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Author Promo: Cia


Renee Stevens

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It's time for another author promo! If you'd like to promo your own work, take a look at the thread for guidelines and then PM me. For this month, our featured promo spot is for Cia. There were three questions that Cia had to answer for each story. The questions were What gave you the idea for this story? What was your favorite thing about writing this story? & Please tell us something about this story that is not already in the description. As a Signature Author, Cia also had the option of picking one of her published stories that could be found on Amazon. Hope you enjoy this look into Cia's work.

 


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55 stories * 1957 reviews * 1,249,873 total words

 

 

Description: One man wakes to find himself alone...and not where he expected to be. Who is the strange man that appears..and why is he...blue? Follow the story of Cale and Bel'loc as they find out where their honor will take them, and what they will pay to keep it.

 

Oh, The Price of Honor… written so, so long ago. I honestly can’t remember how the idea came to me, but I just knew I wanted to explore new worlds and aliens. The best part of writing this was ‘The End.’ Before I joined
GA
, I’d never really focused on what I could do writing down the weird things in my head. Now, my skills back then were horrible (I use this story to show that everyone starts somewhere and even writing geeks like me can have a time when they’d forgotten all the lessons they learned in school and had to relearn them) but I told a story that I still really thinks has merit today. One thing you might not know from reading the description is that there’s a short prequel written after the story was completed titled, “The Lords Sacrifice”.

 


 

Description: Synchronicity acted in mysterious ways in my life, it always had. Scientists had been trying to decipher the magic of the planet since we landed; there seemed to be no guided intention to the events that happened, no sentient design, but still … things happened, important things, that could not be accidents.

 

This is one of my favorite short stories, and I’ve a longer novel planned that just has to be written. I got the idea for the plot while I was doing some research into philosophy. It’s in the title, but the theme of ‘Synchronicity’ is part of Jung’s theory that nothing is truly coincidental and seemingly random events are actually connected. Researching this was actually my favorite part; I’m a ginormous geek as anyone who has worked with me on a story knows. I think I probably spent twice as much time coming up with the concept than I did writing it, lol. A fun fact not many people realize in the story… the planet, Synchronicity, is sentient!

 


The Experiment

 

 


Description: In the distant future, humans wage war against the alien planet Caeorleia, with no tactic off-limits if it will help the humans get their hands on Caeorleia’s resources. Ask Ryker. He thought he volunteered for a simple experiment that would help his government in the war. He didn't realize sadistic doctors would turn him into the experiment—by injecting him with blood from a captured Caeorleian, Seral Iorflas.

 

Nor did Ryker realize he’d be sent to sabotage a planet full of the very beings his world is battling, beings who kill humans on sight. But then, thanks to the experiment that irrevocably changed him, he isn’t exactly human any longer—and with each passing day, as his blood bond with Seral strengthens, he’s less and less sure as to whose side he's on.

 

The Experiment actually started off as a prompt response, if I remember correctly. Before this was published, it existed as a free story that morphed into a novel, and that’s how I’ve continued to write the rest of the books in the series before I submit them to Dreamspinner Press for publication. You can still find the stories in
GA
’s Premium section if you don’t like to buy eBooks. My favorite part of writing The Experiment was coming up with the alien stuff, like the fizzy seeds in the mae fruit and the trees that glow when they absorb energy from other living things. I didn’t share this in the description, but most of the time the planet is so warm that Caeorleians go about in short cloth wraps around their hips… or naked!
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He, he, Cia, Ryker may have been shocked, but the rest of us enjoyed the naked part of the planet and the aliens. :P

I shall have to check out Synchronicity. 

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I loved "The Price of Honor," and I loved "The Experiment," but I don't remember if I read "Coupled in Synchronicity." I might have because I used to binge on Cia... well, her writings, I mean.

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He, he, Cia, Ryker may have been shocked, but the rest of us enjoyed the naked part of the planet and the aliens. :P

I shall have to check out Synchronicity. 

 

    I know, right? Poor repressed guy stuck seeing all that flesh. ;) I could see it being weird with the inlaws, though. lol

 

 

I loved "The Price of Honor," and I loved "The Experiment," but I don't remember if I read "Coupled in Synchronicity." I might have because I used to binge on Cia... well, her writings, I mean.

Thank you! Synchronicity is an anthology short story. You might have missed it based on that. :)

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I read Price of Honor back in my pre-GA days and loved it. I don't know if I want to go back and see the version now with all the errors. It could tarnish my vision of you. :lol:

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I read Price of Honor back in my pre-GA days and loved it. I don't know if I want to go back and see the version now with all the errors. It could tarnish my vision of you. :lol:

 

We all start somewhere. ;)

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