Tag: romance

Science Fiction and Paranormal Fantasy with a Noir Twist

On Romance in YA Plots (and why I’m not the target audience)

A recent Amazon review of The Girl at the End of the World noted that the book is a strong example of Post-Apocalyptic YA that doesn’t focus on romance. While there is a bit of romance in the book, I tried not to make it be about that–just one of the many things that happens…
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March 23, 2015 0

Pulp Fiction Time Travel on Sale for 99 cents

  Romance, mystery, pulp fiction, unscrupulous writers, and even more unscrupulous publishers….oh, and Time Travel, too.  It’s all there in Take Back Tomorrow, on sale now for just 99 cents at Amazon. This is part of an Amazon Countdown deal, so the price will go up in increments for the rest of the week. 41 Amazon…
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November 13, 2013 0

Word of Mouth–The Elusive Key to Success

Several years ago, I was lurking in the shelves of a used bookstore looking at the science fiction section–all the way at the back of the store. It was one of those stores that functioned largely as a paperback exchange: if you brought in 3 books, they’d give you credit for one of theirs. It…
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April 23, 2013 4