Alien Romances Need to Show the Love

Before I started writing alien romances I read dozens on Kindle and I still read them. I've read some really good ones and some that were pretty awful. Some of the bad ones seem like poor translations or they have been written by people whose English is their second language. Even some of the latter are pretty good despite some of the awkward phrasing. The better ones would benefit from good editing by someone whose first language is English.


I most recently read two that were not horribly bad, but were merely mediocre. The author made a lot of common mistakes that budding authors make. Instead of building three dimensional characters, they simply tell what happened. They tell what the characters did and saw, but we don't know what they are thinking and feeling.


A lot of these alien romances are based on the premise of an alien world in need of females because their civilization is unbalanced with a great surplus of males and not enough breeding females to keep the race going. Some of the writers are quite creative about how this came about, while others give no plausible explanation. The explanation is not always vital to the story due to the reader's willingness to suspend disbelief.


Going back to the two samples in which each protagonist is abducted by an alien or aliens. Both had a pretty good framework for a story, but they both fell short. The first one started out like a close encounter abduction where the heroine finds herself being experimented on with no idea how she got there. She is obviously scared and confused then resistant against the plan for her to bear young for the prince of the realm.


Way to much prose is spent on the experimentation and we don't get a real sense of the hero with little interaction between them. The heroine finds him attractive physically, but not until the very end did I find a reason to like him much. Unfortunately, by that point I just want to be done with the story that left me with more questions than answers.


The second alien romance was a better story, but the beginning was tedious in wading through a broken romance for a number of pages. All of those details were boring. All we really needed to know was that she had a broken romance and moved to a new town because of it. That was background, not the story the reader wants. They want to know about the alien romance. I didn't want to know about her unpacking and getting groceries. The first date with the grocery clerk's son was unnecessary to the story. Only the second date was pertinent.


The heroine goes to a bar and leaves to be accosted by a biker gang(?) and the alien hero rescues her and takes her back to his planet to be his mate. For me the biker gang was even further out there than the alien abduction romance. The alien world and diverse culture was interesting but again I wasn't feeling the love---and not even much of a sexual attraction.


I feel the point of the alien romance just like any romance is to take you away from your mundane existence to a place far away to spend a sexually satisfying life with an attractive male who loves you like no other for the rest of your life. You have to make the reader feel the love if you want to call it a romance. 

Copyright © 2016 by Clarissa Lake

What Do You the Reader Think?

Anyone who has read any segment of my Narovian series knows they delve heavily into the sexual relationship between the hero and heroine. After reading a number of reviews of stories with heavily sexual plots that called them pornography, it's obvious that some people don't want to read this kind of thing. I have also seen reviews that openly praise the very same books for their spicy sexual content and the relationship between the characters.


Next week, the sixth entry in the Narovian series “Mated to the Alien Female” goes on sale on Amazon, and I am currently working on the seventh of the series, “Mated to the Alien Trader”. Both of these sequels are spin-offs from “Abducted by Alien Pirates”.


The whole premise of the series is the lengths the Narovian feline humanoids go to find their true genetic mates. They are a race that bonds physically and sexually forming an emotional bond in the process. After the urgency of their first mating, their sexual relationship becomes a quest for mutual satisfaction through which grows genuine affection.


They talk to each other before, during and after sex. I could tell the stories in a much less sexually explicit manner, but I wonder if that's what the reader really wants. So I'd like to put it to you the reader. Do you want to see more details and character developments and less sex? Or more character and plot developments with just as much sex?


Clarissa

Mated to the Alien Female 

Abducted by Alien Pirates - Narovian Series Part 5

Each of the Narovian series is written to stand alone even thought they are woven with a common thread.  The fifth installment brings a new element to challenge Alliance Law Enforcement.

Although Earth is not yet advanced enough to join the Alliance, once Narovians started finding their meomee or true mates there a savvy businessman found away to profit from it. The Narovian Genetic Matchmaking Agency has set up shop on Earth, under the guise of genetic testing  for ancestral origins and genetic markers for disease.

Narovian felines pay extra for Earth searches for compatible sapiens. An unscrupulous hacker sells the results to space pirates who kidnap claimed matches before prospective mates can travel to Earth to meet them.

Enter Alliance Law Enforcement. This time they have taken the wrong man's prospective mate. Lieutenant Thanek Zes is mad enough to kill who ever stole his prospective mate. Nor does he care that agency policy is to allow Earther matches to except or reject feline mating proposals. She will be his.

Copyright ©2015 by Clarissa Lake

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The Narovian Series

I just finished the third installment of my Narovian Series, "Alien Rescuer." It will be released once the cover art is ready. 

Narova is a world populated by feline humanoids and homo sapiens. The feline humanoids are genetically compatible and capable of interbreeding with homo sapiens. Set in the present, the Narovians are part of an Alliance that has chosen to protect Earth from unscrupulous aliens while waiting for Earth to mature enough politically and technologically to join the Alliance. 

The feline humanoids of Narova find their true mates - meomee (me-OH-me) through genetic recognition. When the males come into physical contact with their meomee, they produce a combination of pheromones and hormones that give their true mate females an irresistible urge to have sex with them and bond. The catch is, resistance could be fatal.

Set in the came universe, the stories are related, but each one can stand alone.

If you like Alien Romance Erotica, check them out. Currently available on Amazon for Kindle are:

Dream Alien

Alien Country

Alien Rescuer

Both titles are available for $0.99 or read free with Kindle Unlimited
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An Excerpt from "Dream Alien"

         Alexa opened her eyes to see a strange looking man with blue hair and amber catlike eyes. “Who are you? And what's with your eyes?” As she looked around the room, it looked like something from a sci-fi movie---like her dream."Where are we?" She asked, although she thought she already knew.

          "I am Chaytok Larren. This is my ship," he told her in mildly accented English. "Your injuries were serious so I brought you here to heal you."

          "Yes. I remember. Jetson got scared and threw me." she murmured. "So now what? Why are you here?"

          "My star drive failed. I had to land until the Alliance can send a ship with parts to repair it. It was never my intention to land or make direct contact."  Chaytok told her. "But, I couldn't leave you injured lying in the dirt. You have nothing to fear from me."

          Alexa knew it was true. She had always believed a there were other worlds in the universe that supported intelligent life. More than that, she recognized the green form fitting shirt and pants of his uniform. He was the man from her dream. Despite his blue hair and cat-like eyes he was an exotically gorgeous male with a well defined muscles, accentuated by his snug fitting clothing. His eyes held kindness as he looked down at her.

          It wasn't like those fairy tale alien romances she liked to read late at night. He wasn't here looking for a mate in the middle of nowhere. He had a vehicle breakdown and was waiting for a tow so to speak. But that didn't explain her dream.

          He leaned over her and removed the medical tool from her forehead. Then scanned her again.           “Your injuries are healed.” he said and returned the tool to its cabinet. He came back to her side and asked, “How do you feel?”

          “Okay, I think. This is so awesome!" She looked up at him in wonder and started to sit up. She felt a little lightheaded as she put her feet to the floor so she just sat there for a moment. She reached up and touched his hand just to satisfy herself that he was real. His skin was warm, but he flinched as a jolt of attraction flashed between them.

          "I'm sorry, did I hurt you?" She looked at him uncertainly.

          He shook his head, unable to verbalize exactly what he felt, except that he knew it wasn't pain. But, then as he felt the tightening in his groin, he realized what was happening and shuddered. He knew the consequences but he couldn't stop it any more than he could stop the beating of his heart.

          “It's been a long time since I was touched by another being.” he said unevenly.

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