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...
by Christie Meierz | Mar 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
“Please, venerated human male,” he said, “take from Two-Five of Four-Seven, Slash Second, this pouch and open it to view the offering I make for the gem.” The human took the pouch and narrowed his eyes....
by Christie Meierz | Mar 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
There it was, the little kiosk in which was embedded a perfect epsilon ruby. The human who attended the kiosk did not know the ruby was perfect and therefore worth far, far more than he was offering in...
