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The Rare Event has a cover!
The wonderful Anne Cain has been terribly busy trying to turn my visions into a real cover, and OMG look what we have now!
That is so Ricky! Edits just got easier to do, because now I’m the last hold-up on getting this project put together. March 30th!
Posted in Writing
Six Sentence Sunday: Fall Down the Mountain
From Fall Down the Mountain–Mark McAvoy, the ski patrol, is awake in the night when he’d really rather not be.
The building was quiet at two a.m., the hall lights almost too bright as I padded the length of the third floor to the central stairs; one flight down and then about halfway across the other wing of the building brought me to their door. Maybe this time I wouldn’t get punched.
Because I had to knock on that door. I needed to see for myself that the men who lived on the other side were alive and well, and then I might be able to sleep again. If not tonight, then some other night, but the need to see them both, to touch them and feel the warmth of life, pulled my hand up to the wood, and I knocked. Three soft raps on the door, and only then did I realize I had no idea what to say, how to explain being on their doorstep in the wee hours.
Find the rest at at Torquere, Amazon, or ARe.
Wonderful timesink
I’ve spent so much time over at Live Science in the last few days that it’s getting a little embarrassing. So I tell myself I search for plot bunnies. I stumbled on the place when looking for a picture of the Northern lights (this is what I found) and stayed. And stayed.
Where else can you find anything from discussions of acoustic illusions as a basis for Stonehenge to the drinking habits of fruit flies?
This is the sort of place that appeals to my jackdaw mind; I’ll be heading back from time to time.
Posted in Writing
Houston, we have a blurb
For some reason, the blurb is the hardest couple of hundred words in the whole project. Distilling down the essence of the story to answer the question, “Why read this?” is tougher than plotting out a 60k word novel. The sweet folks at Dreamspinner help (thank you, Gin! Have chocolates!) but even so, nails get bitten past the quick.
So I am a happy girl that we have a blurb for The Rare Event now. What do you think?
Hedge fund trader Ricky Santeramo has it all: money, looks, and fellow trader Jonathan Hogenboom. The two couldn’t be more different: Jon is from old money, while Ricky clawed his way out of blue-collar New Jersey. Jon hedges his positions; Ricky goes for broke. Jon likes opera and the Yankees; Ricky prefers clubbing. Jon drinks wine with dinner; Ricky throws back a beer. Jon wants monogamy… but Ricky likes variety.
Bankrupt airlines are facing strikes, the housing market is starting to crumble, and Jon can’t wait any longer for Ricky to commit. One last night alone and one last risky trade make Jon say, “Enough.” Then Jon’s old friend Davis comes to New York City, ready for baseball and forever. The whole world is chaos, but there are fortunes to be made—or lost—and hearts to be broken—or won.
Faced with losing it all, Ricky must make the savviest trades of his life and pray for a rare event. His portfolio and Jon’s love are on the line.
