Sharon L Reddy
Biography
No biography. I'll write memoirs when I'm 103 and anyone I mention will be so happy to be alive to read them they won't sue.
I write science fiction female fantasies for fast-reading smart women. What they wish fan fiction could be and know it can't. It's what I was asked to write at Mediawest in '92, when I won two Fan-Q's for my first two stories.
Why me? They said "You can do it." What's that mean? It's not just storytelling talent. That's rather common. It was a real survival trait. Every good storyteller taught about the world and passed knowledge. That's what I do and like the talespinners of old, I do it in a fun way. Still not enough? My university transcript looks like I began with a map of the campus and checked off buildings I'd explored well. I admit I didn't spend a lot of time in biology and horticulture, but I did a thorough exploration of the other 'ologies, economics, engineering, philosophy, music, theater, computer science, communications and, of course, language and literature. It does show. The cultures I build and the relationships of the characters don't have any missing pieces.
Some are very sexy. Some aren't. I write for an under-served market. Will others like my work? Yes, but they aren't really wishing for something that's not available. Or not this something. There really isn't anything else like my work out there. If there had been, I'd have found it. I want action-adventure that never slows down and engages me intellectually too. I want superheroes who are eloquent and brilliant. I want characters who sound like they've got an education and wisdom from 'immortals,' who aren't cases of arrested development that haven't learned anything since they were 20. I want books I have to read more than once to get everything in them out of them. I want societies that don't have any missing pieces. Traders who think about profit margin, and guard captains who think about needing to use the toilet and wish the dignitaries would, please, go into the meeting room. To get it, I had to write it.
The style is for my target market too. It takes a couple chapters to get used to it, but once the women I write for do, they will read it faster. I'm a torchbearer, a member of the avant-garde, as we escape the economic confinement of physical mass distribution.
You still hear people say, "If it was any good, it would be REALLY published." No, only books which the corporation decides will appeal to a vast audience get published and the people who make that decision haven't read them. A decision of that financial magnitude requires spreadsheets. They can't invest stockholder money in anything that isn't blockbuster-connected and probable sell-through, nothing truly new or different.
It's our decision to create that which is the guide to all who follow.
Ready for some real brain candy? Download a sample and see if it satisfies that wish for something you just couldn't define.
I am a Talespinner.
I shall you a tale of heroes,
of the wide velvet night!
A Talespinner's Web, an historical site: http://www.targetyonder.com
Spinner, 6/2011
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L'Gem
by Sharon L Reddy
Price: $4.99 USD. 304930 words.
Published on May 3, 2012. Fiction.
Internal Security wanted a secret weapon. They didn't want witnesses. They abducted the student they thought had made a discovery and bombed the university physics lab. That didn't work well, either. The student they'd abducted was convicted of attempting to murder the others. It was standard procedure.
No one got out of Horgen Field prison alive, but if Bard was right, there was a way.
Promise
by Sharon L Reddy
Price: $2.99 USD. 36950 words.
Published on July 9, 2011. Fiction.
The promise of Promise is the potential pharmaceuticals in its vast rainforest. Field botanist Westerly is sure something about the life cycle of the "common blueflower" that grows beneath the vast epiphyte known as "broadvine" has been missed. She gets a very strange warning, then an even odder message. Shulo prepares for Wes and her best friend as much as he can. And then there were three.
Platinum Mind
by Sharon L Reddy
Price: $4.99 USD. 197790 words.
Published on June 28, 2011. Fiction.
Witnesses "saw" a murder. No autopsy report was presented. There was no appeal. A former supreme court justice's dying request was her great-great-granddaughter learn what was going on. The owner of Diamond Intersector wanted to know, too. She gave her grandnephew the job and a ship. Then her father sent a message, after 67 years. He'd found something too big for him to handle. Fear.
Imagiscape
by Sharon L Reddy
Price: Free! 88000 words.
Published on June 11, 2011. Fiction.
Nine unique stories, including three novellas and a novel, from many places on the landscape of imagination, from a dark night on a modern highway to distant stars of the galaxy. Meet a modern vampire taking her chosen companion home to meet her parents and an alien, who hopes humans do well among the other species. I hope you enjoy this sampler of the range and style of my work.
S I, the Trilogy
by Sharon L Reddy
Price: $5.99 USD. 395390 words.
Published on June 7, 2011. Fiction.
The Interstellar Supreme Court patted itself on the back 623 years too soon. A new Special Investigator of organized criminal activity wasn't appointed. The Black Crow hadn't been prosecuted out of existence. S.I. isn't an undercover job. It's a secret. This one had to change the attitude that had almost put all humans at the mercy or the parasites among them. Next time they wouldn't win.
Starvan
by Sharon L Reddy
Price: $4.99 USD. 250090 words.
Published on June 7, 2011. Fiction.
When a starvan ran from his wedding, nets came out all over human space. They translated it as "prince of investment." Even some of his own people had forgotten what it meant.
The Shadow Syndic thought they could use a starvan as bait for a trap, but his loved friend was still alive. The top man thought human space was his. There is only one true king! The dragon king!
Mercenary Empress
by Sharon L Reddy
Price: $4.99 USD. 270970 words.
Published on June 7, 2011. Fiction.
This volume contains both Empress, Alchemy and Djinn and Djinn Rummy Royale.
Shorla was a mercenary. Her favorite type of job was helping nice people with nasty problems. Her ship, Pickles, had come from somewhere. The last child of the Magelor, the Sultan of Djinn and the royal cousins of Earth Sector wanted to strap on guns too. The oracle pointed to a legend "that way."
Solastria
by Sharon L Reddy
Price: $3.99 USD. 239130 words.
Published on June 6, 2011. Fiction.
Contains Emperor Evolved and Task Worthy of Princes
The clan conquered human space, then went home. Each time great evil arose, one clan of the emperor's descendants sacrificed their lives to bring an emperor into being. There was no law on the frontier and pirates were taking most ships that passed through the stargates. Where there is no other law, the Death Angel wields the swords of justice.
Heroes Need a Captain
by Sharon L Reddy
Price: $3.99 USD. 185630 words.
Published on June 6, 2011. Fiction.
Dream Realm 2000 Science Fiction Novel of the Year.
The selk-changed pairs could see the "rainbow slides" into another area of space. When the selk disappeared, they became too valuable to be free. The frontier sectors were only connected by the slides. Corporations found war too profitable to allow them to end. Life contracts were legal slavery, until a slide led back to Earth.
Lone Ranger Legacy
by Sharon L Reddy
Price: $3.99 USD. 233780 words.
Published on June 6, 2011. Fiction.
The fourteen worlds of the theocracy of The Way of Light church had forced others in the sector to accept laws they wanted. Then tragedy struck. Major Addison was sent to get the army's share of the solution, two clones "that" would give her world healthy genetic material the laws wouldn't allow them to import. If Frabee's sweet blush was dangerous to Sereband, her culture had already changed.
Fire Eagles and Swan
by Sharon L Reddy
Price: $3.99 USD. 206080 words.
Published on June 6, 2011. Fiction.
Who looks for someone in hiding among those creating a legend?
Captain Angel carries the one who was always outside looking in into the future on her bright wings. Sweetie adds to her big sister programming and the Fire Eagles and Swan, the Beaus, lift the Lady Sigh from her chrysalis. Cerebus Guardian is known. The amulet of Zobrist is created. The change has begun.
Pentad
by Sharon L Reddy
Price: $3.99 USD. 227460 words.
Published on June 6, 2011. Fiction.
Do emperors have destinies? Who would look for the emperor of a patriarchy on a world run by women? Damia is a successful Amazonian utopia. Companion is the job for men. Toyboy is the respected title of male companions, who escort successful women and presidents to social functions. Another Amazonian culture chooses the five highest paid toyboys on Damia to guide them to change.
Destiny's Consort
by Sharon L Reddy
Price: $3.99 USD. 200430 words.
Published on June 6, 2011. Fiction.
This is a M/M demigod in bondage, alternate world fantasy.
Louis woke up fast. He was into something weird. It was as if he'd stepped into one of the fantasy stories he liked, but he had no doubt this was real. The lute looked like a bass with five strings. Would "rock star" translate?
He was going to get back and find who had sold him through a hole in the sky.
Hardline Lifer
by Sharon L Reddy
Price: $2.99 USD. 101610 words.
Published on June 6, 2011. Fiction.
"The only thing that would ever surprise him was love."
The setting of this novel is the far future. The truth of it is the present.
There is no escape for a Madran. There is only out. This is a story of the cost of prejudice and the truth of its permeation of society. It is a story of five men who will choose to teach it and Pannas Brett, who cannot be a man, or he will be punished and caged.
Forest Child
by Sharon L Reddy
Price: $2.99 USD. 78110 words.
Published on June 6, 2011. Fiction.
The last forest child wants to be human. He ventures from his forest to explore and makes good friends, but the forest isn't done with him yet. His best friend seeks him there, after tragedy strikes. They hadn't planned on a five century course of study. When they left the forest, it was possible to make the dream of being space traders possible, but what they'd learned carried a responsibility.
Center
by Sharon L Reddy
Price: $2.99 USD. 62490 words.
Published on June 6, 2011. Fiction.
Communicator groups are needed. The leader is known when he or she uses the power of the group to make someone hear them. That one becomes their center. The past is taken from those judged criminal without hope of rehabilitation. They are sentenced to be loved.
It was a new place and Tass was a bit nervous and looking around. The big man said exactly the wrong thing.
War Bride
by Sharon L Reddy
Price: $2.99 USD. 66790 words.
Published on June 6, 2011. Fiction.
He awoke. It was a shock. He hurt too much to be dead. He nearly resented it. He'd felt the shot that killed him. After that, the realization he was looking at a chain around his wrist and arm wasn't even surprising.
The disaster that couldn't happen had. When great disaster strikes, society must adapt to survive. Aid was sent to Caerdonna. They might be able to protect him.
The Suvival of Cade
by Sharon L Reddy
Price: $2.99 USD. 55950 words.
Published on June 6, 2011. Fiction.
Cade was a rock rat. The rats were more likely to survive their five years of service running the Soor Corp blockade than cubbies, but they'd lowered 'dult again and he gave his hole to an arban with a human toddle. The arban told him he earned luck. The blockade would end and arbans would call him the Luck Maker, but the legacy of it was a fleet whose only skill was destroy ships and kill.
Tanner
by Sharon L Reddy
Price: $2.99 USD. 55070 words.
Published on June 6, 2011. Fiction.
Tanner described herself as a "crusty old non-com." Swede made her an officer. The Tom Cat said they weren't welcome, but he'd been waiting for them. He made it back after he clawed off spies and Tanner and Kev learned all of what he needed to heal.
They just wanted peace, from neighborhoods being cracked open, gutters filling with the blood of young life and the dying promise of their futures.
Condor
by Sharon L Reddy
Price: $2.99 USD. 86620 words.
Published on June 6, 2011. Fiction.
There was something odd about the world Belle. Rex Tucker escaped it. He didn't know he had, until his captain warned him. He became Rhett Condorcet. No one in the founding family of Riley would give the same answer if asked why they began calling someone the Condor, but the world of Riley took note when they did. He had a home, family and work he loved, but Belle was still looking for Rex Tucker.
Bloodline
by Sharon L Reddy
Price: $2.99 USD. 83950 words.
Published on June 6, 2011. Fiction.
Trimmer adjusted her disguise. She didn't want to tour the remisk market, but a prosk collector would.
What HIA Investigator Argus finds could start a war. The three young men had been in the control of an insane remisk mindholder since they were babies. It couldn't disguise itself as human to abduct children of the three most important families in human space. Trovid could.
To Kill a Crystal Fly
by Sharon L Reddy
Price: $1.99 USD. 72060 words.
Published on June 6, 2011. Fiction.
Locke was furious when she spelled the gate. Font was right about her being the best for it, but she disliked the Paric Empire enough she was tempted to say the hell with them. The problem was Hell was poised to take over. The kakaran were on the move. The Guardian League was sworn to stop them.
She didn't know the two young men she bought were war trophies and she couldn't free them.
The Lonoki Solution
by Sharon L Reddy
Price: $2.99 USD. 41480 words.
Published on June 6, 2011. Fiction.
This is a love story between lon and nok.
Overpopulation had been a terrible threat. A genetics researcher had linked the release of egg and sperm to the emotion of love, but the link had been too strong.
No one knew why some had become masters and some slaves, but it bred true. Dane was magnificent, but a slave in name only. Only if he became one for Kiev, would he give their world children.
Hometown Kelly and the Gizmo Team
by Sharon L Reddy
Price: $0.99 USD. 37630 words.
Published on June 6, 2011. Fiction.
It was Hell and always had been. He'd worked not to wish he'd died with his parents in the accident he'd been too young to remember. He was alive and they weren't. Because they weren't, he was so rich he was kept alive. As long as he was, others had control of the wealth and used it, in his name of course, to make more. But they didn't know he was there. No one did. He thought.
Paradox Equation - Part Two
by Sharon L Reddy
Price: $5.00 USD. 655170 words.
Published on June 6, 2011. Fiction.
Books six through ten of the ten novel science fiction action-adventure masterwork.
The sons and grandchildren of Gallant choose to follow his way to defend life in the multiverse. As they do, they learn they must create themselves. They must solve the Paradox Equation of their existence.
Paradox Equation - Part One
by Sharon L Reddy
Price: $4.99 USD. 490080 words.
Published on June 5, 2011. Fiction.
Books one through five of the ten novel science fiction action-adventure masterwork.
The sons and grandchildren of Gallant choose to follow his way to defend life in the multiverse. As they do, they learn they must create themselves. They must solve the Paradox Equation of their existence.
Beau Zen
by Sharon L Reddy
Price: $2.99 USD. 105030 words.
Published on June 5, 2011. Fiction.
When the Princess in Cognizance was abducted and died, a world got mad. They gave the one she named heir, in her will, the best help they could, to find the princess' grandson. Smart kid, growing a bit too fast to keep his ankles covered had worked well. He wasn't ready, but he was prepared.
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