Thanks so much
to Lindsey for letting
me hang out here today! You see, Monday my first science-fiction romance was
released from Lyrical
Press out into the wilds of space and your ereader! A Kiss for a Cure was a lot of
fun to write. It started with a simple idea of: What if there were
sharks…in space? Crazy
I know!
I did a lot of things in this book
really just because I could.Sharks in space? Check! Monarchy society? Check! An alien who
needs skin-on-skin time to live? Check! An alien culture built on the concept that the woman is the
bedrock of the family? Check!
There are three camps of
authors. Those who
pants, or write by the seat of their pants. Those who are planners, planning
out every element of the book. And a hybrid
of the two. At my
worst, I’m a planner.
I like to craft and coordinate elements within a book. And to that direction, I wanted to create a
culture that was very dissimilar to what I’m used to.
The hero in A Kiss for a Cure is
from an alien race
that appear very
similar to humans. It’s under the skin that they’re different, and those differences have
spawned a culture unique to that people group. So why not have it be a
matriarchal culture as well?
I’m fascinated by matriarchal societies. The
reasoning behind it makes sense to me. Life comes from the female form
and various religions and cultures have placed considerable weight on this
ability. A lot of
anthropologists claim that there have been no true female dominated societies in
history, with the exception of the Iroquois, a Native American tribe. In truth,
all of the known cultures with an emphasis on female leadership have been more
of a partnership, with women running the moral, religious and political aspects and allowing men
a say or vote as well, and delegating other roles to them.
In my humble opinion, those women
were smart. The ability to delegate and spread jobs around makes for a more
efficient system. And that’s what I wanted to emulate. While I
didn’t get the chance
to put Cai’s full
culture into the book, I enjoyed mapping out how my matriarchal culture would
have worked.
Think of a tree, with
each woman as a trunk
and her husband, children and grand children as the branches that create a
network. Women are creators and teachers, leaders and innovators. Why shouldn’t we run an alien
culture somewhere?
If you could be
the ruler of an alien race for one day, what would be the first thing you
did?
It can never be said that Sidney
Bristol has had a ‘normal’ life. She is a recovering roller derby queen, former
missionary, and tattoo addict. She grew up in a motor-home on the US highways
(with an occasional jaunt into Canada and Mexico), traveling the rodeo circuit
with her parents. Sidney has lived abroad in both Russia and Thailand, working
with children and teenagers. She now lives in Texas where she splits her time
between a job she loves, writing, reading and belly dancing.
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What’s a girl to do when her
parents gift her with
a man for Christmas?
Caught between two kingdoms, Jordan
has given up the privileged world of intergalactic court life to become an
interstellar biologist researching space sharks. Unexpectedly saddled with a
husband from a race who are rumored to be sex fiends, her life is yanked
in a direction she
doesn’t want.
But Cai isn’t human and he must have the
emotional feedback of a mate in order to survive. Charged with protecting Jordan, can he win her
heart and keep her
safe from harm?
Will they survive the challenges
that arise…sexual, emotional and political? Time is ticking away and it’s not on
their side
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