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WIPpet numbers for 29th November, 2017: 11 sentences from Goth of Christmas Past WIPpet Context: I haven’t ditched  Tabula Rasa , but I am taking a break from it to write for NaNoWriMo . Thus, I’m snipping from my very new (and rough) WIP Goth of Christmas Past , still on target and one day to go! The pictured cover is NOT the  cover, which is finished, but I’m keeping it to myself for now. :) In this snippet , Jay and Krissi are at the park, sitting on swings, and Krissi is swinging. * * * * * [Jay] “It’s Christmas. Why aren’t you bouncing around like you’ve got springs on your shoes. Actually…they’d be kind of cool.” “Until you fall flat on your face,” Krissi grumbled on her next pass. She was moving fast enough that Jay listened for a doppler shift. He decided it would be better not to respond; he’d only say something sarcastic, and if he managed something more sincere, she’d think it was sarcasm anyway. “So…I’m single again.” “Are you?” He hadn’t...

Another CV / character profile from the  Hiding Behind The Couch series . Profiles posted so far: Kris Johansson Charlie Davenport Sean Tierney Jess Lambert Dan Jeffries Eleanor Davenport Krissi Johansson Shaunna Hennessy Andy Jeffries 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). This week, it’s time to catch up with Adele, who—in my head—looks a fair bit like the image above. Images used in these character spotlights (this one included) which aren’t from book covers / Daz3D are from Pixabay . You can find both the writing and suggested reading order for the series on this page:  deb248211.blogspot.co.uk/p/hiding-behind-couch.html Adele Reeves Name: Adele Reeves Eyes: Blue-grey Hair: Blonde, straight Complexion: Fair (but t...

I haven’t posted to  Rainbow Snippets  in such a long time—busy life, in short—but I decided to join in today to celebrate Trans Awareness Week. I’ll be honest: there are very few trans characters in my stories, and for no good reason, but I’ve become aware of it over the past couple of years, and I’m working on changing that. :) Anyway, here’s a snippet from The Making of Us featuring Jazz—one of the officers of (MC) Jesse’s university’s LGBT+ society. * * * * * Most of the members identified as gay or lesbian; there were a couple of trans students—Jazz being the only one I knew well, because we’d been at Weight Watchers together the previous year. I’d lost six kilos, and I was pretty sure I’d put them all back on again in a matter of weeks. Jazz had lost around twenty kilos and kept the weight off, and she looked amazing. Well, she’d looked amazing before, but now, she was more confident and less self-conscious, and she got to wear clothes that accentuated her cur...

WIPpet numbers for 15th November, 2017: 15 lines of dialogue from Goth of Christmas Past WIPpet Context: I haven’t ditched  Tabula Rasa , but I am taking a break from it to write for NaNoWriMo . Thus, I’m snipping from my very new (and rough) WIP Goth of Christmas Past , currently on target at 25,000 words. The pictured cover is NOT the  cover, which is finished, but I’m keeping it to myself for now. :) I also have a draft blurb! :o Black hair and band hoodies had a lot to answer for. That day, eleven years ago, when Gothboy mooched into their business studies class for the very first time, Krissi had taken one look at him and thought, What a freak. He’s so cool! Now in their mid-twenties, Krissi Johansson and Jay Meyer are successful businesspeople and still best friends. But while one of them is moving forward with their life, the other is sliding ever backwards…revisiting the past and wallowing in regret. Worse still, it’s Christmas—happy joy joy ever...

Another CV / character profile from the  Hiding Behind The Couch series . Profiles posted so far: Kris Johansson Charlie Davenport Sean Tierney Jess Lambert Dan Jeffries Eleanor Davenport Krissi Johansson Shaunna Hennessy 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). Today, it’s time to meet Andy Jeffries, the middle brother, adventure sports nut, the wayward one (or he was…). I can’t find any images (free, stock or otherwise) even vaguely similar to how Andy looks in my head, so the image above is my Daz 3D representation. It’s close enough for rock ’n’ roll. Note: for readers who haven’t read as far as In The Stars / Red Hot Christmas , the spoilers start in Andy’s CV, and there are MAJOR spoilers in the later excerpts. You can fin...

WIPpet numbers for 8th November, 2017: 11+8=19 paragraphs from Goth of Christmas Past WIPpet Context: I haven’t ditched  Tabula Rasa , but I am taking a break from it to write for NaNoWriMo . Thus, I’m snipping from my very new (and rough) WIP Goth of Christmas Past . The pictured cover is NOT the  cover, although I think I might recycle it for something else (which would require me to write something else ^_^). The wonderful, incredibly talented Emma Pickering (designer of the cover for Champagne ) is currently working on the cover art. The main bit of it is done, but it still needs the background and…and I’m so  excited! Like a kid at Christmas! :D Emma—you are a superstar. Thank you so much! Onto the WIPpet: this is the beginning of the first scene of the Prologue/Chapter One (whatever it turns out to be). I’ve already had to rejig the characters once, so anything could happen! Some readers might recognise these guys… * * * * * Bursts of stro...

Another CV / character profile from the  Hiding Behind The Couch series . Profiles posted so far: Kris Johansson Charlie Davenport Sean Tierney Jess Lambert Dan Jeffries Eleanor Davenport Krissi Johansson 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). Today, we’re stopping off for a cup of tea and a gossip with Shaunna. If there is such a thing as someone who is in charge of The Circle, it’s definitely Shaunna. I should also add credit for the images at this point. Those which aren’t from book covers are from Pixabay , and this one is a good likeness for what Shaunna looks like in my head (or how she’d have looked in her late-twenties, at least). You can find both the writing and suggested reading order for the series on this page:  ...