1)
Did you
set any goals for 2012? This
year has been filled with very dramatic changes for me, and I didn’t set any
writing goals other than to write when I can. Plus my muse tends to rebel when
I give her demands for daily word counts other than in November (National Novel
Writing Month). She’s very temperamental.
2)
What is
the best part of the writing process for you? It’s
that aha moment when I realize something about a character or plot point and
everything just clicks. I love that moment.
3)
The worst
part? Writing
the dreaded synopsis. Blurbs are even worse, but I have a special hatred for
the synopsis. I don’t have a talent for summarization, and trying to boil down
my novel into a few paragraphs is a special kind of torture.
4)
What is
the book you wish you’d written? Right
now I’m very jealous of Tiffany’s Reisz’s The
Siren, because that book is sooo good. I couldn’t put it down, and I can’t
wait for the next book in the series to come out.
5)
Favourite
author/s & book/s? My
all-time favorite romance author is Nora Roberts. She brought me back to
reading romance, and I’m very grateful for that. My favorite book is hers is Dance Upon the Air, the first in the
Three Sisters Island trilogy. I try to read it every fall, and I love it more
with each re-read.
6)
Tell us
about your latest release? Nightfall is a space opera erotic
romance with a M/F/F ménage. It has a bit of everything—epic space battles,
laser gun fights, galactic political intrigue, and steamy love scenes. I had a
blast writing it, and I’m working on the sequel now.
7)
Tease us
with a blurb/short excerpt. Here’s
the blurb, but really I think the warning does it best. Writing the warning is
one of the most fun parts of being a Samhain author.
Mordacki Loren, shadow sword of House Nightfall, knows the pain of losing a mate. He never intended to take another. But Talena, raised by humans with little knowledge of Cy’ren ways, leaves him no choice. As the mating lust consumes them, Dack promises to honor her wishes—even if that means letting her go.
Scarred and hardened by a munitions accident that sent her Alliance career up in flames, Carmen Hawke joined the Cy’ren resistance as captain of the flagship Talon. When old flame Dack returns from a mission with Carmen’s childhood friend and first love, Talena, in tow, the temptation to allow someone—or two someones—close to her again cracks her emotional armor.
Pursued by an unknown enemy, the trio works together to discover the secrets of Talena’s past, and to uncover a threat that could destroy the fragile peace of the Cy’ren homeworld.
Warning: If the epic space battles, gunfights and swordplay aren’t enough to get you going, strap yourself in for a male-female-female threesome that’s scorching enough to fire your engines into overdrive.
8)
What is
your favourite attribute of the hero and heroine? Dack, Talena, and
Carmen are all survivors. They’ve been through tough times, but they never give
up. Together the three of them are a force to be reckoned with.
9)
What’s
next? I’m
working on Morningstar, the next book
in the Cy’ren Rising trilogy. In November Fire
in the Blood, the next book in my Bad Witch urban fantasy romance series,
will be out in ebook. I’m also continuing to work on more books in that series
as well.
10)
Tell me
where you write? Anywhere
there’s noise. Silence is distracting to me, so I’m happiest in a busy coffee
shop, or at home with the TV on.
11)
Where
would you like your career to be in 5 years? I’d
love to be able to write full time. Also, my mom recently visited a psychic who
told her that my books would get a big movie deal, which would be awesome. But
I’ll only agree to a movie if Joss Whedon directs it, and I suspect that after Avengers he’ll be a tad bit busy. Just a
smidge. (I saw Avengers three times,
by the way. I’m an addict.)
Nightfall
by Robyn Bachar
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
BLURB:
Her
heart says “never”. Her body says “now”.
When
a wounded runner stumbles into her workshop, sculptor Talena Spenser’s
comfortable, quiet life is shattered. Aiding the escaped slave risks losing
more than just her freedom. She is in phase, when Cy’ren females are
overwhelmed by the drive to mate.
Mordacki
Loren, shadow sword of House Nightfall, knows the pain of losing a mate. He
never intended to take another. But Talena, raised by humans with little
knowledge of Cy’ren ways, leaves him no choice. As the mating lust consumes
them, Dack promises to honor her wishes—even if that means letting her go.
Scarred
and hardened by a munitions accident that sent her Alliance career up in
flames, Carmen Hawke joined the Cy’ren resistance as captain of the flagship Talon.
When old flame Dack returns from a mission with Carmen’s childhood friend and
first love, Talena, in tow, the temptation to allow someone—or two
someones—close to her again cracks her emotional armor.
Pursued
by an unknown enemy, the trio works together to discover the secrets of
Talena’s past, and to uncover a threat that could destroy the fragile peace of
the Cy’ren homeworld.
Warning:
If the epic space battles, gunfights and swordplay aren’t enough to get you
going, strap yourself in for a male-female-female threesome that’s scorching
enough to fire your engines into overdrive.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
EXCERPT:
The bridge crew stared at the chronometer as it ticked down the last
seconds until the Talon pulled the
slaver ship out of lightspeed. Though it had started life as a simple passenger
transport, the Talon had been torn
apart, rebuilt and modified to ambush slaver ships. If they calculated it
right, the slavers would appear within firing range, and the Talon would disable their engines before
the slavers even knew what happened.
If
they calculated it right. A few meters off and the ship would slip their net,
or crash into them. Fortunately, none of the previous missions under Carmen’s
command had gone horribly awry. Her navigator, Rizzoli, was retired Alliance
military, and he knew his craft. They’d pulled ships a bit too far out of range
before and had to chase them down, but the Talon
was faster than it looked.
The chrono hit zero, and the slaver ship appeared off the Talon’s starboard bow, right on
schedule.
“Fire,” Carmen ordered.
“Aye, Captain,” Jace replied. Four beams shot from the Talon’s cannons, but instead of
impacting against the hull, the energy dissipated as it hit the protective wall
of an energy shield. “Weapons ineffective.”
Carmen cursed inwardly. Slaver ships almost never had shields—this was a
bad sign. “Raise our shields and fire again. And broadcast the boarding
warning.”
“Aye.”
The automated message warning the slavers to surrender and prepare to be
boarded droned from the Talon as it
fired. Again their weapons hit the slavers’ shields, and this time their target
returned fire. The deck rocked beneath Carmen’s boots as the Talon shuddered, and she turned to Sam’s
station. “Damage report?”
“Minor damage to the starboard engines. They’ve got upgraded cannons.
Cut right through our shields. If you’d let me modify our cannons—”
“Not now, Chief. I want to know why that ship’s still moving, Lieutenant
Commander Harrow.”
Jace glanced at her, his brow creased with annoyance. “I’m not familiar
with their shield configuration. Our cannons aren’t affecting it.”
“Charge the EMP,” she ordered.
The crew paused around her, and she noticed their hesitation with
another silent curse. Using the EMP was risky, because it drained their ship of
almost all their power for a few minutes. The slaver ship would be dead in
space, but it put the Talon in danger
if reinforcements arrived. Carmen was already concerned about the situation,
because a ship that should have been a nice, fat transport was showing teeth.
She’d risk it.
AUTHOR Bio and
Links:
Robyn Bachar was born and raised in Berwyn, Illinois, and loves all
things related to Chicago, from the Cubs to the pizza. It seemed only natural
to combine it with her love of fantasy, and tell stories of witches and
vampires in the Chicagoland area in her Bad
Witch series. As a gamer, Robyn has spent many hours rolling dice, playing
rock-paper-scissors, and slaying creatures in MMPORGs. Her new series, Cy’ren Rising, was born out of a
lifelong addiction to space opera movies and TV shows.
Website: http://www.robynbachar.com
Twitter: www.twitter.com/RobynBachar
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robyn.bachar
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