West Yellowstone In The Winter
I love to visit the national parks of the United States. One
memoral vacation I visited West Yellowstone in the wintertime.
Besides the giant ten-man snowmobiles that can tractor up the
snow-covered hills, the town itself is dug out from the snow. What I mean is
that the collected snowfall rises above all the stores on main street. Because
of that, just the storefronts are dug out so people can visit restaurants and
lodging.
Driving along the nearby roads it isn’t just the people that
come out to see the animals, but the animals that come out to see the people.
The mammals (wolves, buffalo, and more) stay toastie on green grass warmed by
the subterranean heat of the super volcano that underlies Yellowstone.
I’ve written the idea of what-I-call Snow Country, inspired
by West Yellowstone, into some of my stories. In my sci-fi, urban fantasy
series, LEGENDS OF THE GOLDENS, Chastity, my heroine in A FAR FAR BETTER THING (book
3) conjures a snowcovered world in which she learns how to snowplow through
snowdrifts with attitude toward her heroic android “caretaker.”
Whether it’s Yellowstone or any other national park, you’ll
find amazing countryside and visitors to chat up. They’ll be just as surprised
as you are by the otherworldly scenery.
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Entangled
Ages
of Invention
Book
One
S.B.K.
Burns
Genre: PNR, Sci-Fi,
Time-Travel, Steampunk
Date of Publication: December
2016
ISBN: 1521172862
ASIN: B01N6EE13Q
Number of pages: 320
Word Count: 79290
Cover Artist: Fiona Jayde
Book Description:
She’s Hume’n, a member of the
lower class, with one chance to change her life…
In an alternate, twenty-first
century Boston, Dawn Jamison is a hair’s breadth away from earning her
doctorate degree—a degree that would allow her entrance into the upper class,
to become the unemotional and self-disciplined Cartesian she is now only
pretending to be. To reach her goal, all Dawn must do is overcome her forbidden
attraction to the Olympic-class weightlifter Taylor Stephenson who’s just
crashed her lectures on past life regression. She must also teach her group of
misfit students how to travel back into their past lives—and, oh, of course,
figure out how to save the great scientists of the early eighteenth century
before they’re inextricably caught up in a time loop.
He’s Cartesian, a member of the
upper class, and supposed to know better…
Coerced by his politically
powerful, wheelchair-bound brother into spying on Dawn’s past-life regression
classes, Taylor knows better than to give into his desire to claim Dawn as his
own. But his past-life entity, eighteenth-century Colin, has no such
inhibitions. When Taylor and Dawn meet up in Scotland in the 1700s, all the
discipline he’s forced on his twenty-first-century self disintegrates in the
past, leaving only his overwhelming lust for Dawn’s past-life double, Lily.
Unable to escape their sexually obsessive past, Dawn and Taylor find themselves
in a race against the clock at the epicenter of a world-altering time quake of
their own making.
Excerpt
Entangled:
Before Dawn had
finished the second suggestive sentence of her self-regression, she was here in
the misty Lowlands of Scotland, not far outside Edinburgh. As on her previous
trips, she was literally in Lily’s body, experiencing all the woman’s senses
and emotions, but none of her thoughts. So frustrating.
***
Fly
Like An Eagle
Ages
of Invention Series
Book
Two
S.B.K.
Burns
Genre: PNR, Sci-Fi,
Time-Travel, Steampunk
Date of Publication: February
2017
ISBN: 1520680112
ASIN: B01MQT3PRN
Number of pages: 318
Word Count: 83,197
Book Description:
It’s 1824 Philadelphia at the
opening of the Franklin Institute of Science, and one of its founders,
Samantha’s father, wants her to marry his business partner, a much older man,
to keep their war industry dealings secret.
Looking for a way out of the
arranged marriage, tomboy Sam finds it in Eagle, the half Native American son
of the man she is to marry.
Eagle brings Samantha into his
spiritual world, his bimijiwan, in order that she might stop their father’s
preparations for an ironclad Civil War at sea. To do this, Sam might have to
convince Benjamin Franklin to abandon his kite experiment.
Excerpt
Fly Like An Eagle:
Samantha had
most probably escaped to the house. Migizi (Eagle) would return her shawl,
hoping by the time he caught up to her, she would have put on something a
little less fetching.
Her father had
been wrong about him. Leaving me alone with Ronaldson’s nubile daughter? Look
at her as a sister? He’d have more success taking flight by jumping off a cliff
and flapping his arms.
***
About
the Author:
Both romance and science have
been central to the life of S.B.K. Burns (Susan). As a teen, she wrote romantic
musicals between quarterbacks and cheerleaders. After a career as both a
science teacher and advanced degrees in science, she began a ten-year journey of
paranormal romance novel writing. Her ten books include two series: LEGENDS OF
THE GOLDENS (about psychic vampires that protect humans from the baddies, even
when the humans are not too keen on getting saved) and AGES OF INVENTION
(alternate science history/steampunk: where Electress Sophia of The House of
Hanover (ancestor to today’s British royalty) runs a time machine where she
helps our heroes and heroines save the great scientists of history.
***
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