Snippet

For Wont, who asked

The clipboard snapped in Jim’s fingers.  He dropped it on the ground and raised his hands.  “You know what, I’m done.  I quit.” “Oh my God, seriously?” Jim wiped his hands one against each other and showed them to me.  

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There Shall Be a Badass

Monday snippet from Facebook. Tall, with the skin the color of rich coffee, and dressed all in black, Jim looked like was carved from a block of solid muscle.  Logic said that at some point he must’ve been a baby  

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Ok.

ok

Kid 1 is still sick.  Gordon is dealing with the final throws of the stomach virus. I am tired as hell.  I slept badly, my stomach is also beginning to hurt – there is projectile vomit in my future, my  

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Literal Addiction

literal-addiction

Quick announcement – we’re doing a live chat today. LITERAL ADDICTION Web Event Intro will be on : http://www.literaladdiction.com Q&A will be on http://www.literaladdiction.com/authors-corner.php/ and http:/www.bookmonsterreviews.blogspot.com/ 3-5pm EST Live Chat will be on http://www.literaladdiction.com/author-chat.php/. I have new hair! It has  

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Tiny Monday Snippet

tiny-monday-snippet

Ten minutes later the lawyer and the doctor were gone and I was left with two freaked-out kids. “Did Kate check in?” Ascanio shook his head.  “She and Curran are out doing something.” Well, my back-up was right out. I  

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Monday Snippet

Sometimes we have to juggle more than one project at once.  This is a short story for an upcoming anthology.  Don’t want to go into details yet, as we are not sure it will be accepted.  I told her to  

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Small Snippet

small-snippet

Facebook peeps get snippets on Mondays, and it was pointed out to me how unfair it is that blog readers don’t.  So Monday Facebook snippet. *** We followed him up a tall grey and brown staircase.  “Do you come here  

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Andrea’s Snippet

andreas-snippet

Andrea’s Book Me: Do you think I should post a chunk of Andrea’s book? Gordon: Yep. Me: What scene? Gordon: Give them Andrea and Raphael in the office. Me: That might be too spoilery.  Of course I thought the scene  

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Snippet and Fire Update

snippet-and-fire-update

Well, we almost evacuated last night.  Some apartments burned down about a mile away.  We packed our bags and chased the cat inside for easy apprehension.  But so far so good. Knock-knock-knock, thpew-thpew-thpew. Gordon says I should share a small  

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Betas

Betas

betas

CheeseBK Gingko Laura  (soapturtle) Random number peeps: Sarah (Page 3, comment 12) Richard Cartwright (Page 1, comment 10) Kindle-aholic (Page 1, comment 35) Please email me at ilona.a.gordon at gmail, specifying doc or docx. Also, one hundred and thirty two  

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