I don’t have critique partners or a critique group. The one
and only time I tried anything of that nature was in junior college. It was an
evening creative writing class and I lasted through the first time I had to
read my WIP and receive feedback, and it was SO not this introvert’s comfort zone…I
left at the break and never went back. I have wonderful, professional editors
and I rely on them. They will tell me
if I’ve taken a left turn or done something TSTL with my plot. As you might
guess, they’ve had occasion to do that a time or two! My process is my process and I don’t feel the
need to bounce story issues off other people or gather inputs as I go, etc.
Shrug. I get that it works great for other people, which just proves yet again
that there’s no one “right way” to write. Thanks goodness.
On to something more exciting for me – this past week I did
the cover reveal for my next science fiction romance novel, Star Cruise:
Outbreak. Here’s the pretty cover, from Fiona Jayde. The book will be out on
April 18th.
The story:
She saved countless
soldiers in the wars … but does she have the weapons to fight an outbreak?
Dr. Emily Shane,
veteran of the Sector Wars, is known as “The Angel of Fantalar” for her bravery
under fire as a medic. However, the doctor has her own war wounds–severe PTSD
and guilt over those she failed to save.
Persuaded to fill a
seemingly frivolous berth as ship’s doctor on the huge and luxurious
interstellar cruise liner Nebula Zephyr, she finds the job brings unexpected
perks–a luxe beach deck with water imported from Tahumaroa II, and Security
Officer Jake Dilon, a fellow veteran who heats her up like a tropical sun.
However, Emily soon
learns she and Jake didn’t leave all peril behind in the war. A mysterious
ailment aboard the Zephyr begins to claim victim after victim … and they must
race against time and space to find the cause and a cure! Trapped on a ship no
spaceport will allow to dock, their efforts are complicated by a temperamental
princess and a terrorist–one who won’t hesitate to take down any being in the
way of his target. If anyone’s left when
the disease is through with them …
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