With the pandemic and all, I’ve fallen behind in all the tasks on my writing list. I want to take down FORBIDDEN PLAYGROUND and DANCING DRAGONS from my LEGENDS OF THE GOLDENS SERIES of paranormal romances and post them as webnovels.

I’ve decided the best way to take care of my unfinished, unpublished (or to-be-republished) works is to distribute them (dialing down the sexual content) as webnovels to my YA/NA audience and maybe they can help me find my unique audience. Since I need to edit the works and arrange the chapters optimally, I thought this might be the best and most efficient way to do it.

So far, I’m publishing one chapter at a time of my WIP on Royal Road (https://www.royalroad.com/author-dashboard/dashboard?id=53303). I’m calling it KISSING: THE RPG GATEWAY DRUG, and it’s about an artificial intelligence becoming aware and growing up in the midst of government agents who want to shut him down.

Other stories BROKEN HALLELUJAH (a contemporary romance about a firechief with PTSD and his best friend, an emergency physician who’s out of his reach, to be married to his best friend).

If my mostly written novels get some audience feedback, I’ll publish BAZOOKA TIME MACHINE and OTHER (both sci-fis) in the same way.

I’ve chosen three publishers (Carina, Blushing Books, and Sourcebooks) to send my space opera SPACE FOR US to, so that’s basically my plan for my unpublished novels.

As I come back to writing and publishing my books, I’m tying up loose ends by preparing several stories to be published and republished on my Amazon buy page. Artist and friend, Barbara Marker, has made a cover for BROKEN and will be working on new covers for FORBIDDEN PLAYGROUND and DANCING DRAGONS of the LEGENDS OF THE GOLDENS series of novels (about psychic alien vampires that return to Earth to lay claim to what they believe is their planet).

Following is the cover for BROKEN HALLELUJAH, a contemporary romance between a fire chief with PTSD and his volunteer emergency physician (a Tanzanian woman, a dark-phase African albino with a mysterious past). BROKEN will be out soon.

My New Adult, SFR, space opera, SPACE FOR US, got a second recommendation by finaling in the New Adult category on RWA’s Fantasy, Futuristic, and Paranormal online chapter’s OTFS (On The Far Side) contest as an unpublished work.

Sometimes I get my award-winning cover artist, Fiona Jayde, to work up a cover for me, to inspire and just in case I don’t get picked up by traditional publishers (and have to self-publish).

As a finalist, I’m asked to make corrections my judges suggest and write a two-paged, double-spaced synopsis of the MS.

Take a look at all the wonderful agents, editors, and authors that are willing to judge the finalists:

2020 On the Far Side Contest Final-Round Judges

Note: Final-round judges subject to change.

And the finalists are:

My WIP, A Broken Hallelujah (written three Novembers ago for NANOWRIMO), has too many scenes that portend what’s happening in Atlanta and all over the US.

I have several other irons in the fire (can’t write that because it’s a cliche, but it’s also true!).

I’m thinking of re-educating myself to write screenplays/scripts like I enjoyed reading in my youth (adapting my novels to the theatre audience).

To learn a little about A BROKEN HALLELUJAH, view my last post, and for visuals view my Pinterest page: https://www.pinterest.com/snrubnasus/a-broken-hallelujah/

But for now I’m taking a rest.

Madison had always looked up to Greg as a role model and motivator, but she knew her feelings for him transcended those and were more personal than she would want to admit. Greg Gervaisie was the world’s number one tennis player until a limo accident incapacitated him, leaving him on the sidelines. Just like everyone else, he was struck by Madison’s beauty and her determination to rise to the top of her career as a tennis player. However, her nonchalant attitude towards him was a cause for concern.

Madison’s father, Armand, would do everything just to pacify his adorable daughter, but her staunch disapproval against his wish of marrying Berneen Gervaisie, Greg’s mother, was something he couldn’t accept. The fact that the two women he loved most couldn’t stand each other bothered him.

The plot of Open Season on Love and Death is intriguing and dwells on issues that are common in most families, especially as it relates to interpersonal relationships in romance, love and marriage, thus it will be easily relatable with most readers. Likewise, the characters are also fairly developed. The background of the book hovers around tennis sports and of course, love, romance, and sex.

Official Review from ILoveUniqueBooks.com (4 out of 5 stars)

For non writers, WIPs means WORKS IN PROGRESS.

SPACE FOR US is out to beta readers (editors who read for content flow) then it will be out next year, God willing, by a New York publisher. Of course in the event no agent or editor picks up the book, it will be self-published. [MS is back from betas and going through final polish, see self-pub cover below].

short blurb: FLY ME TO THE MOON, but don’t murder me on the way! An astronaut flies an alien captive back to her parents at their moonbase in order to find out how to reanimate all the people she’s put down with her psychic powers.

A BROKEN HALLELUJAH is in the formative stages with my read and critique group. short blurb: He’s a black firechief of East County, California, originally from Atlanta. She’s an emergency physician who works with him. He doesn’t date white girls, and she’s very light-skinned. In fact, she’s a dark phase African Albino from Tanzania, but our hero doesn’t believe that story, would you?

OTHER, a YA (Young Adult) SFR (Science Fiction Romance) is in line for a final polish.  short blurb: He’s a wetware android trying to find his humanity in the midst of rescuing the inhabitants of New Gaia, a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri. She’s a human teen living on New Gaia in oppressive servitude to a culture that uses nanobot makeup to force the truth out of all its members.

BAZOOKA TIME MACHINE is an Adult SFR in line for final polish. short blurb: She’s a dragon-tattoo, kick-ass gal, but not all human–a wetware android in charge of the hardware robots and the alien time machines. With all that, she’s become obsessed with a human woman, rescuing her from death over and over in time. Happens that one of the hardware robots has fallen for her and travels in his time machine to mess up her romance with the human. [as of June 2020, will be put on the backburner with the intention to morph it into a screenplay.]

Here’s the cover of my new SFR space opera, SPACE FOR US. No, it’s not on pre-order or published yet, I’m just excited to get my final cover out before I finish the polish. As you can see, this is the MS that has just gotten a recommendation from the San Diego Writers & Editors Guild.

Here’s information on the book:

Title: SPACE FOR US (as part of THE SQUARE BALLOON SERIES}
Genre: NA/Science Fiction Romance/Space Opera
Length: 86,000 words
Author: S.B.K. Burns