Instructors: Linnea Sinclair and Michael L. Helfstein

January 4, 2010 through January 31, 2010

$10 for FFnP members and $25 for non-members

www.romance-ffp.com/event.cfm?EventID=91

At ease, writers! Let RITA(R) award winning science fiction romance author (and retired private detective) Linnea Sinclair and USNR (Ret.) Michael Helfstein show you how to mix real military facts with paranormal, science fiction, and fantasy inventions to create the space fleet, alien paramilitary, or alternate universe armed forces you need for your science fiction or urban fantasy novel. Learn how to create realistic yet otherworldly military characters, settings, ships, regulations, and more in this fascinating and fun class.

Michael L Helfstein’s military career started in 1967 when, as a USNR seaman recruit, he was assigned to an old WW2 destroyer at the Washington Navy Yard. He spent the next twenty-three years at numerous locations, and has worked as an admin officer, training officer, ops officer. and data officer in a security group until winding up as a LCDR Commanding Officer at a reserve unit at an “unspecified location.” In between all that he managed to get a BA in Math. In civilian life he’s worked as an Advisory Programmer in the IBM Federal Systems Division, and for the AOL technology division.

Linnea Sinclair – Winner of the prestigious national book award, the RITA®, science fiction romance author Linnea Sinclair has become a name synonymous for high-action, emotionally intense, character-driven novels. Reviewers note that Sinclair’s novels “have the wow-factor in spades,” earning her accolades from both the science fiction and romance communities. Starlog magazine calls Sinclair “one of the reigning queens of science fiction romance.” Sinclair’s releases include Gabriel’s Ghost (RITA® winner), Games of Command Pearl Award winner and RITA® finalist), The Down Home Zombie Blues (Pearl Award Honorable Mention), Shades of Dark (Pearl and Prism Awards winner), and Hope’s Folly (Romantic Times Book Reviews Top Pick.)

A former news reporter and retired private detective, Sinclair resides in Naples, Florida (winters) and Columbus, Ohio (summers) along with her husband, Robert Bernadino, and their thoroughly spoiled cats. Readers can find her perched on the third barstool from the left at
www.linneasinclair.com, her Intergalactic Bar and Grille

Look for Rebels and Lovers — release date March 2010, Bantam Dell.

For these two renegades, falling in love is the ultimate rebellion…It’s been two years since Devin Guthrie last saw Captain Makaiden Griggs. But time has done little to dampen his ardor for the beautiful take-charge shuttle pilot who used to fly yachts for his wealthy family. While his soul still burns for her, Kaidee isn’t the kind of woman a Guthrie is allowed to marry—especially in this time of intergalactic upheaval, with the family’s political position made precarious by Devin’s brother Philip, now in open revolt against the Empire. And when Devin’s nineteen-year-old nephew Trip goes inexplicably missing, his bodyguard murdered, this most dutiful of Guthrie sons finds every ounce of family loyalty put to the test. Only by joining forces with Kaidee can Devin complete the mission to bring Trip back alive. Only by breaking every rule can these two renegades redeem the promise of a passion they were never permitted to explore. At what risk? A political empire, a personal fortune and both their hearts and lives…

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