Comments Enabled

Yunaleska let me know Comments were still restricts.  This was leftover from when I was pregnant and worried I wouldn't be available to moderate for periods of time.  Comments are now enabled, although they get sent to me for approval before being published.  I know this slows down any potential conversation, but I want to make sure my younger friends are not harrassed or insulted. 

Blog Renovation Brainstorming

Hello, YA-SciFi Geniuses!  My baby is out of the newborn stage and the holidays are over, so I'm thinking of renovating this blog and reactivating.  I still have a lot going on in my life, but I've learned I need to balance what I need to do with what I like to do or I'll go nuts.  What's the old saying?  "All work and no play makes Jane a very dull girl."  Or something like that.  I got to have my little creative outlets.
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I've especially been nostalgic about Star Trek Voyager lately and am brainstorming ideas on how to incorporate that nostalgia. 
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Star_Trek_Voyager
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I want to keep up with news on the new Star Trek movies too.

Of course, I'm always on the lookout for good books for you all, but it's not easy.  There are so few of them to begin with.  The ones which don't insult your intelligence often have flat characters which would bore you to death.  I'm committed to reviewing one Young Adult book a month at my regular book review blog, giving preference to anything Science Fiction-flavored and including books not necessarily marketed to young people, but which I think will appeal. 
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Here's a few good ones in the Temporal Vortex I think you'll like-
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CRASHED by Robin Wasserman.  It's already out and you might find it in a good library. I reviewed the first in her series, SKINNED, a while back.  Scroll down.  I don't know if this one will be sent to me.

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LEVIATHAN by Scot Westerfeld.  He wrote the UGLIES series.  I own this one already.  Looks really steampunkish.

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XOMBIES Apocolypticon by Walter Greatshell.  I just reviewed the first, APOCALYPSE BLUES, in November.  The new one comes out February.  I'll review it when it gets to me.  It's written for growed-ups too, but I think you'll love it anyway.  The first one made my Top Ten for 2009.
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So, anyway, I'll keep brainstorming and let you all know.  If you have any ideas, feel free to comment or email.
kimberannebulaATyahooDOTcom

THOSE OF MY BLOOD by Jacqueline Lichtenberg

Reviewed by me at-
http://enduringromance.blogspot.com/2010/01/those-of-my-blood-by-jacqueline.html
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Alien vampires, not your standard Blood-Sucking Dead Guys.
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This was written for the growed-ups a while back, but I think you'll like it if you remember teens weren't the intended audience.  There's nothing more graphic than you'd find in a PG-13 movie, tops.