roelke

I'm a writer with a novella published.

I like science fiction, fantasy, mystery, sweet romance, children's, young adult, regency, and more. I'm never sure how to brand myself because I like all sorts of books!

Oh, and my name is pronounced "Roll-Key." :D


My YA fantasy romance novel, coming in 2012: Watch Over Me

My available novella:
The Space Station Murders--on Amazon (There are two reviews here!)
The Space Station Murders--from the publisher (There's an excerpt here!)

science fiction / mystery / buddy story
An ebook novella



These are my links:
~A. M. Roelke~ "The Space Station Murders" http://amzn.to/ixmMMu
SF / Mystery novella ~NOW AVAILABLE! ~ http://bit.ly/dmHnj0
My writing blog: http://thewritinglifeforme.blogspot.com/
Writing credits: http://sites.google.com/site/aliceroelke/
Facebook: http://on.fb.me/avHvJ0

Those With Guns
A Short Story by A.M. Roelke

Pages: 24
ISBN: 978-1-77127-003-8

Back Cover:

An ex-soldier living on a space station has trouble dealing with her memories of war. She blows off steam riding her illegal bike. One cop in particular outsmarts her, and she ends up sitting in jail, until one of her ex-soldier friends threatens to blow up the station if his demands aren't met. The cop lets her out of jail to help stop this and Jules's one-woman journey to stop her friend begins.
See excerpt here:
http://tinyurl.com/79hqouh

Also available on Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007G261GM



I'm looking for reviewers for my short story, too. If you're interested, please contact me. Just let me know where you would post your review, and which format you'd like (PDF, EPUB, or PRC). Thank you!

reposted from bookish LJ comm

I read 69 books in 2011. My disclaimer is that some were re-reads and some weren't very long!


Highlights:

Finished Emma, by Jane Austen. I read it on my Kindle and it was wonderful!

Discovered Jim Butcher's Storm Front and sequels. :D :D

Read The Lady and Her Tiger, by Pat Derby. Intense non-fiction about animal training and animals in film. Fortunately, many things have changed.

Grand Sophy, by Georgette Heyer. I just love reading this famous author of Regency romance! :D I don't know how she can keep surprising me.

Read two new Alexander McCall Smith books. They are like warm chocolate for me. :)

One of my favorite re-reads was a Young Adult book called Lucy the Giant, by Sherri L. Smith. Lucy, a very large-for-her-age Alaskan teenager who lives with her drunken father, finds a new sort of family when she goes to work on a crab fishing boat with people who think she's an adult. But her old life follows her, and to really grow up she has to find a way to face it instead of running again.

Also re-read both beloved Watership Down books, a couple of Diana Wynne Jones fantasies (bliss!), some Jim Kjelgaard dog stories, any number of A. A. Fair mysteries (old but excellent, and very fast-paced!), and Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K. Jerome's incomparable comedy.

Jackson Bluffs (space opera / sci fi / Mars related): http://www.raygunrevival.com/890/

He Gave Me Coal (a Christmas romance, very short): http://www.everydayfiction.com/he-gave-me-coal-by-alice-m-roelke/



For those interested, this is what I wrote in my email announcement for Jackson Bluffs:

My story, Jackson Bluffs, by Alice M. Roelke, is up at Ray Gun Revival. :)

I wrote this story ages ago to go with my other Mars stories, which
were published in the old RGR years ago. I had sent this one to
"Space Westerns," however. They sent me an acceptance after a long
time, but never published it, so eventually I asked for it back.
(They're supposed to be back to publishing sometime next year, but in
the meantime I'm very glad my story found a home at RGR!) :-)

My other Mars stories are:

"Message to Mars" http://www.raygunrevival.com/Published/RGR_0046_2008_09.pdf

"Evergreen and Always"
(a Christmas story)
http://www.raygunrevival.com/Published/RGR_0049_2008_12.pdf

"Sky Voices"
http://raygunrevival.com/Published/RGR_0054_2009.pdf

(All three of these are a bit angsty! The current one isn't.)

When I was younger I had a whole Mars-related timeline/universe in my
head and I loved playing with it, though I never seemed to get the BIG
one written! Some of this universe still persists for me and
influences my writing. Though I still don't know if I'll ever write
"the big one!" :)

Anyway, I'm very grateful that my fourth Mars-related story has a home
now, even though it's taken a few years. :)


And, after I talked with my mom about my short Christmas romance, I realized that I might have enough that didn't come through in the story (but that I thought had!), to create a whole novel out of it. And that would be an excellent Christmas present (belated, of course).


In other news, I am REALLY getting frustrated with my S-L-O-W connection and old computer access. I'm about ready to swear off both until I can do better!

In other-other news, I'm really getting somewhere with my Regency romance, "Laurie's Painter." It's over 30,000 words now. I love Regency, never thought I would be able to write it, but am feeling hopeful for this story to work out.

So, my SF/mystery/buddy story novella "The Space Station Murders," by A.M. Roelke (20,000 words) came out in May this year. I'm allowed to give out several promo copies per year for contests. I haven't had ANY contests this year so I'd like to catch up now.

I'll give out THREE copies, drawing to be held next Tuesday. I'll pick who gets it with a random number generator, no favoritism or special answers needed. Just comment and let me know you want a copy. If only three people comment, each will get a copy.

If you win, I'll need your email address so I can send you a copy in one of these three formats:

RTF
EPUB
PRC

(You can PM your email address to me if you win.)

I'd suggest, before commenting, that you read the two Amazon.com reviews to see if the story interests you: The Space Station Murders--on Amazon (Reviews here.)

Or read the beginning of the story here: The Space Station Murders--from the publisher (Excerpt here.)

Or, you can read the review that compares me to Robert Heinlein.


P.S. If you're a book reviewer and would rather have a review copy than enter a contest, just contact me about who you are and where you'd post a review. I'd also need you to let me know your email address and which format you'd prefer (of the three I have available).

I have cover art for my YA fantasy romance novel, Watch Over Me:



coming in 2012 from MuseItUp Publications

Watch Over Me, by Alice M. Roelke

On a grasslands world, a hero's daughter falls for a shape shifter -- the one man she can never have.

When a shape-shifter attacks 15-year-old Meri, a mysterious guy named Porse comes to her rescue. He’s also a shape-shifter—the friend of the Meri’s hero, the dead freedom-fighter Balile.

Porse tells Meri that she is really Balile’s daughter, and the current ruler wants her dead. Porse brings her to a town hidden from danger in the midst of the grasslands.

There she grows up, making friends and meeting her only living relative.

She also inherits her father’s blue sword—and falls increasingly in love with Porse, the one man she can never have.




Coming as an ebook from MuseItUp Publications in 2012.



image from Lajla Borg Jensen @ RGBStock.com. Used with permission.

I recently ran across a review of my story that I'd missed! It's really flattering! The reviewer compares my work to Heinlein. Totally undeserved, but lovely to hear, indeed!!

Stick around and prepare to comment; I plan to hold a giveaway of the ebook soon.

Today:


* Updates to my profile on the NaNo website. (AliceWrites)

* Received edits from my editor for Those With Guns, my SF/action short story that will be published by Muse It Up next year.

* did more writing on my Regency romance!



Recently:


* received two turn down notices, one for a short story, one for a novella

So, I am currently working on a regency romance.

I never thought of myself as a romance author, but after selling my first romance novel, which took me, oh, about 5 years to finally finish, I'm trying to stretch my wings.

Regency is not the easiest genre to write because it's like writing about a foreign country. Customs are different, clothes are strange, language is different.

I'm hesitant about writing it, but the story wants to be told, so I'm giving it a try. If I finish it, it'll take research before I dare send it anywhere. But right now, I'm just writing and seeing where the story takes me. I won't talk about the plot... because I don't want to lose any material by going over it too much. (This sort of jinx is real where writing is concerned!)

(P.S. My favorite regency author is Georgette Heyer--obviously--but I recently read a wonderful book called "The Lost Heir of Devonshire," by Grace Gibson, who is now my second-favorite regency author!)