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My first novel STELLARNET REBEL www.stellarnetseries.com/ won the Galaxy Award for Best Non-Traditional Romance of 2012. sfrgalaxyawards.blogspot.com/2…
From the award website: "Stellarnet Rebel covers a lot of science fiction ground, but what really makes it unique is the non-traditional romance... The author layers interesting social commentary about romance, marriage, and family through the lens of an alien culture. The experience prompted me to question my assumptions about how we define romance both in this subgenre and also in real life. In that regard, Stellarnet Rebel stimulates both the mind and the heart."
The book was also a finalist in the EPIC Awards for Best Sci-Fi Ebook of 2012. Those awards were announced yesterday, and I didn't win, but it was still an honor to make it to the final round.
The sequel STELLARNET PRINCE was reviewed last month (spoilers) tahlianewland.com/2013/02/08/r…
"Stellarnet Prince is world-building at its best... Politics ensnare our heroic trio and complicate the story. Will these bloggers, dedicated to bringing truth to the universe via the Stellernet, risk exposing a truth that could have disastrous consequences for them all? This is the kind of decision that has caused the moral downfall of many a politician, and wondering how our three-who-are-one deal with this challenge kept me reading voraciously until the end. This is quite simply an excellent book. I highly recommend it."
Now I just need to finish book three!
From the award website: "Stellarnet Rebel covers a lot of science fiction ground, but what really makes it unique is the non-traditional romance... The author layers interesting social commentary about romance, marriage, and family through the lens of an alien culture. The experience prompted me to question my assumptions about how we define romance both in this subgenre and also in real life. In that regard, Stellarnet Rebel stimulates both the mind and the heart."
The book was also a finalist in the EPIC Awards for Best Sci-Fi Ebook of 2012. Those awards were announced yesterday, and I didn't win, but it was still an honor to make it to the final round.
The sequel STELLARNET PRINCE was reviewed last month (spoilers) tahlianewland.com/2013/02/08/r…
"Stellarnet Prince is world-building at its best... Politics ensnare our heroic trio and complicate the story. Will these bloggers, dedicated to bringing truth to the universe via the Stellernet, risk exposing a truth that could have disastrous consequences for them all? This is the kind of decision that has caused the moral downfall of many a politician, and wondering how our three-who-are-one deal with this challenge kept me reading voraciously until the end. This is quite simply an excellent book. I highly recommend it."
Now I just need to finish book three!
It's been a long time
The last time I wrote anything on this site was over seven years ago! A lot has happened since then. I spent a week in the ICU after brain surgery and months in recovery from that, and then I helped my husband through two spinal surgeries. I've also dealt with mental health issues, which I wrote about for CheckPointOrg. I moved twice, turned 50, sent my oldest to college, started a video game channel on YouTube and joined AO3, where I post video game fanfiction. Last month, I tied for first place in the "Narrate Your Own Twilight Zone Competition 2021" sponsored by the Rod Serling Memorial Foundation. Winning entries will be performed by actor Stephen Dexter in a video posted on or before Christmas Day (Rod Serling's birthday) at RodSerling.com. I still haven't finished the Stellarnet Series but I did receive a rights reversion from my publisher. I plan to revise and update the series, possibly break it up into several shorter novellas, and create audio recordings on my YouTube
How I Spent My Summer
In June, we celebrated my youngest daughter's 10th birthday and attended ConCarolinas, where we sat behind George R.R. Martin during opening ceremonies (not that he knew we were sitting behind him, we're not pals or anything, we just breathed the same air). I also worked as social media assistant for ConTemporal. You can see some of the photos in my gallery. In July, we celebrated my oldest daughter's 14th birthday.
While we took the summer off from homeschooling, I made a lot of jewelry. Nothing terribly exciting, just used up some of the odds and ends cluttering my studio. I started a new character in Skyrim, a Breton conjurer named Fleuri
My sequel rated 5 stars
Great news! My new book STELLARNET PRINCE was rated "5 STARS" on the Tome Tender review blog http://tometender.blogspot.com/2012/11/stellarnet-prince-by-j-l-hilton-book-2.html "Stellarnet Prince is a highly complex and detailed story line... The vivid details and magnificent world created by J. L. Hilton brought life to this new exotic tumultuous world. In the end, I was swept away into a wonderful story."
Enter to win a copy: http://jlhilton.com/giveaways/ It's also available for pre-order on Amazon http://amzn.com/B0092MTI9Q B&N http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/stellarnet-prince-jl-hilton/1112682886 the publisher's website http://ebooks.car
Awards, giveaways and goodies
Happy Halloween!
My first novel, Stellarnet Rebel, was just announced as a finalist in the EPIC eBook Awards science fiction category! http://epicorg.com/competitions/2013-ebook-award-finalists.html I'm so excited!
To celebrate the award, Halloween, and to kick off the release of my next book, Stellarnet Prince, I'm giving away a "r'naw eye necklace" designed and handmade by Gypsy Moon Art Studio, as well as digital copies (pdf or epub) of both books in the Stellarnet Series.
Check out these links for more info about the books, the tarot cards, and giveaways.
Win a creepy eye necklace! http://chrisbwritin.blogspot.com/2012/10/stellarnet-t
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