Hey there! Welcome back, everyone! First one, thank you all for the gardening tips. So far, the cat grass is growing and just yesterday I noticed the tiniest little green beginning to emerge from my cilantro pot. To me, that’s a success. The heat wave has broke here and I hope the same for all of you. It was pretty brutal. I also had to take my darling cat Linus to the vet. The old, … Continue reading Links: Joni Mitchell, Romance News, & More
You Sexy Thing involves characters, settings, themes and tropes that are pure catnip for me. One of these themes is cooking. I have therefore translated the book into a recipe so as best to convey its nature. Before we begin the recipe, here’s a quick overview. You Sexy Thing is the space opera tale of a group of both military veterans and civilians who run a restaurant on a space station and who find themselves, … Continue reading You Sexy Thing by Cat Rambo
This guest post is from author Emma Barry. Emma Barry is a novelist, full-time mama, recovering academic, and former political staffer. When she’s not reading or writing, she loves her twins’ hugs, her husband’s cooking, her cat’s whiskers, her dog’s tail, and Earl Grey tea. She writes a series of romances about the space race with Genevieve Turner called Fly Me to the Moon. A boxed set of the first three books in the series will be 99 cents … Continue reading Romancing the Moon: A Guest Post from Emma Barry
The main thing you need to know about The Calculating Stars is that it has a slow pace. The other thing you need to know is that it is feminist and nerdy. This alternate-history novel by Mary Robinette Kowal tells a story of women who worked as computers for the US Space Program and who fight to become astronauts. Much of what happens in the book happened in real life (see: Hidden Figures and The Mercury 13). … Continue reading The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
This month’s Kickass Women in History takes us to outer space with Stephanie Wilson. NASA astronaut Stephanie Wilson is the second African American woman to go to space (Mae Jemison, another kickass woman, was the first). She has also, as of this writing, logged more days in space than any other African American, and she served on a mission with three other women, which set a record for the number of women in space at … Continue reading Kickass Women in History: Stephanie Wilson
Back in July, I reviewed the insanely fun but also somewhat problematic book Max Seventeen . I have now read the sequel, Max Seventeen: Firebrand and I loved it, despite some problematic elements (so many rape threats, sigh) that lowered the grade. It has all the elements that made the first book fun, including a fantastic romance, but it has less of the problematic stuff from the first book – there’s still some, but much less. … Continue reading Max Seventeen: Firebrand by Kate Johnson
At our podcast live recording at the RT Convention, someone stated that there is a book called Amish Vampires in Space. Clearly, one of us was going to have to read this, and that someone was me. I was fully prepared to mock it to the heavens, but it turned out to be good – in a serious way, not as a parody. I’m very confused by this. My world is rocked. According to the … Continue reading Amish Vampires in Space by Kerry Nietz
Zero Gravity Outcasts is short, fast paced, fun novella. It doesn’t have very much romance, but it does have a fun rag-tag space crew ensemble that skirts the edge of the law. Basically, if you liked Firefly, you’ll like Zero Gravity Outcasts, but you might be annoyed that you don’t get more of it. Behold the plot: When Minka was kicked out of Central Command, she only knew how to do one thing – fly. … Continue reading Zero Gravity Outcasts by Kay Keppler
