Royal Wedding Weekend. This Week At Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words

Royal Wedding Weekend.

Unless you are living in a cave somewhere (without wifi) or at the highest reaches of the earth (ditto wifi), you know that a royal wedding took place yesterday between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, now the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.  At last count,  it’s estimated that 2 billion people worldwide watched the royal wedding, one of the most remarkable of it’s kind, with it’s inclusion of an American Bishop, the Rev. Michael Curry’s rousing sermon, a Gospel Choir, and the wonderful UK teenage cellist, Sheku Kanneh-Mason,  among the highlights.

Now spring is typically the start of wedding season and what a way to launch it.  Yes, I watched.  I have long loved that madcap Prince Harry.  From happy red-haired toddler to lost little boy following his mother’s coffin to troubled adolescent into his twenties , we’ve all watched him…and I think related.  He grew up, went off to service, matured, and, and continued on the path his mother started. And finally found love.  How could we not cheer?  Especially when it came in the form of Meghan Markle? Someone remarkable in her own right, self assured, oddly similiar background (sans royalty of course) who has used her celebrity to provide wells for women in Africa and continue her own charity work.  So, yes, I guess, the world went sort of mad this weekend.  Were you watching?

Ah,  royal courtships and weddings.  It’s the stuff books have always been and are made of. Doesn’t Cinderella ring any bells? Or any Disney princess with their foundations grounded in novels?  I’m not just thinking contemporary love stories, although those too.  But plenty of science fiction and fantasy stories have royal courtships and interstellar weddings at the heart of their novels.  Sometimes, even the fate of a planetary alliance will rest on the union!  Gadzooks!  That’s a terribly familiar and beloved theme right there!  (Shannon West’s Mate of the Tyger Prince jumps into mind).  So I was trying to find lists.  Any lists.  Not very successful.  So you know what I’m going to ask.

Wrack those memories!  All genres!  Let’s get those wedding fics out here!  Contemporary, supernatural, scify, fantasy, all of them!  We can list by series as well.

I’m sort of starting us off here….

Historical

Crofton Hall series by Rebecca Cohen (with some contemporary stories too)

Contemporary:

Wake Up Married Series by Leta Blake and Alice Griffiths
Suddenly Yours by Jacob Z. Flores
Marriage of Inconvenience by M.J. O’Shea
The Greek Tycoon’s Green Card Groom by Kate McMurray
First Comes Marriage by Shira Anthony
Tall, Dark, and Deported by Bru Baker

Science Fiction:

Mate of the Tyger Prince series by Shannon West (shifter aliens, humans, mpreg)

Supernatural/Paranormal:

Mage of Inconvenience by Parker Foye

Fantasy:

The Gryphon King’s Consort by Jenn Burke

Royal Wedding Giveaway

 Its our Royal Wedding Giveaway! No, it’s not their cake! Our giveaway will be associated with this.  Let’s call it the Royal Wedding Giveaway!  Leave a comment for the rest of the month, along with your recs if any, (address too).  A  $10 gift card will be given to the one chosen on June 1st.  Must be 18 years of age or older to enter.

 

 

This Week At Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words

Sunday, May 20:

• Royal Wedding Weekend. This Week At Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words
• Book BLAST- The King’s Sun by Isaac Grisham
• Release Blitz – Lawyer’s Secret Omega by Bella Bennet
• Barb the Zany Old Lady Review: Lover (Survivor #2) by TM Smith
• A VVivacious Review :The King’s Sun by Isaac Grisham

Monday, May 21:

• Book Blast – Rip Cord: The Complete Trilogy by Jeanne St. James
• DSP Publications Promo TJ Nichols
• Release Blitz – The Little Things by Jay Northcote
• Review Tour – Last Defense by RJ Scott & VL Locey
• A Barb the Zany Old Lady Review: Roped In by A.M. Arthur
• A MelanieM Review: Last Defense (Harrisburg Railers #5) by R.J. Scott and V.L. Locey
• An Alisa Review: Kaleidoscope (CyNapse Security, Inc. #1) by Jo Tannah
• An Ali Review: A Tiny Piece of Something Greater by Jude Sierra

Tuesday, May 22:

• DSP Dreamspun Promo E.J. Russell
• GUEST POST ​Hans M Hirschi on Returning to the Land of the Morning
• RELEASE BLITZ Face The Music by K.M. Neuhold
• Spotlight Tour: WASH OUT by L.A. Witt
• A Alisa Release Day Review:Rogue in the Making (Studies in Demonology #2) by TJ Klune
• A Barb Release Day Review: A Little Side of Geek (Geek Life) by Marguerite Labbe
• A Free Dreamer Release Day Review:  Angels Rising (Heaven Corp #3) by CC Bridges
• A Stella Release Day Review: Plummet to Soar by Z.A. Maxfield

Wednesday, May 23:

• DSP Dreamspun Promo Nicki Bennett
• Review Tour – Leta Blake – Alpha Heat
• DSP Promo Marguerite Labbe on A Little Side of Geek (Geek Life)
• Release Blitz – No Luck by Kayleigh Sky
• A Free Dreamer Review: Strain (Strain #1) by Amelia C.  Gormley
• A Barb the Zany Old Lady Review: Alpha Heat by Leta Blake
• An Ali Audiobook Review: Crescendo (Song of the Fallen, #2) by Rachel Haimowitz and Giles Barron (Narrator)
• A Lila Audionook Review: Kill Game (Seven of Spades #1) by Cordelia Kingsbridge and Wyatt Baker (Narrator)

Thursday, May 24:

• Tour for Drama Fraternity, the sixth Nicky and Noah mystery, by Joe Cosentino
• COVER REVEAL for Murder in New York, The Pinkerton Man Series #2 by C.J. Baty
• DSP Promo Ana Raine
• DSP Promo CC Bridges
• A Lila Review: A Broken Cup by Emery C. Walters
• A MelanieM Review: Drama Fraternity (Nicky and Noah Mystery #6) by Joe Cosentino (
• A Stella Review: Detour by Reesa Herberth and Michelle Moore
• An Alisa Review: The Charmer by R.W. Clinger

Friday, May 25:

• DSP Promo Sarah Black on War Paint
• Review Tour – Swings & Roundabouts – Jackie Keswick
• Spotlight Tour for FOURTEEN SUMMERS by Quinn Anderson
• Series Recap Blitz/Cover Reveal – Taking Shield Series – Anna Butler
• A MelanieM Release Day Review: War Paint (States of Love) by Sarah Black (
• A Lucy Review: And The Next Thing You Know by Chase Taylor Hackett
• A Lila Review: Swings & Roundabouts by Jackie Keswick
• A Free Dreamer Review:  Bane (Strain #2) by Amelia  C. Gormley

Saturday, May 26:

• Release Blitz – Ice Fairy 3: Coming Together by S. L. Danielson
• Book Blast His Wildest Dream by Xander Collins
• A MelanieM Review:  The Gallery: The Permanent Collection (The Gallery #1) by Megan Derr