SFR Brigade

Sunday, May 19, 2013

The 2nd SFR Brigade Blog Hop - Come and Sign Up!

It's that time of year again! Midsummer is approaching, and this year for the Brigade's second blog hop, the event will take place over several days instead of just one, giving us more chance to spread the news and hopefully draw the crowds. I'm pleased to reveal the badge and banner for the hop (designed by Misa Buckley) and hope you'll add it to your blogs to help promote the event. A huge thank you to Misa for her stellar work.

This year's theme is Out of this World. The hop will run from the 21st to the 25th of June. A grand prize (or more than one depending on donations) will be decided closer to the time. Last year we were able to give away a Kindle to the first prize winner, and a bundle of ebooks and a gift voucher to the second.

In the meantime, you can find the guidelines and the sign up inlinkz listed in the Brigade pages at the top of this blog (just below the banner) and I really hope more Brigaders will sign up. Everyone last year reported a jump in visitors to their site during the event. Come and join us!

Saturday, May 18, 2013

The SFR Brigade Presents 5/17 - 5/23

Snippets should now be live! Share and enjoy.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Cover Reveal! TALES FROM THE SFR BRIGADE Coming Soon.

The SFR Brigade membership has selected a cover for our first anthology. Here's the big reveal:

The anthology features nine stories from nine different authors in a variety of styles and settings including space opera, near future, apocalyptic, Earth-based and alien romance. (You may even discover some favorite characters from Science Fiction Romance in the line-up. *wink*)

The price of the anthology? Free!

Our plan is to ~~conquer the universe~~ reach a wide audience with this stellar story sampling--especially all the Science Fiction Romance fans out there who don't yet realize they are SFR fans! (Resistance is futile.)

We're shooting for a midsummer launch of the Tales from the SFR Brigade Anthology.

Sunday, May 12, 2013

New Feature At The Galaxy Express: SFR ebooks For 99 cents or Free

The Galaxy Express has a new feature: Science fiction romance ebooks for 99 cents or free!

The new section is in the header and is titled "Cheap/Free ebooks to Download."

Learn more here.

I'm looking to expand this list. Authors, if you have a science fiction romance(s) in a permanent free-99 cent price range and would like your book considered for this list, please contact me (Heather) at sfrgalaxy “at” gmail.com. (For limited-time promotional discounts, I'll help spread the word via blog posts, Twitter, and Facebook).

Two new and FREE short stories are part of this event:

COLLATERAL DAMAGE by K.S. Augustin

WILBERT E. HORNBECK'S FANTASTIC ADVENTURE by Heather Massey (in the interest of full disclosure, that's me!)

Happy reading!

Saturday, May 11, 2013

The SFR Brigade Presents - 5/10-5/16

The SFR Brigade Presents snippets should now be live! Share and enjoy.

Saturday, May 4, 2013

The SFR Brigade Presents 5/3 - 5/9

This week's snippets should now be live! Share and enjoy.

Blogging Rules

The SFR Brigade "Golden Rules" for posting:

1. Please allow at least 3-4 hours since the last post to give everyone a little time at the top of the blog. (Time sensitive posts or information that must reach members immediately are the exception. Please use your discretion.)

2. No "hit-and-run" posts, please. Promotional posts by any member who is not otherwise active in the community will be deleted without notice. Repeats may result in loss of blog author privileges. The community blog is intended to share information between members and not to be used solely as a self-promotion bulletin board.

FAQ

Can anyone join SFR Brigade?

Anyone who writes, publishes, reads, is a fan of or is involved with Science Fiction Romance in literature is welcome to join. The site can only accomodate up to 100 authors, so it would be counter-productive to open it to a wider membership (such as those who are primarily interested in SF/R movies or television instead of literature) due to these limitations. (Which is not to say we don't banter about film culture SF/R on a regular basis, which will soon be evident.)

If this is SFR Brigade, why is the address http://www.sfrcontests.blogspot.com?

This is actually the second incarnation of the SFR Brigade. The original (which still owns the site name) was a private site where a few SFR writers privately discussed the subgenre and plotted to take over the universe. From zero hour, the plan was to expand the SFR Brigade to other writers, but when the time came, it seemed the best way to accomplish that was to construct a brand new site instead of trying to rebuild and clean out the cobwebs of the rusty one. And here we are, all bright and shiny. Hello!

What's the point of SFR Brigade?

*Yoda laugh* Epic plans, we have. Yes. Very epic. Patience, Padawan, and our plans will be revealed. First you must seek out our Welcome Message on the planet Degobah so you may begin your training.

What can SFR Brigade do for me?

Ask not what SFR Brigade can do for you... :) I think Five Reasons Why You Should Join will address that nicely.

OK, I think I've been drafted. Where do I report?

Since some of our requests to join the Brigade have been spirited away by evil Reavers (and we had to form an emergency task force to wrest them back from the crazed space cannibals) we've gone to an "automated" enlistment system.

Please go to the SFR Brigade Facebook Group Page and request to join. Then open the Files (link at the top of the FB page) and look for the doc that says "Add Me to the Brigade Roster."

There, you'll type in your name as you want it to appear and the web site or blog you'd like linked to your name. We'll add you asap.

That's it! You're in!

What's that? You don't have a Facebook account? Not to worry. Just leave a comment here with your name as you'd like it to appear and the web site/blog you'd like your name linked to and we'll beam you up next sweep.

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