by Sarah | Apr 2, 2013 | Books, Changing Tracks, Hump Day Hook, Publishing Credits, Secret Cravings Publishing, Writing
Another Hump Day Hook!
So [amazon_link id=”B00BEMN5SC” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Changing Tracks[/amazon_link] has been out almost two months and Masked Hearts, is due out any time now (this month!!).
In the background I’ve been working on some other things. I have a holiday WIP that’s maybe 1/3 done (or more, since I don’t know the length, I’m not sure. lol)…I have a couple of horror shorts that I’m working out the details for.
But beyond that I’ve been doing work on the sequel to Changing Tracks, which is called Derailed. While it’s not due out until July, I have turned in my manuscript to my editor (who also worked on CT, and I love her 🙂 )…and shockingly enough, I managed to design, submit, and get approval for the cover art. I can’t tell you how squealingly happy I am that my art got approved again and I’m SUPER excited to show it off…but for once in my life i’m practicing patience. I’m going to do a slow reveal once the Masked Hearts publishing push is over. 😀 There may just be a prize involved in it.
~deep breath~ So after all of that, are you still with me? Today I’m going to go back to Changing Tracks and give you another snippet…as I’m still waiting on my galley of MH and I’m not sure I’m ready to show of my WIP yet…
In this hook, Jane is going head to head with the town’s richest man. She pissed him off recently at a horse auction, and he retaliated with a dastardly deed. This is her response to his affront:
“Sorry? Is this a real apology?”
“Of course. I am deeply sorry you haven’t got the sense of humor God gave much simpler men. That you take more pleasure in the size of your home than your heart. That you haven’t the faintest idea how to keep a friend, much less a woman. I may have the reputation of a jezebel, but I will never die as alone as you.”
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by Sarah | Mar 26, 2013 | An Uncivil War, Books, HerStory - Pagan Writer's Press, Hump Day Hook, Publishing Credits, Writing
Another Hump Day Hook!
With all this talk about [amazon_link id=”B00BEMN5SC” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Changing Tracks[/amazon_link] and my upcoming Masked Hearts, I haven’t bestowed on my friendly hookers anything about the wonderful anthology I got to be a part of this past month.
[amazon_link id=”1938397495″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]HerStory: Fiction Honoring Women’s History Month[/amazon_link], is a compilation of stories about strong women throughout history. From the medieval times, to the recent past, and through into the future. 31 stunning stories of strength of the female spirit, told by 27 authors.
I was honored to be a part of the anthology with my own story, An Uncivil War. Cathay is a nurse in the US Civil War, and on the fields of Gettysburg she takes a chance and bucks the traditional role of nurse.
In this hook, the doctor that is upset the female nurses are even near the battle, is about to head out into the field. She asks to go along:
“You’ve already seen too much.”
Cathay bit down hard on her tongue to withhold a sassy reply. Her skirts bunched up in her fists until her hands grew almost numb. “Aye. I have, doctor. I haven’t let it scare me though. I believe I have performed my duties well and without the weakness you attribute to my sex. Sir.”
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by Sarah | Mar 19, 2013 | Books, Hump Day Hook, Masked Hearts, Writing
Another Hump Day Hook!
This week I’m so excited to reveal my disturbingly gorgeous cover! Dawne Dominique did an amazing job at capturing just what I wanted and couldn’t get for myself.
Minnie and Roy are unlike any other couple I’ve written before. Their strength is quiet, their relationship simple and complex all at once. I created their story as a challenge to myself…to write something shorter than my typical 300k story that required breaking down into a series.
I wanted a set story, and went so far as to plan it out (and I succeeded, with only one surprise thrown in). Minnie and Roy did not come easily, both were so guarded about their past and themselves, but once they warmed to each other, they let me in a little more.
So here’s a little hint of Minnie and Roy…the blurb will follow. No release date yet, but hopefully soon I’ll have that for you 🙂 In this snip, Roy is trying to get Minnie to talk to him. To explain why she hates the Cheyenne that are part of their travelling wild west show, inevitably he turns her reasons back on herself:
“You stay.”
“I have no choice.” Her jaw worked. A glimmer of a tear shimmered at the corner of her eye before a rapid blink carried it away.
“And Max?”
“There’s a price on his head, and he’s old. He has no choice.”
“And me?”
“You don’t matter.” She tossed aside the tomahawk, and then turned to leave. “You’re one of them.”
BLURB:
Minnie Woodward lives a lie. After barely surviving the Bear River Massacre she’s spent her life in the white world of her guardian, Mister Rawlins. The burden of her life debt to Rawlins grows heavier with each passing day. The last thing she needs is Roy’s continuing attempts to gain her favor. With her fate sealed she’s never believed in hope, and not even Roy can make her start now.
Roy Ornum rescues Minnie every night in the traveling Wild West show. The job he took to pay his debts and break his gambling habit brought him a new addiction – her. He knows she doesn’t want to be rescued, but maybe he does. She’s the key to a past he lost, one he wants to find again more than anything.
As the two grow closer old wounds are reopened and their burgeoning trust is shattered. When lives hang in the balance of their choices they’ll need to put aside their fear and work together. Otherwise everything will be lost before hope can be found.
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by Sarah | Mar 12, 2013 | Books, Changing Tracks, Hump Day Hook, Publishing Credits, Secret Cravings Publishing, Writing
Another Hump Day Hook! Changing Tracks has taken me on a whirlwind of joy this week. It showed up on Secret Cravings Bestseller list (#1 on the Historical Bestseller list still)…and got a Silver Star at All Romance Ebooks, indicating another best seller. I just got my first review & rating from someone unknown to me (and it was [amazon_link id=”B00BEMN5SC” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]4 stars[/amazon_link]!). So it’s been a bang-up week.
So as a treat I’m going to give another little hook from Derailed (Dominion Falls Series #2). One you might kill me for…because it’s from a little later in the scene that I posted two weeks ago – but it’s just another tease:
She couldn’t move, couldn’t breathe. The tight grip his hand had on hers transferred his old panic and fear right to her heart. A soft gasp whispered through the room and she wiped at a tear, “You had no choice.”
“I didn’t mean to hurt her. I just was trying to get the knife.”
A small splash of salty sorrow landed on his stomach and curved along the lines to the bed beneath. “Cole.”
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by Sarah | Mar 5, 2013 | Books, Changing Tracks, Hump Day Hook, Writing
{WINNER is Jennifer Simpkins!!}
Another Hump Day Hook! Changing Tracks has been quite lovely and taken me on a ride around the internet this month – and is still going. I’m hoping to have a cover to reveal so I can start showing you bits and pieces of Masked Hearts as well – but as for now, you can have another little taste of Jane…and because I’ve been taunting you with Jane and Cole and the cast of this book for so long…I’m going to include a giveaway in the post. One lucky commenter will win a copy of Changing Tracks – in their format of choice!!
This is not a typical paragraph that I’d post – but as it’s primarily dialogue of one liners, I needed to include a full four lines. Jane is asking Cole to assist her in a task that requires them to leave town:
“So will you help me?”
He studied her for a long minute. “What’s in it for me?”
“We’ll take one horse. Two people. One horse. Plenty cozy, don’t you think?”
“When do you wanna leave?”
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by Sarah | Feb 26, 2013 | Books, Changing Tracks, Hump Day Hook, Writing
Another Hump Day Hook! Once again I’m bringing Jane Doe to the party – but this time I’m responding to a request to see a paragraph from book 2 in the series, Derailed. As I don’t have a cover yet, you get my Changing Tracks cover.
This is the opening lines of Chapter 2 in Derailed. Jane and Cole are much relaxed in their room:
“I was sixteen.”
Jane grew completely still, the finger that had been dancing along his chest froze in place. Cole never spoke about anything beyond his years in Dominion Falls. For a moment she wondered if she should let him go on.
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Another Hump Day Hook!
