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Reading Destinations

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I thought I’d try to get a little more content on the blog so I’m combining a few ideas from others, sharing books and destinations. I’m doing a destination challenge on FB but since I read a lot of SF/Fantasy that often leaves me weeks with no ‘destination.’

So I thought why not open up my take on it to include offworld/fantasy settings. Respond here, FB, twitter whatever makes you happy and let’s share some books because don’t all your TBR piles need to be bigger?

Right now I’m on a middle grade kick. I’m reading The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill and rereading Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone by JK Rowling. So that takes me to a so far unnamed fantasy world and London/Hogwarts.

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Rainbow Snippets

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It was a completely traumatic first week back to school, not only for me but for our two new hires. I hope to hell they don’t think it’s always like this or we’ll be looking for new ones again.

So I didn’t write as much as I wanted (also I had edits to do which were easy so that made me happy, I’ll talk more about this one closer to the holidays) and I’m looking forward to reading all your snippets to get my mind off this.

I’m picking up right where we left off with Brendan talking to his ex wife (still a good friend) Kirsten. They’re talking about him meeting Josh.

I’m looking forward to working with him.

“Good I love hearing the excitement, Brendan. It’s been so long since I’ve heard you this jazzed about a project even if it’s a little morbid.”

“You never did like horror.”

“You were the Stephen King fan, Bren. I can’t believe you’re going to go into haunted houses.”

If you’d like to play along, Rainbow Snippets is a Facebook community where we post up 6 sentences of one of our LGBT stories every Saturday. It’s been fun and you can find it here. Be sure to check out all the offers! It’s been a great supportive group!

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Sunday Small Talk

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It’ll be short but important this weekend. It’ll be hard to write this coming week as class is starting and that is always a chaotic time.

I did manage to finish my edits for Nine Star Press on the steampunk Christmas story. I still have a ton of other stuff to finish for them (maybe tomorrow) but the edits have been turned back in. I’m struggling to come up with a picture for my bio. I loathe having my picture taken.

And I finally finished editing Blood Red Roulette. Oh it’s not ready yet to send out. My beta reader is going over the first third of it since I changed it so extensively and I have a few scenes that I want to dither about cutting or not but it’s done (but still pretty long. Sigh). I wanted to get it done by July and failed so I revised that to get it done before classes. I’m making that by the skin of my teeth.

I still fear this one will never find a home.

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Rainbow Snippets

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Made it back to work and right into a hot mess which is why it took me so long to get caught up on your snippets.

On the other hand being back in the Athens area is helping to make These Haunted Hills talk louder in my head. Once I get some edits out of the way I can get back to them.

We left off with Josh and Brendan’s story with Brendan back at his cabin talking to his ex, Kirsten, who was concerned he was so late with his check in call (combination of her being a city girl leery of the woods and her worry that he has gone out there to commit suicide.) Here’s more of their conversation.

It was hours after he’d promised to call Kirsten. “I went to the library and did some local research. It’s a fascinating town.”

“What’s Doctor Zimmerman like? Is he as cute as that picture you sent me?”

“Kirsten!” Brendan squirmed. “Much more adorable than that university website picture. Joshua’s a geek, huge fan. You can almost hear the need to be a screaming fan boy ripping out of him but he was well-behave professional, funny. I liked him.”

If you’d like to play along, Rainbow Snippets is a Facebook community where we post up 6 sentences of one of our LGBT stories every Saturday. It’s been fun and you can find it here. Be sure to check out all the offers! It’s been a great supportive group!

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Rainbow Snippets

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Spent the last week of my vacation being ill. Sigh. Next week is the faculty back to work meetings then the semester starts. Wow this summer went fast.

This week I’m going back to These Haunted Hills with Josh the professor and ghost hunter and Brendan the novelist who lost his son. When we left off Josh had been talking to his ghost hunting partner, Cassia, about meeting Brendan. Today I’m going with what happens after Brendan went back to his cabin in the woods. For reference, Kirsten is Brendan’s ex-wife with whom he’s on very good terms and oh I’m over a sentence or two again. Sigh.

Brendan rested on his cabin’s small porch, finally fishing out his phone. He turned it on and saw overly a dozen message from Kirsten. Guilt from worrying her filled him as he called her back.

“Brendan, there you are!” The bell-clear concern in her tone redoubled the guilt.

“Sorry. I had my phone off so not to interrupt Dr. Zimmerman. I just got back to the cabin.”

“It’s late.”

If you’d like to play along, Rainbow Snippets is a Facebook community where we post up 6 sentences of one of our LGBT stories every Saturday. It’s been fun and you can find it here. Be sure to check out all the offers! It’s been a great supportive group!

Fantastical worlds, Fiery Love