Amazon, BN, Samhain
Published since 2009, over the years I've accumulated various items of writing wisdom. The Third Tuesday Writing Tidbit showcases these items in no particular order. Click here to see all 3T Tidbits.
Get extra power for a character by discussing them or showing an aspect of them before they actually enter.
-Have others talking about the character. ("Did you see HERO save that puppy?")
-Pick some element you want to show about your character. Show another character exhibiting that trait first. Then show your primary character trumping the secondary character. (BAD guy threatens NICE person for money. BIGGER bad guy shows up and beats up BAD guy, really threatens NICE person. HERO shows up and creams BIGGER bad guy.)
Biting Nixie (Biting Love Book 2)
Nitro? Meet glycerin...
Punk musician Nixie Schmeling is a hundred pounds of Attitude who spells authority a-n-c-h-o-r and thinks buying insurance is just one more step toward death. So she really feels played when she’s “volunteered” to run the town’s first annual fundraising festival. Especially when she finds out it’s to pay for a heavy-hitting, suit-wearing lawyer—who’s six-feet-plus of black-haired, blue-eyed sex on a stick.
Attorney Julian Emerson learned centuries ago that the only way to contain his dangerous nature is to stay buttoned up. He’s come from Boston to defend the town from a shady group of suits...and an even shadier gang of vampires. But his biggest problem is Nixie, who shreds his self-control.
Nixie doesn’t get why the faphead shyster doesn’t understand her. Julian wishes Nixie would speak a known language...like Sanskrit. Even if they manage to foil the bloodthirsty gang, what future is there for a tiny punk rocker and a blue-blooded skyscraper?
And that’s before Nixie finds out Julian’s a vampire...
Warning: Contains more eye-popping sex, ear-popping language and gut-popping laughs than can possibly be good for you. And vampires. Not sippy-neck wimps, but burning beacons of raw sexuality—this means passionate blood-heating, violent bloodletting, and fangy bloodsucking. Oh, and cheese balls. Those things are just scary. (This title contains explicit sexual language.)
**Fallen Angel Reviews Recommended Read; Joyfully Reviewed Joyfully Recommended; Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews A True Gem
Nixie's slang isn't always found in Websters. Read some here.
Grabbed my copy, Mary! I have to say, the Samhain warnings always make me smile. :)
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