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The Glass Asylum #9: Blunt (Six Sentence Sunday)

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Going for brevity, tonight. It’s Six Sentence Sunday. This scene from my WIP (sequel to Girl Under Glass) takes place in a small, deep cave where Rachel’s been dumped.

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Rachels_CavernEhtishem sealed the opening and we were cut off from all communication. He rappelled back to the floor and shed his harness.

“You’re a dick,” I said.

“For coming here?”

“For risking your life and maybe leaving Pearl without parents. She’s tough, but she’s not like Ohnenrai kids.”

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Thanks and Happy Holidays!

Holiday Hullabaloo: Day Eleven

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What’s the Dealio? 14 different prizes, one by each author, every day (That’s 14 giveaways each day)

Who are Your Hosts? 14 authors of adult, NA, and YA fiction (organized by authors Denise Grover Swank and Trisha Leigh)

When? When? When? It’s the penultimate day!

How Long Does the Giving Last? All giveaways close tomorrow, December 21st

What Kinda Loot Are We Discussing Here? Ebooks, autographed paper books, swag, gift cards, jewelry, book sets, t-shirts, critiques… it’s crazy all the stuff in this giveaway!

The Very Merry Finale: A $200 Amazon or Barnes & Noble Gift Card giveaway

How to Get In on This Holiday Awesomeness:

  1. Scroll down to find the first Rafflecopter link to enter today’s giveaway on my site
  2. Then follow the second Rafflecopter link to enter to win the final $200 gift card
  3. Lastly, follow the Linky to visit the other participating authors’ blogs
  4. Come back tomorrow and start entering to win all over again!
Today’s Hullabaloo:
Sci-fi multi-pack! (Not mul-ti-pass, Leeloo.) Five YA and adult sci-fi ebooks from five authors, including yours truly. Check ‘em out:
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Open Minds by Susan Kaye Quinn

TOP 5 FINALIST for 2012 Best Indie Book, Young Adult Fiction – The Kindle Book Review

When everyone reads minds, a secret is a dangerous thing to keep.

Open Minds

Sixteen-year-old Kira Moore is a zero, someone who can’t read thoughts or be read by others. Zeros are outcasts who can’t be trusted, leaving her no chance with Raf, a regular mindreader and the best friend she secretly loves. When she accidentally controls Raf’s mind and nearly kills him, Kira tries to hide her frightening new ability from her family and an increasingly suspicious Raf. But lies tangle around her, and she’s dragged deep into a hidden underworld of mindjackers, where having to mind control everyone she loves is just the beginning of the deadly choices before her.

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Whispers in Autumn by Trisha Leigh

In 2015, a race of alien Others conquered Earth. They enslaved humanity not by force, AutumnCoverBN-193x300but through an aggressive mind control that turned people into contented, unquestioning robots.Except sixteen-year-old Althea isn’t content at all, and she doesn’t need the mysterious note inside her locket to tell her she’s Something Else. It also warns her to trust no one, so she hides the pieces that make her different, even though it means being alone.The autumn she meets Lucas, everything changes.
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Here by Denise Grover Swank

Here_normal1Sixteen year old Julia Phillips buries herself in guilt after killing her best friend Monica in a car accident. Julia awoke in the hospital with a broken leg, a new talent for drawing and false memories of the accident, in which she dies and Monica lives. The doctors attribute this to her head injury, but no one can explain how a bracelet engraved with her name ended up at the scene of the accident. A bracelet no one has ever seen before.

Classmate Evan Whittaker paid Julia no attention before the accident, let alone after. Now suddenly he’s volunteering to tutor her and offering to drive her home. She can’t ignore that his new obsession started after his two-day disappearance last week and that he wears a pendant she’s been drawing for months. When the police show up one night looking for Evan, he begs Julia to run with him, convincing her that Monica is still alive. Julia agrees to go, never guessing where he’s really from.

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Perception by Lee Strauss

PerceptionSeventeen year old Zoe Vanderveen is a GAP–a genetically altered person. She lives in the security of a walled city on prime water-front property along side other equally beautiful people with extended life spans.
Her brother Liam is missing.

Noah Brody is a natural who lives on the outside. He leads protests against the GAPs and detests the widening chasm they’ve created between those who have and those who don’t. He doesn’t like girls like Zoe and he has good reason not to like her specifically.

Zoe’s carefree life takes a traumatic turn. She’s in trouble and it turns out that Noah, the last guy on earth she should trust, is the only one who can help her.

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Girl Under Glass by Monica Enderle Pierce

Top 100 Kindle Space Opera, 2012 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Semi-Finalist

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What do you do when you’re trapped between death and the devil? To protect her young daughter from a madman and a tyrant, Rachel Pryne must trust an enemy—one of the alien warriors who conquered Earth.

It is 2032, the Ohnenrai—Earth’s humanoid alien conquerors—orbit the planet, and Terran reproduction is failing. Rachel, a trained medic, is struggling to protect her seven-year-old daughter, Pearl, from the sexual predation of their penal colony’s leader. Having fathered the girl by rape, he now intends to take her on her eighth birthday, only six weeks away.

Then Rachel finds her unlikely champion—an injured Ohnenrai soldier who appears in her yard one stormy evening. She knows she may be choosing death over the devil in trusting this warrior, but she doesn’t know that her trust, and her DNA, will make her one of the most important and endangered people to ever set foot aboard an Ohnenrai starship.

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The YA/Adult Sci-fi Multi-pack
Fill in this Rafflecopter form for a chance to win a $200 Amazon or Barnes & Noble Gift Card:

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Good luck and Happy Holidays!

 

The Glass Asylum #8: Medication (Six Sentence Sunday)

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Girl Under GlassHello and welcome back for another Six Sentence Sunday sample from my WIP, The Glass Asylum. We’re jumping back to Rachel’s point of view with this snippet, in which she’s about to receive some much-needed medication. (The first speaker is Ehtishem’s personal assistant, Nahnesh.)

“It’s most effective when administered into the thigh muscle or buttocks.”

“You are not shooting me in the ass.”

Ehtishem folded his arms as he settled into the couch cushions and said, “I will.”

“Not if you want your life to be bearable for the next six months, Zosh.” I glared at him, not entirely unamused, as I stood and raised my burgundy gown’s skirt to reveal a great deal of skin. Ehtishem’s gaze followed the length of my leg and then met mine.

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The Glass Asylum #7: Not an Idle Threat

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Hello friends! It’s Six Sentence Sunday and I’m still featuring my WIP, The Glass Asylum. This comes from a scene following last week’s threats to dump all the Terran men back on Earth but keep the women aboard Dathusha (the Ohnenrai mothership) to act as surrogates for Ohnenrai children. This confrontation takes place in Ehtishem’s office and involves one of the Councilors who’s advocating forced separation. (The Councilor is the first to speak.)

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“This is an outrageous misuse of your office’s powers, Zosh. I’m warning you—”

“No, you are not. But I’m going to give you a crash course in Terran culture, Sarem. They view interpersonal relationships from a wholly different approach, and I assure you that if you seek to remove the women from the Terran Sector, you will unleash enough violence and unrest to more than disrupt the operations of this ship and destabilize social order. And I will kick you in the testicles so hard they will come out of your nostrils.”

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You know Ehtishem could do it, too.

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Girl Under Glass Made a “Best of 2012″ List!

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Author, Cara Bristol, has named Girl Under Glass to her Best Erotic Romances of 2012

This may puzzle some of you since GUG isn’t erotica, although it is romantic. In fact, the love scenes are sensual and implied. But that’s what makes this listing even more awesome! Cara is a well-published erotic romance author and that’s what she reads. The fact that she was so compelled by Girl Under Glass leaves me grinning from ear to ear. Here’s what she had to say about GUG:

For beaming me out of the pages and into another world, Girl Under Glass by Monica Enderle PierceGUG-Cover-small

A mother who fights to save her daughter following an apocalypse must bring herself to trust a Stranger, a member of the race responsible for it. Girl Under Glass takes place on earth in the near future and on a space ship. The writing is beautiful, the story compelling, and the setting is literally “out of this world.” A sci fi romance. A debut, self-published novel. First in what will be a series.

Check out her full list of favorites here. And if you are an erotic romance reader, Cara’s books are among the best. Highly recommended.

The Glass Asylum #6: The Keen Blade — Six Sentence Sunday

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Hiya, Sixers. Thanks for coming back for another Six Sentence Sunday snippet from my romantic sci-fi WIP, The Glass Asylum.

Credit: lucasmalta/morguefile.com

Credit: lucasmalta/morguefile.com

This week’s six come from the same hearing scene as was featured last week. In this case, however, Ehtishem’s second-in-command (his Dvai) suggests a solution to the fight over whether and how the Terran women should be separated from the men aboard the Ohnenrai mother ship. (Ehtishem does not approve of forced separation.)

Translations:

Zant: yes

Fra: sir

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“There is another solution.” Dvai Vindira said, and Ehtishem turned, surprised that she was voicing an opinion. “Since we are returning to Terra, we can relocate the men to the planet and keep the women aboard.”

Ehtishem crossed his arms and felt the keen blade of betrayal between his shoulder blades as murmurs of approval filled the chamber. “Therefore dooming their species, Dvai?”

Dvai Atala Vindira met his gaze and replied, “Zant, fra, to preserve ours.”

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Before I send you off to the official Six Sentence Sunday site, I want to thank those of you who stop by and/or comment every week. I’ve been buried by work and life for the last few months and haven’t been able to make the rounds very diligently or even reply to your comments here. I see them, I appreciate them oh-so-much, and I hope that life will slow down after the holidays enough that I can get back to enjoying all of your work, as well. Merci!

The Glass Asylum #5: Chicken (Six Sentence Sunday)

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Hello, friends! Welcome back for another Six Sentence Sunday post from my romantic sci-fi novel, The Glass Asylum. Since this is a WIP, I’m jumping around a bit. This week’s excerpt is from a meeting of the Ohnenrai governing council in which they are debating forcible relocation of the Terran women who are living aboard the Ohnenrai ship.

Note: Ehtishem is the Zosh (the supreme commander of the Ohnenrai); sarem means councilor.

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The councilor paused to consult his compad, then said, “A production rate of eight percent live, viable offspring over one twelve-month cycle is a twenty-two percent reduction from the previous period. The Zosh claims he serves the Ohnenrai, but blocking reproduction — whether by Ohnenrai or Terran surrogates — runs contrary to that claim.”

Ehtishem studied the sarem. The man was tall and reedy with an unusual hooked nose and a long neck. His propensity to jerk his chin upward when making a point reminded Ehtishem of the speckled black-and-white chickens Rachel had kept on Terra. I should snap his neck.

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Ehtishem’s a wee bit grumpy.

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The Glass Asylum #4: Ball of Dust (Six Sentence Sunday)

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Hi again, Sixers! Welcome back for another Six Sentence Sunday. Once more, I’m posting from my WIP, The Glass Asylum, which is the sequel to Girl Under Glass. This is a direct continuation from last week’s snippet in which Rachel reacts to the news that Ehtishem has visited a former lover. (Before we proceed, I just want to thank those of you who visit every week. I appreciate you taking time out of your busy Sundays to read my work.)
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I loved Ehtishem. And that love came with sexual devotion. But, in his culture, a trip to the Nest was no more notable than a stop for coffee.

As Khaiv stacked his empty crates, I stared out the kitchen window at the brown planet that Dathusha was orbiting — Ohnenrah. My lover’s home planet was dead. Right then I wished I could feel as lifeless as that ball of dust.

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The Glass Asylum #3: Personal Beliefs (Six Sentence Sunday)

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Welcome back for another Six Sentence Sunday snippet from my WIP, The Glass Asylum. With the last two installments, we got a peek at Ehtishem’s struggles as he visited a former lover. Today we start to see the impact of that visit on Rachel.

(Note: Ferahi-va means thank you. Barethri means Mother and is an honorary title.)

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“Have a good evening, Barethri,” Nahnesh said as she left the quarters.

“Ferahi-va.” I nodded but couldn’t meet her gaze, and then she was gone, and I was relieved to have escaped without needing to explain my emotions. They’d have baffled her. Monogamy, to the Ohnenrai, was a poor survival tactic; it was illogical not to spread their genes far and wide. But my personal beliefs were hard to bury.

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Last week it was poor Ehtishem. This week it’s poor Rachel.

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The Glass Asylum #1: Old Habits — Six Sentence Sunday

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Hello lovely Sixers. It’s Six Sentence Sunday, and I’m gonna give you whiplash. Sorry. I’ve fallen in love with my current WIP, The Glass Asylum, which is the sequel to Girl Under Glass. So, starting today, I’ll be randomly posting from this one (in addition to First Comes Famine) during the coming months.

I’m integrating Ehtishem’s POV into this book and he’s proving to be a complex and fascinating character with inner-demons that are much closer to escaping than I ever expected. Still waters do, indeed, run deep.

This scene takes place in the Nest, which is the breeding center aboard Dathusha, the Ohnenrai ship. “Cithrem” means “breeder,” and Ghisga has been tempting him to fall back into some old, cultural habits.

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He looked away from Ghisga’s breasts and their nearly unnoticeable scars from when they’d been surgically lifted and tightened after the birth of her last child. Looked away from the strong, tall body that she offered to him and to any other affluent Ohnenran who could move her up through the levels of the Nest because, more than most Ohnenrai women, the cithrem had power. Ghisga, who had instructed him in the many methods of sexual gratification. Ghisga who had been handpicked by Ahremena for him when he was fourteen years old. “Cover yourself. Please.”

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