Teddy Ulysses Dunkel felt doubtful about the interview—why couldn’t the technician simply remove his memories of her and be done with it? Of course, the FDA was probably behind the formality of the interview process—interfering government agencies were always tramping on the rights of the little man to pursue his measure of happiness. Something he was currently in short supply of—
“‘Ulysses’ is an interesting middle name,” said the thin man with the moustache in an odd accent, possibly Belgian, or perhaps Swedish. Graced with impeccable posture and fine taste in European clothing, he held a small handset on which he occasionally dabbed a silver stylus. “Is there any familial significance to it?”
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We’re delighted to have supernatural romance author Colleen Gleason (who Publishers Weekly cited as an up and coming new voice) sharing some insight with us over on our sister web site, the Hive Mind, about her new supernatural series, The Awakening Heroes (written under the pen-name, Joss Ware) and just how she got into this writing lark to begin with.
“The [new] series is definitely a romance series, so at the core of each book is the story of one couple trying to build a life in this new world. For the men, it’s harder because they literally woke up one day and found themselves in a strange new place. They have to figure out how to live in a world without careers and televised sports and man caves…and, at the same time, they are trying to fight against the immortal humans who are trying to suppress what’s left of our race.”
Stop by the Hive Mind and read the Full Interview but also, you can enter our contest to win a signed copy of Beyond The Night from Colleen’s alter-ego, Joss Ware!
See you there!
Across the table, the blue-eyed man would not stop staring.
“Stop staring,” she said, her cheeks turning a crimson hue of green. “You’re always staring at me.”
“I’m not staring,” the blue-eyed man said, “I’m gazing upon the unearthly beauty that sits across the table from me. I am drinking in unadulterated heaven with my eyes. I am downloading visual nectar.”
“Oh, stop,” she said, turning an even redder shade of green. “Since you are a poet, is it not your everyday job to melt women’s and government servants’ hearts?
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It’s official, we have our first interview is up over on the Hive Mind Writer’s collective with SF & YA author, Bren MacDibble, who isn’t content to converse with just any old “Carbon-based Life-forms,” she writes her own particular brand of Aussie humour for adults and kids alike.
HM: I guess the first question up is, why do you write?
Probably for the same reason I read…and drink for that matter, it makes little connections in my brain fire and I feel good. Of course the reason I attempt to get the writing published is more about the irrational belief that I can create stories from a unique angle that connect with other people and something in their brains will fire and they will feel good too, and then they might say, “That MacDibble, she’s all right.” Which sounds like the worst possible way to seek approval…did I mention, I’m irrational?
Stop on in and find out what Bren had to say about what the writing life means to her.
John Ottinger over at Grasping For The Wind, has posted the results and answers to the question he posed myself (and quite a few others): “What are the worst or most disappointing endings in science fiction/fantasy novels. And why?.”
This is interesting reading if you, as a reader of all things spec-fiction, want to see what books you might like to avoid based on the opinions presented, and why.
