A Pseudo-Writer's Musings

In case anyone is wondering (nobody is), I'm trying to write a CV after my MS, no relevant work history, I haven't worked in ages, so it's stressing me out. So of course I'm posting chapters here. Anything to keep my mind off of "how the hell do I get someone to lock me up in a lab, give me some experiments to do, and let me out when I'm done"?

So here I am. I have another unlinked journal on this site, but this is the place where I pretend to be a writer.

I am not. I never have been. My high school focus (French baccalaureate) was math-physics. I went on to two physics masters degrees, and after a hiatus to raise kids and write a bunch of fan fiction, started writing original fiction and went back to school for a masters in biology.

I've published one novel on amazon. Of course I'm going to link it!

Yellow Card. It's, needless to say, not very popular.

But I wrote two other novels, both untitled. Both, like _Yellow Card_ fall under the category of, I guess, romance. But. With a lot of background and other themes and relationships. So even if the romance is the major categorization, anyone reading for just the romance is going to be annoyed in all probability.

The first novel is m/m and while at times clear, is not too explicit. It started out as a techno thriller, but I quickly found out that my thing, the part I enjoy, is writing relationships between people. Which amuses me to no end because I absolutely suck at real life relationships. So it's a book about relationships, and not just romantic ones.

The one I just finished is m/f and I love it. Again, no tile yet. I suck at titles, clearly. One of my two bffs read (most of) it and described it as such:

Sexy Book with no name yet
by bestselling author Aster Alison


Jonathan and Melissa have a major case of not seeing their own special qualities. She's a renowned scientist and he's a child prodigy turned pediatric oncologist at the age of 24. But neither of them thinks the other deserves each other.

Their attraction is instant but she's 13 years older and fears the condemnation that will come from the outside world. He doesn't care about the difference - he is madly in love with her - but fears he can't get her to see how a life without each other is unbearable to imagine.

Can they overcome all of this to get the life they deserve together?

Available now for free on Kindle Unlimited

She makes it sound so much better than I ever could. Also, she's my friend, so totally exaggerated the "bestselling" part. I had to copy this from a text so typos mine.

Right now I'm doing a full read-through to check for plot holes. I'm going to need beta readers. My next little project is going to be to figure out how to recruit beta readers.