Saturday, December 31, 2022

Character Sketch 6: Kiron Arqin Ramis

 


Kiron is an alien Watcher in Europa, my SciFi thriller and romance. His people are amphibious, equally at home on land or water. They maintain an outpost on Jupiter’s moon to observe human activities. Kiron breaks the law to save Nikki Bell’s life when she slips to the bottom of a crevasse in the ice crust of Europa. Despite his reprimand, he meets her in secret, provoking more problems.

The story of Nikki and Kiron continues in the next two books in the series, Rishalt and Jupiter. They also appear as minor characters in the next books in the series.

Please comment to let me know if you like my sketches.

 


Taxyon Space

Near Future SciFi adventure & romance. Daredevil scientist and abused alien forge perilous alliance.

Europa, Book 1 

Rishalt, Book 2 

Jupiter, Book 3 

Alarik, Book 4

Baswin, Book 5

Karrik, Book 6, coming soon


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My novels and novellas are available in paperback as well as ebook. Many also have audio-versions. Check the individual titles in my book catalogue.

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Friday, December 30, 2022

Character Sketch 5: Dr. Nikki Bell

 


Nikki Bell is a marine biologist and the female lead in Europa, my SciFi thriller and romance. She uses miniature oxygen extractors in her nostrils to dive underwater and study the alien life in the oceans of Jupiter’s moon. Her spacecraft crashes in the beginning of the book, and her life is saved by a mysterious red-haired man. Her search for this unknown savior leads her to discover the alien Warrish Watchers and their submarine outpost. The oceans hold other hazards, and weird lifeforms, both amiable and deadly. 

When disaster strikes, Nikki’s friendship with alien merman, Kiron Arqin Ramis, forges an uneasy alliance between their people. Their story continues in the next two books in the series, Rishalt and Jupiter. Nikki and Kiron are minor characters in the next books in the series.

Please leave a comment to let me know if you like my sketches.  



Taxyon Space

Near Future SciFi adventure & romance. Daredevil scientist and abused alien forge perilous alliance.

Europa, Book 1 

Rishalt, Book 2 

Jupiter, Book 3 

Alarik, Book 4

Baswin, Book 5

Karrik, Book 6, coming soon

My stories are discounted at my direct BookStore.

My novels and novellas are available in paperback as well as ebook. Many also have audio-versions. Check the individual titles in my book catalogue.

Find prints, T-shirts, mugs, and other merchandise at my site for WhimsicalArt.

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Thursday, December 29, 2022

Character Sketch 4: Sa Kamizan Veedak

 


Sa Kamizan Veedak is an alien Atrapako from the planet of Vkani, and the protagonist in The Lady is Blue. Big and covered in blue scales, he is formidable and cunning. He led his exiled people on a traumatic space voyage from their desolate home world to the fertile planet of Eden. Friendly humans live in a small colony on Eden. He meets Dr. Lucy Stannis at the reception to welcome the alien visitors and is intrigued by her beauty and quick wit. Their friendship makes him question his people’s plan to seize the planet. But, he cannot change the rigid culture of his people. Read The Lady is Blue to learn how he solves the problem. 

Please leave a comment to let me know if you like the sketches. 


Books in the series, Atrapako on Eden  

SciFi Romance. Feisty scientist solves puzzle of scaly aliens.

The Lady is Blue, Book 1 

Dragons of Vkani, Book 2 

Trapped on Vkani, Book 3

The stories juxtapose a rigid alien society with the free-living relaxed human society on Eden. 

All my stories are discounted at my direct BookStore.

My novels and novellas are available in paperback as well as ebook. Many also have audio-versions. Check the individual titles in my book catalogue.

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Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Character Sketch 3: Dr. Lucy Stannis

 


Lucy Stannis, Chief Biologist of the small colony on the distant planet of Eden, is the female lead in my Sci-Fi adventure and alien romance, The Lady is Blue. Her story begins when an alien spaceship arrives in the spaceport. Lucy wangles a meeting with Sa Kamizan Veedak, the blue-scaled Captain of the alien ship. They are both hiding secrets. Their banter and rollercoaster friendship enliven the story. The Atrapako have a nefarious plan to conquer the colony, which squashes Lucy’s friendship with Sa Kamizan. Read the book to learn how Lucy solves the problem.

 The first book was written some decades ago and published in 2014. The same year, I published the sequel and my first series, Atrapako on Eden

The adventures of Lucy and Sa Kamizan continue in the sequel, Dragons of Vkani.

They have ‘guest’ appearances in the third book, Trapped on Vkani


Please leave a comment to let me know if you like the sketches. 

My stories are discounted at my direct BookStore.

My novels and novellas are available in paperback as well as ebook. Many also have audio-versions. Check the individual titles in my book catalogue.

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Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Character Sketch 2: Grand Master Athanor Griffin

 


In the first book of my epic SciFi fantasy series, Grand Masters’ Galaxy, Athanor Griffin is the youngest of the twelve Grand Masters on the Council. He defies the prophesy of their doom by choosing Violet Hunter as his Pawn in the beginning of Grand Master’s Pawn. At first, he speaks to Violet Hunter via a stone griffin. His castle on an isolated planet is decorated with statues and images of griffins. 

Athanor is the point-of-view character in the short prequel, Grand Master’s Cat.


 
This image shows Athanor in the library of his castle. 

The Griffin has glowing blue eyes to match his blue aura. As a Grand Master, he must shield his lethal aura to walk among normal people. He develops during the series. Once he recognizes Violet’s strength, he uses her power as a weapon to destroy their enemies on the Council.  With Violet’s help, he grows from a lonely underdog to one of the most powerful Grand Masters on the Council. You’ll have to read the books to learn how he achieves this eminent status. 

BOOKS IN GRAND MASTERS’ GALAXY

SciFi Fantasy - Super psychics in space. One young woman challenges the super psychics ruling the galaxy, and finds an impossible love

Gifts of Jangalore FREE short story set about 400 years prior to the main stories.

Violet’s Quest, Short Prequel

Grand Master’s Cat, Short Prequel

Grand Master’s Pawn, Book 1

Grand Master’s Game, Book 2

Grand Master’s Mate, Book 3

Cosmic Rift, Book 4

Cosmic Wars, Book 5

Cosmic Lock, Book 6

All my stories are discounted at my direct BookStore.

My novels and novellas are available in paperback as well as ebook. Many also have audio-versions. Check the individual titles in my book catalogue.

Find prints, T-shirts, mugs, and other merchandise at my site for WhimsicalArt.

View my pictures and videos on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and Pintrest


 

Monday, December 26, 2022

Character Sketch 1: Violet Hunter in Grand Masters’ Galaxy

 


Violet Hunter is the point of view character for the novels in my epic science fantasy series Grand Masters’ Galaxy. She is a petite young woman with green eyes. Violet is an empath, and defies the Grand Masters’ prohibition to become a pawn and explore unknown worlds. Unbeknownst to her Grand Master, she is investigating the secrets of the Twelve Grand Masters. Her powers amplify during the series, especially after she meets Athanor Griffin in person. 

We first meet Violet as a young teenager in my short story, Violet’s Quest.


 
I evolved the same image to show Violet as a young adult at the start of the first novel, Grand Master’s Pawn.


 
During her adventures, she wins a magic suit of armor and sword. Here’s a picture of Violet in her armor. 

Please leave a comment to let me know if you like my sketches.

 

Two of Violet’s images are available at my site for WhimsicalArt as prints, or on T-shirts, mugs, and other merchandise

BOOKS IN GRAND MASTERS’ GALAXY

SciFi Fantasy - Super psychics in space. One young woman challenges the super psychics ruling the galaxy, and finds an impossible love

Gifts of Jangalore FREE short story set about 400 years prior to the main stories.

Violet’s Quest, Short Prequel

Grand Master’s Cat, Short Prequel

Grand Master’s Pawn, Book 1

Grand Master’s Game, Book 2

Grand Master’s Mate, Book 3

Cosmic Rift, Book 4

Cosmic Wars, Book 5

Cosmic Lock, Book 6

My stories are discounted at my direct BookStore.

My novels and novellas are available in paperback as well as ebook. Many also have audio-versions. Check the individual titles in my book catalogue.

Find prints, T-shirts, mugs, and other merchandise at my site for WhimsicalArt.

View my pictures and videos on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and Pintrest. 

Saturday, December 17, 2022

Twelve Days of Character Sketches for My Stories

In the spirit of the holiday season, I’ll post a new character sketch on each of the twelve days after Christmas. The sketches will include images and descriptions of major characters from my stories. I’ll also post the sketches daily on Instagram.

I created the images using text prompts to illustrate my idea of the character. In some cases, I may have more than one image for a particular character. The header images were created in the same way. 

Please leave a comment to let me know if you like the sketches. If this idea proves popular, I can combine sketches into a booklet to offer readers.


All my stories are discounted at my direct BookStore.

My novels and novellas are available in paperback as well as ebook. Many also have audio-versions. Check the individual titles in my book catalogue.

Find prints, T-shirts, mugs, and other merchandise at my site for DigitalArt.

View my pictures and videos on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and Pintrest.

Friday, December 16, 2022

Snippet from KARRIK for #WeWriWa and #SnippetSunday Sci-Fi Alien Romance

 


Welcome to Weekend Writing Warriors and Snippet Sunday. Sample the work of a new author. Read snippets of stories in different genres.

I’m continuing from the beginning of my wip, Karrik, Book 6 of SciFi series, Taxyon Space. In last weeks’ snippet, Karrik was lying in a room in a hospice run by the Pearl Sisters. He has been in a semi-comatose state for months. This excerpt explains much of the backstory from the previous books.   

He remembered diving under green waves in a vast sea. Two others swam with him. His brothers. Had he been like them once?  

Now, he could not swim. Not with a single arm and leg. Shame stabbed into his foggy brain. He was only half a man, less than half, because he could not utter the words beating at his mind. Drenched in misery, he groaned.

Nobody noticed.

Ten sentences and a few more

He slept, woke, swallowed what they fed him, and slept again.

The monstrous mandibles clamped onto Karrik’s arm, crunching into his flesh. His battle booster blurred the pain. Bone cracked. He screamed.

And woke, panting with terror.

Just a nightmare.

He reached up to rub his bleary eyes. No hand. His right arm ended in a stump at the elbow.

He groaned. It was not a nightmare, but his vivid memory of a real event. The Swarm attack that left him maimed and as helpless as a newborn. His brothers had defied their orders and run to rescue him. Where had they gone? Alarik and Baswin, the energetic First and loyal Second of the Flaming Comets Triad? 

His brothers' stories are described in the earlier books, Alarik and Baswin. The three brothers are aliens, Warrish ‘mermen’, and the elite in their society despise physical deformities. 



Monthly Bargain: 99c for Dame Audrey, Medieval Fiction with Fantasy and Romance. 

In fourteenth century Britain, Dame Audrey cherishes her independence as the widow of a wealthy cloth merchant. But some of the wealthier traders covet her profitable business and she fears they will invoke the Abbot’s authority to compel her to marry a man of their choice. Her worst nightmare is suffering under a cruel husband like the hateful jeweler, Henry Goldsmith, who has threatened to curb her lively spirits.

Audrey joins a pilgrimage to Glastonbury to pray for guidance. The holy relics give her no inspiration nor do her fellow travelers. On the homeward journey, she aids the dying victim of a brutal robbery. She wins the stranger’s blessing and a gold brooch with a green dragon. Back in her hometown, the faerie brooch attracts trouble from thieves of all ranks and the attentions of a handsome yeoman, Selwyn Drake. As her nightmare looms nearer, she grows desperate to preserve her freedom.

Can the magic brooch help Audrey evade the schemes to force her into wedlock or must she submit to a brutal husband’s will?

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Friday, December 9, 2022

First Lines of Karrik, SciFi Romance, for #WeWriWa and #SnippetSunday

 


Welcome to Weekend Writing Warriors and Snippet Sunday. Sample the work of a new author. Read snippets of stories in different genres.

I’ve taken a break from posting snippets for several months. During this interval, I have slowly been writing the 6th book in my SciFi series, Taxyon Space. I pursued new skills in making videos and AI-generated art. My husband and I also spent three weeks in Hawaii, visiting three of the islands, Oahu, Big Island and Kauai. You can see my pictures and videos on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and Pintrest.

My snippet is taken from the beginning of the story, Karrik, and shows the problems faced by the protagonist. Karrik lost an arm and a leg in battle and survives in a semi-comatose state. His older brothers made a sacrifice to arrange care for him. Their stories are described in the earlier books, Alarik and Baswin. The brothers are aliens, Warrish ‘mermen’, and the elite in their society despise physical deformities. 

Note, the story is still incomplete and has not yet been edited. 

 

He lay alone.

Memories stirred in his fuzzy mind. They called him Karrik. Was Karrik his name? He could not remember. His befuddled thoughts oozed as slowly as molasses in a maze. Words emerged at random. Remembering terror and pain, he whimpered.

The hammock rocked beneath his aching body.

People came and went.

Ten sentences, and a few more:

They wore white robes and pleasant faces. They touched him with gentle hands.

Their mouths opened.

He heard sounds. Meaningless babble interspersed with a word he recognized.

One or two at a time, people walked in and spoke to him. Their voices were as clear and cheerful as if he were a baby.

He understood a few simple words. But often, the meaning floated into his mind long after the people had left the room. 

I hope you can appreciate why this story has been difficult to write. In addition to Karrik’s slow recovery, I have to continue his brothers’ stories. The two earlier books, Alarik and Baswin, both end with the brother and his favorite human woman traveling to the aliens’ planet.  


Monthly Bargain: 99c for Dame Audrey, Medieval Fiction with Fantasy and Romance.

In fourteenth century Britain, Dame Audrey cherishes her independence as the widow of a wealthy cloth merchant. But some of the wealthier traders covet her profitable business and she fears they will invoke the Abbot’s authority to compel her to marry a man of their choice. Her worst nightmare is suffering under a cruel husband like the hateful jeweler, Henry Goldsmith, who has threatened to curb her lively spirits.

Audrey joins a pilgrimage to Glastonbury to pray for guidance. The holy relics give her no inspiration nor do her fellow travelers. On the homeward journey, she aids the dying victim of a brutal robbery. She wins the stranger’s blessing and a gold brooch with a green dragon. Back in her hometown, the faerie brooch attracts trouble from thieves of all ranks and the attentions of a handsome yeoman, Selwyn Drake. As her nightmare looms nearer, she grows desperate to preserve her freedom.

Can the magic brooch help Audrey evade the schemes to force her into wedlock or must she submit to a brutal husband’s will?

99c at: Amazon  iBooks  Kobo  B&N  GooglePlay  Other  


 
NEW: Violet’s Quest. Illustrated Short Story and Prequel to the Epic Science Fantasy Series, Grand Masters’ Galaxy.

Teen empath, Violet Hunter is vulnerable to the pain and negative emotions suffered by other people. She is desperate for a solution. But, psychics must practice their skills in secret due to the Grand Masters’ prohibition. Only the legendary White Mother is rumored to defy the ban to teach young psychics. When her mother refuses to help, Violet runs away to seek the mysterious White Mother, who lives somewhere on the planet of Avalon. Will Violet succeed in her perilous quest?

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Or Pre-order at Amazon  iBooks  Kobo  B&N  GooglePlay  Other 

Please return to http://wewriwa.blogspot.com/ to sample the works of the other writers.

All my stories are discounted at my direct BookStore.

View my pictures and videos on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and Pintrest.

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