Monday, January 21, 2013

Back to the Future Giveaway Hop



Back to the Future - A Giveaway Hop Across Time

January 22nd to 28th


This hop features books in the past and future. No present day. Anything dealing with time-travel to historical times are welcome. Unless it's a historical setting where they travel to present time. Historical Novels and Futuristic novels are also welcome even with no time travel. 

 Hard Time by KJ Blaine is the perfect novel for this hop: 
 A stimulating psychological thriller, an exciting time travel, and an epic space adventure all in one.

 Mankind's most advanced spaceship, the Phoenix, is hijacked through a temporal portal and disabled in the distant past. Her bridge crew is kidnapped by a madman with diabolical intent. Trapped in an impenetrable prison on a desolate moon and without any hope of rescue, are they doomed to nothing but torture until they die?

 A desperate cry for help is sent out across space and time--and heard only by the Phoenix's chimpanzee mascot. Can a chimp rescue the crew and get everyone back to their own time? When they find out what awaits them in their own time, will they still want to go? 

Because this is the second novel in the series, 
we're offering both the first and second novel in Kindle Edition 
to the winner of this giveaway -
And don't forget to check out the other stops on the hop:

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Three Things Star Trek Taught Me about Science Fiction

1) It’s not about the technology.
Of course, the gadgets are cool. Of course, I want a holodeck and a food synthesizer. And yes, it would be awesome to be able to travel in space. But that isn’t why I watch Star Trek, and I doubt anyone else has watched the show (and read the books and watched the movies) over the years, just to dream about futuristic gadgets. “ST IV: The Voyage Home” was a full-length movie done entirely without the Enterprise (they were on a captured Klingon ship) and we STILL loved it!

2) It’s not about special effects, either.
Yes, they can do a lot more now that they could back in the sixties, but because it was always about the characters and the STORY, those old TOS episodes are still very relevant. Look at all the crazy costuming and makeup they got away with! Look at Shatner’s overacting! People will tolerate all kinds of stuff from bad cinematography to hot pink hair if the story and the characters are compelling.

3) It *IS* about the writing.
Tell a good story and provides a team of great characters, and the public will follow in droves. They will write letters when stupid networks try to cancel the TV show. They will buy books and action figures and start up fan clubs and have big conventions. And they will stand in line at midnight (in costume) to buy movie tickets over and over and over.

P.S. A couple of readers thought my Phoenix Chronicles were patterned after Star Trek. They aren’t. The stories were originally conceived as fanfiction for another TV series, set on a submarine, not a space ship. The similarities probably came from THAT producer trying to emulate Star Trek, not me.

What is YOUR favorite Trek episode or movie?

Monday, December 31, 2012

Free Today!


Bestselling Space Opera

"Juno Colony is a deathtrap, a roach motel for men. Women rule and men have no rights. That's where they've taken Steve."

The year is 2043 and Earth has established colonies all over the solar system. The International Space Alliance is tasked with keeping peace throughout, and the ISA's flagship, Phoenix, is the ultimate power in the solar system. Her mission is both exploratory and military deterrent. But when Captain Jason Armstrong discovers his surrogate son has been kidnapped and taken to the infamous Juno Colony on Luna, he'll stop at nothing to get him back.

Join the crew as they go in undercover on a daring rescue. Download Gynocracy now!

Haven't read the first 3? Don't worry, you can read these out of order and not get lost.

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Look, it's a blog!

Welcome to the blog of K.J. Blaine! I hope you arrived here on purpose. Not sure what I am going to post in the days to come, but you can always look at my nifty widget up there, click on a book and buy yourself some cheap thrills.

Books have to be the best entertainment deals on the planet. You cannot buy a movie ticket for under five bucks anymore, and how many movies will last 10 or more hours? Plus, if you follow me, especially on the Phoenix Fan Page, you can find out when I put the first book or sometimes the fourth book (my bestseller) on special for FREE in the Amazon Kindle Store.

If you want to know how I came to write The Phoenix Chronicles, check out this interview done by my fellow author, Greg Mitchell.

So what were you hoping to find here? Let me know in a comment and I'll see what I can do!