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Endurance Excerpt #5
For Pride month, I’m posting daily from the first chapter. Pre-order links below. The story continues… She entered the bridge and steadied herself against the railing. The tourists loved this amenity, getting to watch the crew, but it was like staring down a steep balcony. When Omara renovated the ship for tourism, she spared no […]
Endurance Excerpt #4
For Pride month, I’m posting daily from the first chapter. Pre-order links below. The story continues… That speck caught Lyn’s eye again, the Aphrodite intruding on her guests’ view of Saturn’s E ring, right as Natalie pointed out how it formed from icy jet plumes in Enceladus’s south polar region. Ani opened a mind link. […]
Endurance Excerpt #3
For Pride month, I’m posting daily from the first chapter. Pre-order links below. The story continues… A bright speck caught Lyn’s peripheral vision, unrecognizable to the guests but a glowing, annoying intruder to her. That wasn’t Enceladus. She opened a mind link. Randall to Con. Ani, are you seeing this? Second Officer Anilina Rodriguez responded […]
Endurance Excerpt #2
If you like what you see, Endurance is now available for pre-orders of ebooks on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Endurance-Elaine-Burnes-ebook/dp/B0B353S9RN But Amazon is only the beginning. The ebook will be available through the usual outlets as well as libraries (including Hoopla and Overdrive). Print books will be available through Amazon and wherever sold through Ingram. That means Bookshop, […]
Endurance Excerpts for Pride Month!
I just got the craziest idea. While we all wait for Endurance to release on June 21, I’m going to post a bit of the first chapter each day (if I don’t forget…). I’ll interrupt when the pre-order link goes live. It’s Pride month, and I’m so damn proud of this book, I can’t wait […]
What Inspired Endurance
I didn’t set out to write a science fiction novel. I’m not opposed to SF, not by a long shot. My first paid publication was a science fiction short story (which you can read in A Perfect Life and Other Stories—it’s the title story, and still one of my favorites). I confess I hadn’t read […]
I’m Still Here
Yes, it’s been more than a year since I posted. I’ve no idea why and realize readers might think I succumbed to Covid or something else dreadful. I was on a pretty good roll, posting my fevered writing prompts. They are a lot of fun and continue, but I haven’t felt compelled to share any […]
Writing Prompt: Dependence
The prompt was random, with 30 minutes to write this time, so here’s my take on it. Not fiction this week. Dependence I knew when I decided to move to a rural town with fewer than a thousand residents that I’d be entering a new world of dependencies. Most people think of rural folk as […]
Writing Prompt: Yellow Jacket
Because I often write nature essays, my writing partners thought for sure I’d go with the insect for this prompt. But I want to stretch my science fiction muscles. There isn’t much to this—we only have 20 or so minutes to write, then countless minutes getting the Zoom connection up for the meeting portion of […]
Writing Prompt: Quarantine
Sometimes the prompts hit just a little too close to home. We can ignore them in our 30 minutes of writing, but I usually forget that and flail ahead. Hence… Quarantine The first definition of quarantine, the noun, is “a period of 40 days.” Who knew? Why that? Biblical? Second definition pertains to shipping—isolating in […]
Elaine Burnes 