The following is a guest post by Maggie Kast, author of A Free, Unsullied Land. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. I enter Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art and am surprised by the beat of tapping feet four floors above, as dancers from the Chicago Human Rhythm Project perform on a stage built from discarded public school desks and…
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Douglas Phillip
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How I Research My Books – Rembrandt
The following is a guest post by Douglas Phillip, author of Spirit Made Smaller. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. Last year in my guest entry I briefly overviewed my four cardinal biases, and how I had to acknowledge and control for them whenever I searched for and discovered background materials for my upcoming novels. In this submission,…
Austin Dragon
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Future Shock: Paradise or Purgatory?
The following is a guest post by Austin Dragon, author of Rising Leviathan. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. Is our future a happy, shiny “Star Trek” one or a grimy, hellish “Blade Runner” one? There was a time when Greece ruled the known world. Egypt was the center of Christianity. The Roman Empire was the greatest empire…
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Why YA?
The following is a guest post by Rebecca Jaycox, author of The Other Inheritance. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. I’ve always been an avid fantasy and science fiction reader. I blame Star Wars for making me seek out Dune. Eventually, I discovered the joy of Urban Fantasy, Dystopia, and Steampunk. The latter three genres really showcased kick-butt female…
Irene Helenowski
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Order of the Dimensions by Irene Helenowski
Jane is a university student involved in the development of the Multiverser, a machine capable of sending objects or people to parallel universes. When she demonstrates the device to Dr. Anton Zelov, little does she know that the dark Russian plans to use it to achieve world domination, and Jane has no choice but to travel to different dimensions to try to stop him. First, I should say that I…