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I haven’t posted a Rainbow Snippet in such a long time, but I’m going to do my best to change that in the coming year and get back to posting regularly. About Rainbow Snippets Rainbow Snippets  is a group for LGBTQ+ authors, readers, and bloggers to gather once a week to share six sentences from a work of fiction–a WIP or a finished work or even a 6-sentence book recommendation (no spoilers please!). In this group you'll find anything from romance and historical fiction to mystery and YA. The common thread is that every story's main character identifies as LGBTQ+. The snippets could range from zero flames to full-on sexytimes, anything goes content-wise. The only rule is snippets will be 6 sentences long–one for each color in the Pride flag. Today’s Rainbow Snippet I’m posting from  To Be Sure , which is contemporary LGBT+ fiction with romantic elements, featuring two older women (aged 70+): Saorla Tierney, a bisexual woman from Derry, The North of Ireland, and her ...

Before I forget…you can download my books for FREE or at 50% discount in the Smashwords Christmas sale (ends 1st January): Hiding Behind The Couch series Checking Him Out series When Skies Have Fallen (novel + Christmas short) Debbie McGowan on Smashwords (i.e. all books) * * * * * WIPpet numbers for 27th December, 2017: 12 x 27 = 324 words from Goth of Christmas Past WIPpet Context: I’m still snipping Goth of Christmas Past , and I decided, seeing as ’tis the season , I’d reveal the real cover. The artwork is by Emma Pickering and it’s so perfectly Krissi and Jay. I could hardly believe it when Emma showed me what she’d come up with. The novel won’t be out until next Christmas, but I’m getting quite a bit of it written now. I also successfully persuaded Nige to alpha-read the first 11k to make sure the structure works. He says so! Plus, he bought me a Goth of Christmas Past t-shirt (black with black print) for Christmas. Cheers, dude. :D T his snippet  is...

Another CV / character profile from the  Hiding Behind The Couch series . This is the last of the ‘main’ characters…well, he  is  the main character! Before I get to Josh’s profile… ALL of the Hiding Behind The Couch stories are available in the Smashwords Christmas sale —either for free of for half-price. The sale begins today (25th December) and ends on 1st January. Profiles posted so far: Kris Johansson Charlie Davenport Sean Tierney Jess Lambert Dan Jeffries Eleanor Davenport Krissi Johansson Shaunna Hennessy Andy Jeffries Adele Reeves Ade Simmons George Morley Hiding Behind The Couch  is an ongoing series about a group of friends—‘The Circle’ (the original main characters in the series), which has expanded and changed over time to include the ‘extended circle’ (additional main characters, below the circle on the right). You can find both the writing and suggested reading order for the series on this page:  deb248211.blogsp...