The pets are back in this new, exciting collection of 11 original
stories from today’s leading science fiction romance authors! Bring on the
action and passion!
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royalties of Pets in Space 6 will again go to Hero-Dogs.org. Open your hearts and grab your limited
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About My Story, Stranded on Grzbt
I’m not sure why I haven’t developed a Star Wars inspired universe for scifi romance until now. I always
loved the movies and books. Right away I decided my story for the anthology would have a cute alien animal,
and from there a many-alien-universe blossomed!
My Pet Velvet,
More than Cute!
In Stranded
on Grzbt, my heroine Mimi meets a tiny alien animal and
befriends her. The Earth women captives are frightened, powerless, and
grieving. They have been captured by aliens, not hunky nice ones longing for
love. Their captors are stinky green worms who keep them in a cage. Cuddly
little Velvet becomes a tiny spot of comfort in a difficult situation.
Mimi eventually learns mouse sized, trunk-nosed
nanosnoots were originally lab created to help with invasive nanobot
infections. They have computer knowledge and some kind of telepathic
connections. Over the years, one crazy genius scientist or another has enhanced
their abilities, and those talents have spread through the nanosnoot
population.
Even I, the author, am not sure about nanosnoots
capabilities. I look forward to finding
out more about them. I do know my Earth women owe Velvet a lot. Mimi and her
alien trader Kyre wouldn’t have gotten very far without her.
Excerpt: Meeting Velvet
In the bathroom one day, Mimi took her
time under the water drip, washing out her clothes. The worms were asleep.
A flicker of motion caught her eye.
A tiny animal with green and purple fuzz
was eating the scum on the grate.
It was actually kind of cute. Plush,
silvery sage-green hair, a mousy six-legged body, and a long trunk, like a tiny
elephant. On top of its head was a clump of green bristles tipped in purple.
Three black button eyes, the center eye larger, looked up at her.
“Hi little guy. Aren’t you cute? Are you
friendly?”
Mimi had put on just her green work
shirt, the rest of her clothes were wet. In the pocket, which had her nametag
still attached, were a few kibbles. She crunched one up with her fingernails
and slowly sprinkled the kibble bits on the damp grating near the little
animal.
It withdrew quickly into the drain. Mimi
stayed quiet. Soon the tiny trunk came out and vacuumed up the kibble.
Mimi grinned. Maybe she could make a tiny
alien friend.
About Melisse Aires
Take a bookworm. Hand her a
stack of her much older brother’s Sci-fi and fantasy novels, thrillers and
horror comics. Then introduce the world of romance.
Make her a jinx. Every
great genre TV show she loves gets the ax! So often the romances have no happy
ending. She gets upset about no romance in the world and writes her own stories
with happy endings.
Throw this all together,
shake constantly, and pour onto a computer keyboard.
There!
You have me,
Melisse Aires
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Thanks so much for hosting me, Dawn!
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