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Donna S. Frelick
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I write mostly Earth-based science fiction romance with an X-FILES feel, love movies and television, teach taiji and qigong, and blog about quirky science, liberal politics, mountain life, and writing. How about you?
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#mycat is #styling in her jammies while I work! Today on #AcrossTheMultiverseBlog donnasfrelick.com/my-blog/f/a-... 💙📚😍😻 #romancelandia #WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks #SFFBookSky #cats #pets
A CAT IN JAMMIES!
I'm deep in revisions for my new book, Purgatory Gap: A Small Town Science Fiction Romance (Alienville Book 2), so I don't have time to write a long post today. Instead, enjoy this photo of my older k...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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#realmodels vs. #ai for #bookcovers Today on #AcrossTheMultiverseBlog donnasfrelick.com/my-blog/f/ai...
November 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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#writing ain't easy! How and why do we do it? Today on #AcrossTheMultiverseBlog donnasfrelick.com/my-blog/f/ho... #romancelandia #WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks #SFFBookSky
How the Book 'Sausage' Gets Made
I mentioned last week that some writers are “plotters” and some are “pantsers,” but that I fall somewhere between those two extremes of book planning. Since then, I’ve received a few messages from fel...
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October 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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#bestlaidplans sometimes take a #detour Today on #AcrossTheMultiverseBlog donnasfrelick.com/my-blog/f/wr... 💙📚✍️✒️ #romancelandia #writingcommunity #WritingandBooks #SFFBookSky #AmWriting #plottersvspantsers
Writers: Use a Map but Watch for Detours
There are as many approaches to the writing process as there are books in your typical hometown library. So, somewhere out there I’m sure there are plenty of authors who outline every character, every...
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October 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Time to show up! #NoKingsDay Today on #AcrossTheMultiverseBlog donnasfrelick.com/my-blog/f/be... 💙📚🆘🌄 #romancelandia #WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks #SFFBookSky #politics #resistance
Be There: NO KINGS DAY 10/18/25!
Our brothers and sisters in Chicago and Portland, in Washington, D.C. and soon to be Memphis and New Orleans have already been fighting the tyrannical Trump regime and its masked agents of chaos in th...
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October 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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#fallvibes in my #garden Today on #AcrossTheMultverseBlog donnasfrelick.com/my-blog/f/pi... 🌺🪲🌄💙📚💕🐦 #gardening #romancelandia #WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks #SFFBookSky #seasons
PICTURE THE COLORS OF FALL
We are a couple of weeks into fall now and starting to feel the temperatures drop here in WNC. All the creatures that share our Earth are making ready for winter--the bears, the deer, the squirrels, r...
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October 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Jokers meet the real #heroes at #QuanticoMeeting Today on #AcrossTheMultiverseBlog donnasfrelick.com/my-blog/f/tr... 💙📚🆘🍊🪖🎖️😡 #romancelandia #WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks #SFFBookSky #military
Trump/Hegseth Hit Wall of Discipline
Many of you know I come from a military family. My father was an Army Air Corps veteran of WWII and a twenty-year U.S. Air Force career non-commissioned officer. My older brother was a two-tour vetera...
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October 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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#marshallnc commemorates #HurricaneHelene Today on #AcrossTheMultiverseBlog donnasfrelick.com/my-blog/f/on... 💙📚🌄🌀 #romancelandia #WritingAndBooks #WritingCommunity #SFFBookSky
ONE YEAR AFTER HELENE
This weekend marks the one-year anniversary of the destruction of much of our little town of Marshall, North Carolina. After several days of soaking rain, Hurricane Helene stormed up from the Gulf Coa...
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September 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Ow! He hurt my little feelings! Off with his head! Today on #AcrossTheMultiverseBlog donnasfrelick.com/my-blog/f/in... 💙📚🆘🍊😡📺 #romancelandia #WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks #SFFBookSky #politics #resistance #JimmyKimmel
IN WAR OF AMENDMENTS, FREE SPEECH IS LOSING
I wasn’t going to address the Charlie Kirk assassination at all in this blog. The man wasn’t of any interest to me personally, and the manner of his death, while horrible, deplorable, worthy of condem...
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September 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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#ironweed and #fifthseason to counteract all the #badnews Today on #AcrossTheMultiverseBlog donnasfrelick.com/my-blog/f/no... #romancelandia #WritingAndBooks #WritingCommunity #Gardening #SFFBookSky 💙📚🌄🌺
Nothing but Bad News, So . . .
Let's celebrate the only thing worth celebrating today, the golden light, mellow temperatures and laid-back feel of Fifth Season, that time between summer and true fall. The days are warm, the nights ...
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September 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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With Carmen Bouldin and folks attending the panel at HEA Book Festival in Sevierville TN
September 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Where in the world is #DonnaSFrelick? At the #HEABookFestival in #Sevierville Sept. 5-7 Today on #AcrossTheMultiverseBlog donnasfrelick.com/my-blog/f/of... #romancelandia #WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks #SFFBookSky
Off to the HEA Book Festival!
It's not often that I get to travel locally to a bookfest, especially one devoted to the romance genre, but I'm getting that chance this weekend, when I join other authors at the Happily Ever After Bo...
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September 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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#ICYMI #reviewing the new #SUPERMAN Today on #AcrossTheMultverseBlog donnasfrelick.com/my-blog/f/we..., #SFFBookSky, #SpecList, #WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks #Film #comics
WELCOMING BACK SUPERMAN
I’ve been a fan of Superman since I was a kid, reading through a friend’s older brother’s DC Comics collection late at night during a sleepover. I mean, what’s not to like about this superhero? A prot...
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August 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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#governmentworkers leading the #resistance Today on #AcrossTheMultverseBlog donnasfrelick.com/my-blog/f/re... 💙📚🆘🍊😡 #politics #LisaCook #Romancelandia #WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks #SFFBookSky
Resisting from Inside the Regime
I’m not sure if I should be encouraged or dismayed by the last-ditch efforts of some of our government’s public servants to protect the American people from the depredations of the tyrant currently in...
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August 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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On vacay today. Flash and Shadow are in charge!
August 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Think we don't need the #EPA? Think again. Today on #AcrossTheMultiverseBlog donnasfrelick.com/my-blog/f/re... 💙📚🆘🌄♻️😡🍊 #romancelandia #WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks #SFFBookSky #Environment #politics
Remember Cuyahoga Before EPA
Once upon a time, boys and girls, some 50 years ago, the air we breathe and the water we drink in this vast and shining nation of ours were dirty enough to kill us. Coal mines were allowed to lop the ...
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August 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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remembering #hurricanekatrina Today on #AcrossTheMultiverseBlog donnasfrelick.com/my-blog/f/le... 💙📚🆘📺🌀 #romancelandia #WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks #SFFBookSky #Hulu #documentary
Lessons From Katrina 20 Years On
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July 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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This is your #government on #trump Today on #AcrossTheMultiverseBlog donnasfrelick.com/my-blog/f/ep... 💙📚🆘🍊😡 #romancelandia #WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks #SFFBookSky #politics #resistance
Epstein Distracts from Bad News
The mainstream news has been dominated lately by the story of “the Epstein files” and the MAGA world’s demands to see whatever might be in them. The MAGA world, consisting of rabid Trump fans, deep-st...
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July 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Enjoy this #signofsummer Today on #AcrossTheMultiverseBlog donnasfrelick.com/my-blog/f/no... 💙📚🌄😍☀️👨‍🌾🌺 #romancelandia #writingcommunity #writingandbooks #SFFBookSky #Gardening
Nothing Says Summer Like--
I'm still recovering from a long weekend of partying with the Trek nerds and celebrities at Shore Leave (not to mention the long drive back and forth to Lancaster, Pennsylvania!), so I just can't brin...
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July 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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heading to #lancasterpa for #shoreleave45! Join me! Today on #AcrossTheMultiverseBlog donnasfrelick.com/my-blog/f/ti... 💙📚👨‍🚀🌌🤖 #romancelandia #Treksky #SFFBookSky #SpecList #WritingCommunity #WritingandBooks
Time for Shore Leave Con!
It's that time of year again--time for me to travel to the great metropolis of Lancaster, Pennsylvania for the annual craziness that is the Shore Leave Science Fiction Convention. This is the 45th yea...
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July 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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#independenceday concerns Monarchy or? Today on #AcrossTheMultiverseBlog donnasfrelick.com/my-blog/f/in... 💙📚🆘😡 #romancelandia #writingcommunity #writingandbooks #SFFBookSky #SpecList
Independence Day--For Now
The republic that Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and others created in 1787 will be celebrated tomorrow, July 4, will the usual picnics, fireworks, rodeos and parades. But the ...
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July 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Still afraid to go in the water! #Jaws50thAnniversary Today on #AcrossTheMultiverseBlog donnasfrelick.com/my-blog/f/ja... 💙📚📽️😍🦈 #romancelandia #Film #WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks #SpecList #SFFBookSky
JAWS Still Has Bite After 50 Years
This summer marks the 50th anniversary of the release of one of my favorite films of all time: Stephen Spielberg’s JAWS. The film, based on Peter Benchley’s novel about a great white shark that terror...
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June 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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#Juneteenth One step forward, two steps back Today on #AcrossTheMultiverseBlog donnasfrelick.com/my-blog/f/ju... 💙📚🆘🍊 #romancelandia #WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks #SFFBookSky #SpecList #BlackSky
Juneteenth: Celebrate, Educate, but Most of All Agitate!
Today is Juneteenth, since 2021 a Federal holiday, but one most white Americans probably won’t be aware of until they go to the bank and find it closed. The holiday has been celebrated in the Black co...
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June 19, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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#kingtrump's reaction to #LosAngelesProtests just latest inanity Today on #AcrossTheMultiverseBlog donnasfrelick.com/my-blog/f/la... 💙📚🆘😡🍊
Uncle Sam with foot on chest of defeated king figure holding Project 2025 paper in one hand. Uncle Sam says No King
June 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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A real #StarTrek #GenesisProject? Today on #AcrossTheMultiverseBlog donnasfrelick.com/my-blog/f/on... #romancelandia #SFFBookSky #Treksky #speclist #WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks #science
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One Step Too Far for Humankind? The Genesis Question
So, in today’s thought experiment, we consider the “Genesis” question proposed originally in the film STAR TREK III: THE WRATH OF KHAN: what are the ethics of a device that could introduce life (presu...
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June 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM