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Collaborator: Ch 1b (ending)
New? You can find the Prologue timeline here! For details about the serial, including how to become a bad guy, click here! Traitor. A chill went through Rebecca’s, but she pushed it aside. She’d not slept with her light off in seven years, but it had been some time since the nightmare had haunted her waking moments. But the last few days, her mind wandered. She could see the faces of her family as they were escorted into the transport trucks to move them to “safety.” Were they still alive? Did they stay and fight? Of...
read moreCollaborator: Chapter 1(a)
You can find the Prologue timeline here! For details about the serial, including how to become a bad guy, click here! How do you look in the mirror, knowing you are the traitor and not the hero? 7 Years Later… CHAPTER 1 Rebecca St. Marten walked the upper decks with Zain, weaving their away through the afternoon crowds of Bubble Town. He was going on about something to do with the sector tennis championships. Rebecca didn’t particularly like tennis when she lived on Earth, but now she hated it. It was another reminder,...
read moreCollaborator: Prologue
I know, I’m starting early! However, I’ve had a lot of requests asking for it to start ASAP, I had the prologue done, and really couldn’t justify holding off. Hope you enjoy! Feel free to leave comments at the end! COLLABORATOR How do you look in the mirror, knowing you are the traitor and not the hero? PROLOGUE January 17, 2012: Al-Jazeera reports Iranian officials have discovered an abandoned communications bunker. January 19, 2012: Amateur astronomers report a small, blue swirl appear in the night sky....
read moreAvoiding the Heroine Stupid Juice
Begin rant. “Too Stupid To Live” is a term that’s tossed around these days concerning a number of female urban fantasy heroines. These are women that, in the real world, would have long died from the stupidity of their own actions. Often, these are leather-bound “chicks” who refuse to work with anyone, who claim to have people skills but are never shown using them, and who claim to have strategic planning abilities but are only ever seen barging into bad situations and making them a whole lot worse. I think a heroine who can get...
read moreCollaborator: A Serialized Novel by Krista D. Ball
How do you look in the mirror, knowing you are the traitor and not the hero? I’m really excited to announce that starting March 2nd, I will be starting a new serialized novel here on the blog called Collaborator! New contributions to the story will appear every two weeks after that. Each chapter will be readable on the blog for free, as well as downloadable for free (from the blog). When the novel is complete (sometime around Christmas or early in the new year), it will be edited and self-published. So, you can get to enjoy it for free...
read morePicking Pixies by Frances Pauli
I’d like to welcome my guest today, Frances Pauli, while she discusses writing in the Fae world. When I set out to write a series about the Fey, I knew it would be a challenge. You just don’t capture fairies and stick them on a page—unless, of course, you’re Lady Cottington. They are flighty, ellusive creatures, and they come in more flavors than Bertie Bott’s beans. As much as I wanted to do justice to that diversity, I also knew that I was going to have to be selective. Like it or not. So when I began work on the Changeling...
read moreThe Trend of Naked Young Women
I was at the mall when a gaggle of sixteen year old girls swarmed by in their overdyed hair, heavy makeup, and pushup bras. A few women around me tutted at the near nudity of these young women and how young ladies dress these days. It brought to mind two of my most favourite fashion quotes: “Her bosom, which nature planted at the bottom of her chest, is pushed up by means of wadding and whalebone to the station so near to her chin that in a very full subject that feature is sometimes lost between the invading mounds.” (The Morning...
read moreWhat’s in my February Mailbox?
Here’s what I’m reading! When I was in my teens, there was a book of Heinlein’s that made me snap and never read another one of this again. I can’t remember which it is (though I think it might have been Starship Troopers). My good friend Marie Dees said this was probably not this book, so I’m going to give it a try. Wish me luck! What I read last month: Now, don’t judge. :p First, David Mack is a stellar, under-appreciated author and everyone needs to go out and...
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