I’m currently crafting the 1st draft of the 8th installment of the Super Secret Project and it started with a battle to the death. (grins) I love writing and reading those so very much!

Have a wonderful week, my friends! (big hugs) Eat a seasonal vegetable grown locally. Go outside at night and look up at the stars. Know that you’re part of everything, both here on Earth and in the Universe. (smiles) And also know that you are loved. (more hugs)

Cyborg Sizzle Escape Omnibus

Half Man. Half Machine. All Theirs.
* * *
While these cyborg warriors battle to escape their cruel manufacturers, they find the human females they are destined to love for all eternity.
This omnibus includes the first seven stories in the Cyborg Sizzle series: Releasing Rage, Breathing Vapor, Being Green, Crash And Burn, Defying Death, Chasing Mayhem and Jumping Barrel.
All of these Cyborg Romances are set in a dark, gritty, often violent universe.

Releasing Rage

Rage, the Humanoid Alliance’s most primitive cyborg, has two goals–kill all of the humans on his battle station and escape to the Homeland. The warrior has seen the darkness in others and in himself. He believes that’s all he’s been programmed to experience.
Until he meets Joan.

Breathing Vapor

Vapor is the most advanced cyborg the Humanoid Alliance has ever developed. He’s a finely honed weapon, a warrior without parallel, half man and half machine. No lock can contain him. No being can stop him. Whatever he wants, he takes.
He wants Mira Breazeal, the Designer’s daughter.

Being Green

Green, a cyborg warrior, cares for one being—his plant Windy. When Windy becomes sick, he’ll do anything to heal her, even venture across the universe to visit a worlds-renowned plant doctor.
He doesn’t expect to find love.

Crash And Burn

Crash was manufactured to be one of the best warriors in the universe. The cyborg has spent many human lifespans fighting the enemy. But, unlike his battle-loving brethren, he doesn’t enjoy killing. When he escapes the Humanoid Alliance, he vows to never end another life.
Then he meets Safyre, an infuriating human female, and he considers breaking his vow.

Defying Death

Cyborgs don’t show emotion. Death learned that lesson early in his long lifespan. To survive, he hides his fierce passions behind a stoic wall. He calls no warrior friend. He never admits to caring for any being.
Even the human female he’s destined to love.

Chasing Mayhem

Mayhem has spent his lengthy lifespan obeying the Humanoid Alliance’s rules. Finally free from their cruel control, the cyborg warrior plans to cause chaos. He infiltrates a remote settlement, provokes the savage locals until they want him dead, and allows himself to be captured by the sexiest little Retriever he has ever laid his mechanically-enhanced eyes on.

Jumping Barrel

Barrel requires an Expert for the Tau Cetian orphans. He’s looking for a female who is willing to commit to a lifespan-long role, who is comfortable with moving off planet, and who, preferably, has the ability to speak the offsprings’ first language.
His female, however, is looking for a hero.

Buy Now:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/Cyborg-Sizzle-Escape-Omnibus-Continuum-ebook/dp/B081VFHF1S

Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cyborg-Sizzle-Escape-Omnibus-Continuum-ebook/dp/B081VFHF1S

Amazon AUS:
https://www.amazon.com.au/Cyborg-Sizzle-Escape-Omnibus-Continuum-ebook/dp/B081VFHF1S

Amazon Canada:
https://www.amazon.ca/Cyborg-Sizzle-Escape-Omnibus-Continuum-ebook/dp/B081VFHF1S

Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/cyborg-sizzle-escape-omnibus/id1488934271

Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/cyborg-sizzle-escape-omnibus

Smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/992060

It is the first day of August. Yay!

It is a perfect time to celebrate your accomplishments thus far this year.

If you’re reading this post, you have achieved the most important, some would say the ONLY important one – you’ve made it to today! You kept yourself alive! Woot! You are a successful human! Go you!

(grins)

Did you plant a flower for the bees? That’s another huge accomplishment. You helped feed little beings who help feed all of us!

Did you read a book? You fed your brain (this is SO important) and you helped support the writing and reading community. That’s awesome!

Did you hold a door open for a stranger? You made the world and, especially, THEIR world a kinder place. And isn’t that an accomplishment to be proud of!

I’m sure you can list many, many more accomplishments. And all of them are worthy of a celebration!

I’m proud of you, my friend!

(beams)

You’re busy.

Hey, I understand that.

Stars, do I understand that.

(grins)

But take five minutes today and send a message to a friend/other loved one. This could be a purely online friend. Or a friend you only interact with in person. This could be a friend you’re related to. Or a work friend. Or someone else.

The message doesn’t have to be long or fancy.

It could simply be

‘I was thinking of you today. You make my life more joyful.’

And that’s it.

That’s enough to ensure your relationship doesn’t starve.

Feed a friendship today.

At the beginning of Strike Zone, there’s a masquerade (masqueradelike – it IS a futuristic story set on a different planet) scene.

I love the idea of masquerades. They’re parties. Everyone is masked. Beings can be whoever they want to be for the night. There’s mystery.

And there are a lot of opportunities for mistaken identity.

Which is exactly what happens in Strike Zone.

(grins)

Strike Zone

A cyborg devoted to duty…and to her.

***

While attending a party, Kesser, the daughter of her planet’s leader, witnesses the abduction of her best friend and her best friend’s mate.

She’s determined to rescue them. Preferably without fracturing the fragile peace agreement her mom has crafted with the abductors’ planet.

The only issue is…she has never participated in a retrieval mission.

Searching for assistance, she approaches the mate’s guard. The male, with his big broad shoulders and deep growly voice, affects her like no other being ever has.

Kesser wants him. She trusts him. And she requires his stealth combat skills.

Desperately.

Strike is no guard. The D Model cyborg has been sent to the sector to discreetly investigate a potential planet-destroying situation.

When a curvy human female with big brown eyes requests his help with a rescue, he doesn’t hesitate to say yes. She’s his genetic match, the one being he was manufactured to protect.

She’s also traveling to the next planet he has to search. He plans to claim his female while he fulfills his responsibilities to his kind.

Neither Strike nor Kesser realizes the dangers facing them are far greater than they imagine. Their enemies are converging, and one failed mission could doom the entire universe.

***

Strike Zone is a standalone, mistaken-identity, Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.

It features a cyborg warrior with a finely honed sense of honor, a human support being taking on her first dangerous mission, and an evil that threatens everyone in existence.

Buy Now:

Amazon US:

https://www.amazon.com/Strike-Zone-Romance-Dauntless-Cyborgs-ebook/dp/B0CL5QZBQ8/

Amazon UK:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Strike-Zone-Romance-Dauntless-Cyborgs-ebook/dp/B0CL5QZBQ8/

Amazon AUS:

https://www.amazon.com.au/Strike-Zone-Romance-Dauntless-Cyborgs-ebook/dp/B0CL5QZBQ8/

Amazon Canada:

https://www.amazon.ca/Strike-Zone-Romance-Dauntless-Cyborgs-ebook/dp/B0CL5QZBQ8/

Apple Books:

https://books.apple.com/us/book/strike-zone/id6469583228

Kobo:

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/strike-zone-13

Smashwords:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1466811

Gardeners wake up early.

We kind of have to do that. Because, in a slug-infested area, early morning, right before the sun’s rays hit the plants, is the absolute best time for general watering.

I also do an early morning garden patrol to ensure critters haven’t dug up plants during the evening, night or early morning. If they have, I stick the plants back in the ground and these plants MIGHT survive.

Many gardeners also like to care for their plants before they trek off to day jobs. Tasks get completed and we have a few moments of Zen in the morning.

So if you’re attending gardening events, say a plant sale or seed swap, know that most of the gardeners will be there super early in the event’s time frame. That’s when you’ll have the best choice and it is when you’ll meet the most people.

(smiles)

Whenever my food insecurities flare up, I plant a seed.

(This year, the garden is jam packed. – grins)

That seed is potential food. It could be future food. Knowing that food is coming calms me.

Whenever I worry about money, I write some more words.

Those words turn into stories. I can publish stories. If reading buddies like the premises behind these stories, they might buy them. That would increase our income.

I can relax a little bit, knowing I did something to combat the money worries.

I find taking action helps me deal with everything going on in my household and in the world.

This tactic might help you also!

(big hugs)

Our heads are focal points. They are the highest part of our bodies. Gazes are drawn there first.

So what our characters have on their heads, if anything at all, is important.

This is why writers often mention hair color early in the character’s description. It is one of the first things other beings notice.

And it is why Royalty wear crowns. And new grads wear graduation caps. And birthday girls often wear elaborate hats.

Hats, helmets, other headwear can serve other important purposes also – like protecting our fragile skulls or sealing in breathable air or keeping the rain off our faces.

What is on your character’s head?

I am halfway through the second draft of the seventh installment of the Super Secret Project. I love it. It is such a fun, light story. (smiles) I need this bit of writing right now.

Have a wonderful week, my friends. (big hugs) Go outside, if you can, and listen. Listen to the birds. Listen to the wind caressing tree leaves. Listen to the squirrels chattering, telling you all about their days. (If your hearing is challenged, imagine all this happening around you. – smiles)

Cyborg Sizzle Escape Omnibus

Half Man. Half Machine. All Theirs.
* * *
While these cyborg warriors battle to escape their cruel manufacturers, they find the human females they are destined to love for all eternity.
This omnibus includes the first seven stories in the Cyborg Sizzle series: Releasing Rage, Breathing Vapor, Being Green, Crash And Burn, Defying Death, Chasing Mayhem and Jumping Barrel.
All of these Cyborg Romances are set in a dark, gritty, often violent universe.

Releasing Rage

Rage, the Humanoid Alliance’s most primitive cyborg, has two goals–kill all of the humans on his battle station and escape to the Homeland. The warrior has seen the darkness in others and in himself. He believes that’s all he’s been programmed to experience.
Until he meets Joan.

Breathing Vapor

Vapor is the most advanced cyborg the Humanoid Alliance has ever developed. He’s a finely honed weapon, a warrior without parallel, half man and half machine. No lock can contain him. No being can stop him. Whatever he wants, he takes.
He wants Mira Breazeal, the Designer’s daughter.

Being Green

Green, a cyborg warrior, cares for one being—his plant Windy. When Windy becomes sick, he’ll do anything to heal her, even venture across the universe to visit a worlds-renowned plant doctor.
He doesn’t expect to find love.

Crash And Burn

Crash was manufactured to be one of the best warriors in the universe. The cyborg has spent many human lifespans fighting the enemy. But, unlike his battle-loving brethren, he doesn’t enjoy killing. When he escapes the Humanoid Alliance, he vows to never end another life.
Then he meets Safyre, an infuriating human female, and he considers breaking his vow.

Defying Death

Cyborgs don’t show emotion. Death learned that lesson early in his long lifespan. To survive, he hides his fierce passions behind a stoic wall. He calls no warrior friend. He never admits to caring for any being.
Even the human female he’s destined to love.

Chasing Mayhem

Mayhem has spent his lengthy lifespan obeying the Humanoid Alliance’s rules. Finally free from their cruel control, the cyborg warrior plans to cause chaos. He infiltrates a remote settlement, provokes the savage locals until they want him dead, and allows himself to be captured by the sexiest little Retriever he has ever laid his mechanically-enhanced eyes on.

Jumping Barrel

Barrel requires an Expert for the Tau Cetian orphans. He’s looking for a female who is willing to commit to a lifespan-long role, who is comfortable with moving off planet, and who, preferably, has the ability to speak the offsprings’ first language.
His female, however, is looking for a hero.

Buy Now:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/Cyborg-Sizzle-Escape-Omnibus-Continuum-ebook/dp/B081VFHF1S

Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cyborg-Sizzle-Escape-Omnibus-Continuum-ebook/dp/B081VFHF1S

Amazon AUS:
https://www.amazon.com.au/Cyborg-Sizzle-Escape-Omnibus-Continuum-ebook/dp/B081VFHF1S

Amazon Canada:
https://www.amazon.ca/Cyborg-Sizzle-Escape-Omnibus-Continuum-ebook/dp/B081VFHF1S

Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/cyborg-sizzle-escape-omnibus/id1488934271

Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/cyborg-sizzle-escape-omnibus

Smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/992060

I love sending thank you letters, especially to employees who have helped the Dear Wonderful Hubby and/or me.

Because I know that sometimes a thank you letter is the difference between an employee keeping her job or being let go. Or it can be the difference between her getting a promotion or not.

It ALWAYS makes that employee happy. That’s guaranteed.

And isn’t that a gift – to be able to bring someone joy with a few hastily jotted down nice words?

Thank you letters might seem old fashioned. It is easier and quicker to simply send an email.

But snail mail letters are more impactful. They are placed in employment files. They are copied and handed out to managers and employees and pinned on boards in lunch rooms.

That’s worth a stamp.

Change someone’s world for the better today. Send a written thank you!

A buddy often tells me he argues with strangers on the internet not to change their minds, that never happens, but to ensure he doesn’t change HIS mind.

I try to do this without involving the other person, the stranger.

When I see a terrible (mean or intolerant or…) post, I’ll craft a reply. I’ll state all the reasons the stranger’s post is horrible.

And then I won’t post that reply.

This reinforces to me, to my soul, that the stranger’s post is not what I want to think.

And I don’t have to deal with replies from someone I don’t want to associate with. They don’t get a chance to try to convince me to be a horrible person also.

This has made me a much happier, and, I think, a much kinder person.

(smiles)