Author Archives: Victoria Janssen

About Victoria Janssen

Victoria Janssen [she, her] currently writes cozy space opera for Kalikoi. The novella series A Place of Refuge begins with Finding Refuge: Telepathic warrior Talia Avi, genius engineer Miki Boudreaux, and augmented soldier Faigin Balfour fought the fascist Federated Colonies for ten years, following the charismatic dissenter Jon Churchill. Then Jon disappeared, Talia was thought dead, and Miki and Faigin struggled to take Jon’s place and stay alive. When the FC is unexpectedly upended, Talia is reunited with her friends and they are given sanctuary on the enigmatic planet Refuge. The trio of former guerillas strive to recover from lifetimes of trauma, build new lives on a planet with endless horizons, and forge tender new connections with each other.

On writing The Moonlight Mistress

Posted on June 1, 2009 by Victoria Janssen

This post originated as a guest post for Lust in Time in December, 2008. When I sold The Duchess, Her Maid, The Groom and Their Lover, the contract was for two books. I’d submitted several brief ideas for the second … Continue reading →

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Siegfried Sassoon, "The Dream"

Posted on May 31, 2009 by Victoria Janssen

The Dream IMoonlight and dew-drenched blossom, and the scentOf summer gardens; these can bring you allThose dreams that in the starlit silence fall:Sweet songs are full of odours.While I wentLast night in drizzling dusk along a lane,I passed a squalid … Continue reading →

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Moonlight Mistress Excerpt – First Kiss

Posted on May 30, 2009 by Victoria Janssen

It’s 1914, and World War One is just beginning. Trapped in Germany, English chemist Lucilla and French scientist Fournier are forced into sharing a hotel room, and a bed. Moonlight Mistress by Victoria Janssen is due out December 2009 from … Continue reading →

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How Times Change!

Posted on May 29, 2009 by Victoria Janssen

How times change! On this day in 2003, I noted in my journal that I wrote 183 words on the novel I was writing at the time. That is, 183 words all day. Now, I very, very rarely allow myself … Continue reading →

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Books on Writing

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Victoria Janssen

I have a few favorite books on writing which I’d like to share. Links are to Amazon.com. This is my favorite, which I enjoy reading for itself as well as for what it teaches me: Steering the Craft: Exercises and … Continue reading →

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Writing Goals

Posted on May 27, 2009 by Victoria Janssen

What are your goals for writing? I was thinking about this recently, and realized I needed to make some new goals. My first goal was sell a short story. I did quite a bit of that, all the while with … Continue reading →

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For the Love of My Netbook

Posted on May 26, 2009 by Victoria Janssen

Whenever Timmy falls into a well, my netbook comes to fetch me…well, no. Not really. But sometimes I feel like my Acer Aspire One has saved from from a dreadful fate. For example, if I’m stuck in an airport, and … Continue reading →

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Memorial Day, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, "A Lament"

Posted on May 25, 2009 by Victoria Janssen

A Lament We who are left, how shall we look againHappily on the sun or feel the rainWithout remembering how they who wentUngrudgingly and spentTheir lives for us loved, too, the sun and rain? A bird among the rain-wet lilac … Continue reading →

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Siegfried Sassoon, "Base Details"

Posted on May 24, 2009 by Victoria Janssen

Base Details If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,I’d live with scarlet Majors at the Base,And speed glum heroes up the line to death.You’d see me with my puffy petulant face,Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel,Reading … Continue reading →

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Siegfried Sassoon, "Banishment"

Posted on May 23, 2009 by Victoria Janssen

Banishment I am banished from the patient men who fightThey smote my heart to pity, built my pride.Shoulder to aching shoulder, side by side,They trudged away from life’s broad wealds of light.Their wrongs were mine; and ever in my sightThey … Continue reading →

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