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The Star Empire: Jumpgate Travel
Jumpgates are a necessity for interplanetary travel in the worlds of the Jewel, but travelers must use them according to rules both man-made and established by the nature of the Jump system itself. Unscheduled jumps are fraught with peril and only fools make them in...
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The Star Empire: Jumpgates
Getting Around Every space writer has to make a critical choice in their writing life whether or not to allow FTL travel. We currently have no way to beat the speed of light, and books would get reeeeeallly booooring if they were NOT "road trip" books and it still...
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The Star Empire: A Short Spin Around the Stars
A Family Affair Even though the star cluster is called "The Nine Sisters," there are only two main star systems in the old Star Empire - the worlds of the Torch, and the worlds of the Jewel. Even though both systems have plenty of planets, moons, and other celestial...
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Indie Weekend: Summer of New
I don't talk about my books a lot. I don't even talk about myself a lot. I'm one of those "extroverted introverts" - people who look like they love being around other people, but when the party's over, we run into caves and don't come out for half a year afterward and...
read moreIndie Weekend: Creative Bursts
Once, I fancied myself one of those organized people who plans releases with plenty of time to complete them and meets their deadlines with consistency, grace, and aplomb. Only once. I had a lie-down and disabused myself of that notion straightaway. My magic is messy....
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Indie Weekend: May Flurries and Radish Coins
I know, you're thinking, "That better not be snow she's talking about!" Haha, yeah, I know. There were snow flurries last weekend not too far away from me and that's freaking ridiculous, but no, I'm not going to get Mother Nature any more punch-drunk than she already...
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Indie Weekend: Reading As Self-Care
In the age of social media, sharing everything, and tagging yourself so that the whole world can see what you're doing and where you are, reading, at least for me, is still an offline, solitary thing. Even though I'm charmed by things like the Kobo Reading App's...
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Indie Weekend: Radish Reads and Romantic Thoughts
I have this complicated relationship with the romance genre. I've been writing seriously for over twenty years, and most of them were spent as a card-carrying member of Romance Writers of America. Romance writers can rock this business like nobody's business, and if...
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Indie Weekend: Travel In Groups
I tend to use writing as a vacation as well as a vocation, and in my downtime, I've been exploring other genres. I'll never leave sci-fi, but part of me will always believe in magic, and that part of me has been playing in a high-fantasy world (and I swear to you it's...
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Indie Weekend: Exploring
One of the things I “get” to do as an indie is experiment. I use “get” in quotes because, as anyone who’s ever been in a lab with high school kids knows, the advantages can sometimes be…dubious. And that’s when things don’t get into downright dangerous....
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Roadmaps 2018
The Way Forward I'm trying something new here. From the time I first launched Huntress as a serial in 2015, I've been dumping a LOT of information into my brain about marketing, social media, book launches, series launches, what works, what doesn't, and...
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Indie Weekend: A Peek Into My Writer’s Brain
Falling To (Puzzle) Pieces You know that expression, "Man plans, the gods laugh?" Yeah, they had me in mind. See, I don't write my books chronologically. I try to, but I end up writing something at the beginning that really belongs near the end, and some...
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State of the Athena: 2017 Recap
The Faceplant Launch The first book in my new series, Scandal, came out and it was the best launch I've had to date. Well, if we're being honest, it was the only launch I've had to date. My entire Huntress series launched with maybe a Facebook post of...
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SFR Brigade Showcase: Heavy on the “Show”
Someone's in an anthology with some stellar luminaries of SFR! That someone would be me, in case you were wondering. I'm pleased to add one small part of the SFR Shooting Stars' latest anthology: Cosmic Cabaret! Cosmic Cabaret Where Hearts Collide in the...
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The Star Empire: The Scions Are Here!
Coming from the SFR Brigade's Showcase? Welcome! Don't forget to return to the page for the next stop on the tour! I'm immensely proud to announce that the Star Empire has a brand new series, and it launches today! Scandal is the first title in the Scions of the Star...
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The Star Empire: The Scions Are Coming!
They have anything they want…except a future. Meet the Scions of the Star Empire!
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Original Poetry: Christmas Eve on Friendship Station
Christmas Eve on Friendship Station An original send-up by Athena Grayson (with apologies to Clement C. Moore, Coca-Cola, and astrophysics) 'Twas the night before Christmas, all through the space station Not a creature was resting, or taking vacation. The techs...
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Indie Weekend: Moon Dance Cover Reveal
Please ooh and aah over the cover for this upcoming contribution to “Love Potion #9: 14 Paranormal Romances” featuring USA Today, Bestselling, and Award-Winning Authors.
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