SFR Brigade

Saturday, May 18, 2013

The SFR Brigade Presents 5/17 - 5/23

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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Cover Reveal! TALES FROM THE SFR BRIGADE Coming Soon.

The SFR Brigade membership has selected a cover for our first anthology. Here's the big reveal:

The anthology features nine stories from nine different authors in a variety of styles and settings including space opera, near future, apocalyptic, Earth-based and alien romance. (You may even discover some favorite characters from Science Fiction Romance in the line-up. *wink*)

The price of the anthology? Free!

Our plan is to ~~conquer the universe~~ reach a wide audience with this stellar story sampling--especially all the Science Fiction Romance fans out there who don't yet realize they are SFR fans! (Resistance is futile.)

We're shooting for a midsummer launch of the Tales from the SFR Brigade Anthology.

Sunday, May 12, 2013

New Feature At The Galaxy Express: SFR ebooks For 99 cents or Free

The Galaxy Express has a new feature: Science fiction romance ebooks for 99 cents or free!

The new section is in the header and is titled "Cheap/Free ebooks to Download."

Learn more here.

I'm looking to expand this list. Authors, if you have a science fiction romance(s) in a permanent free-99 cent price range and would like your book considered for this list, please contact me (Heather) at sfrgalaxy “at” gmail.com. (For limited-time promotional discounts, I'll help spread the word via blog posts, Twitter, and Facebook).

Two new and FREE short stories are part of this event:

COLLATERAL DAMAGE by K.S. Augustin

WILBERT E. HORNBECK'S FANTASTIC ADVENTURE by Heather Massey (in the interest of full disclosure, that's me!)

Happy reading!

Saturday, May 11, 2013

The SFR Brigade Presents - 5/10-5/16

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Saturday, May 4, 2013

The SFR Brigade Presents 5/3 - 5/9

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Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Introducing SUNBURST PRESS

SUNBURST PRESS is an e-publisher specialising in science fiction romance and opened its doors on May 1st, 2013 with a submission call for Close Encounter stories, as well as general submissions.

Sunburst has four imprints:
• SUNBURST: single-title science fiction romance novels of 60,000 – 100,000 words.
• FLARE: novellas of 15,000 – 60,000 words.
• ECLIPSE: dark science fiction romance with no happily-ever-afters/happy-for-nows required.
• CORONA: erotic sci fi romance with hot sex scenes (including BDSM) and multiple partners.

All stories should include well-rounded characters and plenty of action. Open door sex scenes are preferable, but not mandatory, and should be part of a growing or an established relationship. SUNBURST includes novels with LGBT characters across all imprints.

The science fiction sub-genres Sunburst is looking for includes Apocalyptic, Cyberpunk, Dystopian, Future Earth (Apocalyptic, Dystopian or other), Space Opera, Space Western and Time Travel. Fantasy elements can be included if there is a scientific reason for them.

How to Submit: Submissions are by email only. In the body of your email, please include your book’s blurb, genre and word count, as well as a short bio of yourself, including any previous publications. Please attach your work – emails with novels pasted in the body will be deleted.

Attachments should include a synopsis up to three pages and the entire manuscript. Please label your attachments as TITLE-SURNAME-MS and TITLE-SURNAME-SYNOPSIS. All attachments need to be .doc or .rtf. Format must be Times New Roman set to 12-point, 1.5 line spacing with no return between paragraphs and one inch margins.

When you are ready to submit, please email: submissions@sunburstpress.com ensuring that the subject of your email reads as QUERY: TITLE–SURNAME Please allow 4-8 weeks for a reply. If you do not receive any reply by that time, please feel free to email for a status update.

Blogging Rules

The SFR Brigade "Golden Rules" for posting:

1. Please allow at least 3-4 hours since the last post to give everyone a little time at the top of the blog. (Time sensitive posts or information that must reach members immediately are the exception. Please use your discretion.)

2. No "hit-and-run" posts, please. Promotional posts by any member who is not otherwise active in the community will be deleted without notice. Repeats may result in loss of blog author privileges. The community blog is intended to share information between members and not to be used solely as a self-promotion bulletin board.

FAQ

Can anyone join SFR Brigade?

Anyone who writes, publishes, reads, is a fan of or is involved with Science Fiction Romance in literature is welcome to join. The site can only accomodate up to 100 authors, so it would be counter-productive to open it to a wider membership (such as those who are primarily interested in SF/R movies or television instead of literature) due to these limitations. (Which is not to say we don't banter about film culture SF/R on a regular basis, which will soon be evident.)

If this is SFR Brigade, why is the address http://www.sfrcontests.blogspot.com?

This is actually the second incarnation of the SFR Brigade. The original (which still owns the site name) was a private site where a few SFR writers privately discussed the subgenre and plotted to take over the universe. From zero hour, the plan was to expand the SFR Brigade to other writers, but when the time came, it seemed the best way to accomplish that was to construct a brand new site instead of trying to rebuild and clean out the cobwebs of the rusty one. And here we are, all bright and shiny. Hello!

What's the point of SFR Brigade?

*Yoda laugh* Epic plans, we have. Yes. Very epic. Patience, Padawan, and our plans will be revealed. First you must seek out our Welcome Message on the planet Degobah so you may begin your training.

What can SFR Brigade do for me?

Ask not what SFR Brigade can do for you... :) I think Five Reasons Why You Should Join will address that nicely.

OK, I think I've been drafted. Where do I report?

Since some of our requests to join the Brigade have been spirited away by evil Reavers (and we had to form an emergency task force to wrest them back from the crazed space cannibals) we've gone to an "automated" enlistment system.

Please go to the SFR Brigade Facebook Group Page and request to join. Then open the Files (link at the top of the FB page) and look for the doc that says "Add Me to the Brigade Roster."

There, you'll type in your name as you want it to appear and the web site or blog you'd like linked to your name. We'll add you asap.

That's it! You're in!

What's that? You don't have a Facebook account? Not to worry. Just leave a comment here with your name as you'd like it to appear and the web site/blog you'd like your name linked to and we'll beam you up next sweep.

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