by Sarah | Oct 26, 2013 | Books, Publishing Credits, Secret Cravings Publishing, WeWriWa, Writing
Welcome back to the Weekend Writing Warriors!
I’m still keeping you all intrigued with the beginning of the series [amazon_link id=”B00BEMN5SC” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Changing Tracks (The Dominion Falls Series book 1)[/amazon_link].
I’m continuing directly after last week where Cole admitted to Jane that he didn’t know how to do anything close to a relationship, Jane thinks the conversation is over, but it’s not quite yet:
“Whores are all I know.”
“Somehow I doubt that, but I’ll take it for now.” She tried to step out of his embrace, but he held her firm, “Yes?”
“You’re complicating things.” His voice held a gruff note, “I’m used to simple.”
Jane laughed; it only took a gentle tug to pull herself free and spin around, “I thought you liked a challenge.”
“I thought I did too,” Cole’s lips drew up into a wicked grin, “You and your damn words are making me think I could do without.”
“You’d be so bored.”
*Creative editing was used, I admit it…:D
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by Sarah | Oct 22, 2013 | Books, Dark Territory, Hump Day Hook, Secret Cravings Publishing, Writing
Back to Hump Day Hook!
Another week of [amazon_link id=”B00FE1AVOU” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Dark Territory[/amazon_link].
In a flattering turn, I’ve been asked for more books in the series by more than one source. I do have at least two more books plotted out (probably a third, maybe 4th) to continue Jane and Cole’s story…but I haven’t had a chance to finish rewriting them to my liking.
But as I’m working to make more intricate and exciting plots, I’m still bringing you another week or two of Dark Territory. After that I’ll probably start teasing you with either my short story or my Christmas release 😉
This week Cole is on a mission to recover the funds Jane hid in another territory, far from the mad-man, long before she lost her memory. In a convoluted plan, he has taken on another identity in order to withdraw what Jane believes is “a few thousand dollars” from the bank, which in 1871 is a ton of money in itself. The plan works, but he’s about to find out Jane was very wrong about something:
Cole gave a short nod, unwilling to give away his rate of tension. Once Louis stepped away from the desk, Cole leaned forward more to look in the folder. For a long minute he studied the initial signature for the account, relieved to see it was something he could easily copy.
He gave a quick glance to the number written at the bottom of the top sheet. His body went numb, and he slid back in his chair. Nerves threatened to bring back favorite habits, but he sat still. His jaw clenched tight, he stared at the desk before him. It was far easier than thinking too hard about the number he’d seen, $15,973.89.
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by Sarah | Oct 20, 2013 | Books, Tuesday Tales, Writing
The prompt this week is Railing.
I pulled out an old favorite. My shorty-short paranormal romance, Leap.
As a refresher, Jayde is a “Player”. A rare and unique psychic that sees the future of each individual person as strings like a violin’s, that she can “play” and change if she wants or needs to.
Magnar is a “Keeper” a sort of magical lawmaker for all creatures, they are protectors and enforcers. They are usually immune to most magics and unreadable by psychics, empaths, etc…but in the course of the story Jayde and Magnar discovered that they have a unique bond that supercedes the general rule that Keepers and creatures cannot mix.
This short scene is from my epilogue of sorts, and leaves the door open for the possible (probable?) series that might be born out of this.
Jayde leaned on the railing, her eyes closed and magic at a minimum. With her powers turned down she could focus on the normal, everyday hum of activity around her. Tourists gasped at the sightof the falls, local grumbled about tourists, the powerful thunder of the water pouring over the edge into the pool below.
They’d spent too much time at Niagara. Afterglow and the realization of their destiny as mates despite their disparate roles in the creature world had kept her and Magnar snug in his private cave beneath the powerful force that was the Canadian falls.
Footsteps passed to the right and left, but her ears picked up one set carrying on a steady beat. The hum of her body was beyond magic as he drew near. She smiled as he pressed his body against hers. “Did you get everything?”
“Your violin is safe, nestled near my guitar at our next destination.” His voice strummed her nerves as his breath brushed her ear. “Just as you are safe near me.”
She curved back against him, to make sure her ass brushed him seductively. “I’m safe until you’re distracted.”
“Even then,” he whispered. “I protect you more fiercely.”
“Where to next?”
“New Orleans.” He wrapped his arm around her waist. “We’ll stay in populated areas until we’re sure of the plan, but even there we’ll have trouble.”
“I’m ready for battle. Always have been. The question is, are you ready to fight what you didn’t know was the enemy?”
“I don’t like that you think it’s a Keeper.” His arm tensed around her waist, the seductive note in his voice hardened into anger. “I hate rules, but even I would never betray the rule that we are here for creatures’ protection. Not their destruction.”
“It only makes sense. They’re masked to me. With the exception of you, all Keepers are but mere shadows to my senses.” She sighed when a shift of the wind brought the cool mist of the falls toward them.
“Can you tell what’s ahead?”
“I know our lives will be in danger.”
His warm chuckle carried through her body. “I could have told you that.”
“We will have moments of joy.”
“I like that.”
“But beyond that. The future is too uncertain. Everything changes, including our future.” She laced her fingers through his.
“As long as you have my back in battle.”
“And you have mine.”
“I’ll take the unknown.”
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by Sarah | Oct 19, 2013 | Books, Changing Tracks, Publishing Credits, Secret Cravings Publishing, WeWriWa, Writing
Welcome back to the Weekend Writing Warriors!
I’m still keeping you all intrigued with the beginning of the series [amazon_link id=”B00BEMN5SC” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Changing Tracks (The Dominion Falls Series book 1)[/amazon_link].
Continuing just a few paragraphs away from last week when Cole all but admitted his jealousy…we come back to him and Jane. Here Cole admits that he doesn’t know what he’s doing attempting anything close to a relationship:
“Jane.” The full length of him pressed into her back, his hands grasping her elbows in a firm but gentle hold. “I don’t know how.”
“How to what?” She remained still during his silence to give him time to come up with anything. Part of her hoped he’d admit the weakness, the rest of her feared he’d retaliate with a sarcastic answer. No answer came, which comforted her fear enough that she relaxed back against him. She set her hand on his, “I noticed.”
*Next week will follow this up, because the rest needs to be said and seen 😉
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by Sarah | Oct 15, 2013 | Books, Changing Tracks, Dark Territory, Derailed, Hump Day Hook, Secret Cravings Publishing, Writing
Another Hump Day Hook!
Another week of [amazon_link id=”B00FE1AVOU” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Dark Territory[/amazon_link].
Since I was MIA during the release of [amazon_link id=”B00FE1AVOU” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Dark Territory (The Dominion Falls Series book 3)[/amazon_link], what with my kid being in the hospital and life falling into general disarray and chaos…I have yet to have had a GIVEAWAY.
So today I’m having a giveaway!! 1 lucky commenter will win their choice of one of my Dominion Falls series books – or if they have them all, one of my others (I just had a horror short released in an anthology, too).
The giveaway will end on Friday night, October 18th at 11PM.
Now onto the hook. Jane sees her brother again for the first time since her near-death by hanging. She reveals the depth of her pain:
“What is it?” Slowly he sank into the chair beside her again.
I remember everything about that day.
“You said that.”
Every time I close my eyes, it happens again. The nightmares are much more than nightmares. I remember it, over and over again. Have you ever had a nightmare in which you could not scream?
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by Sarah | Oct 13, 2013 | Books, Tuesday Tales, Writing
The prompt this week is this lovely fall scene picture. Beautiful, isn’t it? Inspiring, romantic, even…yeah…I went a different way.
Unfortunately, as with the last picture prompt, Deep Fried Sweethearts can’t be the story…since that’s a Valentine’s story and there’s no lovely fall scenes there. So, instead I’m bringing a new story.
I’m calling it a sci-fi, but it’s a loose description for now since I’m not fully sure where I’m going with it. This was inspired by some show I saw on NatGeo when my kid was in the hospital and it’s been rolling around in my head since. So, I give you the start of a new story that has yet to be named. The place filler name for now is Ice Age.
The beginning of the end came on a beautiful autumn day. I remember clearly. My mother predicted everything that happened before and after. Even if she hadn’t taught me everything before her death during the asteroidal panic, she left me with all of the information on her data discs.
Before the year 2050 all glaciers had melted, leaving the world alarmed as political heads ranted about the predicted greenhouse effect and the loss of species they would later forget about. The loss of the glaciers wasn’t fast and scientists had sworn they could fix it, but they never did, and neither did all of the green-living speeches of the millennial humans.
For the more level-headed scientists, the changes did more than drown Florida, New York City and most coastlines, leaving them to become massive marine playgrounds. It brought about another ecological shift; and right under the panicked politicians noses the new Ice Age began.
Like the melting of the glaciers, the re-appearance happened slow.
In 2119 my grandfather happily began to track the forming of the glaciers, because they meant hope for the rebirth of the earth. While most of the world worried about what a renewed ice age would do to the landscape and billions of humans, scientists once again reassured they could handle it.
After all, glaciers move slow.
Of course they do, until you add in an asteroid tumbling toward earth. An asteroid that the powers that be not-so-wisely decided to blow to smithereens in my eighth year of life.
That was the day my mother took me for one last autumn ride through the rolling hills of Indiana. She told me to take in every aspect, the bright yellows and reds, the smell of crisp autumn air.
“Everything changes tonight,” she predicted.
She was right.
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