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July 1, 2014
A Glimmering Girl – Update
June is gone … and no Glimmering Girl yet! ::sob::
I’m so bad at hitting my target dates. My dream is to someday make enough at this writing thing that I can leave the day job work and just write, write, write. Sigh…
However, I’m going to have a fun, EXCITING announcement in the next couple of days, here and in the newsletter.
If you’re interested in receiving an ARC (Advanced Reader Copy) of A Glimmering Girl , make sure you’re signed up for the newsletter ~ which will include a neato giveaway.
Meanwhile, don’t miss this sneak peek at A Glimmering Girl !
April 28, 2014
FUN and SEXY New Series by Melissa Lummis!
The Little Flame Series is LIVE on Amazon and Smashwords!
The first THREE novellas in the Little Flame Series are now live on Amazon and Smashwords, and will soon be available on iTunes, Barnes and Noble, and Kobo.
Description:
They say home is where the heart is, but if that’s true, then I’m lost because I have no clue where my heart is, anymore. I thought I knew – until I met Maximillian.
I was on my way out of the Capital City before the local vampires could catch on to me and let’s just say if that happened then this club dancer would be facing her expiration date. And that’s when the famous DJ blew into town – and into my head and heart. He turned all my plans upside down with his sick friend and his electric blue eyes, damn it.
I should have cut bait and run for my life, but I couldn’t abandon someone I could heal even if it meant the vampires might catch up with me. Besides, Maximillian smelled familiar, like deep forest and pine needles baked in the sun mixed with that chilly snap of running water and the coolness of twilight. Those things have a smell that adds up to a dream.
You can get lost in that kind of dream. It can fill your mind with ideas and notions you have no business thinking or feeling. Dreams like that make it easy to forget the danger you’re in .
For one week only each novella is available for just 99 cents.
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April 25, 2014
Why the Jaime/Cersei Sept Scene Was Storytelling Perfection
It seems everyone in the thrall of HBO’s Game of Thrones is having a whacked-out breakdown over “the scene” in the sept between Jaime and Cersei.
You know the one.
1. Spoiler alert: Read no further if you don’t want to know….
2. Yes-buts and disclaimers: a . This is about the series, not the books. b. Yes, I know rape is wrong.
I completely identified with Jaime’s point of view. After his Big Reveal in the bath with Brienne, Jaime has morphed from Despicable He to Tragically Misunderstood Anti-Hero. My altered eye alters all:
Yes, he’s an oath-breaker – but for the noblest of causes. He sacrificed his oath, his very self-definition, to save the world (so to speak) from a monster. And then he was condemned and judged for doing so by none other than the holier-than-thou, beloved-by-all, Stupid Ned Stark.
The world was not grateful for Jaime’s sacrifice. The world went on as it had before, stupid, cowardly, self-absorbed, cruel. Jaime adapted. I don’t know if he was a murderer before then. I know he was afterward. He pushed Bram out the window, intending to kill him. He murdered that guy in the stockade. His contempt for the world is genuine, heart-felt, and the world deserves it.
But I think in his heart of hearts Jaime wishes the world were an honorable and just place, and it tears him apart in his soul that it isn’t.
So he keeps his own code of honor. He wouldn’t finish Stark off in the square “because it wouldn’t have been clean.” He saved Brienne because it would have been dishonorable not to.
For years, he’s been estranged from the world. Recently, he’s been captured, ridiculed, lost his right hand (his sword-fighting hand), and finally returned home to Cersei, the one friend, the one love, the one safe place and source of comfort in his life. And she rejects him.
Watch the scene again. I think Jaime cracks when she looks at his stump with revulsion and pulls away from him. It’s too much. The final rejection from the one place he hoped to find acceptance. He breaks, loses control, and demands what he’d hoped she would give freely. Not sex. Comfort, solace, love.
And that’s why the scene is so tragic. Those things can’t be taken; they can only be accepted when offered freely. Poor Jaime Lannister.
April 13, 2014
Giveaway – Win the entire My Mr. Rochester set
Fun!
Misty at Kindle Obsessed is giving away the box set of all 5 episodes of My Mr. Rochester. Go enter!
March 6, 2014
My Mr. Rochester 1 – New Cover Reveal
So … I think the cover for My Mr. Rochester 1 might be a little too bondage-ish
It actually does depict a scene in Episode 1 – the infamous Red Room incident. However, judging by one review at Goodreads (yes, only one, but it makes a good point), some people might expect more kink with a cover like this.
There’s a tiny bit of kink in the Red Room scene. Tiny. You have to get to the episode with the gray mask on the cover (episode 4) for more.
So here’s a more appropriate cover for My Mr. Rochester 1 . It evokes the romance of Jane Eyre , but there’s still something a little off, a little futuristic and dystopian about it that I love. Someone recently told me she thinks of My Mr. Rochester as a historical romance set in the future. I like that!
March 3, 2014
My Mr. Rochester 5 Is Live – The Jane Eyre Retold Serial is Complete
Hurray! My Mr. Rochester (Jane Eyre Retold) has been told. The serial is complete!
If you’ve ever wanted to read Jane Eyre, but you found the 19th century language just too daunting, this serial might be just for you. This BBC-type miniseries in book form takes place in five episodes. In print, the books are 184 , 140 , 148 , 140 , and 232 pages.
Find links to the ebooks and descriptions of the episodes on this page .
My Mr. Rochester is a retelling of Jane Eyre set in an alternative reality – a future two generations after the red state/blue state divide has brought on a second civil war ~ this time, north and south go their separate ways, and the “red” states form the country of New Judah based on biblical principles and a simple, low-tech lifestyle.
In the 2080s, Jane lives in New Judah. She grows up in Idaho then moves to the state of Jefferson to take a job as a private governess where her occasional glimpses of the world outside make her question New Judean rigidity as she struggles to understand her growing love for her emotionally damaged employer, Edward Fairfax Rochester.
March 1, 2014
My Mr. Rochester 5 is in production!
A few more days… !
I’m so happy with this. It’s been such a pleasure to write My Mr. Rochester ~ every time I reread Jane Eyre , I learn more about it. Rewriting it has made me think deeper and wider about so many more aspects of the story.
Jane Eyre is loaded with contradictions and contrasts and tales within tales which shine the light on the main actors’ characters. In episode 5 one of the obvious contrasts is between Blanche Ingram and Rosamond Oliver. Brontë’s reason for these two ladies being in the story usually gets left out of film and tv treatments of Jane Eyre . (But Rosamond at least shows up in the 2005 BBC miniseries.) A shame – but you get it with My Mr. Rochester !
[image error] Blanche Ingram, as everyone knows, is considered a perfect match for Mr. Rochester. She’s beautiful, accomplished, well-connected. What else does a man want in a wife? But there’s only one small problem. Mr. Rochester doesn’t love Blanche. We could argue that he sees the nasty, mean girl qualities beneath her candy-coated shell – therefore she deserves not to be loved. It’s what I’ve always believed.
I love Christina Cole (she was perfection in He Knew He Was Right ) - but she nearly turns Blanche into a caricature in the 2005 BBC version.
I have a new idea about Blanche Ingram. I think Mr. Rochester’s lack of love came first, and her bitchiness is in reaction to that. Blanche is as much a victim of society’s expectations as anyone else in Jane Eyre .
In contrast to Blanche, Rosamond Oliver is a sweetie pie no matter what. She is rich, yet she pursues St. John Rivers, a poor clergyman, because she loves him. In contrast to Rochester’s rejection of Blanche, Rivers rejects Rosamond ~ because he loves her! He can’t be distracted from his Great Work by something so all-consuming, so wonderful, and so trivial as the mad passion he feels for her.
Whereas Rochester would risk all, ignore all, forfeit all for the mad passion he feels for Jane Eyre. Sigh.
February 1, 2014
My Mr. Rochester Update and #5 Cover
Episode 5 – coming soon …
Utterly betrayed by the man she loves, Jane flees Thornfield and runs toward an idea: the hope of a family connection in a remote area.
Be careful what you hope for, Jane! St. John Rivers is an overpowering force: beautiful, good ~ and utterly convinced of his own righteousness.
For me, this is the section of Jane Eyre that gives meaning to everything that came before. It’s the section that makes clear why Edward Fairfax Rochester is indeed a hero ~ and not a boorish, overbearing, self-centered villain.
In Episode 5, Jane finds the independent life she’s always wanted ~ but her connection with Mr. Rochester endures over distance and time and won’t let her go. Pursued by St. John Rivers, set truly free by a surprising turn of events, Jane must choose between society’s values and her own ~ but she may be too late.
January 31, 2014
New Release In The Love and Light Series –
I was a lucky beta reader for the latest in Melissa Lummis’s Love and Light series. Samadhi is loaded with Lummis’s trademark lush sensuality and great characters, and the adventure kept me spellbound to the very end.
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Wolf and
Loti are learning the hard way that karma will not be denied. In their quest for the truth, they’ve been forced into a blood bond with a powerful witch who isn’t so sure she wants to be tied down. But there’s one thing they can agree on: it’s time to eliminate the ancient vampire who set off this
deadly chain of events–Modore.
Using any means necessary–torture, murder, and even death magic–Modore lures the triumvirate into the show down of their lives. And the consequences will far exceed even Modore’s imagination.
In this final installment of the Love and Light Series, the boundaries of love, lust, and even life itself will be tested and the universe as they know it will never be the same.
About the Author
Melissa Lummis considers herself a truth seeker, a peaceful warrior, a paranormal and fantasy writer, an avid reader, a thru-hiker GA à ME ’98, a Penn Stater, a wife, a mother, and a free thinker.
She believes the universe conspires to help an adventurer. And if we live our lives as if it is a daring adventure (and it is!), then everything we need will find its way to us.
Her books have been described as new age suspense in a fantasy setting, but they are also straight up, steamy Paranormal Romance.
The Love and Light Series is currently available at most ebook retailers and soon to come is the Little Flame Series, a spin off focusing on the character Fiamette from the Love and Light world.
Melissa lives in rural Virginia with her husband, two children, an Alaskan Malamute, and a myriad of forest creatures. The
nature of her mind dictates that she write to stay sane. Otherwise, her fertile imagination takes off
on tangents of its own accord, creating scenarios and worlds that confuse the
space-time continuum.
Namaste, dear friends.
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January 20, 2014
Cover Reveal: My Mr. Rochester 4 (Jane Eyre Retold)
The fourth episode of My Mr. Rochester is just about here. In this episode, Jane falls deeper in love with Mr. Rochester ~ and his obsession with her drives their relationship to disaster.
Fun fact: Episode 3 ended on Midsummer’s Eve. In the tradition of Midsummer Eve/Day, in My Mr. Rochester, Thornfield’s tenant farmers light bonfires to frighten away dragons and everyone eats wild strawberries in the morning.
