Six Sentence Sunday

Feeling nostalgic. Two years ago this week, I received my first offer on my first book. From Mercy: 

As they turned, her legs automatically twined through his in a bid for control.

The urge to shift was just below the surface, the instinct trembling through every limb, definite arousal twisted around her fear of surrender. She could feel it in his body as well, coming off him like an electric current.

“Will everything between us be a battle, Iada?” he chided gently, untangling his legs and rebalancing himself. He flicked at a tender spot just beneath her ear with his tongue and nibbled his way down along her neck to her shoulder. She felt his teeth drag against the skin there, then bite lightly. 

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News, Links, Updates

Links

Fringe is renewed for a fifth and final season: "Not unlike "Chuck," the network is allowing producers to have 13 more episodes to end the story on their own terms."

TOR announces the 2012 Locus Awards Finalists.

Good deals: Nook Simple Touch is only $79 with free shipping (through May 12th) and Refurbed Kindle Fires are $139 (today only). Really wish the GlowLight was on sale. That's my next ereader.

Smashwords presentation from RT 2012: How Data-Driven Decisions *Might* Help Indie Ebook Authors Reach More Readers.

Interesting...At West Coast Meeting, Digital Public Library of America Begins to Take Shape 

Updates

I'm prepping my Wild West Steampunk for submission but every time I think I'm ready to send it, I find something else to tweak. I have edits coming in soon (today, I think). I'm planning to attend DemiCon this weekend so I can meet one of my favorite authors, Patricia Briggs. Getting ready for my sister's baby shower and our family has been swamped with end of the school year activities. Really, really, really looking forward to summer break. Really.

News, Links and Updates

Links

Trove of 500 fairytales discovered in Germany – Will Disney option the Turnip Princess?: "While Hollywood is bleeding the same three fairytales dry, a new crop of magical stories has been uncovered in Germany, recorded at the same time that the Brothers Grimm were collecting fairytales."

Pineapple idiots! Who knew my book would be used for world’s dumbest test question: "...if a thing is absolutely illogical and meaningless, it’s not possible to ask questions like, “Which animal in the story was the most wise? Choose (a), (b), (c), (d), etc.” And, “Why did the animals eat the pineapple?”

Tolkien and Dickens descendants to collaborate on new fantasy books: "Poet Michael Tolkien will write two new novels based on stories that his grandfather told him as a child, entitled Wish and Rainbow. Gerald Dickens meanwhile (great-great-grandson to the legendary writer) will narrate the audio-book versions of the stories."

Jim Hines: Posing Like a Man

I thought this was a really interesting op piece: The Shatzkin Files - Things learned and thoughts provoked by London Book Fair 2012

Tor "...announced that by early July 2012, their entire list of e-books will be available DRM-free." Woo-hoo!

Personal Update

My grandmother passed away last week and we traveled out of state for the funeral. She had eight children, twenty-five grandchildren and twenty-two (and counting) great grandchildren. Everyone was there except for one of my cousins who's being deployed. My grandmother was a wonderful woman. I owe so much to her including in large part my love of reading. Despite having a full house, she always found time to read. She liked romances and would often swap paperbacks with my mother and aunts, though she said if she came across anything too steamy she'd tear those pages out and toss them into the fireplace (after she read them). We are going to miss her so much but she was in quite a bit of pain there at the end and part of me is just happy she's not suffering anymore.

Miss you Nan.

Six Sentence Sunday

From my untitled fantasy WIP - Janek, Lorel and their complicated relationship:


“There’s no reason for shame between us," Janek said. "You like playing the vulnerable innocent to my cruel master, but I’ve never hurt you, have I? Not in any way you haven’t liked.”
“No.”
“And I never will. Now leave the leather and get on the bed.”

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