JC Cassels

Who are you? My name is JC Cassels, I'm a wife, a mom, a writer, and an aspiring space pirate.

What genre/s do you write in? Science Fiction, with or without romance. I've also dabbled in historical romance and Southern Humor.

Why do you write?It's a surreal addiction. I keep hitting these so-called writer's groups, but even though you stand up and say "Hi, I'm JC and I'm a writer. I've been writing for thirty years," and the other writers, in their little folding chairs then all say "Hi, JC," nobody seems to have an answer on how to kick the habit. So I try to stay away from it until I get the shakes and go through withdrawals and I just have to do it. It's a vicious cycle. I'm considering electo-shock therapy... self-induced, of course. I think there's equipment for that in the Haunted Hospital where I write. Only problem is there's no electricity.

Planner or Pantser? A bit of both. I have a basic idea of where I'm going but I'm not always sure how to get there. The occasional breadcrumbs are helpful.

Where can we find you?
Find me on Facebook: JC Cassels
Check out my blog: Gotta Name My Blog
Follow me on Twitter: @calicoco468
Goodreads: J.C. Cassels
On Smashwords: JC Cassels
On Amazon: JC Cassels

Upcoming releases?The first installment of THE MERCENARY ADVENTURES OF BLADE DEVON is going to be released this fall. The title is ARCANA DOUBLE CROSS. Next spring I hope to release Book Two of the BLACK WING CHRONICLES.

Latest release? SOVRAN'S PAWN, Book One of THE BLACK WING CHRONICLES, a tale of deception, intrigue, and slinky women in see-through dresses.

Personal Bio: JC Cassels, a native of Tampa, Florida, traces her lifelong fascination with SF/Adventure to watching Star Trek on a tiny black and white portable television aboard the family boat as a child. The Space Opera trend that followed the release of Star Wars fed an obsessive need for swashbuckling adventure set in deep space. Today, JC feeds that need by writing her own adventures, heavily inspired by 1960's television shows like Star Trek, Mission: Impossible, and Wild Wild West and fueled by Firefly reruns.

When not writing in her haunted hospital, JC lives with her husband, three children, five dogs, twenty chickens and a horse in a century-old house in a tiny rural community, and enjoys spending her free time sewing, camping, and heckling theoretical physicists on the Science Channel.

Featured Publication: Hero's End

Hero's End - by JC Cassels

Given the choice between Love and Duty, which does one sacrifice for the other?

When a former lover with a score to settle nearly brings Blade Devon’s charmed life to an end, he seeks refuge and some time to lick his wounds with an old friend…leaving the woman he loves behind.

Bo Barron is no frail flower, despite her masquerade as Blade’s Joy Babe Mistress. She straps on her sidearm and goes off alone to track her missing father, kicking off a search that stretches across the galaxy – from the lair of the gruesome Rex, a clone with a taste for sentient biomatter, to Rogue’s Cross, the most dangerous space station in the outer Commonwealth.

Someone close to her doesn’t want Bo’s father found. To make matters worse, the First Sector Overlord orders Blade’s holofeature career over and Bo out of his life for good.

Surrounded by betrayal, Bo and Blade turn to each other…but the secrets he protects threaten to tear them apart.

One way or another, returning Bo’s father to his rightful place and following their hearts will mean HERO’S END.

A space opera novel, available on Amazon.

Further information about JC Cassels can be found here.

Featured Publication: Tales from the SFR Brigade

Several SFFS authors are members of the SFR Brigade. This group recently published an anthology to showcase some of the author talent available in the genre. Several of us were involved in the process, and author Pippa Jay had a short story that made it into the final publication.

Tales from the SFR Brigade - JC Cassels (Editor)

Experience love and adventure among the stars in TALES FROM THE SFR BRIGADE, a free digital anthology of eight Science Fiction Romance stories.

* A space captain discovers the cyborg she loves just might be her greatest enemy.

* A mind-wiped prostitute risks all when she recruits a dangerous stranger to help her escape a terrible fate.

* A prisoner-of-war confronts the comrade who loved her, then left her for dead.

* A space-obsessed physics teacher is kidnapped by a far-too-charming alien.

* An apocalypse survivor battles the biomech-enhanced hunter who seeks to capture her.

* A young artist must choose between her comfortable life on Earth or a war-torn space colony with her beloved.

* A daring thief is on the run from the alien law man who is determined to bring her to justice.

* A widowed rebel leader tries to save the last remnants of humanity, one stranger at a time.

From Earth to the furthest reaches of the galaxy, explore the worlds of Science Fiction Romance with stories from Linnea Sinclair, Marcella Burnard, Erica Hayes, Liana Brooks, Pippa Jay, Berinn Rae, Amy Laurens, and Kyndra Hatch.

A science fiction romance anthology. Availability is listed on the Tales from the SFR Brigade Anthology website.

Featured Publication: Sovran's Pawn

Sovran's Pawn - by JC Cassels

Convicted of treason and sentenced to be executed, Bo Barron is the last person who should be infiltrating a Sub-socia weapons auction. But when her father is kidnapped and the ransom demand is the schematics to an experimental weapon, she has no choice but to go under cover with her uncle to get it.

Nobody counted on former-government-agent-turned-holofeature-hero Blade Devon’s infatuation with her. A botched assassination under the guise of a bar brawl leaves Bo blind and Blade wondering if there isn’t more to this job than he was led to believe.

Never able to resist playing the hero, Blade tends her injuries and delves deeper into the intrigue only to find this mission isn’t about a weapon at all. It’s about two Sovrans’ maneuvering for control, with Bo and Blade as their pawns.

All Bo and Blade have to do is figure out how to survive the game they didn’t know they were playing.

A scifi romance, available on amazon.com.

Further information about JC Cassels can be found here.