Excerpt 1 Cloning Freedom

 

Publishers Weekly Review of Cloning Freedom

A pre-release review of my upcoming novel Cloning Freedom.

Publishers Weekly review of Cloning Freedom : https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-928011-43-9

 

Cloning Freedom

Stephen B. Pearl. Brain Lag, $17.99 trade paper (556p) ISBN 978-1-928011-43-9

Life imitates art a little too closely in this frenetic space opera caper from Pearl (Havens in the Storm). Ryan Chandler, a veteran spaceship engineer, is cloned and forced to work as a technician on immersive entertainment programs, manipulating unaware casts of clones to create compelling reality show viewing for the wired-in audience. When Ryan learns that Rowan, one of the stars of the hit show Angel Black, is set to be killed off (literally), he forms a plan to extract Rowan and take off for alien space, outside of the United Earth Systems, where clones are treated as people, not property. He believes he has an ally in studio head Mike Strongbow—but Mike’s reasons for helping Ryan are not purely altruistic. And studio security chief Mildred Tallman is not about to let a pair of “fakeys” get away, even if stopping them starts an interstellar war. On their dash to freedom, Ryan and Rowan fall in love. Pearl plays a confident game with his multiple worlds-within-worlds, running parallel scenes from the entertainment programs and the bridge of Ryan’s restored spaceship to wryly comment on how, even when his characters think they are in charge, their strings are being pulled by others. Though the plot twists are at times too obvious, Ryan and Rowan’s flight and kindling romance is sure to draw in readers. (Dec.)

 

 

 

Romance Blog Tour Part 3

P.J. Dean

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P. J. Dean has always loved making up stories for as long as she could recall. Fiction book writing was a no-brainer. Scribbling stories since childhood, she put away the thought of becoming a published writer as she got older and as life's responsibilities beckoned. Work, family, and other distractions of lesser urgency stayed her dream. But through it all she never stopped writing as writing was her escape.  After a job loss, and after grave family issues had ended, she concentrated on writing with an aim to be published. She finally did, at first on her own, using the old iUniverse platform, then through an early e-publisher (New Concepts) and now with Extasy Books.  The medium-sized publisher gave her the freedom to create what she wanted without pigeon-holing her into writing in a certain way, as many traditional Big Five publishers would have expected her to do if they would have even considered what she had to offer at all.

Now a hybrid author, she writes historical romance and science fiction romances with a wide cast of characters. Her need to see non-White characters in more romance books, written by non-White authors, led her to create her own science fiction romance series (The Felig Chronicles) with a Black heroine at the center. The heroine, Tina, is one half of an interracial duo, who are in all the books, and who battle aliens together, along with lots of people from different walks of life. In addition to the dastardly aliens.

Her historical romances are no different. All the heroines are Black and hail from various lands and various eras. The "Love Vanquishes All' series is a standalone series set to comprise four books. Two have been released so far - "Kindred" and "Dissent." The Swirl Awards honored "Kindred" by presenting it with the  "Best Historical Romance" award for 2015.

The 4th book in her scifi romance series "Paradox - The Felig Chronicles"  received a 2014 SFR Galaxy Award for the "Best Unpredictable Sci-fi Romance"series.

P. J. Dean has also contributed to two volumes in the seven-volume anthology, "Portals," a scifi romance sampler series where authors provide the 1st chapters to their works. "Portals" gives potential readers a "taste' of a book before purchasing it. Dean contributed to volumes One and Six.

Presently, P. J. Dean is halfway through writing her 1st horror novel in addition to outlining the next book in each of her series. Though she calls a little town in Southern New Jersey home at the moment, she is a South Philly girl through and through. Hailng from the mid-Atlantic USA, she enjoys the change of seasons. But not all the time. When heavy thunderstorms or 45-inch snowstorms or 100-degree summers with matching humidity hit, she dreams of temperate Bermuda. Otherwise, the rest works for her.

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  tomorrow for Day 7 of the OWSCyon 2019 Romance Blog Tour!