In A Bookish, Quilty Mood

Gratuitous chicken photos grace this post. All eight hens enjoyed a field trip yesterday to the garden! (Yes hens, as they are eighteen and a half weeks old, woo hoo!) A few posts ago I wrote an inadvertent and certainly impromptu synopsis for Home and Far Away . It was so cathartic and, well, thrilling to write all that, but the big question was would I employ any of that off the cuff random prose to promote a novel. Well, I used some of it. Hence today's title. Nadia Chicken likes investigating on her own. She's a Barnevelder, and one of my faves. Here's the post.  (Again, as I linked to it right off the bat, lol.) And below is what I actually sent off with the manuscript, all retailers using it. Well, Smashwords proffers a short synopsis first, then you can click for the long version.   Liberating Chelak from reproductive slavery, Sooz and Dardram find themselves in 1971 California on the front yard of widower Richard Lund and his five-year-old daughter Gilly. The ...

Amid a government shutdown due in part to health insurance costs, ironic could be one way to describe the timely release of my novel Home and Far Away . Allegorical could also be used for this fourth installment of The Enran Chronicles . Romance and sci fi and women's fiction, with a little time travel to frame how Sooz, Dardram, and Chelak arrived on Earth is also applicable. But mostly this is a love story, strongly aligned to current times even if it's set in 1971, as well as being written two-plus years ago. The fourth novel in this series details a trio's arrival on Earth and how they fit in, especially with the Lund family. Richard is a widower and father to five-year-old Gilly, who takes an immediate liking to their guests. Richard is wary, then slowly accepting, a man used to adjusting to unsettling situations. What he finds most jarring is that despite being black, Suze Noth is fearless. That she's also a doctor stymies, as well as how their mutual attraction ...

I am not a hard-core sci/fi author. I like to dabble in science fiction certainly, yet the notion of that sort of world-building has always felt beyond me. In Far Away from Home: The Enran Chronicles Book Three , set mostly within an outpost upon a distant planet, I developed a society that despite being written in 2023 feels much like America today, an alternate universe gone horribly awry. That somber premise aside, Far Away from Home is a rollicking adventure, as Noth, a human from present-day Earth, finds himself in the twenty-ninth century millions of miles from where he previously dwelled. Yet Humans reside on Mordan Station on the planet of Enran, and he gains the acquaintance of one in particular. Sooz is a physician; she's also surreptitiously engineering the regeneration of Chelak, a Tyrah citizen who Sooz hopes to keep hidden from the Tyrah authorities, eager to enslave those able of childbearing. Many of Noth's memories from home have been purged from his conscious...