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One of my favorite fantasy series. Featuring a bisexual nonbinary intersex main character and an amazing fantasy setting with circus scenes, I really enjoyed it. The third book of the trilogy is not featured since I only have it on Kindle :D
Ahh, today is the day!
I’ve been planning this Patreon for over three months. I kept shifting it and tweaking it until it felt right. Ran it past friends and family. And now–it feels ready!
The Patreon is live and has loads of information, but I’ll post the Why Patreon? section here:
This Patreon helps me, you, and others:
1. Helps me with upfront costs for self-publishing F/F romance novellas
2.…
A note that I’ve amended the $1 level so you’ll now receive some of the exclusive content from Patreon, but not as much as at the $3 level. Nearly at the first goal of $100 a month, and the goal for the first workshop is $300 a month. Can you help?
Hard to keep your head when the person you love is hurt. My only advice is to take that fear and pain and try to turn it into rage.
Let me tell you a story about me and Elizabeth.
I’ve known Elizabeth May online since 2012 and in person since 2013. I first heard about Elizabeth when her deal for the Falconer was announced in 2011, and was slightly weirded out by our similarities—we are both Californians in Scotland writing YA fantasy. I was also super jealous of her deal, since I didn’t have one yet—but that came later!
I met…
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On her chest, in mirror image of mine, is the same wound that will one day become a scar. Beneath her false sternum is another new, false heart. I wonder if they are set to the same rhythm and even now beat together. Gently, we turn onto our sides, pressing our foreheads together
Hiya! So over the past month, my friend Emily Still and I have been cowriting a spooky Halloween story over on Twitter. Think Scottish Stranger Things with witches. We had so much fun writing it, so please consider giving it a read!
Hiya! So over the past month, my friend Emily Still and I have been cowriting a spooky Halloween story over on Twitter. Think Scottish Stranger Things with witches. We had so much fun writing it, so please consider giving it a read!
She can uncover the truth, if she defeats her demons Ex-neuroscientist Carina struggles with a drug problem, her conscience, and urges to kill. She satisfies her cravings in dreams, fuelled by the addictive drug ‘Zeal’. Now she’s heading for self-destruction – until she has a vision of a dead girl. Sudice Inc. damaged Carina when she worked on their sinister brain-mapping project, causing her violent compulsions. And this girl was a similar experiment. When Carina realizes the vision was planted by her old colleague Mark, desperate for help to expose the company, she knows he’s probably dead. Her only hope is to unmask her nemesis – or she’s next. To unlock the secrets Mark hid in her mind, she’ll need a group of specialist hackers. Dax is one of them, a doctor who can help Carina fight her addictions. If she holds on to her humanity, they might even have a future together. But first she must destroy her adversary – before it changes us and our society, forever.
The world created in these Pacifica novels is the perfect setting for a dark futuristic thriller. Although I loved the characters in the first book, it’s awesome how this one reads as a standalone. It just goes to show how many awesome stories could be created within this world. I still feel like there is so much more to explore. My intrigue hasn’t died down. So here’s to hoping Laura Lam writes more!
The story follows Carina who is currently an addict to a drug that takes her into dreamscapes (similar to virtual reality). This is following her being a neuro-scientist working for the giant, corrupt Sudice corporation. The problem is: working there changed Carina and she now has an extreme urge to kill. Thus her escaping into dreamscapes to fulfill that urge, but ultimately not hurt anyone. It sounds complicated, but I promise it’s really not. Something happened to make Carina change.
When Carina receives a message from a former co-worker while in a dreamscape, she’s set on a mission to take down Sudice no matter what the cost. That co-worker is now dead making Carina the world’s only hope to stand a chance.
The plot seems complex, but within this world it all works well. There are loads of futuristic technology and the cast of characters is once again diverse. There are many aspects to the novel from trying to figure out Carina’s past to her being on the run to the attempt to take down Sudice and figuring out why it is Sudice finally needs to be taken down. Plus, there are several characters I found it hard not to care about. The group of hackers Carina finds herself with are all very fascinating.
The book being told from the several different perspectives given helps to give a full picture of the story even allowing insight into the antagonist.
If you like dark, gritty, fast-paced sci-fi thrillers, be sure to try out these Pacifica novels. The setting is so phenomenal.
Decided to kill time in Chapters and that was a bad idea because I can never leave that store without a book 😂For some reason I thought this book was only available on amazon, so I was really excited to find it!!
So this book, it’s an adult sci fi by @lauraroselam and it just got me out of a summer long reading slump and general feeling of meh, and I need to scream with someone, and there’s no fandom and no archive on AO3, and like no fan art that I can see so please if anyone knows anyone who’s read this or if you’ve seen it in a fucking footnote of a text post please please tell me.
It’s so frustrating where is the fandom.
(Imma make a post later to try and convince y'all to read it but I just did a GR review so right now I’m too tired)
It’s so diverse, the protagonists are bi women of colour, the sf world building is so so wonderful, the plot is fucking amazing. (things I’ve seen people complain about in certain other books we’re all familiar with just saying)
WHERE IS THE FANDOM
WHERE THE FUCK IS THE FANDOM
This month’s featured author is the lovely Laura Lam, the brilliant mind behind several SFF series with queer main characters, spanning both YA and Adult categories. If you haven’t already read her work, now’s the time to learn more about it and pick it up! It’s been quite the busy year for you! Multiple releases, loads of events across Europe… If you stand back for a second and take a breath to…
2017 Reads: Shattered Minds by Laura Lam
‘You will change the world, my girl.’
“You’re strong as iron, Carina.”
“Iron rusts.”
“Then you will be re-forged.”
Blast from the past. Look what I found at WHSmith Edinburgh Airport. #pantomime #firstedition
