Friday Book Club

It's time for the Friday Book Club. What are you reading and loving this week?

Writing Update

I'm continuing to edit/revise the draft of ALLEGIANCE OF HONOR. Interestingly enough, many of the elements / couples you all want to see have been part of the book from the very start, some in ways you might not expect.

But as you can guess, not everything/everyone will make it into this book. Still, overall, I'm very happy with how many people we get to see! I hope you will be too!!

Now back to it I go! Fortified by the groceries I picked up this morning. :D

Friday Book Club

Friday Book Club time! What are you reading and loving this week?

Writing Update

Writing update: I'm halfway through the semi-final draft of Allegiance of Honor and still adding/deleting as I go. LOTS happening in this book - there's so many connections between the characters. 

Which character would you love to see an update for??

Friday Book Club

The Friday Book Club opening a little late this week. What are you reading and loving at the moment?

RT Reviewers Choice Award Nominations

 I woke up to some wonderful news today. ARCHANGEL'S ENIGMA and ROCK HARD have both been nominated for RT Reviewer's Choice Awards!! Woohoo!! Also, huge congratulations to all my fellow nominees.

Happy Diwali

Today is Diwali, the Festival of Lights. I hope you have a wonderful light and joy filled day!

Friday Book Club

Time to talk books! What are you reading and loving this week?

November Newsletter Sent

The November newsletter has gone out, complete with a new short story. 

If you're a subscriber and you didn't get it (please check all your tabs and your junkmail), or you subscribed too late, email Ashwini and she'll get you a copy: naliniDOTassistantATgmailDOTcom

p.s. Thank you for all the lovely comments that have already come in on the short. :-)

Next Newsletter

So I wrote the "short" story for the November 5 newsletter... only it turned out longer than usual. I'm thinking, should I split this in half and send it over over two newsletters...then I remembered I already wrote another long short story for the final newsletter of the year, which will go out at the end of December. So you're going to get the entire thing in one go.

To subcribe, click this link.

You should get a confirm link in your email after you subscribe. Click that and a Welcome newsletter will arrive automatically with links to previous short stories/scenes unavailable on the website (includes shorts/scenes from Psy-Ch, Guild Hunter, and Rock Kiss series).

Any issues, email Ashwini: naliniDOTassistantATgmailDOTcom

(p.s. That's Nov 5 in the US, so folks on this side of the dateline, it'll be Nov 6th).

Writing

I just deleted* 16,000 words (64 pages). Excuse me while I go sit in a corner and cry.

Update: 16,000 is now 20,000 (80 pages). On the flip side, I am much happier with this lean and mean book. Promise. Tears are past ;)

p.s. *Actually I put them in a Deleted Scenes file just in case.

Free Short Stories Update

The following previously newsletter-exclusive short stories and deleted scenes are now on my website: Home, A Sip of Eternity, Hide and Seek, Grocery Shopping, and a deleted scene from Archangel's Shadows.

A number of other stories connected to all three of my series, remain newsletter exclusive - you can access these by signing up to receive the newsletter monthly. Speaking of which, I need to figure out what special goody to put in the Nov 5 edition. Hmm... Suggestions?

Friday Book Club

Time to talk books! What are you reading and loving this week?

Dark Horse by Michelle Diener

I have a book rec for you today. I loved, loved DARK HORSE by Michelle Diener!! It kept me up way too late last night. It's a science fiction romance with great worldbuilding and a wonderful romance between two characters I truly liked. The blurb is below and here's a link to the book's Amazon page - you can click the cover to look inside the book and read an excerpt.

Any of you already read it? What did you think?

DARK HORSE

Michelle Diener

Some secrets carry the weight of the world.

Rose McKenzie may be far from Earth with no way back, but she’s made a powerful ally–a fellow prisoner with whom she’s formed a strong bond. Sazo’s an artificial intelligence. He’s saved her from captivity and torture, but he’s also put her in the middle of a conflict, leaving Rose with her loyalties divided.

Captain Dav Jallan doesn’t know why he and his crew have stumbled across an almost legendary Class 5 battleship, but he’s not going to complain. The only problem is, all its crew are dead, all except for one strange, new alien being.

She calls herself Rose. She seems small and harmless, but less and less abou

t her story is adding up, and Dav has a bad feeling his crew, and maybe even the four planets, are in jeopardy. The Class 5’s owners, the Tecran, look set to start a war to get it back and Dav suspects Rose isn’t the only alien being who survived what happened on the Class 5. And whatever else is out there is playing its own games.

In this race for the truth, he’s going to have to go against his leaders and trust the dark horse.

Allegiance of Honor

...is the title of the next Psy-Changeling book. Release date: June 14, 2016

This is my ensemble cast book where everyone comes back. :) The official blurb should be finalized by the November 5th newsletter, if not sooner.

p.s. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. The Welcome newsletter contains several free short stories not yet available on the website. Any issues, email Ashwini: naliniDOTassistantATgmailDOTcom

Friday Book Club

A late Friday Book Club this week. What are you currently reading and loving?

Writing

A snapshot of the scene I'm currently editing for the next Psy-Changeling book. 

Google Hangout Recording

I did a Google Hangout as part of the Gollancz Festival this weekend, answering lots of reader questions about all three series. Here's the recording! I hope you enjoy. :) p.s. I read out the question before I answer it, so you can skip anything that is a spoiler for you.

Friday Book Club

Woohoo! Time for the Friday Book Club! What are you reading and loving this week?

New Zealand

Repost from my Instagram for those of you not on IG.

New Zealand really has the most astonishingly beautiful scenery. It still startles me sometimes.