REVIEW: Starrie by Heidi Ruby Miller at Publisher's Weekly

REVIEWS

Nice review from Publisher's Weekly for Starrie (From the World of Ambasadora) by Heidi Ruby Miller! Though it is a standalone novel, this book takes place chronologically right after Greenshift and runs concurrent with Marked by Light.

"Miller’s short third novel in the space-faring, caste-bound, hierarchically polyamorous, and socially striated Ambasadora universe (after 2013’s Greenshift) manages to balance the exoticized presentation of the setting with relatable human interaction...the romance between Ben and Naela highlights the emotional side of reaching out to those who are different from you, even in a world where those differences are stylized and codified."

Read the whole review here.

BOOK: Starrie (From the World of Ambasadora) by Heidi Ruby Miller

BOOKS


STARRIE IS AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER FROM DOG STAR BOOKS!!

In this caste-ruled society, where multiple partners are the norm, celebrity, beauty, and power mean everything. Love and jealousy are considered emotional fallacies, nothing more than fleeting moods and sentiments biased by hormones. But sometimes people just fall in love...and that can be deadly.

Ben Anlow and his team embark on a revenge mission to bring down serial murderer and rapist, Liu Stavros, at his fortress in the inhospitable mountains of Tampa Three. But contractor Naela Starrie already has her own kind of vengeance planned for Stavros. Even as a battle-hardened soldier, Ben's not prepared for the darkness he sees in the female assassin, nor the way she challenges his prejudices about her people when she makes a sacrifice to save to his life.

COVER ART by Bradley Sharp

FOREWORD by Jason Jack Miller
Find out more about this new novel on the STARRIE page at Heidi's site.

Event Photos: INDELIBLE INK and STEEL VICTORY Launches

Friday, June 26th saw the launches of Matt Betts's INDELIBLE INK and J.L. Gribble's STEEL VICTORY at the In Your Write Mind conference book signing. Heidi Ruby Miller, Albert Wendland, and K. Ceres Wright were also on hand to represent Dog Star.

 

 

  

Raw Dog and Dog Star

WORKSHOP: Science Fiction in Thrillers by Heidi Ruby Miller at Pennwriters 2015

Heidi Ruby Miller is presenting part of her Science Fiction in Thrillers class from Seton Hill's MFA in Writing Popular Fiction program for the 2015 Pennwriters Conference, Building Bridges.

Here is the description:
Where would you shelve a book about scientists cloning dinosaurs for a theme park or a man turning into a chimera or how about the unleashing of a zombie plague? I asked authors and editors for insights into how the industry categorizes thrillers with expansive science fictional elements. If you write these types of stories, where do you think you fit in?

The Pennwriters Conference is in Pittsburgh this year on the weekend of May 15 - 17 at the Pittsburgh Airport Marriott. Keynote speaker is Ridley Pearson. For a full list of workshops, peruse the website.

Event Photos: In Your Write Mind Book Signing

Dog Star Books authors Matt Betts, Heidi Ruby Miller, Al Wendland, and K. Ceres Wright were on hand Friday night to take part in a massive book signing as part of the In Your Write Mind workshop at Seton Hill University in Greensburg, PA. Raw Dog Screaming Press broke our record for most sales at an event by 150%!

Shanna Sampson receives a signed copy of Ambasadora from Heidi Ruby Miller

K. Ceres Wright shows off a poster for COG

Raw Dog author Jason Jack Miller shares a laugh with Dog Star author Matt Betts

K. Ceres Wright signs a copy of COG for Becky Watson

K. Ceres Wright

Amy Culey receives a signed copy of Greenshift from Heidi Ruby Miller

Dog Star authors K. Ceres Wright, Al Wendland, Heidi Ruby Miller, and Matt Betts

Event: In Your Write Mind

June 26-29 • Seton Hill University, Greensburg, PA 
 

Every year Seton Hill hosts a writing workshop that includes classes on various professional writing topics, guest lectures and workshops from industry professionals, pitch sessions a massive book signing (free and open to the public) and a costume ball. This is an excellent way for writers to hone their craft and make connections. To learn more and sign up for the workshop go here.

The MASSIVE author signing is FREE and OPEN to the Public!
Friday, June 27, 7-10pm

DSB authors who will be signing books this year include:
Matt Betts
Heidi Ruby Miller
K. Ceres Wright

In addition to the book signing, Dog Star Books will be debuting THE MAN WHO LOVED ALIEN LANDSCAPES by Albert Wendland.

Stop by to meet our authors and pick up some great summer reads!

COVER: The Man Who Loved Alien Landscapes by Albert Wendland

PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY!


A science fiction novel that begins as a murder mystery and is taken over by an interstellar treasure hunt.

What could draw poet, explorer, loner and paranoid Mykol Ranglen away from the relative peace of his own ring-in-space habitat?
He has no choice in the matter as one by one acquaintances are murdered or disappear altogether. Propelled by ever changing and deepening mysteries Mykol embarks to uncover secrets which could make people rich beyond their wildest dreams…or tear apart human civilization.

The escalating quest takes him through worlds of many dangerous extremes, leading him to confront the deadly alien Fist of Thorns, extinct species refusing to give up their power over the future, and those racing against him to uncover the secret first. But in the course of his pursuit, he must also face his own secrets. And some of these are even more dangerous.

The Man Who Loved Alien Landscapes by Albert Wendland

Cover Art by Bradley Sharp

Foreword by William H. Keith

Space Opera Paperback coming from Dog Star Books in June 2014

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What They’re Saying About The Man Who Loved Alien Landscapes
"Mystery, heart-pounding adventure, and the dazzling wonders of far-flung space play significant roles in Wendland's breakout novel, all while gifting us with a mesmerizing tour of alien landscapes destined to get under your skin and remind you of the very reason science fiction exists: Not to escape to other worlds, but to find ourselves within them."
--Diana Dru Botsford, author of THE DRIFT and FOUR DRAGONS

Inside are alien worlds and titanic space habitats and a brilliant and paranoid hero, all skillfully blended together with long-vanished galactic secrets. Science fiction… good science fiction, by a college professor of literature who loves good SF."
--From the foreword by William H. Keith, New York Times Bestselling Science Fiction Author

Many thanks to our participating bloggers:
Albert Wendland
Caroline Gessner
Cary Caffrey
D A Bale
Deanna Sjolander
Heidi Ruby Miller
Hily's BeeHive
Jason Jack Miller
John Edward Lawson
K.Ceres Wright
Kit 'N Kabookle
Lyndi Alexander - winner of a paperback!
Liz Coley
Maria Hammarblad
Matt Betts
Mike Mehalek
Patrick Stutzman
Sally Bosco
Stephanie Wytovich
T. K. Toppin
Theodore Webb

COVER REVEAL AND PRE-ORDER: Ambasadora: Marked by Light by Heidi Ruby Miller

Finally, the much-anticipated re-release of the book that gave us the Ambasadora-verse, reworked with a new beginning, cover and foreword.

If everyone told you love wasn’t real, would you still be willing to die for it?

Sara Mendoza and Sean Cryer are.

In their multi-partner, caste-ruled society, love and jealousy are considered emotional fallacies, nothing more than fleeting moods and sentiments biased by hormones. Relationships and conceptions in this world obsessed with celebrity, beauty, and power are based on DNA and lineages…or should be. But not everyone believes in the ruling traditions of the all-powerful Embassy. A quiet rebellion prowls the dark underground of this shiny world where techno-militants calling themselves fraggers grow in numbers and bravado. The Embassy intends to silence the fragger movement before the heresy of equality spreads throughout the system.

Sara Mendoza is part of the Embassy’s plan. Captured, tortured, and falsely accused of treason, she is given a chance to win back her freedom. She only needs to charm information from one of the fragger leaders, then kill him. But by the time she figures out the Embassy’s intel is flawed and that Sean Cryer is her true mark, she’s already in love with him.

Sean knows why Sara is on his ship from the start, but as a lonely, anti-social doser, he doesn’t value his life, only his ideology within the fragger organization. Against his better judgment, he becomes her protector, each day caring more about a future he was always afraid to hope for.

Ambasadora: Marked by Light by Heidi Ruby Miller

Cover Art by Bradley Sharp

Foreword by Jenna Bennett

Space Opera Paperback coming from Dog Star Books in April 2014

PRE-ORDER NOW FOR A SIGNED COPY, A FREE EBOOK, AND TO BE IN THE RUNNING FOR A BASKET FULL OF HEIDI'S FAVORITE THINGS

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What They’re Saying About Ambasadora: Marked by Light
"Ambasadora has a lot to say about the human spirit and it says it well."
—Mike Resnick, Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author

"With an anthropologist’s eye for world building and an engaging fast-paced style, Heidi Ruby Miller hurtles her characters through a dystopian labyrinth in which hollow beauty is revered and love a virtual crime."
—Christopher Paul Carey, author of Exiles From Kho

"Beautifully vibrant and intricately textured, Heidi Ruby Miller’s Ambasadora explores the value of true humanity, the limitless power of desire and the triumph of the individual soul. Amidst edge-of-the-seat action, Miller effortlessly incorporates the conflicts of the modern woman inherent in upholding feminist sensibility. Ambasadora is a banquet of sumptuous words, a truly exciting adventure that fans of science fiction are sure to enjoy."
—Mary SanGiovanni, author of The Hollower series

"[Sara]’s a heroine for the ages, and living proof...that sacrifice for love is more honorable than sacrifice for duty. She risks it all, and wins it all, and in the process, helps to change her world for the better."
--Jenna Bennett, NYT Bestselling author of Fortune's Hero and lots of mysteries

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Also from The World of Ambasadora and Dog Star Books:
Greenshift
Starrie (coming July 2014)

COVER: Wasteland Blues by Scott Christian Carr and Andrew Conry-Murray

 

Of Mice and Men Meets The Odyssey in a Post-Apocalyptic Future

Having only ever known the uncivilized wake of nuclear and biological apocalypse, three friends and their wheelchair-bound hostage set out on a perilous fool’s mission--to cross from one side of the devastated United States to the other, in the desperate, half-believed hope of finding a rumored haven. 

Spurred by a dark vision and the murder of their father, rageaholic Derek Cane and his over-sized, simple-minded brother, Teddy, flee the only home they've ever known, a struggling shantytown on the edge of the vast Wasteland. Heading ever eastward, they are accompanied by their friend, John, an orphan brought up by a fanatical religious order, and Leggy, a crippled old drunk who brags that, in his youth, he once traversed the Wasteland as a scavenger.

Wasteland Blues by Scott Christian Carr and Andrew Conry-Murray

Cover Art by Bradley Sharp

Post-Apocalyptic novel  coming from Dog Star Books in March 2014

Many thanks to our participating bloggers:

Cary Caffrey
Deanna Sjolander Lepsch  

Heidi Ruby Miller

Jason Jack Miller 
Johanna Gribble
John Edward Lawson
Kit 'N Kabookle
Maria Hammarblad
Matt Betts

Mike Mehalek
K.Ceres Wright

T. K. Toppin

 

COVER REVEAL: Corpus Chrome, Inc. by S. Craig Zahler

COVERS

 

Who should be given a second chance at life? 

Decades in the future Corpus Chrome, Inc. develops a robotic body, dubbed a “mannequin,” that can revive, sustain and interface with a cryonically-preserved human brain. Like all new technology, it is copyrighted.

Hidden behind lawyers and a chrome facade, the inscrutable organization resurrects a variety of notable minds, pulling the deceased back from oblivion into a world of animated sculpture, foam rubber cars, dissolving waste and strange terrorism. Nobody knows how Corpus Chrome, Inc. determines which individuals should be given a second life, yet myriad people are affected. Among them are Lisanne Breutschen, the composer who invented sequentialism with her twin sister, and Champ Sappline, a garbage man who is entangled in a war between the third, fourth and fifth floors of a New York City apartment building.

In the Spring of 2058, Corpus Chrome, Inc. announces that they will revive Derek W.R. Dulande—a serial rapist and murderer who was executed thirty years ago for his crimes. The public is horrified by the decision, and before long, the company’s right to control the lone revolving door between life and death will be violently challenged….

Corpus Chrome, Inc by S. Craig Zahler

Cover Art by Bradley Sharp

Cyberpunk/Transhumanism novel  coming from Dog Star Books in January 2014

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What They’re Saying About S. Craig Zahler

“Zahler’s a fabulous story teller whose style catapults his reader into the turn of the century West with a ferocious sense of authenticity.”
—Kurt Russell, star of Tombstone, Escape from New York, Dark Blue, and Death Proof

“If you’re looking for something similar to what you’ve read before, this ain’t it. If you want something comforting and predictable, this damn sure ain’t it.  But if you want something with storytelling guts and a weird point of view, an unforgettable voice, then you want what I want, and that is this.”
—Joe R. Lansdale author of Edge of Dark Water

 Many thanks to the supporters who participated in the Corpus Chrome, Inc. Cover Reveal:
Cary Caffrey
Heidi Ruby Miller
Jason Jack Miller
Johanna Gribble 
John Edward Lawson
K. Ceres Wright
Maria Hammarblad 
Mary DeSantis
Matt Betts
Mike Mehalek
RDSP
Stephanie Wytovich
T. K. Toppin
Theodore Webb -  winner of a Corpus Chrome, Inc. paperback!

EVENT: Dog Star Books Authors at Capclave 2013

Capclave Schedule

October 11-13, 2013 • Gaithersburg, MD

The Raw Dog gang will be at Capclave on panels, doing readings and taking pitches. We will also be launching a Dog Star Books release, Greenshift by Heidi Ruby Miller! More info can be found at the official Capclave site.
Friday Schedule

• 4:00p So You Want To Be A Writer? Matt Betts
• 5:00p
  -Saturday Morning Cartoons Matt Betts
  -Diversity In Fiction John Edward Lawson
  -New to Conventions? Start Here K. Ceres Wright
• 6:00p
  -Buy My Book Jennifer Barnes, John Edward Lawson
  -Space Marines and Goblin Troopers K. Ceres Wright
• 7:00p
  -Doctor Jerky and Mr. Hide: Private & Public Personas Jennifer Barnes
  -Are Prose Superheroes Still Novel? Matt Betts
  -New Media, New Markets, New Business Models K. Ceres Wright
• 8:00p
  -Perishing Publishers Jennifer Barnes, K. Ceres Wright
  -Grim or Grin? Jason Jack Miller
• 9:00p Amazon, Hero or Villain? John Edward Lawson
• 10:00p Nice Shoes Jason Jack Miller
• 11:00p Strange Adventures — The Sub-genres of Science Fiction Action Adventure Matt Betts (M), Heidi Ruby Miller, K. Ceres Wright

Saturday Schedule

• 9:00a
  -Reading Heidi Ruby Miller
  -Fire the Literary Canon? K. Ceres Wright
• 9:30a Reading: Jason Jack Miller
• 10:00a When the Dark (Fiction) Comes Rising Jason Jack Miller
• 12:00p Lightening Students’ Backpacks: Text Books in the Digital Age Heidi Ruby Miller
• 1:00p Kickstarter: The Pro’s and Con’s Jennifer Barnes
• 3:30p Reading K. Ceres Wright
• 6:00p Reading Matt Betts
• 7:30p Mass Signing Matt Betts, John Edward Lawson, Heidi Ruby Miller, Jason Jack Miller, K. Ceres Wright

Sunday Schedule

• 9:00a Author’s Table Matt Betts
• 11:00a Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture Matt Betts
• 12:00p Self Publishing and You / DIY Publishing Jennifer Barnes, Jason Jack Miller
• 12:30p Reading John Edward Lawson
• 1:00p Pitch Sessions Jennifer Barnes, John Edward Lawson, Heidi Ruby Miller

Dog Star Books Author: Albert Wendland

An early interest in astronomy, the comic books Strange Adventures and Mystery In Space, and the Sunday comics of Flash Gordon, led Albert Wendland to a life-long fascination with science fiction. Science projects, early efforts at art, and “creativity exercises” all had an SF vein, and the first novels he read were by Andre Norton, Poul Anderson, Arthur Clarke and Robert Heinlein.

His dream career was to do astronomy in the day and write science fiction at night, but majoring in physics at Carnegie-Mellon (as preparation for graduate work in astronomy) was not satisfying or inspiring enough, so he double-majored by adding English with the intention of eventually teaching literature and writing. In graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh, he wrote one of the first dissertations on science fiction, and his interest in both mainstream literature and popular culture brought him to the attention of Seton Hill University (a College then), which hired him. He taught there happily for many years, pursuing his interests in the contemporary novel, Romanticism, the sublime in art, the graphic novel, popular fiction, and, of course, science fiction, while getting many of his poems accepted in the school’s award-winning literary magazine, publishing articles on science fiction. Then a call for graduate programs led him to co-create the MFA in Writing Popular Fiction, which—unique in academic writing programs—focuses solely on the popular genres. This experience in developing and eventually running the program, and the ongoing communal inspiration provided by its students and faculty, encouraged a return to the thrill of writing SF novels, which he excitingly is continuing now.

Albert's debut novel, The Man Who Loved Alien Landscapes, is due out with Dog Star Books in June 2014. Contact him at AlbertWendland@gmail.com.

AUTHOR NEWS: Heidi Ruby Miller in Galaxy's Edge

AUTHOR NEWS

Dog Star Books editor and author, Heidi Ruby Miller, has a short fantasy story in the July 2013 issue of Galaxy's Edge magazine, edited by Mike Resnick.

"The Islands of Hope" was originally published in the Fantasist Enterprises anthology Sails and Sorcery: Tales of Nautical Fantasy.

COVER REVEAL: Greenshift by Heidi Ruby Miller

COVERS

To celebrate the cover reveal for Greenshift, the e-book will be temporarily 99 cents at Amazon!





A tale set within the world of Ambasadora.


Mari's rare eye color makes her a pariah within Upper Caste society, which is why she prefers plants to people...except David, the former Armadan captain who shuttles scientists around on a refurbished pleasure cruiser.


But someone else is interested in Mari and her distinctive look--an obsessed psychopath who tortures and murders women for pleasure.


When the killer chooses Mari as his next victim, the soldier inside David comes alive, but it is Mari who must fight for her own life and prove she isn't as fragile as the flowers she nurtures.


Greenshift by Heidi Ruby Miller


Cover Art by Bradley Sharp


Foreword by Dana Marton


Space Opera/Science Fiction Romance paperback coming from Dog Star Books in August 2013




Many thanks to the following supporters who participated in the Cover Reveal for Greenshift:

Jennifer Barnes
Cary Caffrey
ChristopherPaul Carey
D.A.Bale
D.Harlan Wilson
DanaFaletti
DeannaLepsch
Hanna Gribble
Heidi Ruby Miller
Jason Jack Miller
JC Cassels
John Edward Lawson
Jon Sprunk
K.Ceres Wright
Katherine Ernst
Kriscinda Everitt
Lee Allen Howard
Leslie Davis Guccione
Liz Coley
Lyndi Alexander

Many Genres
Marcus Christian
Maria Hammarblad
Mary DeSantis
Mary SanGiovanni
Mary Sutton
Matt Betts
Mercedes Yardley
Micael Chadwick
Michael A. Arnzen
Mike Mehalek
Patrick Stutzman
Patti Maccini
Sabrina Benulis
Sally Bosco
Stephanie Wytovich
Susan Abel Sullivan
T.K. Toppin
Ted Webb
Wayne Basta

EVENT: Heidi Ruby Miller at Frostburg's Coffee with an Author

EVENTS

Have coffee, tea, and pastries with Dog Star Books editor and author Heidi Ruby Miller at Frostburg State University's Creative Writing Center!

Dog Star Books Author: Scott Christian Carr

Scott Christian Carr has been a radio talk show host, editor of a flying saucer magazine, fishmonger, spelunker, psychonaut, journalist, medical/pharmaceutical writer, TV producer, and author. He is a Bram Stoker Award nominee, Scriptapalooza 1st Place Winner for Best Original TV Pilot, and in 1999, he was awarded The Hunter S. Thompson Award for Outstanding Journalism. Scott is a contributing editor and columnist for Shroud Magazine, and a 2010 Choate Road “Spotlight Scribe” - But his most satisfying and rewarding job is that of “Dad.” He lives in a home once owned by George Hansburg (inventor of the pogo stick) on a secluded mountaintop in New York’s Hudson Valley with his two children.

Scott Christian Carr’s latest novel Hiram Grange & the Twelve Little Hitlers is currently available from Shroud Publishing, Amazon.com, and at Barnes & Noble near you. Lloyd Kaufman (President of Troma Entertainment and Creator of the Toxic Avenger) calls it, “More fun than a barrel full of Hitlers... The best novel since Don Quixote!” His upcoming novels Hiram Grange & the Twelve Steps and Matthew's Memories (illustrated by Danny Evarts) are scheduled to be released in 2013.

Scott’s first novel, Champion Mountain, was recently selected for distribution on Amazon’s Kindle digital bookreader. His other publications include the anthologies Sick: An Anthology of Illness (which features an excerpt from his novel Believer), Death Be Not Proud, Desolate Places, Beneath the Surface, Demonology: Grammaticus Demonium, Scary! Holiday Tales to Make You Scream, and the upcoming Terror at Miskatonic Falls. Scott’s fiction has appeared in dozens of magazines and publications, including Shroud Magazine, The Dream People, GUD, Pulp Eternity, Horror Quarterly, The MUFON Journal, Weird N.J. and Withersin. His novella A Helmet Full of Hair was recently translated and reprinted in the prestigious French quarterly, Galaxies: La Revue de Référence de la Science Fiction.

Carr is an award-winning writer and producer of film/television. He is the Sr. Writer/Co-Creator of The Learning Channel (TLC) television series Dead Tenants. As Head of Development for both the Emmy Award-winning Triple Threat Television and the Academy Award-nominated Fredric Golding Productions Scott developed original programming for MSNBC, ESPN, CNBC, A&E, The Hallmark Channel, Discovery Networks and The Learning Channel.

Scott is the creator and executive producer of the post-apocalypse scifi film The NUKE Brothers (featured at DragonCon the World's Largest Scifi & Fantasy Film Festival and the 2012 AnthoCon Speculative Art & Fiction Conference) and writer of the tie-in comic book The Continuing Adventures of Fat Man and Little Boy...

He is currently pushing his latest novels Believer and The First Time We Died out into the world, and diving into his next: [PAUSE] and his first historical novel Woodstock, Baby…!, as well as adapting for the stage his unpublished novel The Apocalypse Will Be Televised: A Reality Television Tragedy. He is also hard at work on his nonfiction memoir of the worst divorce in the history of the planet, Congratulations, I'm Sorry, Good Luck...! (the book won’t be finished until the real life story is).

He writes every day.

Wasteland Blues (co-written with Andrew Conry-Murray) is Scott's first novel with Dog Star Books. It will be released in late 2013.

Dog Star Books Author: Andrew Conry-Murray

Andrew Conry-Murray was born in Boston, MA, and lived in the area until age sixteen, when his family moved to New Jersey, and then to California. He attended Caldwell College, where he met Scott, his co-writer of Wasteland Blues, their first novel with Dog Star Books. After college, Scott and Drew moved to Boston. He earned a master’s degree in education from Boston College, but decided not to go into teaching.

Instead, he got a job as an editor at a small publishing company that specialized in books on Chinese martial arts and mediation. He also studied martial arts and meditation with the publisher’s founder, Dr. Yang Jwing-Ming. Drew trained with Dr. Jwing-Ming for four years.

In 1998 Drew got married and moved back to California because his wife was starting a Ph.D. program at Berkeley.

He got a job as an editor at a technology magazine for IT professionals. Over time, he moved up from editing to full-time writing. The company was acquired a couple of times, and he stayed on through each iteration. He's now editor of a technology website called Network Computing.com.

He and his wife lived in California for eight years, and both their sons were born there.

In 2006 they moved to Rochester, NY, where his wife got a post-doctoral position at the University of Rochester. They spent two years there before moving to Pennsylvania, where they currently reside.

Dog Star Books Author: Heidi Ruby Miller

Heidi Ruby MillerHeidi Ruby Miller uses research for her stories as an excuse to roam the globe. With degrees in Anthropology, Geography, Foreign Languages, and Writing, she knew early that penning fast-paced, exotic adventures would be her life. She's put her experiences and studies to paper in her far-future AMBASADORA series, including her newest novel GREENSHIFT, and into ATOMIC ZION, the beginning of her new thriller series.

In between trips, Heidi teaches creative writing at Seton Hill University, where she graduated from their renowned Writing Popular Fiction Graduate Program the same month she appeared on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. AMBASADORA was her thesis novel there, and the multi-award winning writing guide MANY GENRES, ONE CRAFT, which she co-edited with Michael A. Arnzen, is based on the Seton Hill program and was named #5 in The Writer magazine's Ten Most Terrific Writing Books of 2011.

She has had various fiction and non-fiction publications, as well as various jobs, including contract archaeologist, foreign currency exchanger at Walt Disney World, foreign language teacher, and educational marketing director for Frank Lloyd Wright's House on Kentuck Knob. In 2012, Heidi created the Dog Star Books science fiction imprint for Raw Dog Screaming Press and was the managing editor for the line for three years.

Currently she is the Director of Professional Writing Relations for the Pennsylvania Literary Festival, an event she co-founded in 2014 with her husband, award-winning author Jason Jack Miller, and Matthew Dowling and David Slusarick, the producers of the GoingLIVE talk show on FCTV, where Heidi sometimes co-hosts.

Her formal memberships include The Authors Guild, International Thriller Writers, Pennwriters, and Science Fiction Poetry Association. Heidi lives near Pittsburgh and is fond of high-heeled shoes, action movies, Chanel perfume, Tiffany jewelry, and tea of any sort. Interact with her at www.heidirubymiller.com, @heidirubymiller (Twitter), @heidirubymiller (Instagram), and at heidirubymiller@gmail.com.

EVENT: Mike Resnick and Matt Betts at Millennicon 27

Dog Star Books authors Mike Resnick and Matt Betts were guests at Millennicon 27 in Cincinnati last month. Here are some of the fun things they did:



Panel with Tim Waggonner, Eric Flint, and Mike Resnick



Steampunk panel with Matt Betts, Sally Van Eycke, and Sarah Hans



Mike Resnick reading

EVENT: Heidi Ruby Miller speaks at Citizens Library

EVENTS

Dog Star Books author and editor Heidi Ruby Miller discussed the changing climate in publishing with Jason Jack Miller as part of the Evening with Friends series at Citizens Library in Washington, PA.