Briella is a one-of-a-kind female, a female anyone would battle to have as their own.

He also only has bits and pieces of information. He hears how Briella speaks about Mohini, sees on the footage the caring the two females have for each other. Their emotional bond appears to rival the one he has with Briella.

This over-the-top initial possessiveness won’t likely extend to other platonic relationships.

Cyborgs value friendships. Their relationships with their brethren and with others are special for them and they would never deprive their genetic matches of similar relationships.

Once a cyborg has claimed their genetic match completely and that bond has solidified, they become more confident and tend to react less emotionally to friendships and other relationships.

They realize their genetic match is theirs. Forever.

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Provoking Odium

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 their ship to protect her.

A Human Female Others Call Beast

Briella gained her nickname due to her flying abilities, her fearlessness, and 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 both before they have the opportunity to meet.

Buy Now:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09NRXGLFW

Amazon UK:
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Amazon AUS:
https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B09NRXGLFW

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Cynthia Sax Weekly Update – July 10th

By Cynthia Sax on July 10, 2022

I’m continuing to write the first draft of Grin And Bare Him, the second story in the Cyborg Unity series (releasing in November). I am in the groove and am super happy with the story thus far. It is a first draft so it is messy but the bones are good and the relationship between Grin and Mohini is so very magical.

Have a wonderful week, my friends. (big hugs) Take time, if you can, to enjoy this wonderful world. Look up at the stars. Smell the flowers. Notice the bees. Embrace the small miracles all around us.

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Provoking Odium

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 their ship to protect her.

A Human Female Others Call Beast

Briella gained her nickname due to her flying abilities, her fearlessness, and 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 both before they have the opportunity to meet.

Buy Now:
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

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