Nicki Elson's Not-So-Deep Thoughts

As you've no doubt noticed, this has been Book Feature Week at my place. We started out with sci-fi, mixed it up with some YA paranormal, and now we're back to sci-fi with a guest post from author Stephen Tremp, who's celebrating the release of Escalation: The Adventures of Chase Manhattan . Stephen writes sci-fi, but today he's going to tell us about some real life scientific ventures that only sound like fiction. Take it away, Mr. Tremp... As we wind down the Escalation Blog Tour, I want to be sure to highlight some of what’s going on in the private Sector regarding things like commercial space flight, space tourism, Virgin Galactic: Is an America-based, British-owned commercial spaceflight company within Richard Branson’s Virgin Group which plans to provide suborbital spaceflights to space tourists, suborbital launches for space science missions, and orbital launches of small satellites. Further in the future, Virgin Galactic hopes to offer orbital hu...

Today, Cherie Colyer's upper YA novel with angelic flair--- Challenging Destiny --- is available on Kindle, and I'm excited to be part of the celebration by hosting an intriguing excerpt: Logan’s point-of-view I glanced down at the silver dagger and then back up into her eyes. I couldn’t move. My muscles froze as my mind whirled. She pressed the bone handle into my hand and closed my fingers around it. “You’d be freeing me from my contract with the Fallen. My soul will finally be at rest.” Her voice was soft. Tired. She raised her chin and closed her eyes. “Just make sure you hit my heart because I’m not going to promise getting stabbed isn’t going to piss me off.” It wouldn’t take much effort to kill Kira. She stood in front of me, half an arm’s length away. CHALLENGING DESTINY Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Kindle Release Date: March 27, 2014 Worldwide Release Date: July 11, 2014 Logan Ragsdale and his younger sister, Ariana, ha...

Today is a double cover reveal for the Shades Series by Carol Oates! Shades of Atlantis   got a makeover (new cover to be available on April 15), and Shades of Avalon (to be released on April 15) is being revealed.  To celebrate the reveal, Omnific is giving away an ePack of Shades of Atlantis at EACH hosting blog. So that means that right here, right now, you can enter for a chance to win just by leaving a comment on this post.  Shades of Atlantis.  Since the death of their parents, Triona Pryor and her brother, Ben, have lived with their aunt and uncle in Camden, Maine. Now in her senior year of high school, Triona loves her family and friends, but she has always felt that she didn't quite fit in...in Camden, or anywhere else. Enter Caleb Wallace, the devilishly handsome man who has recently moved to Triona's small town. While their attraction to each other is instantaneous, it also proves to be dangerous...and deadly. When tragedy strikes, Triona flees ...

In the mood for an intense sci-fi adventure? You're in luck because today is the official launch of the fifth book in M. Pax's popular Backworlds series.  Congrats, Mary! Worlds on Edge by M. Pax     War is coming. A horde of merciless aliens poise just beyond the Edge. In a matter of weeks, they will devour the worlds. Racing ahead of the apocalypse, Craze returns to the Backworlds to warn them and plan a defense. Only he can’t go home. Banned from Pardeep Station, he must wage a more urgent battle. His moon is under siege, and his friends are dying. Bad things come in threes, and the galaxy is no exception. An old enemy returns, attacking moons and defenseless globes, leaving a wake of destruction. Worse than that, they threaten to join forces with the alien horde. Defeat seems inevitable. Craze may not be able to stop it. Yet home is worth the fight.   Amazon / AmazonUK / Smashwords / Nook / Other Outlets Fantasy, science ...

I was so happy to learn that I wasn't the only dork who planned to pre-reveal her theme for the 2014 A to Z Challenge . As it turns out, there are a whole bunch of us, led by Team Damyanti in the Great & Powerful Theme Reveal Hop.   Click here for the list of the many other bloggers who will reveal themselves today. Ready to see mine? 90's Pop Culture Favorites! As in, my favorites. I firmly believe the 80's were the best decade ever pop-culturewise, and as a result I tend to not give the 90's their due. So I forced myself to sit down and come up with 26 things I loved in the 90's that I STILL love, and you know what? It wasn't difficult at all. So, starting on April 1, I'll be retroing back in time to show you bits of my 90's soul. But before we begin, I'd like to share with you my personal 90's timeline to provide insight into my baseline at the time I fell in love with these things: 1991: Got married 1993: Earned ...

New Adult has taken the romance world by storm, which is pretty cool---especially considering that my first novel, Three Daves , is a college love story ---but some of us thought it was time to celebrate the fully-formed man and all the lovely things he can bring to romance. By some of us, I mean: Amber Belldene , author of the  Blood Vine Series Autumn Markus , author of  The Art of Appreciation Feather Stone , author of  The Guardian's Wildchild Jennifer Lane , author of the  CONduct Series Julianna Keyes , author of  Just Once Nicki Elson , author of  Divine Temptation   Rachel Brimble , author of  16 Marsden Place (BTW, All Featured Novels Are Specially Priced At Only $0.99 – $2.99  Throughout The Tour!) Each of us has spent some time falling in love with a fictional man over the age of 30 while we wrote the novels listed above. This week, we're each talking about grown-up love from our own perspe...

To quote something from my current WIP : the ability to pretend she knew what she was doing was often more valuable than actually knowing. Do any of you feel that way with this writing thing? Like sometimes you're just pretending to know what you're doing instead of actually knowing? I sure do---in pretty much every step of the process: the actual writing, the querying, especially the marketing. I've taken every step forward that I needed to to get where I am, but not usually with a great deal of confidence. It's more like... m'okay, let's do this & see what happens. Occasionally what happens is that I find myself in over my head. Like when Savvy Authors invited me to submit a proposal for an article, so I did, and they accepted. I sent out an excited Tweet and then thought...A w crap, now I've got to write this thing .  And what do I know about  Finding the Hooks Within Your Manuscript ? The only way I was able to get myself started was by faki...