Meanwhile, on Hlatra

I’ll have a short little treat for you all sometime next week: Great Expectorations. It’s a short story (3300 words) set, oh, 150 years or so before The Marann. It may or may not be in the same universe; we’ll just have to see about that. In the late...

The Perils of Science Fiction

I’m not a scientist by any stretch of the imagination, nor do I play one on TV. So I’m sometimes caught flat-footed by things such as the fact that Beta Hydri isn’t a main sequence star. You may ask, “Why is that important?” If I...

What’s a Girl to Do?

So. Daughters has gone off to the editor. Of course, I couldn’t resist glancing over it again, only to find a few typos, and a few places where I could phrase things a little differently. I hesitated for a bit, not wanting to make my MS different than the one...
Daughters of Suralia blurb!

Daughters of Suralia blurb!

Three women, two planets, and a whale. For Marianne Woolsey, linguist and tutor, being empathically bonded to the leader of the Tolari turns out to be a bed of roses – complete with thorns. Especially thorns. With diplomatic relations severed and humans kicked out of...

What’s New in Tolari Space?

I’ve been working very hard on Daughters of Suralia. The manuscript is finished; I just need to polish it up some more and run it past an editor. It’s looking good for a mid-to-late April release date. There is (whisper it softly) a possibility of some...

Thoughts from Marianne

            My name is Marianne Woolsey, and I’m just an Iowa farm girl turned high school teacher. I don’t have any family, though I have a few friends – or I did until I left Earth eight years ago to go teach on...

Two-Five’s Adventure, Epilogue

      Two-Five wriggled through his broodmale’s tunnel. His Slash First, Four-Three of Eight-One, smaller and more compact than he, scuttled along behind him, giving an occasional playful tug on his right tail, which was swelling and throbbing...