EXCERPT: Facet of Empire: Sapphire #amwriting
I thought I would revisit my sci-fi epic. I work on these stories every once and awhile; hardcore space opera, baby, the only opera I enjoy.
They’re badly in need of editing and I need some smart sci-fi brain to go over them because I’m not sure what’s possible or not and my way of writing has changed since I started the series. Still, they’ve always been my favorites
Title: Sapphire
genre: sci-fi
series: Facet of Empire
Summary: Sapphire is brought to the prison planet Hades to find the notorious muderer William Hedell.
Excerpt of “Sapphire”
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It’s early o’clock in the morning and I felt like saying *something* #amwriting
There have been times when stories appear in my brain fully formed and all I have to do is write them down. That’s how “Laughing Curse” has struck me; I dreamt the story last night and now it’s bouncing around in my brain.
The only thing I wish is that I hadn’t been woken up and I’d been able to see the whole thing. That would have made me so happy.
It shouldn’t be too long before I let you all meet Santiago and Edgar, man adventurers, or something.
Wtf? I have no memory whatsoever story fragment of some het thing.
I don’t even know what I was thinking when I started this
The first time he saw her, Jimi knew that she was the One. The Neo to his Trinity.
She was all lean muscle and leather, her body sleek and smooth as dolphin skin. She looked like a hard woman, and the idea of it had him squirming.
She was everything he’d been dreaming of.
“All right, let’s go,” he said, striding forward. At the same time he accessed his data node and sent a quick message: I accept. Your money is being transferred as we speak. Half now and half when I leave.
So yeah. There’s a reason why I like to write full notes when I come up with a story idea. That way when I’m flipping through my notebook later I can figure out what the heck I was thinking, especially if I was inebriated at the time.
This might possibly be an S&M piece, or some kind of true love story, or I don’t even know
Bad me! No biscuit.
RE: Bachelor’s Vegetable Store (kdrama)
I watch all these kdramas and they warp my notions of reality. I think that I sympathize more with straight forward characters like Dong Yi and Han Tae Yang because that’s pretty much how I am. Though I think they give themselves more trouble than they really need if they would just be honest with people; not about their more serious secret, but the smaller troubles they get into.
Half these dramas would simply fall apart if one character would turn to another and just lay all the facts out on the table. Instead, everyone has to hold everything all bottled up and creep around all over the place.
Sure, that kind of super melodrama is interesting for a number of episodes, then it just gets repetetive. You want the characters to quit moping around all the time and buck up. At the very least, you stop feeling sorry for the characters and you just think that they should totally cut contact with each other because they would be much better off.
“Bachelor’s Vegetable Store” is strangely compelling for a story about a guy selling vegetables, but I think that they’ve kind of lost track of the charm and have drifted into ridiculous territory. Also, they introduced some side stories for the supporting characters, then they don’t follow through with them. We just get a tiny taste at a time and it’s actually very frustrating.
I was willing to watch 60 episodes of “Dong Yi” because it was just that attention grabbing and entertaining. There were characters that I really cared about and wanted to see get a happy ending.
With “Bachelor’s Vegetable Store,” I’ve kind of gotten to the point where I think Han Tae Yang should just cut his losses and find some other girl to love, one that would actually appreciate him. I just think that she should face up to the fact that she’s more interested in comfort and money than she is in love, and cut the ties; it would be a kindness to just let him go. But there’s no way she’s ever going to do that because she’s selfish. She doesn’t even care enough for him to protect his life from a woman that has shown a willlingness to do horrible things to people.
I’m so disgusted by her, that I think I would appreciate it if there were longer scenes in the secondary characters’ lives to break the tension. Like I have my suspicious about Chan Sol’s situation, but I kind of want to have that proved; that or I would really like an interesting twist. And I’m kind of curious about the seemingly homeless bachelor with the angsty past.
So long to the Blog Hop. Here’s the winners list:
Winners of ebooks:
Jean P
Mimi Rose
Shadow
Ashley (shadowestr)
Grand Prize winner:
Cristina C
All winners will be contacted by email shortly. Thanks for entering and I hope you all had a great time
P.S. Like I promised there’s something cool for everyone that entered. So for every other entrant, there’s a free copy of “Ersatz” in your future. Emails will be sent out soonish.
With Love Valentine’s Day Blog Hop #bloghop #freebies
Once again, it’s that time of year again. That time of hearts and love and chocolate.
As anyone that’s semi-familiar with my writing knows, I tend to write in a variety of genres and heat levels, though my stuff is usually on the softer side of hardcore porn
Anyways, right now all I have published is m/m, though I promise that in the future there will be some m/f or m/m/f. Mostly though, my stories are about people and love.
I hope that everyone enjoys the excerpt and posts a comment at the bottom for a chance to win 1 of 4 ebooks I’m giving out or the grand prize, a signed print copy of “Heroes & Villains.”
Much love to everyone that enters and I hope you follow the link to ride out the rest of the Hop. There’s a lot of very good stuff being given out today by a bunch of incredibly wonderful people. So check out my entry, then be sure to enjoy the rest of the “With Love Valentine’s Day Blog Hop.”
P.S. My apologies to anyone that came around earlier. I had a post set up to be published at midnight of the 10th, but for some reason it seems to have disappeared
I would have noticed earlier, but I was running errands this morning. I am incredibly sorry and I promise to make it up to everyone that does enter ::wink::
Title: The Brand
Author: Harper Kingsley
Genre: sci-fi, fantasy, mm
Pen is a Royal Concubine that belonged to King Darling, who has just been overthrown. Now Pen and the rest of the harem are spoils of war and belong to Duke Wrathful Fury, a hard man with the ear of the Emperor of the West.
Excerpt taken from “The Brand.”
ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE: You Missed It
She saw a woman open her car door and step out. Brown fur trimmed boots, dark blue skinny jeans hung so low half of her naked butt was showing, a baby blue sweater, an attractive face with dark red lips and sunglasses, all topped with a mass of riotous dark curls. The woman’s head turned, her arm extending so her hand could rest on the car door, and her hair whipped around in a smooth brown curtain. In that moment, in that light, the woman was beautiful.
“Ew, butt crack,” she said, laughing. As she watched, the woman looked around, then ducked back into her gray sedan. The door quietly closed behind her.
“Really, you can see someone’s butt crack?” Bill asked, looking up.
“You missed it.” She felt kind of bad for him. The young woman really had been quite pretty. He’d really missed out. Not that she would ever say anything about it to him. It would be too weird.












