USA Today bestselling author Jennifer L. Hart

Are you an Amazon Prime customer? If so, you can borrow either Stellar Timing or The Misadventures of the Laundry Hag: Skeletons in the Closet for free for your kindle reading device! Do you like the snazzy new cover I did up for Stellar? Yeah, it was time so I got up at 5:30 this morning to do it up right. Spread the word to all of your friends and family because I'd like a few new readers for Christmas!

And believe me, it's a huge sigh of relief! Mary Gramlich, the Reading Reviewer, is the first back with the verdict on Stellar. " Creating paranormal universes and characters that are detailed but not complicated is a very tight rope to write. Jennifer Hart shows she has the mettle to write it, get you to read it and absolutely love it. This story takes you to a place that you believe exists and worth fighting for to keep with characters that win you over with a sense of humor and kick in the pants spunk. Bravo!" You can read her entire review HERE. This is a big turnaround from the last time I self-published one of my books. No matter how much I believe in a story, I can never take my own opinion to the bank. And I know Mary isn't a big science fiction reader, which makes the victory that much sweeter! Because that's my aim, to entertain both die hard sci-fi fans and romance readers alike. And putting out a quality product always makes me happy.

This week's offering comes from my brand spanking new ebook, Stellar Timing . I love this story, my first place winner in the 2010 On the Far Side Contest, science fiction/ futuristic category. This snippet is the first encounter between my heroine, Ellie, and her space prince. If I've hooked you, feel free to click the cover to buy from Amazon for $2.99! Swea t and what appeared to be blood matted his hair into clumps and so much ash stuck in the shoulder length strands, the color was impossib le to decipher. More blood coated the plates of metal covering every inch of his giant frame. He removed his hand from her trembling lips. “What do you want?” Ellie whispered, more afraid than she’d ever been. “Sanctuary,” he rasped before those midnight eyes rolled back and he crashed at her feet.

Some stellar news on the stellarverse! Seems Brennigan and Ellie have stormed the gate over at the RWA's FF&P contest and firmly entrenched themselves in the finals! From here the first twenty pages of the manuscript goes to an editor at Pocket Books, who will then decide the winner for the futuristic category. Frankly, I'm hoping for more, as in a request by said editor to see the full manuscript. I love this multiversal world, love the characters and next to Maggie and Neil, don't think I've ever created a better set-up for a series. In other news, I'm still planning to Nano, even if my alter ego, Lusha Lovelace, is whining that we can do another short in the next week. I learned my lesson last year, and this time I'm setting up a rough outline and world building before tackling the project. And yes, this is going to b a full length Lusha novel because if anyone can get into thirty days and nights of literary abandon, she sure can! Now if only I could come...

I don't know how much its worth, but I love my temp cover for book two in the Stellarverse series, almost as much as the first half a chapter I've written. The cover is for inspiration, to set the mood of the piece. As you can see, I fully intended to make this one a little more intense I promised myself a break; I've already completed two novels this year, but the truth is, I really don't want one. All I do is think about the next project and if I'm already devoting my brain power to it, I might as well write it! I'd fire me from household duties if I could. But I live with three boys and a beagle and they sure aren't going out of their way to tackle the to do list. Next life, I'm coming back a man or a dog.