Arlene Webb's Blog, page 12
May 29, 2011
SSS. A clip from current release, Ashes
Thank you to all the SSS players. Your remarks mean the world to me. In this bit, Renold, a very confused man, is being lectured."Lyle has gifted me, a solitary being, more heartache than all my lives combined. I don't like it when he yells, it frightens me, like your unhappy fingers do. I know he's a twittering gosling lost in a gale, in need of his brother, but only pea-brained lemmings would assume a phoenix is capable of harm. Not ever…except…well, I have breathed in an occasional insect. They don't always flutter when I spit them out." Why was it going on like this? Bennu didn't need to explain itself to a dirt crawler.
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May 27, 2011
May 25, 2011
Got Cover? Nah, Got an Awesome Cover!!
Coming Janaury, 2012 from MuseitHot
May 23, 2011
Released!!!! A Paranormal Romance by Barbara Elsborg
The Rock Desired by men and women, Eli's good looks make sexual conquest easy until he attends a party at the Supernatural Museum, where they land him in deep trouble. He says no to the wrong women, and his punishment is to learn the ultimate meaning of loneliness.
The Stone Maiden
Much to her family's disappointment, not only is Pepper single but she works a hard and dirty job as an apprentice stonemason. Pepper loves bringing stone to life with her chisel but struggles with the isolation that comes with being different. Then there's her attraction to her boss, Alessandro, who appears to prefer men. When Eli materializes out of nowhere, Pepper can hardly believe her eyes. Now she's caught between a rock and a hard place.
The Hard Place
His hands hardened by years training to become a master stonemason, Alessandro is an expert at his craft, but not in matters of the heart. A daily frustration when he's in hopelessly in love with Pepper and the man of his dreams has disappeared. As Alessandro's team begins to restore the Supernatural Museum, he, Pepper and Eli are drawn into the building's secrets and risk losing everything they hold dear.
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Rocked has one of the best plot lines, ever. Add in unforgetable characters, and Barbara has created yet another extraordinary world.
I'll add the Amazon link when they get it out there.
http://www.loose-id.com/Rocked.aspx
Coming May 24th!!!! A Paranormal Romance by Barbara Elsborg
The Rock Desired by men and women, Eli's good looks make sexual conquest easy until he attends a party at the Supernatural Museum, where they land him in deep trouble. He says no to the wrong women, and his punishment is to learn the ultimate meaning of loneliness.
The Stone Maiden
Much to her family's disappointment, not only is Pepper single but she works a hard and dirty job as an apprentice stonemason. Pepper loves bringing stone to life with her chisel but struggles with the isolation that comes with being different. Then there's her attraction to her boss, Alessandro, who appears to prefer men. When Eli materializes out of nowhere, Pepper can hardly believe her eyes. Now she's caught between a rock and a hard place.
The Hard Place
His hands hardened by years training to become a master stonemason, Alessandro is an expert at his craft, but not in matters of the heart. A daily frustration when he's in hopelessly in love with Pepper and the man of his dreams has disappeared. As Alessandro's team begins to restore the Supernatural Museum, he, Pepper and Eli are drawn into the building's secrets and risk losing everything they hold dear.
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Rocked has one of the best plot lines, ever. Add in unforgetable characters, and Barbara has created yet another extraordinary world.
I'll add the buy link as soon as Loose Id gets it out there.
May 22, 2011
SSS. Bennu
A few lines of dialogue between Renold (human) and Bennu (non human).
Ashes released! on Friday!!
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"Unlike you, I'm extraordinarily unique. Thousands of years have shown me that cannibalistic seagulls, tool using crows, parrots counting for a cracker, there's not a feathered being as self-centered as the non-feathered—or as violent."
"Now I'm selfish, stupid, and vicious?"
Bennu's next inhale proved it correct on all three characteristics. Renold had forcibly relaxed his hands, but his scent steadily showed increasing aggression. He no longer smelled deliciously protective, but dark and dangerous as a cornered panther.
http://sixsunday.blogspot.com/
Ashes released! on Friday!!
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"Unlike you, I'm extraordinarily unique. Thousands of years have shown me that cannibalistic seagulls, tool using crows, parrots counting for a cracker, there's not a feathered being as self-centered as the non-feathered—or as violent."
"Now I'm selfish, stupid, and vicious?"
Bennu's next inhale proved it correct on all three characteristics. Renold had forcibly relaxed his hands, but his scent steadily showed increasing aggression. He no longer smelled deliciously protective, but dark and dangerous as a cornered panther.
http://sixsunday.blogspot.com/
May 21, 2011
May 20, 2011
Release Day!
AshesRaw thirst dominated Lyle's fantasy. Cracked ribs, battered leg, ankle bruised by the shackle, three broken fingers, deep slashes along inner thighs, and bone jutting through muscle in the left arm—it all lay crushed under the need for water. Images of shimmering droplets danced behind his crusted eyelids.
How long did it take for a male in his prime to die? The metal rod had been staked deep into the desert soil of Las Vegas. Lyle no longer struggled against the chain, tried to shelter his skin from the searing heat, or screamed for a soul with a shred of human compassion to help him.
Surrounded by low shrubs with a pungent crisp scent, there had to be reason he continued to draw in their aroma. His daydream with denial began to weaken as his thoughts hardened from despair into anger. Lyle pressed against his brother's stiffening body, but no amount of friction created a response. Reality intruded with more stomach spasms and he grunted, shifting aside.
He willed himself calm, and focused on the message traced in the sand. He trailed his finger to edge the outline of the heart beside his name into a stronger, thicker image. The "L" blurred into an "M," nausea clogged his throat, and the moisture in his mouth jarred him toward clarity.
The truth? Lyle was no longer part of a binary system. He wasn't the half that needed water and medical attention hours ago. He was the worthless bastard who had to dig six inches further down, pull up a steel bar, and carry Myles home.
An imaginary hand stroked his head, the firm touch of male flesh soothed the tears on his cheek and his dead brother's voice whispered in his ear, "Sorry, Lyle. Permanently separated—how weird is that? You mustn't follow me. Move your butt. Find them instead. Avenge me."
"Sure." Lyle spat blood through his cracked lips. "I'll get right on it." Impetuous and irrational, Myles had always been the weaker. But Lyle, older by three minutes, managed to rescue his younger bro from every sociopath that befell him.
Not this time. Myles headed for a pine box.
Lyle headed toward damnation as soon as he stopped pretending he was Myles. The chain didn't hold his leg tight, no sharp object had opened his veins, and not a bone in his body had been smashed. Lyle lay facedown in the dirt, alongside his twin, imagining over and over what it must have felt like to die like this.
How much guilt can a heart take before it goes quiet? And who dared to approach, interrupting his snuggle with the dead? A ripple of dust and a fluttering irritated Lyle. Hot air and cinnamon hit his face. He snapped open his eyes and jerked to his feet.
A dying buzzard? More like a deathly ill, midget flamingo. The creature that landed in front of Lyle appeared deader than Myles.
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