*SFN | SciFi November – SciFi Month* 2014 Announcement of Events

Full List of Bloggers, Authors, and Publishers taking part in this wicked event!

Complete Schedule Listing for SFN!!

IF your a tweater &/or SFN Geek click over to the SFN TW Channel: #RRSciMonth

Whilst #amblogging posts of #RRSciFiMonth #amlistening to #HeartsOfSpace :) Created badge of gratitude @heartsofspace pic.twitter.com/huT5FZIef4

— Jorie Loves A Story (@JLovesAStory) November 3, 2014

I had the forethought to start carving out what I wanted to do for Sci Fi November at the end of Summer, but due to unexpected interruptions we all experience time to time in our lives, I have unfortunately started a bit late in my active participation this year! I have a full schedule of events I am putting together to share with everyone and I am most anxious to see your thoughts & comments populate my comment threads! I look forward to the conversations & I appreciate your patience whilst I was able to work out the technical issues I was experiencing with my computer during the first week of Sci Fi November!

I have been actively tweeting & sharing a lot of #RRSciFiMonth love on Twitter; if you see me favouring your tweets and/or randomly tweeting the tag for the event, know that I started when you guys did on the 1st! I am going to be back-blogging & releasing posts meant to run during the first week whilst continuing to move forward ahead on schedule for the rest of the month!

Here’s to celebrating science fiction!

And, before I release my post on being a Fantasy Girl at Heart, please note I have included focus tracks on Fantasy as they tend to run concurrent to my wanderings in science fiction especially when real-life science fact is interwoven into science fiction thrillers (in the case of Paul Mark Tag’s series) or where science fiction & fantasy start to bleed into each other in a new sub-genre for “Sci-Fantasy” (in the case of C.A. Gray’s Piercing the Veil series).

I am quite eager to celebrate not only the month on my blog but to continue to tweet out love for other participants whilst I make my rounds through the book blogosphere! I might be the Sci Fi November Tortoise but I am chuffed to be amongst such wonderfully wicked company! Here’s to us!

I am continuing the project I started during SFN: 2013 therefore there are references back to last year’s event threaded throughout my SFN: 2014 participation! (Full Archive of SFN: 2013)

– Jorie @ Jorie Loves A Story, 8th of November, 2014

JLAS Features in Conjunction to SFN:

My entire SFN Schedule needs a fortnight extension therefore my SFN posts will be running concurrent through the 14th of December, 2014! I simply did not have enough time to properly bring everything to the forefront during the month of November and I am amending my schedule to reflect the changes on 24th November, 2014. I appreciate your patience and I hope you will continue to enjoy what I am going to be showcasing & celebrating!

• A Fantasy Girl at Heart (9 Nov)
• The Classics Club Spin #8 | Jorie chooses 5 books
  to read in celebration of Sci-Fi Nov (7 Nov)
• Sci Fi Readathon via The Nerdy Journalist (Stats via RALs & Challenges) (8 Nov)
• Sci Fi November Bingo (2013) + (2014) (8 Nov)
• (Sci-Fi Blogs) & (Sci-Fi Authors I Have Read)
• (Sci-Fi Yet to Read)
• SFN 2nd Year Participant Shares All (Wrap-Up) (30 Nov)

*SPECIAL CONTRIBUTOR FEATURES*

C.A. Gray | Live Author Q&A Session | 3 Nov @ 8-10p NYC (EST) This post will remain open throughout November to new commentary & questions to be proposed to the author! There is a hearty girth of information in the comment threads from the live event itself — from the story to becoming an Indie author! Stop by! I will be alerting Ms. Gray when new comments appear in order for you to have a timely response!

Month9Books Friday Reveal | Special Steampunk Post | 5 Dec (first extended week of SFN)

Cecil  Castellucci | Author Interview | 30 Nov (last week of SFN)

My SFN Schedule of Posts:

Mondays & Wednesdays: Fantasy Book Reviews

Fantasy Showcase : the Piercing the Veil series Invalid book: 0

Review: Intangible by C.A. Gray (prior to SFN: 30 Oct)

Review: King of the Mutants by Samantha Vérant (5 Nov – Wednesday)

Review: Becoming Beauty by Sarah Boucher (9 Nov – Sunday) *scheduled in advance

Review: Invisible by C.A. Gray (10 Nov – Monday)

Review: Impossible by C.A. Gray  (1 Dec – Monday)

Review: The Dragon of Unrest by Anthony Russo
(Audiobook) w/ Companion Novella E-Book (3 Dec – Wednesday)

Review: Dance Until Dawn by Berni Stevens (3 Dec – Wednesday)

Interview: EDC Johnson on behalf of Moonflower (review prior to SFN) (10 Dec – Wednesday)

Review: Portals, Passages, & Pathways by B.R. Maul (10 Dec – Wednesday)

SPECIAL SHOWCASE: Piercing the Veil Serial Overview (8 Dec – Monday)

Thursdays: Dystopian Showcase Invalid book: 0
& a few moonlighting Fantasy Reviews!

Main Post: A Book Showcase: Dystopian from a Skeptics POV – 7th November, 2013

Review: Fade to Black by Sue Duff (13 Nov) Paranormal Fantasy

Review: An Uncommon Blue by R.C. Hancock (22 Dec) YA Dystopian

Review: All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill (TBA close to Asti’s review @ end of Nov)

Review: Sinking Down by E. Chris Garrison (TBA Dec) Paranormal Fantasy 

Reading Journals of Dystopian Lit (TBA)

BOOK CHOICES:

The Postman by David Brin 

Across the Universe by Beth Revis

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi 

Prized by Caragh M. O’Brien

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

* I lost interest in The Archived & Divergent opting not to read 

Fridays: Steampunk Showcase Invalid book: 0

Main Post:  A Book Showcase [focused on] Steampunk! (3 Nov 2013)*

Review: The Gin Thief by S.C. Barrus (5 Dec)

Review: The Dark Unwinding by Sharon Cameron (12 Dec)

BOOK CHOICES:

The Dark Unwinding by Sharon Cameron

The Search for WondLa by Tony DiTerlizzi 

The Clockwork Universe by Edward Dolnick

Mainspring by Jay Lake

Airborn by Kenneth Oppel

Steampunk (Anthology) by Ann Vandermeer

Saturdays (& a Tuesday): Time Travel Book Reviews

Main Post: A Book Showcase [focused on] Time Travel – 5th November, 2013

Review: A Stitch in Time by Amanda James (25 Nov – Tuesday)

Review: Time and Again by Deborah Heal (24 January | Sci Fi Experience)

Review: Unclaimed Legacy by Deborah Heal (6 Dec – Saturday)

Review: Every Hill and Mountain by Deborah Heal (13 Dec – Saturday)

SPECIAL SHOWCASE: History Mystery Serial Overview w/ Author Interview (9 Dec – Tuesday)

Reading Journals of Time Travel Lit (TBA)

BOOK CHOICES:

The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer

The Little Book by Selden Edwards

The Lost Prince by Selden Edwards

The Map of Time by Felix J. Palma

The Kingdom of Ohio by Matthew Fleming

Expiration Date by Duane Swierczynski

City at the End of Time by Greg Bear 

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Saturdays: Doctor Who Reviews & Conversations

ON HOLD TIL 2015 – unable to ILL materials in time for 2014!

[made possible by my local library’s two tier ILL service! bless them!]

Main Post: A Wide-Eyed Girl Slips Into the Whovian Universe – 2nd November, 2013

| Diary of a Nu-Whovian! | (2 Nov)*

• Week One – Series 5 of Doctor Who [select episodes] (2 Nov 2013)
• Week Two – Series 4 of Doctor Who [select episodes] (1 Nov)
• Week Three – Series 2 of Doctor Who [select episodes] (8 Nov)
• Week Four – Series 3 of Doctor Who [select episodes] (15 Nov)
• Week Five – Series 1 of Doctor Who [select episodes] (22 Nov)
• Week Six – Series 6 & 7 & 50th Anniversary Special of Doctor Who [select episodes] (29 Nov)

Sundays: Science Fiction based on Science Fact (Thrillers)

Review: Category 5 by Paul Mark Tag (1 Dec)

Review: Prophecy by Paul Mark Tag (7 Dec)

Review: White Thaw: The Helheim Conspiracy by Paul Mark Tag (14 Dec)

Previously I reviewed a Historical Fiction War Drama by Paul Mark Tag