Enjoy All Stages
I showed this photo to a loved one.
She said it was a shame some of the orchid blooms (we believe they’re orchids) were spent. She felt it would be a much better photo without them in it.
I think it is a much more interesting image BECAUSE the dead blooms are in it. I think there is beauty in every stage of life.
And there can be joy in every stage of life. There can be connection. There can be worth (however you define it).
Enjoy every stage of life, my friends.
(big hugs)
This life is an adventure.
And adventures don’t often proceed smoothly or easily.
But every step in this journey is temporary and will never be taken the exact same way again.
Enjoy it.
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Muse Food – Kuala Lumpur Tower And Partially Obstructed Views
The Dear Wonderful Hubby took this beautiful photo of Kuala Lumpur Tower partially hidden between tree branches.
We can see some of the tower, enough to know it is a tower, but not all of it.
Overheard conversations and viewed at a distance meetings in our stories are similar. Our hero/heroine can hear some of the conversation or see some of the action but not all of it.
And these gaps in their perception, their partially obstructed view, can lead to misunderstandings, sometimes amusing reactions, and in extreme cases…murder.
(grins)
Have you ever used a ‘partially obstructed view’ in your stories?
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Cynthia Sax Weekly Update – April 26
I am dang close to finalizing the 5th installment of the Super Secret Project.
Woot!
I’m eager to write the 6th installment. How many installments will it have? I still don’t know. I’ll continue to write until the story is told to my satisfaction.
(smiles)
That is SO freeing!
Have a wonderful week, my friends. (big hugs) Write a cheery note to yourself. Tell yourself you’re awesome (because you are) and you’re doing a great job (because, again, you are). Then leave that note somewhere for you to find later. Be your biggest supporter! You can do this!
Cyborg Sizzle Escape Omnibus
Half Man. Half Machine. All Theirs.
* * *
While these cyborg warriors battle to escape their cruel manufacturers, they find the human females they are destined to love for all eternity.
This omnibus includes the first seven stories in the Cyborg Sizzle series: Releasing Rage, Breathing Vapor, Being Green, Crash And Burn, Defying Death, Chasing Mayhem and Jumping Barrel.
All of these Cyborg Romances are set in a dark, gritty, often violent universe.
Releasing Rage
Rage, the Humanoid Alliance’s most primitive cyborg, has two goals–kill all of the humans on his battle station and escape to the Homeland. The warrior has seen the darkness in others and in himself. He believes that’s all he’s been programmed to experience.
Until he meets Joan.
Breathing Vapor
Vapor is the most advanced cyborg the Humanoid Alliance has ever developed. He’s a finely honed weapon, a warrior without parallel, half man and half machine. No lock can contain him. No being can stop him. Whatever he wants, he takes.
He wants Mira Breazeal, the Designer’s daughter.
Being Green
Green, a cyborg warrior, cares for one being—his plant Windy. When Windy becomes sick, he’ll do anything to heal her, even venture across the universe to visit a worlds-renowned plant doctor.
He doesn’t expect to find love.
Crash And Burn
Crash was manufactured to be one of the best warriors in the universe. The cyborg has spent many human lifespans fighting the enemy. But, unlike his battle-loving brethren, he doesn’t enjoy killing. When he escapes the Humanoid Alliance, he vows to never end another life.
Then he meets Safyre, an infuriating human female, and he considers breaking his vow.
Defying Death
Cyborgs don’t show emotion. Death learned that lesson early in his long lifespan. To survive, he hides his fierce passions behind a stoic wall. He calls no warrior friend. He never admits to caring for any being.
Even the human female he’s destined to love.
Chasing Mayhem
Mayhem has spent his lengthy lifespan obeying the Humanoid Alliance’s rules. Finally free from their cruel control, the cyborg warrior plans to cause chaos. He infiltrates a remote settlement, provokes the savage locals until they want him dead, and allows himself to be captured by the sexiest little Retriever he has ever laid his mechanically-enhanced eyes on.
Jumping Barrel
Barrel requires an Expert for the Tau Cetian orphans. He’s looking for a female who is willing to commit to a lifespan-long role, who is comfortable with moving off planet, and who, preferably, has the ability to speak the offsprings’ first language.
His female, however, is looking for a hero.
Buy Now:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/Cyborg-Sizzle-Escape-Omnibus-Continuum-ebook/dp/B081VFHF1S
Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cyborg-Sizzle-Escape-Omnibus-Continuum-ebook/dp/B081VFHF1S
Amazon AUS:
https://www.amazon.com.au/Cyborg-Sizzle-Escape-Omnibus-Continuum-ebook/dp/B081VFHF1S
Amazon Canada:
https://www.amazon.ca/Cyborg-Sizzle-Escape-Omnibus-Continuum-ebook/dp/B081VFHF1S
Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/cyborg-sizzle-escape-omnibus/id1488934271
Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/cyborg-sizzle-escape-omnibus
Smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/992060
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Why The Super Secret Project Is Super Secret
I don’t talk much about the Super Secret Project…anywhere or with anyone (except the Dear Wonderful Hubby), except to say I’m writing it.
And the reason for this is
I don’t want any feedback on it.
At all.
I don’t want positive feedback on it and I definitely don’t want negative feedback on it.
Because I’m writing it from a place of joy. I’m writing it for me. I don’t want other people’s thoughts, however kind they might be, in my head. I want it to be purely for me.
Yes, I will self-publish it. Because other people might enjoy it also.
But that’s not why I’m writing it. I’m writing it to give myself joy.
And that’s okay. It’s okay to do things that solely give you joy. It’s okay not to share these things with anyone else, to protect that joy.
Do what makes you happy, my friends! You deserve happiness!
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Bridgerton – Season 3 – And Subplots
Spoiler Alert – This post will talk about Season 3 of Bridgerton, Colin and Penelope’s romance, and it WILL contain spoilers. If you haven’t yet watched this season of the limited series based on the novels by Julia Quinn, you might wish to skip this post.
I delayed watching Season 3 of Bridgerton because…well…I don’t like Penelope’s character. I didn’t like her in the books and, after watching the season, I still don’t like the less mean TV version of her.
I don’t like gossips. I don’t like mean people (or characters). And I really don’t like people who betray their friends and family for any reason, frankly, but especially not for money.
That said, I enjoyed Season 3 of Bridgerton.
Why?
Because I greatly enjoyed the subplots.
I loved, loved, LOVED Francesca’s romance. I thought it was sweet and romantic and unique. It was magical.
I enjoyed Benedict’s exploration of his sexuality.
And Momma Bridgerton’s unexpected flirtation. And hearing more of Lady Danbury’s backstory.
For me, the subplots were the REASON to watch the third season.
And that is often the role of subplots. Yes, they should tie into the main romance. But they give readers, who might not like that main romance, a reason to continue reading the story and the series.
With me, with Bridgerton Season 3, this worked!
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Throwback Thursday – Doc’s Orders
Doc’s Orders deals with a pandemic on an alien planet caused by visitors to that planet.
It was written long before COVID happened.
I felt this key aspect of space travel, heck, of ANY travel had to be addressed. Visitors spread illness. And sometimes those illnesses are unique to the local population. That can cause a pandemic.
Thankfully, the locals on the alien planet in Doc’s Orders have Doc, a skilled cyborg medic, and Allinen, a local with an interest in healing, to help them deal with their pandemic.
Doc’s Orders
She wants both sides of her cyborg—the medic AND the beast.
A fully functional cyborg is balanced. His machine half and his organic half work together to produce the perfect warrior.
Doc isn’t fully functional.
The G Model operates at the two extremes. When his machine is in complete control, he’s the logic-driven medic, saving lifespans. Once his organics take charge, he becomes the savage beast…and beings die.
Both sides of Doc want to be the first to claim his female.
Allinen is one of the few beings in her small settlement who wasn’t born with a fated mate. Determined to belong somewhere, she has crafted a plan to leave the planet.
That plan doesn’t involve a huge stormy-eyed male who alternates between cool seduction and out-of-control ravishment. Doc isn’t her fated mate. Allinen knows that. But his dual nature and forbidden embraces tempt her to forget forever and indulge in more immediate delights.
Neither side of Doc views their relationship as being temporary. Her conflicted cyborg is prepared to battle her family, her planet and death itself to keep her.
Buy Now:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/Docs-Orders-Cyborg-Space-Exploration-ebook/dp/B07RML2WG1
Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Docs-Orders-Cyborg-Space-Exploration-ebook/dp/B07RML2WG1
Amazon AUS:
https://www.amazon.com.au/Docs-Orders-Cyborg-Space-Exploration-ebook/dp/B07RML2WG1
Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/docs-orders/id1463105812
Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/doc-s-orders
Smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/938342
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Aerogarden – Week 3
It is week 3 of having the Aerogarden, the mini grow station.
The dill is growing like…well…dill. When it grows, it REALLY grows, doesn’t it? And it is looking like dill with the real leaves more expected of the plant.
The Thai Basil is looking strong. FIVE seeds sprouted. I’m waiting for it to get a little bit bigger. Then I will thin the plants and try to root the seedlings that weren’t chosen. That might or might not work but it is worth a try.
The mint has finally broken through the sticker level. Mint grows slowly.
And I see the Genovese Basil has finally germinated. It is barely visible when I peer into the hole in the sticker but it lives!
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Being A Kind Person In A Cruel World
I want to be a kind person.
The world is working against that goal right now. Many of the people in control of it seem to be terrible people. There’s a normalization of terrible, a view being established that we must be terrible to become what society deems as successful.
I don’t want to be that version of successful. I don’t want to be terrible. I don’t want to be stingy with help or cruel or uncaring or evil.
That’s not the person I want to be OR the world I want to live in.
Thankfully, the Dear Wonderful Hubby is a genuinely kind person. His first thoughts are of kindness. He trusts people until they give him reason not to trust them. He helps…everyone.
We joke that we’d never survive a zombie apocalypse because he’d be out there, trying to heal and to help the bitten. (smiles) That’s the type of person he is and I love him for this.
He is helping me, tremendously, to be kind.
I hope that you have found or will soon find at least one other being who will help you stay kind in a cruel world, my friends!
(This being could be a human friend or a rescue dog or a seedling struggling to establish itself.)
Being and staying kind is such a worthy goal!
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Muse Food – Who Is Watching?
We saw these two little ‘guys’ intently watching some action on the pier.
(smiles)
Who is watching your hero’s or heroine’s actions? Why are they watching? What will these observers do with the information they gain? How will being watched change your character’s future?
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Cynthia Sax Weekly Update – April 19
I’m still happily working on the fifth installment of the Super Secret Project. This HUGE story contains so much humor and humor is definitely what I and many others need right now.
Have a wonderful week, my friends. (big hugs) Tell a VERY bad joke to someone this week. You’ll likely get a groan in response but, inwardly, I suspect they’ll laugh. And moments later, when they think about you, they’ll think about the joke and smile. Wouldn’t that be awesome?
(smiles)
Cyborg Sizzle Escape Omnibus
Half Man. Half Machine. All Theirs.
* * *
While these cyborg warriors battle to escape their cruel manufacturers, they find the human females they are destined to love for all eternity.
This omnibus includes the first seven stories in the Cyborg Sizzle series: Releasing Rage, Breathing Vapor, Being Green, Crash And Burn, Defying Death, Chasing Mayhem and Jumping Barrel.
All of these Cyborg Romances are set in a dark, gritty, often violent universe.
Releasing Rage
Rage, the Humanoid Alliance’s most primitive cyborg, has two goals–kill all of the humans on his battle station and escape to the Homeland. The warrior has seen the darkness in others and in himself. He believes that’s all he’s been programmed to experience.
Until he meets Joan.
Breathing Vapor
Vapor is the most advanced cyborg the Humanoid Alliance has ever developed. He’s a finely honed weapon, a warrior without parallel, half man and half machine. No lock can contain him. No being can stop him. Whatever he wants, he takes.
He wants Mira Breazeal, the Designer’s daughter.
Being Green
Green, a cyborg warrior, cares for one being—his plant Windy. When Windy becomes sick, he’ll do anything to heal her, even venture across the universe to visit a worlds-renowned plant doctor.
He doesn’t expect to find love.
Crash And Burn
Crash was manufactured to be one of the best warriors in the universe. The cyborg has spent many human lifespans fighting the enemy. But, unlike his battle-loving brethren, he doesn’t enjoy killing. When he escapes the Humanoid Alliance, he vows to never end another life.
Then he meets Safyre, an infuriating human female, and he considers breaking his vow.
Defying Death
Cyborgs don’t show emotion. Death learned that lesson early in his long lifespan. To survive, he hides his fierce passions behind a stoic wall. He calls no warrior friend. He never admits to caring for any being.
Even the human female he’s destined to love.
Chasing Mayhem
Mayhem has spent his lengthy lifespan obeying the Humanoid Alliance’s rules. Finally free from their cruel control, the cyborg warrior plans to cause chaos. He infiltrates a remote settlement, provokes the savage locals until they want him dead, and allows himself to be captured by the sexiest little Retriever he has ever laid his mechanically-enhanced eyes on.
Jumping Barrel
Barrel requires an Expert for the Tau Cetian orphans. He’s looking for a female who is willing to commit to a lifespan-long role, who is comfortable with moving off planet, and who, preferably, has the ability to speak the offsprings’ first language.
His female, however, is looking for a hero.
Buy Now:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/Cyborg-Sizzle-Escape-Omnibus-Continuum-ebook/dp/B081VFHF1S
Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cyborg-Sizzle-Escape-Omnibus-Continuum-ebook/dp/B081VFHF1S
Amazon AUS:
https://www.amazon.com.au/Cyborg-Sizzle-Escape-Omnibus-Continuum-ebook/dp/B081VFHF1S
Amazon Canada:
https://www.amazon.ca/Cyborg-Sizzle-Escape-Omnibus-Continuum-ebook/dp/B081VFHF1S
Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/cyborg-sizzle-escape-omnibus/id1488934271
Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/cyborg-sizzle-escape-omnibus
Smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/992060
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