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Exo- Xeno- Astro- Redux-o…

 Since I decided early on in the writing process to tag my book’s heroine Zenn as an exoveterinarian (as opposed to a xenovet), I was musing about this topic long ago in another post, but didn’t see the entry below from … Continue reading

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Book signing with Joe Haldeman just before ICON 38. With. Joe. Haldeman. Holy frak.

What can I say? Seriously. This was epic-ness on a epic-ly epic scale. Stories from the word-cratered battlefields of the publishing universe? Mr. Haldeman got stories. And his wife Gay can match him. OK, done fan-boying. For now. The signing … Continue reading

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And now: Cover art/synopsis reveal for Under Nameless Stars – Zenn’s new adventure kicks your sci-fi thrill-o-meter into the red zone. Coming April, 2014.

Zenn Scarlett’s novice year of exoveterinarian training on Mars isn’t quite going to plan… After barely surviving a plot to destroy her school and its menagerie of alien patients, could things at the Ciscan cloister get any worse? Yes, they … Continue reading

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An eye-pleasuring montage of book-cover-art from Strange Chemistry. That is all.

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Author-type events comin’ up – Zenn Scarlett Hits the Road!

Here’s what’s on the schedule so far this summer in the way of Zenn Scarlett book readings/signings/author-sitting-around-looking-authorial events: June 29th, 1:00 PM – New Bo Books, Cedar Rapids – Reading/Signing August 3rd, 2 PM – Barnes & Noble, Cedar Rapids – Book … Continue reading

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End o’ Summer Giveaway: Win Your Moment of “Zenn!”

The fabulous book blogging mavens over at ItWasLovelyReadingYou are celebrating summer’s emergence in an entirely appropriate manner by giving away a free copy of what should probably be your next on-the-beach-with-feet-thrust-into-Martian-like-hot-sand read: Zenn Scarlett. And what’s more, the book may have brought a … Continue reading

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We Have a Winner! Yowza!

Hi all. First, thanks to EVERYONE who entered the Zenn Scarlett book giveaway with the “Name a Star” prize package. You people are grand. And the blog posts that many of you left were, frankly, inspiring and simply wonderful to … Continue reading

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Win Zenn Scarlett PLUS “Name Your Own Star” Gift Package! $80+ Value!

Hey, how’d you like to be able to name your very own, actual, up-in-the-sky star? Plus: have your star’s totally cool new name launched into space? Plus-extra-plus: win a print or eBook copy of Zenn Scarlett?  (That would be the new … Continue reading

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Buckle up, SF and adventure-lovers… Zenn Scarlett On Sale Galaxy-Wide Now!

The blogs have been blogged, the reviews posted (see some below), the finished books shipped, the warehouses alerted, and racks of ‘puter servers and legions of postal workers everywhere are trembling in terror at the coming tsunami of bookish downloading-and-snail-mailing … Continue reading

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Let the Wild Exo-Rumpus Begin: Zenn Scarlett Blog Tour!

Thanks to a roster of extranormously awesome bloggers and my editor at Strange Chemistry Books, the curtain goes up today on the Zenn Scarlett Blog Tour.  The novel hits stores and download-buttons in about a month (May 7 in the … Continue reading

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