Celebrate Broad Releases: Winter 2023!

Title: A Wreck of Dragons 

Author: Elaine Isaak

“Pacific Rim” meets "How to Train Your Dragon" in this young adult science fiction adventure from Waterdragon Publishing. Giant Robots meet Dragons in this new adventure from Elaine Isaak.

With his giant robot, Norgay, teenage orphan Johari leads a team of scouts to find a new planet for mankind. The prospective world has it all: a great climate, nearly perfect air, and no signs of civilization. As the team dives in, Johari's best friend risks exposure to the alien world to claim biological samples that might be the salvation of their own species. Then the sample he shatters draws the wrath of angry, flying reptiles, and his own robot companion sacrifices itself to shield the fragile humans. Johari races to save his friend and raise one of their precious bots from beneath an alien sea—only to find he's being hunted by dragons.

As he's cast into a world of doubts, Johari suspects that these monsters are more than they seem. Will he claim a new world for mankind—and allow them to destroy their own humanity?

Purchase your copy of this “thought-provoking” and “breath-taking” novel in paperback, hardcover or electronic formats at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop, IndieBound. For more purchase options, visit Waterdragon Publishing.

Title: Love Stories, a short fiction collection

Author: Katherine Villyard 

What is love? What can love drive us to do? In Katherine Villyard’s collection of seven previously published and five previously unpublished stories, love pushes her characters to revenge, to reach beyond the boundaries of life and death. To rescue a family member. To fight the good fight without even knowing it, or to risk everyone and everything to save someone who may or may not be worthy. To make the wrong decisions and walk into hell. To transcend who we are. 

Love Stories is IndieReader Approved" (4.8 stars,) a Booklife Editor's pick, and was favorably reviewed by Kirkus. Learn more about Love Stories in IndieReader’s interview with Villyard, where she answers questions like "What is the main reason someone should really read this book?" and "When did you first decide to become an author?" and “Are you a toad sister or a rose sister?"

Purchase your ebook or print book at books2read.com/kvlovestories. For more news from Katherine Villyard, sign up for her newsletter. 

Hop into Spring and win a FREE copyedit! 

Do you have a fiction manuscript in need of editing love this spring, but can’t find an editor or maybe don’t have the funds to get the quality edit you dream of? Enter the MANUSCRIPT LOVE contest to win one of two full copy edits from editors Ripley Patton and Roxanne Bland, who is a Supporter of Broad Universe.

Submissions accepted until March 14, 2023.

For more information, visit ripley-patton.com/manuscript-love-contest 

Celebrate Broad Releases: July 2022!

Title: The JOY of Murder, A Daiyu Wu Mystery 

Author: Gloria Oliver 

When a highly respected member of the Little Mexico community is killed in 1930s Dallas, all the evidence points towards socialite Grace Pierce, wife of a local businessman and a former member of the Ku Klux Klan. Grace's son Truman turns to Daiyu Wu and her unique detective skills for help, but Dai, who is blind, quickly discovers that nothing about this case is what it seems. With her companion Jacques and canine bodyguard Prince Razor, Dai must navigate a family in turmoil, racial tensions, and shady business deals to find the actual killer before Truman's mother is sentenced to death. 

Second in A Daiyu Wu Mystery series. Pre-order for this July release. 

For free fiction and The JOY of Murder Release Celebration Giveaway, visit the author's website.  

Thank you for joining us for the Rapid Fire Reading at Nowescon 44 

Here is a list of the readers and their work:

• K.G. Anderson's “Miss Hackenberry Brews Tea” is in 99 Tiny Terrors, and "Yoga for Protestors” will be released in June 2022 in The Protest Diaries from B Cubed Press. Visit writerway.com/fiction for more stories. 
• Carole Berg, Son of Avonar. Available in print, eBook and audio from  WordFire Press, Barnes and Noble and Amazon. Find Carol's other titles at www.carolberg.com and www.categlass.com.
• Rebecca A. Demarest's "Under the Wire," unpublished flash. Find Rebecca's published work at rebeccademarest.com. 
• Jude-Marie Green's "First Instance," an unpublished short story. Find more of Jude-Marie's work in several anthologies and online magazines. 
• Debora Godfrey's “Don’t get the Bible Wet” from Alternative Theologies: Parables for a Modern World
• Marta Murvosh's two scenes from The Call of Water, an unpublished work in progress. Visit murvosh.weebly.com/fiction for Marta's published stories.

For bios on all the readers, please view the BU norwescon flier 2022-fullpage.pdf

Thank you everyone who attended in person or virtually. And a huge "Thank You" to Norwescon and their programming volunteers who have made Broad Universe welcome for more than 10 years. 

Join us at Nowescon 44 from 8-9:30 pm Saturday, April 16 for a fun, fast-paced reading featuring several authors.

The convention is offering a free virtual membership and the Rapid Fire Reading will be among the panels streamed. 

The authors reading are: K.G. Anderson, Carole Berg/Cate Glass, Rebecca A. Demarest, Jude-Marie Green, Debora Godfrey and Marta Murvosh.

For those new to Rapid Fire Readings, each author will have about 10 minutes to read a selection. 

More details at https://broaduniverse.org/event-4563098

Broad News: 

The Firma Twins and the Flute of Enchantment by D. H. Timpko is among 20 books selected for 2021 Gertrude Warner Book Awards in Middle Grade Fiction's short list. The Gertrude Warner Book Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in middle-grade fiction. Finalists and winners will be announced in late June. 

The Broad Universe Motherboard supports our volunteers by prioritizing their safety. We want to keep our supporters as safe as we can during these times.

For the next 3 to 6 months, the decision whether to host dealer room tables at conferences will be determined on a case-by-case basis, taking into account the state of the pandemic, the location, size, and setup of the conference, and the number of Broads available to staff the table in addition to any other mitigating factors.

We hope that by the spring, we can resume offering dealer's room tables for conventions, and we encourage Broads who are interested in managing these tables or who have questions about this decision to reach out to us via the President or the Motherboard. 

Broad Universe requires Rapid Fire Reading participants to wear masks over their nose and mouths even while reading as required by the Pandemic Masking Policy Participants must also follow any additional requirements set out by the conference. This is vital if we are to continue to be a part of these conferences during the ongoing pandemic. 

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Missing Arisia?

Then join Broad Universe for a Not-Arisia-RFR at the time the convention would have occurred!

The Motherboard hopes this virtual event on Friday, Jan. 14 at 7pm ET will help soothe those missing the annual convention, which was canceled for 2022.

For those new to Rapid Fire Readings, each author will have about 8 minutes to read a selection. Don't miss the chance to discover your next favorite author!

Registration is required! Visit our Calendar and the event listing to sign up.

Featuring authors: LJ Cohen, Randee Dawn, Marianna Martin, Anne Nydam, Dianna Sanchez, Kathy Sullivan, and Jo Weston.

Our new website is live, and if you're a Broad, you're likely wondering how to get into Broad-only content. 

Here's the directions: 

• Select the head-and-shoulders icon in the upper right corner. 
• The icon will change to pale blue after logging in and then you can access Broads-only content. 
• Set up your password. We're sorry we couldn't keep the old passwords. They were known only to you. You can even reuse your old one.
• On the Login page, select Forgot password. 
• Enter the email that you use with Broad Universe. 
• A password will be emailed to you. 
• You should receive a password quickly. If you don’t check your SPAM folder. If a password hasn't arrived in an hour, then email the Treasurer. Some of you have used two or three emails with us, so please send the best email to receive Broad Universe information. 
• Once you get your password, login using your email.
• Start exploring!   

The new site offers profile and privacy settings you control! Your profile appears in the public Directory so that readers and SF/F/H fans can learn about your work.

• To update your profile (and please do, regularly!), log in, then click on the head-and-shoulders icon. 
• Your name is followed by View profile | Change password | Log out
• View profile takes you to My Profile where you can update or change information. Here you can:
• • See what the public sees by selecting My directory profile.
  • Add the cover art for 2 books along with titles and buy links. 
  • Add your pronouns 
  • There are several other options on the My Profile to explore, including:
  • Member photo albums, a great place for artists to post their work
  • Privacy, where you can select how much you want to share with the public and other Broads. For professionals looking for more freelance gigs, having your contact info public might be helpful. 
• Don't forget to save changes when you're done! 

After you login in, checkout the Welcome Broads page. Contact the Motherboard with any questions.

Please pardon the digital dust for a few days

While we don’t anticipate any lengthy or major disruptions, we’re about to move our website to a new web host, change our email provider, and make other large backstage technical changes.

So for the next couple days, if the site is down, or your email inquiry seems to have temporarily fallen through a wormhole—there’s no cause for alarm, and we’ll be back online and fully operational before you know it.

Thanks for your patience through any hiccups, and we hope you’ll love the new site.

Warm regards,

The Motherboard