From now on I’ll be writing as S.B.K. Burns.

The latest:

Soul Mate just offered contracts on Forbidden Playground (A Different Dimension) and Dancing Dragons, the first two novels of my Legends of the Goldens Series (urban fantasy).

Getting Them Up (sci-fi/horror) will be released by Torrid/Whiskey Creek July 15, 2013.

Entangled (steampunk romance: scientific history year 1717 Scotland) will be released by Black Opal Books on September 21, 2013.

Polishing A Perfect Match (tennis contemporary with a dash of suspense) to pitch at RWA Nationals in Atlanta.

My work in progress is Fly Like An Eagle (steampunk romance: scientific history year 1824 Philadelphia) is scheduled for completion by October 15, 2013.

See descriptions of the above works

http://www.legendsofthegoldens.wordpress.com

or

links to buying these books when they become available.

My time-travel steampunk novel, Entangled, picked up by Black Opal Books, has passed its first editing phase.

I’ve just signed a contract for a science fiction novella, Getting Them Up, with Whiskey Creek/Torrid Press:

This is an abrupt coming-of-age for a young man, a skinny science geek who’s faced head-on with the threat of worldwide genetic disaster.

How unfortunate that little slip-up. He’s let mutant sea creatures loose in Earth’s oceans. One bit him and now he’s mutated into the body of an Adonis, a prisoner on a hospital ship, and forced to “cure” its civilian population. Worse, he’s surrounded by awesome—tall and nubile—reptilian women and all they want to do is suck his toes; he’d been hoping for much more.

One year ago, about a year since I decided to work full-time on my writing, I was lucky enough to be invited into a critique group where my critique partners were e-published.

In the last month, I was appointed as PRO Liaison of my local chapter of Romance Writers of America and, after winning a Savvy Authors pitch contest, offered a contract on my fourth novel, Entangled.

If there is any advice a newbie like me can give, it’s focus on the front end of promotion, not the back end (on sending out queries, not the rejections).

I must take my hat off to the editors and agents who’ve rejected my work. I have never seen so many encouraging rejections. Whatever the reason, keep those encouragements coming, they mean a lot to me, rejection or not.

Susan Burns

Hello,

My name is Susan Burns and I write romances.

See blurbs on my works in progress and on Entangled (just picked up by Black Opal Books) at http://www.legendsofthegoldens.wordpress.com.

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