Sunday Snippet: Insanity Personified

What an end to themonth. Our weather has been wet and drippy for most of the week. Notcomplaining because we needed the rain. Of course, the dreary stuff hits theweek of our county fair, which is my husband's favorite time of year. Thenagain, a little water falling from the sky won't deter him from going orenjoying himself.

Work finally sloweddown a little and I had some time to catch my breath. I have a new copy editand proofread combo I'm working on and should have a new project starting thisweek. I'm also expecting more on the developmental edit I've been working on.And … a project I had a hand in is finally uploaded for proof … after almostfour and half years of rewrites and revisions. I'm so excited!!

Had several reallygreat conversations with my daughter this week. I love hearing her ideas ofwhat she wants from the future. This young woman has a good head on hershoulders and I'm so proud of her. Graduate school is opening her mind and eyesand I'm excited to see what she does.

Not a bad week ofviewing. The time to catch my breath also gave me a bit of freedom to catch upon my slate of shows. I made almost a full round this week!

Caught twobehind-the-scenes vignettes for Signora Volpe. I always enjoy seeing andhearing how things work and what the actors think about their show.

Watched an episodeof Death in Paradise and enjoyed it. This is one I hadn't seen before,and I loved the way the mystery played out.

Started a newseason of Silent Witness. Very interesting premise and I'm looking forwardto the conclusion next week. I'll be starting Beyond Paradise after I finishthe new season.

Enjoyed an episodeof Elementary. It's interesting to watch Sherlock serve as an AA sponsor.And I really like Watson kind of stepping out on her own to solve a cold case.

Finished up thesecond part of the season four premier of The Batman. Kind of forgot Batgirldidn't really feature in these opening episodes. I think she makes a returnlater in the season.

Also caught anepisode of Classic Rugrats. I only remembered one of the vignettes, so Ienjoyed seeing the other two.

And that's prettymuch it for the life update this week. Tonight's post is from InsanityPersonified, a novella that tests the connection between a couple after theysuffer a personal loss.

Here's theminiblurb:

Karren Burnette and Vito Neilson work for a veryspecialized detective agency—one that tracks down preternatural beings thatcommit crimes. When Karren gets hit with a personal loss, her superior officerpulls her off the streets because she's taking too many chances with her lifeand everyone else's. Vito steps in to act as a buffer, which doesn't makeKarren or their boss happy.

And a preview snippet…

Karren Burnette crouched over thebody of her best friend, Lorie Scott. "I'm so sorry, Lorie. I didn't gethere in time." Her hand curled into a fist. "But I will find yourmurderer. I promise on my life." She got up and dragged in a deep breath.I will not cry. Not until I findthe bastard who killed Lorie.Footsteps on gravel had Karrenslowly turning around. Vito Neilson entered the dead-end alley, his handsshoved deep in his pockets. Karren closed her eyes briefly then moved to blockVito's path.She put up a hand. "You don'twant to see her." Hell, Karren didn't want to have the image of her deadfriend burned into her brain … but she didn't have a choice.Lorie had reached out to Karren.Lorie confessed fear for her life, had begged Karren to meet at theneighborhood bar they all hung out at, and all but predicted her own murder.Someone or something had avery bad, no-good, terrible day coming in the near future. Karren would makesure of it.Vito narrowed his eyes. "Right.Like you didn't want to see Nico?" He bit the words out, but they hittheir mark.As he'd known they would. Nico Cuadied in a fiery car crash coming to see Karren from the university he attended.They were two months away from getting married. Vito had been tapped as thebest man and Lorie as the maid of honor. Back when Vito and Lorie had been anitem … and Karren and Nico were engaged.She stepped to the side."Fine. Just remember how that turned out." Not well … at all.Vito started forward but paused."I need the closure. Just like you did." His voice went raspy andgruff.Karren gave a nod … because she gotit. The need to confirm reality no matter how much it sucked. And, damn, did itever suck. Even though Vito and Lorie had been apart for more than two years,they'd stayed friends. They kind of didn't have a choice because Karren workedwith Vito for a very specialized detective agency. One that dealt withpreternatural beings that often preyed on the average joes of society.Lorie hadn't been an average joe,but Karren would bet everything she held dear—including Vito—she'd been avictim of a being with otherworldly power.And Karren would dive into thedepths of hell to bring Lorie's killer to justice.

I just started thisone and I'm having fun going a little dark and broody for the opening of thestory.

 

That's it for thisweek.

Cheers!

Skye