by Christie Meierz | Apr 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
Great Expectorations is live! Get it here on Amazon and here on Barnes & Noble. I do want to apologize that I can’t get it any cheaper than $0.99. I know the story is only 3300 words, but $0.99 is the lowest price either Amazon or B&N will permit. I will...
by Christie Meierz | Apr 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
by Christie Meierz | Apr 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
by Christie Meierz | Apr 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
Anna Zaires is the author of The Krinar Chronicles, the first volume of which is nominated for the Indie Romance Convention’s Reader’s Choice Award for Best Indie Fantasy & Futuristic Romance. Recently, she graciously agreed to appear on my blog. First...
by Christie Meierz | Apr 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
by Christie Meierz | Apr 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
by Christie Meierz | Mar 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
Monday morning, I will be posting the book blurb for Daughters of Suralia. Remember, folks, you read it here first!
by Christie Meierz | Mar 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
by Christie Meierz | Mar 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
by Christie Meierz | Mar 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...