"Lady of the Stars" is a EPPIE Finalist!

Lady of the Stars, my Regency time travel, is a finalist in the Science Fiction Romance category in the EPIC (Electronically Published Internet Connection) 2010 EBook Competition. Complete finalist listing here.

The email arrived very early this morning. I just saw it. I'm bouncing around, and I'll probably bounce all day.

I've never finaled in a contest before. While I would love to win, I can be very happy with finaling.

Maybe I have a future in this business. Time for more bouncing!

Lady of the Stars blurb and excerpt here.

Thank you all,
Linda

Science Fiction Romance

If you're like me, you'd never heard of science fiction romance. I came across the category when I read the submission guidelines for the 2010 Eppie as preparation for submitting Lady of the Stars, my Regency time travel.

The Eppie guidelines don't have a specific time travel category. So, I sent an email to the Eppie coordinators, and they very promptly replied.

I thought time travels were paranormals. According to the Eppie, the time travel mechanism determines the genre. A SF has a mechanical mode, while a fantasy or paranormal uses magical means.

As a further wrinkle, for a magical mode, the setting of the book determines whether its category is paranormal or fantasy. A paranormal exists in the real world, while a fantasy exists in an imaginary world.

Lady of the Stars uses a wormhole as the transport mode, and a wormhole has some basis in modern physics. My story is also set in the real world, so Lady of the Stars is science fiction romance. I never would have known.

Now let's see how I do.

Thank you all,
Linda