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Inspiration

It's been a long time since I posted anything here. Darn. And I was doing so much better for a while. Still, the reason for the neglect was a good one — my freelance business really has taken off over the past few months, and between juggling clients and their projects and trying to get my own new release (Blood Will Tell, a science fiction romance set in the same universe as Breath of Life) ready to go, things got a little nuts. I...

Why Lavinia Doesn’t Get Laid, or, Ruminations on Sex in Romance Novels

I’ve had sex on my mind a lot lately. No, not that way (well…ahem). Okay, also in a sort of meta-way, probably brought on at first by the whole PayPal/erotica debacle, and then by a discussion on the Kindleboards by some authors who say Amazon is purposely keeping certain racy titles out of the search function on the site. When the PayPal thing blew up on the blogosphere, my second reaction (my first being righteous indignation over...

It’s Read an Ebook Week!

Or you know, you could read three or four. It’s up to you. Smashwords is having a big promotion to celebrate the event, and I have Breath of Life and Heart of Gold on sale for 50% off all week long. All you have to do to get the discount is enter the code “REW50″ at checkout. Here’s the link to my author page at Smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/ChristineJPope And while you’re over at Smashwords,...

I’m Now on Tumblr

Just because I didn’t have enough social media whatchamathingies to keep me busy, I’ve also signed up for a Tumblr blog. Actually, the idea of Tumblr appeals to me a good deal, just because I find that lots of things catch my eye, but posting about them here or on Facebook or Twitter just doesn’t seem quite right. I have a tendency to download lots of images when I’m researching a book or working on a cover design, and...

About

A native of Southern California, Christine Pope has been writing stories ever since she commandeered her family’s Smith-Corona typewriter back in the sixth grade. Her short fiction has appeared in Astonishing Adventures, Luna Station Quarterly, and the journal of dark fiction, Dark Valentine.

Books

Novels and novellas are listed in reverse order of publication, with the most recent first. At some point I suppose I'll get really serious and start dividing them out by genre, but in the meantime you can just start at the top and work your way backward.

Works in Progress

Like most writers, I tend to have a lot of things in the hopper. Some are completed and in the editing process, while others are barely a twinkle in my eye. Maybe I'm nuts for putting this stuff out on the web, but if nothing else, having the whole world know what I'm planning may be a good cure for procrastination…

Free Stuff

This is where you can come to get free reads. Most of these are short stories, but every once in a while I may post something longer. Welcome to Skullcrusher Mountain, for example, is a novella of around 25K, and I’m offering it for free because it was written under a Creative Commons license that allowed me to create a derivative work as long as I didn’t make any money off it.

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