Bliss has turned 2 this month and Aubrie Dionne is sharing what Bliss means to her so please welcome her! Merriam-Webster defines “bliss” as complete happiness. Synonyms include “paradise” or “heaven.” In honor of Bliss’s 2nd birthday, I’d like to define what bliss means to me. In creating this…
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Paradise 21: the twenty first planet capable of sustaining life. A lot of people have come up to me and asked: Why title your book Paradise 21? When choosing a title, I thought about how I wanted to write a series, and how each book could be about…
Luggage in Space If you had to leave Earth to start a new colony on a planet millions of light years away, what would you take with you? In Paradise 21, The New Dawn isa colony ship carrying the most important thing known to man: DNA. The cargo…
The baddies in Paradise 21 Every story has its villains, and Paradise 21 has two. They were to most fun to write! At times, I felt as though they took over the story because each one had the greatest character arc. Both of them are tragically flawed, and through their…
Sci fi terminology in Paradise 21 One of the most enjoyable parts of writing science fiction is researching all of the neat science words/terms pertaining to space and space travel. While keeping the science part of it pretty simple, because I’m by no means a rocket scientist or an…
What if the world was ending, and you didn’t make it onto a colony ship? The space pirates in Paradise 21 are the humans who have been left behind. Deemed “unfit” by genetic tests, or too poor to have any connections to make it aboard, they were doomed to…
What Makes Space Opera So Awesome? I’ve been a fan of space opera my whole life. I started watching Star Wars as a young kid on VHS tapes. (remember those?). I watched episodes IV, V and VI so many times, I memorized the dialog. I’d then go out into the…
We love Aubrie Dionne, the New Dawn Novels, space operas, and burning questions that make us think. Today we’re kicking off a series of posts by the amazing Aubrie Dionne. Yes, you got that right, Aubrie Dionne is taking over our blog for the next week! Book one in the…
The Story Behind Pan’s Conquest The inspiration behind Pan’s Conquest came from a piece for solo flute written by Claude Debussy titled Syrinx. Some people say the piece is written from Syrinx’s perspective as a woman running from a pursuer, and others think it is Pan’s lament when he finds…
Hot Rock by Annie Seaton Whenever you are, love will find a way… Special $0.99 Introductory Price! Find Out More! Seventies rock star Davy Morgan is a man with a secret: rockin’ in one decade and living in another. So when beautiful doctoral student Megan Miller, who not only loves…