Hearts, Flowers, and Light Sabers
The alternative title for this post was going to be “everybody loves love.” What am I talking about? Apparently one of the top two selling books of the Star Wars franchise of all time, even after all these years… is The Courtship of Princess Leia...
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...
The Cold War: Alien Incursion
With the assistance of our editor, it looks like our first book is fit for public consumption! We’ll be pressing the publish button before the end of this month (fingers crossed!) and we’re excited to finally have it out into the world. It takes a lot of...
Renegade Profiles: Sci-Fi Author Jon Cronshaw
Author Jon Cronshaw JV: Why do dystopian/post-apocalypse novels all have zombies? Haha. Although these sub-genres have a lot of crossover, they also seem to be tackling different primal questions. With dystopian fiction, the core questions are about the ways people...
Renegade Profiles: Space Marine Author J.R. Handley
Author: J.R. Handley JV: Tell me a little about “Team Handley” and how you work together. JR: I come up with the ideas and flesh them out with my wife and mother. We tweak them so they flow and make sense and lately to ensure continuity. Mostly we do this...
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...![[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...
Renegade Profiles: Author Amy DuBoff
JV: Amy, tell me who would play you in a movie? Hmmm… I’ll go with Tatiana Maslany. I think she has incredible range and could capture everything from my quiet introversion to my passionate nerdom. JV: Nice! I heard she was in negotiations for a role for Star Wars...