• In all honesty, I’m not wearing black right now; I merely wanted to get AC/DC stuck in your head. You’re welcome. ”      Suddenly, he cut himself off. He wanted to say more. He wanted to express how little he thought of destiny if this was the life destiny had chosen for him. He wanted to…

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  • “‘…Never underrate the power of intellectual curiosity, Domaris! It leads to more trouble than any other human motive! If Riveda were malicious, or deliberately cruel, he would be less dangerous! But he only serves one motive: the driving force of a powerful mind which has never really been challenged…’” “The Fall of Atlantis” by Marion…

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  • ”     ‘You deceptive little minx,’ he said, grinning as he leaned into her, not for the illusion of their secrecy, but merely to be closer.      ‘I know,’ she whispered back, her dark eyes lingering on him for a moment before they set themselves steadily forward. ‘I’m already fitting in.’” It’s Wednesday, which means I…

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  • “Pretty much, you’re screwed. Patting yourself on the back is kind of like giving an aspirin to a dead guy; pointless.“ “Resident Evil 4: Underworld” by S.D. Perry When I embarked on the challenge to read through all six of the Resident Evil novelizations that I had, I knew I was going to be in…

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  • As I am writing this, it is obscenely early. Well, not obscenely. It’s only an hour before I usually wake up but, an hour ago, three o’clock in the AM, it was obscenely early. However, I had slipped out of sleep and into a state of restless wakefulness and, in honor of the idea that…

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  • “‘You met crass fools in that Kassirian shop yesterday,’ Locke said, ‘but you hired professionals. Whatever happened there has passed. When you talked to Jaxson, I assume you talked to him about hiring capable hands for your cause. Well, you’ve got something better than that. You’ve hired Battaracks.’” Making the decision to finish Serpent in…

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  • “Dreams, Grimm exhaled, such a burden of the human soul.” “Dream Thieves” by Steven Lee Climer I’m not sure exactly how Dream Thieves came into my life, probably at a used book shop, because it’s a pretty indie book (before indie was even cool!) and I don’t think I’d have picked it up otherwise. Or…

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  • “‘Your pouch of coins may be as large and hefty as my nutsack, and it still wouldn’t be enough to pay me to work for you.’” Yup, we’re back on Serpent in a Cage excerpts to start out my check-ins. Gilferen really does get all the best lines. It’s been an interesting few days for…

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  • A Cage-y Question.

    Anyone who follows my A Round of Words in 80 Days posts (and thank you, those who do!) will know that I’ve been struggling to figure out what book I want to strive to finish to be the second book I promised myself I’d publish this year. I know I’m itching to get to it,…

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  • “‘I know,’ he said, and his acceptance earned him a kiss. She swooped in like a fresh breeze, the curtain of her dark hair falling over his as her lips touch his. It was a slow, meaningful kiss, all pressure and longing and hunger, and Silver slid his arm around her slender waist because it…

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