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Zenn’s next adventure looms… How can you tell? Blog Tour Banner!

Book two of the Zenn Scarlett series launches into the star-sequined cosmos in April. And the banner above proves it. Details on the tour stops to follow. Excited. And very. So, can you pre-order this electrifying little package of off-world wonderment right this second … 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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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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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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Zenn makes some new friends…

“Utterly imaginative, Zenn Scarlett is sci-fi at its best. Fantastic world-building. Deep characters. And a story that will have you desperate for answers until the very end. I couldn’t put it down!”                 … Continue reading

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Most revealing post… ever: Zenn Scarlett Cover Art

The image for the cover of Zenn Scarlett materialized in my inbox recently. I’m seriously stoked about it. Simply… breathtaking, as in breath… taken.  A number of blogs were in on the reveal & have been dishing up some tasty … Continue reading

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Very good-to-simply-fab news for my fellow Strange Chemistry author, Gwenda Bond. Her recently published YA para-thriller Blackwood just got picked up for development by MTV via Kelsey Grammer’s production company. Couldn’ta happened to a cooler scribe. Check out the deal: MTV … Continue reading

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Cover art whiz-bang-ery uncovered here.

I know I’ve highlighted some of this in earlier posts, but now there’s more graphic goodness to tout, so I’m re-touting….  Pubbery Strange Chemistry,  carving out their niche as a leading new source of great Young Adult Science Fiction and … Continue reading

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