Tip Tuesday - Are You Ready for an Alien Abduction?

Kalquor. Risnar. Alt-Earth (from Ravenous Virtue). When alien hotties come to call, they usually do so unannounced. How's an Earth gal to be ready for the moment she's yanked from her daily life into interstellar love and adventure?

Here are a few tips to keep in mind when you're waiting for your sweetie from the stars to arrive:

1. Realize he (or they, in the case of a clan) will pick the most inopportune time to show up. That's always the case in everyday life--you make a quick run to the grocery store in sweats, no makeup, and hair uncombed, and that's when every person you knew from high school also shows up. Same goes for alien abductions. At the very least, don't skip out on showering, deodorant, and brushing your teeth, just because your itinerary today consists of hanging on the couch to binge on 'Grace and Frankie' and Cheetos.

2. Learn an obscure survival skill. Yeah, do the basics like first aid, making a fire with sticks, or some other lifesaving talent. But consider adding something exotic that seems pretty useless in real life yet will translate into making you the star when you and your abductor hero go up against the least likely lethal scenario--because that's how it's going to go down. Who knows how useful fending off sharks or condensing sea water to get potable drinking water will be on Risnar?

3. Wear something you look good in but is easily discarded (without getting ripped) at all times. Kalquorians aren't known for their patience when it comes to getting you naked.

4. Take self-defense classes. Use them against your abductor. It won't do you the least damned bit of good against these superhuman heroes, but your adorable factor will go way up. "Aw--look at her trying to fight. Isn't she cute? Now I have a reason to tie her down."

5. Make any peace you need to with the idea of extra appendages. Don't wait until you're face to--well, whatever it turns out to be. Screaming, crying, or laughing in the moment is not a plot twist. It's just awkward, for both you and your abductor(s).

Other helpful ideas to help you make the most of your alien abduction can be found in the following books:

She escaped to Kalquor to warn the empire…but did she bring its destruction instead?

When a rogue Kalquorian raider snags a Bi’isil cruiser in Empire space, the outlaw crew is hoping for supplies. Instead, they find a Tragoom and an Earther woman with a dire warning: Bi’is is set to unleash a fatal plague on the Kalquorian Empire.

Piper Warren, with the help of her friend Ob, has faced death to save the Kalquorians from utter destruction. Instead of help, she stumbles on a ship filled with men who swear no loyalty to anyone but themselves. Can she convince them to set aside their lawless ways to save their people?

Captain Nako turned his back on Kalquor after Fleet Command decommissioned his raider. Abandoned by his government, he swears he will never lift a finger to aid them, not even against the traitor Dramok Maf and his fleet. With the new Bi’is threat, if Nako doesn’t do something, the empire will fall and its people will die.

Nako’s Nobek clanmate Terig is as fierce as they come. However, his shameful past destroyed a once-promising career, and leading his men into battle can only end in defeat.  But how can he refuse when utter annihilation is racing straight to Kalquor?

Dual breed Imdiko Ulof is a terror to anyone who crosses him. Leaving broken bodies in his wake, the ex-convict struggles with equally broken dreams. No one can tame him, until a beautiful Earther and an unlikely new friend show that belief has the power to heal all wounds.

The survival of Kalquor depends on this unlikely band of misfits. Clan Nako learns that love for an Earther woman can make heroes out of outcasts…until they discover that Piper harbors dark, deadly secrets of her own.

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Engineer Velia Farrah has made it into the Project, a top-secret military assignment. She can’t wait to study the portal, a link between Earth and another world provided by supposedly beneficent interstellar beings. However, a late visit to the portal gives her far more than she bargained for when Jape Bolep, an alien from Risnar, bursts into her life, kidnaps her, and takes her back to his planet.

Jape hasn’t gotten over the deaths of his friends after a battle with the enemy Monsudan race. Believing his foes were aided by Earthlings, he’s determined to find absolution by destroying Earth’s access to the portal. Abducting Velia wasn’t part of the plan, and he has no intention of forgiving her or her people for their misdeeds. The pair are an explosive mix, ready to battle each other at first…but their relationship truly ignites when attraction takes hold. Distrust and treachery from all sides leave Velia and Jape in a fight against their own people to keep each other alive.