YA/NA Science Fiction – Futuristic Books With Heart
Surprising absolutely no one, many YA readers are over age 35! This obviously explains the runaway success of series like The Hunger Games and Divergent. (Yes, the parents read those books too. Shhh.) And now we have the proven category of “New Adult” as...
Monday Launch Madness – Alien Incursion Is Up!
It’s been a week of granular details as Ken and I worked through revisions from our editor and the Amazon KPD process. There were a number of different things we didn’t think about until we were knee deep in it, including crucial details like whether the...
Level Up Your Military Sci Fi Summer Reading Game Now
Ah, summer. It’s time to hit the beach and grab a good book, right? Well, it used to be like that before I had kids. Now it’s more like, “what sports camp are they at this week and do I have to make their lunches?” However, the summer...
2 Military Sci Fi Books That Will Rip Your Heart Out
Sometimes you read something that is so good that you can hardly believe it. It reaches right in and just yanks every raw emotion. That doesn’t happen a lot for me. I mean, I love a good space marine romp. Maybe there are MECH suits, maybe there are fancy...
The 13th Doughnut – Cold Call by Richard Fox, a Legacy Fleet novella
You know how some bakeries give you that bonus donut if you buy a dozen? There’s actually a word for it–lagniappe. That’s what I feel like I’m getting when I read a short story set in a universe I already know and enjoy. So when I got that...
A Tribute To The Old School Classics of Alien Invasion Space Marine Sci-Fi
I try to feature indie pub authors here because I feel like I personally had so little exposure to them until recently and now that I have been enjoying indie works, I want to help amplify their reach to readers. However, my “research” into the Alien...![[First Contact: Alien Encounters] Earth Alone by Daniel Arenson](https://juliavee.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/alien-encounter-e1490050531904.jpg)
[First Contact: Alien Encounters] Earth Alone by Daniel Arenson
I’ve fallen in love with reading First Contact, Alien Invasion themed science fiction. Originally it started out as “research” since my co-writer and I had been brainstorming a prequel to our Cold War series. This led to a deep dive into all things...![[Alien Invasion: Earth Resistance] Mercury’s Bane by Nick Webb](https://juliavee.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/PodLife1-e1489645422149.jpg)
[Alien Invasion: Earth Resistance] Mercury’s Bane by Nick Webb
I’ve wrapped up three sci-fi book reviews on First Contact stories by indie authors. Now it’s on to a related and equally fun subgenre, the alien invasion/colonization of Earth theme. Apparently, I’ve been living under a rock because this is the...![[First Contact: Alien Encounters] The Ember War by Richard Fox](https://juliavee.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/encounter_by_velvetcat.jpg)
[First Contact: Alien Encounters] The Ember War by Richard Fox
This one is one that has been sitting on my Kindle for ages and I finally just gave up and bought the Audible. So glad I did! The Ember War: Publisher’s Pack, Books 1-2 Setting:Present Day into Near Future Aliens: Starts with an alien drone. Alien...![[First Contact: Alien Encounters] Freefall by Felix R. Savage](https://juliavee.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Encounter-RichardDorran.jpg)
[First Contact: Alien Encounters] Freefall by Felix R. Savage
Today’s book review is actually of two books because the alien encounter does not really occur until the second book in the series. (This is not a spoiler, it’s alluded to in the book’s blurb.) Freefall: A First Contact Technothriller (Earth’s...