I have a confession: I collect animals the way some people collect shoes. It’s a problem passion that I’ve had since I was a little girl and saw my first horse at the circus. I used to dream that I’d find a horse on the side of the road (I…
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Did you know that June is Caribbean Heritage month? It is! And we thought it would it would be such an incredible wrap up to the month to have Stacy Reid here on our blog. Stacy hails from Jamaica and is one of the nicest authors I’ve ever…
I like to loosely plot my books by looking at my characters’ major emotional turning points. I ask myself how will these two very different people overcome their internal obstacles in order to fall in love with each other? It’s one thing to be physically attracted to each other, but…
Paradise 21: the twenty first planet capable of sustaining life. A lot of people have come up to me and asked: Why title your book Paradise 21? When choosing a title, I thought about how I wanted to write a series, and how each book could be about…
Luggage in Space If you had to leave Earth to start a new colony on a planet millions of light years away, what would you take with you? In Paradise 21, The New Dawn isa colony ship carrying the most important thing known to man: DNA. The cargo…
The baddies in Paradise 21 Every story has its villains, and Paradise 21 has two. They were to most fun to write! At times, I felt as though they took over the story because each one had the greatest character arc. Both of them are tragically flawed, and through their…
Sci fi terminology in Paradise 21 One of the most enjoyable parts of writing science fiction is researching all of the neat science words/terms pertaining to space and space travel. While keeping the science part of it pretty simple, because I’m by no means a rocket scientist or an…
What if the world was ending, and you didn’t make it onto a colony ship? The space pirates in Paradise 21 are the humans who have been left behind. Deemed “unfit” by genetic tests, or too poor to have any connections to make it aboard, they were doomed to…
What Makes Space Opera So Awesome? I’ve been a fan of space opera my whole life. I started watching Star Wars as a young kid on VHS tapes. (remember those?). I watched episodes IV, V and VI so many times, I memorized the dialog. I’d then go out into the…
We love Aubrie Dionne, the New Dawn Novels, space operas, and burning questions that make us think. Today we’re kicking off a series of posts by the amazing Aubrie Dionne. Yes, you got that right, Aubrie Dionne is taking over our blog for the next week! Book one in the…