Author Spotlight - Michelle Levigne talks about her upcoming release, Blue Fire

Our heroine, Nureen Keala, is a Rover pilot and grew up with Rhianni Day (heroine of "Blue Fire"). When the story starts, she's peeved because Rhianni is in trouble on Mallachrom and Nureen is assigned to patrol seemingly dead space on the far side of the galaxy and can't be there to support her.

Pretty soon, though, Nureen has far too much to deal with to grumble. First she's out in a small scout craft and gets a distress call, then she tries to rescue an alien ship being chased by Talroqi, and then all three craft are pulled into a space anomaly that could crush them all to the thickness of a molecule. As if that weren't bad enough, the alien she rescued turns out to be a shapeshifter named Tessur and he can reach into her mind. Not a fun day.

When Nureen and Tessur get spat out on the other side of the anomaly, they're in another universe and dimension altogether, and find themselves facing this humongous, decrepit space station: The Borealis, run by the TPP (Trans Planetary Protectorate). (Think Babylon 5, set in the evil empire of the "Mirror, Mirror" episode of Star Trek. Clear enough in your head?) With Tessur there to translate for her, Nureen might just survive -- until she runs up against a man who claims to be Commodore Tedrin Creed from HER universe.

Problem: Tedrin Creed is dead, killed 50 years before in a huge battle with the Talroqi. Nureeen isn't about to trust anyone who has to be lying, even though he looks like her adolescent crush/fantasy, but he's her only chance to get her scout craft repaired and through the anomaly before it closes again.

On his part, Creed has been waiting 5 years for the anomaly to open so he can go home. He's sure he can handle Nureen -- until he finds out she's the granddaughter of his best friend, "Killer" Keala. But time is running out and they have to get off the Borealis before the TPP realizes he's been lying to them for the past 5 years and gets ... nasty.

They can worry about what her grandfather will think and whether it's against regulations to fall in love and how many years of back pay is waiting for Creed when they get home again. IF they can get home.

Check out the Cyber Launch Party on November 15 for "Blue Fire" and "That Synching Feeling."
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Author Spotlight - Blue Fire by Michelle Levigne

Today we're going off-subject and out of this universe.

Even though we're officially talking about my October Tabor Heights release, "White Roses" this week, I want to point out that I have two SF pieces coming from DBP in November.

"Blue Fire" is a full-length SF romance, and ties into DBP's Borealis universe through the short story, "That Synching Feeling," which we'll talk about tomorrow. (See how sneaky I am, making sure you have to come back tomorrow?)

Rhianni Day, our heroine, is a military brat -- raised by her father's Rover Corps squadron, and serving as a medic until her father's death and a new assignment sends her home to the colony world, Mallachrom. Her father always planned to come home to Mallachrom and find out what happened when his squadron was pulled out and sent to the far side of the galaxy to fight the Talroqi -- because although Mallachrom was far from the fighting, the Talroqi landed and held the planet for a while, slaughtering most of the colony. The Talroqi are hive creatures and use humans for food and other nefarious purposes Rhianni discovers almost too late. (I just love it when I can use the word "nefarious.")

The big challenge for Rhianni is that her best friend in childhood, Petroc Ash, is the leader of a group of survivors from that invasion. They're called the Taken: children snatched from their homes on the verge of the invasion, and sheltered in the wilderness of Mallachrom by the Shadows -- sentient canines. Now, going on 20 years later, the new colonists and other survivors live in fear of them. They aren't quite Human anymore, they don't trust the government, and the government is doing all it can to control them and blame them for everything that goes wrong.

Rhianni's job: find out what really happened during the invasion, what really happened to the Taken, and prove the Taken aren't pawns of the Talroqi, waiting to destroy the colony. For his part, Petroc has far too many secrets to guard and lives to protect. He's ready to tear himself apart with longing for a soul-bonding with Rhianni. The Taken mate for life, but that could kill Rhianni, because Taken can't leave Mallachrom, and she plans to leave when her mission is finished, never to return.

Check out the Cyber Launch Party on November 15 for "Blue Fire" and "That Synching Feeling."
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Author Spotlight Week - P.I. Barrington shares her passion for writing futuristic/speculative romance

There are several reasons I enjoy writing in futuristic genre. First and foremost it's very liberating in a sense. I'm free to experiment, invent, and toss out the general rules and regulations of both technology and society. I can have my characters do things that would get them arrested in current society but are acceptable in the stories. I can make up technology as I did in the Future Imperfect series that has the ring of truth and as I'd like to see it operate, especially with medical machinery. I can work with both existing theory and hypothetical theory (in all areas from philosophy to technological ideas), sometimes twisting them separately and intertwining them at other times and most challenging of all is to make one logically progress into the other. I know it sounds like a bunch of gobbledegook but I am a sci fi geek after all, lol! Actually some of the techie stuff I create is loosely based on things that exist now like my Ghoster in Final Deceit. But you have to be careful with futuristic. You can't get carried away with creating too much technology because then you're crossing over into full on sci fi sometimes to the detriment of the story.

Another reason I love futuristic genre' writing is that people can still be people and relatable which is what makes a good story in the first place. Characters can still face ethical and or moral crisis and probably even more in a futuristic setting. Are the advantages of technology worth the possible negatives like possible death? Is a machine worth a human life? That's the major theme and question of Future Imperfect's Book Two: Miraculous Deception. Is the end really justified by the means? That's character development right there.

But probably my favorite thing about futuristic is that I get to make people break the law outrageously and get away with it for good or bad! My cops can violate laws to get their man or woman regardless the ethical questions of how they do it and my bad guys can wreak as much havoc and vice as they want, because the laws for citizens have been weakened or done away with completely, especially in a dystopian future.

Featured November Release - Crucifying Angel by PI Barrington

ABOUT THE BOOK:

A serial killer with an unholy mission is unleashed on deteriorating sin city Las Vegas and LVPD Homicide Detectives Payce Halligan and her new partner, British ex-Deputy Chief Inspector begin a deadly cat and mouse game as each must deal with their own traumatic past and their evolving attraction.

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EXCERPT:

The next tableau of death also sat eight stories up in another iron skeleton that was once a casino in utero. Again, the body of the victim hung upside down, crucified from two iron girders crossed into an X, the victim's ankles pierced and wired to the two top opposing ends of beams and body slashed in the identical locations. White linen cloths draped the body, reminiscent of Roman togas, did nothing to hide the degrading posture or the disrespect of the murderer, nor the fact that the desecrated body could be seen from the Strip below by pedestrians and passengers alike. Their curiosity peaked by the obvious attempt at hiding the crime scene with yellow police tarps that only made the scene more visible.

Gavin walked to the edge of the scaffold, gazing at the vistas of Las Vegas, trying to take in the wide, unending expanse of desert and make sense of the bizarre methods of death. Was there some message in the patterns known only to the killer and mattering only to him? Was there something he wanted to authorities to take notice of, something he was telling them? Or was it just the death-addicted actions of a homicide junkie?

This was the place for it. Las Vegas, sin city from its inception, was hot as hell literally and figuratively, was as barren and painfully garish and distorted as any lower floor of Hades. Even the populace on the streets below looked and lived like lost denizens of the Underworld.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

P.I. Barrington has returned to her original career choice of fiction writing after a long detour in the entertainment industry. Her experience includes work as a newspaper journalist, radio air talent, and at a major record company. She lives in Southern California with her dog and wildlife in her rural neighborhood.

Books by P.I. Barrington at Desert Breeze Publishing:

Future Imperfect Book One: Crucifying Angel - Available November 2009

Future Imperfect Book Two: Miraculous Deception - Available June 2010

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REVIEWS

"Crucifying Angel is a great story. There is a lot of action and a nice set of clues and a deep mystery. I enjoyed the main characters Gavin and Payce as well as the cliffhanger. Readers, consider checking this book out! I’m looking forward to the next book in this stunning new suspense series."

Silvermage, Night Owl Romance Book Reviews

Rating = 4.25 Hearts

Get Pumped!! Crucifing Angel a November Release

P.I. Barrington's soon be released Crucifying Angel, Book 1 of the Future Imperfect series is already getting reviews. Here's what several sites had to say:

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From Night Owl Romance Reviews:

Title: Crucifying Angel

Sub Title: Book One of the Future Imperfect series

Authors: P I Barrington

Genres: Suspense / Mystery, Sci-Fi / Fantasy

Available Online: Oct 14, 2009

Online Link:

Hearts: 4.25 out of 5

Review by: Silvermage

"Crucifying Angel is a great story. There is a lot of action and a nice set of clues and a deep mystery. I enjoyed the main characters Gavin and Payce as well as the cliffhanger. Readers, consider checking this book out! I'm looking forward to the next book in this stunning new suspense series. "

See the rest of the review at: Online Link: http://www.nightowlromance.com/nightowlromance/reviews/Review.aspx?daoid=4939

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From Yvonne Mason, Reviewer/Blogger:

" Ms. Barrington plays the reader like a finely tuned piano with the twists and turns and the undercurrent of electricity of Det. Payce and Det Gavin. She then adds the timpani of the serial killer and his misguided reasons for what he does. Crucifying Angel is absolutely a must read, but beware, you will have to get the next installment. The best is yet to come. Defiantly a five star read."

Here's a link to Yvonne's Blog and the rest of the review: http://yvonnemason.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/p-i-barringtons-soon-to-be-released-crucifying-angel-is-a-five-star-read/

http://www.nightowlromance.com/nightowlromance/reviews/Review.aspx?daoid=4939 :

Featured October Release - Revolution - The Phoenix Rebellion Book I

Author: Gail R. Delaney

Category and Length: Futuristic - Plus Novel

Rating: Intense

ISBN:978-1-936000-08-1

Photography/Artwork: Jenifer Ranieri

Release Date: October 2009

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Some say the Areth are our salvation, others say they are our doom.

Retired Colonel Nick Tanner doesn't care.

Not until Caitlin Montgomery, the woman he was never able to forget, finds him in his solitude and changes everything.

His son -- the child he was told died 25 years before -- is alive and needs him. Nick will do whatever it takes to bring Michael home. He'll lay down his life, if that's the cost to reveal the truth and stop the Areth.

Now, he cares. And if he ever finds the Areth that stole his son from him, she'll pay.

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AN EXCERPT:

The doctor stopped and spoke, and the focus of their attention shifted. For one brief moment, he looked straight at the camera.

"Now."

Nick tapped the screen.

"What the hell?"

His words mirrored CJ's own reaction the first time she saw the young man's face. It was like seeing Nick Tanner twenty years before. The same eyes, the same angled features, the same lips.

"Who is this?" he demanded, only briefly looking at her before focusing again on the screen.

CJ cleared her throat to try and push through the thick emotions that threatened to choke her.

"His name is Michael Tanner. Your son."

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Gail R. Delaney has been actively writing 'for publication' since 1996. The first novel she ever
wrote is still sitting on her computer, waiting for the major rewrite that will make it acceptable. She says she has learned a great deal since writing that book, and it shows when she looks back at that rough draft.

Gail has had eight novels published in the genres of contemporary romance, romantic suspense and futuristic romance. Her novels have received several nominations and awards since she was first published in 2005.

Gail and her family recently moved from the cold and blustry east coast to Southern California, and is loving every moment of sunshine she can soak in.

Books by Gail R. Delaney at Desert Breeze Publishing:

Watch Over Me - May 2009
Lightning Strikes Twice - June 2009
Tender Hearts - December 2009
Something Better - March 2010
Precious Things - July 2010

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REVIEWS:

Futuristic Science Fiction at its best, The Phoenix Rebellion Book I: [Revolution] leaves the reader on the edge of their seat waiting impatiently for more
ECataRomance Rating; 5 Stars

Lovers of the science fiction romance genre rejoice! There is a new voice on the scene and [Revolution] by Ms. Delaney as to be the best in this genre that this reviewer has ever had the pleasure of reading! Shaiha - Suite Magazine

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Visit Gail at Desert Breeze Publishing.

The Phoenix Rebellion Book One: Revolution - and other books by Gail R. Delaney - available at Amazon for Kindle