#SixSunday Part 3 #snippet 1c #PhoenicianSeries #Raif's Story #novelines #samplesunday
Today is Snippet1c - first scene released, third piece. Click here to skip the administrivia explanations and just read the snippet.
I'm going to snippet bits and pieces of scenes from Book 1, "Raif's Story" using the #SixSunday hash and http://sixsunday.com/ list of Snippeters :) I'll be signed up on the site @phoenicianbooks and will combine the #SixSunday hashtag on Twitter with the #PhoenicianSeries hash and a link to the current week's snippet. Alas, just as I've signed up, it seems SixSunday is shutting down later this month on January 27, 2013. The Twitter hash should still work though. I'm also cross-hashing on #SampleSunday of course ^)^
Although each scene will be in sequence, the scenes themselves will be done out of order (in regards to how they will eventually appear in the book). Oh, and I'm starting near the end of the book (hah!) Just search the blog tag cloud for SixSunday and/or PhoenicianSeries to find another snippet .
The first six lines of the first scene will be snippet (1a) and have a tag on it "snippet1a" so you can find it again. The following Sunday will be tagged "snippet1b" for the first scene, second six lines, and so forth. Remember, I'm not snippeting the first scene of the book; that's the first scene released.
I'll add a tag to each snippet for where it falls in the sequence of the scene but the scenes are out of order (can't stress this enough because some people just can't seem to grasp it). To find, forex, the third piece of the first scene snippeted, you would search the blog for "snippet1c" which is today's snippet so don't bother searching for it (ggg). Read Snippet (1a) and Snippet (1b) here to get the whole scene in sequence.
If you haven't read any of the books in the series yet, you can get them both from Smashwords. The short story/novella When Minds Collide (#WMC) comes first and the long novel Conditioned Response (#CondResp) comes next. What I'm snippeting, Raif's Story, will fall in between them on the timeline of the series.
Snippet (1c)
If the Council wanted to go to war with the Phoenicians, it wasn’t going to be Raif’s fault. He wouldn’t be the one to start it and not just because he knew a war would mean his likely death in an attempt to end it. The inter-species relations were simply not the concern of a Proctor. A war with these people whose world his human ancestors had invaded would not be blamed on some idiotic, self-serving comment Raif made here and now just because he thought he was more than “just a Proctor.”
Besides, Shayla had asked him to be nice so he would be nice. For her sake. Even though it would probably kill him, he'd suppress his real feelings and make his next remarks come out nice. He could do it. He would do it. And he would not make it obvious how much it was killing him inside, not even if he had to sit through another half hour of this bullshit.
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Let me know what you think of this stuff. Tweet me
-Friday
@phoenicianbooks
I'm going to snippet bits and pieces of scenes from Book 1, "Raif's Story" using the #SixSunday hash and http://sixsunday.com/ list of Snippeters :) I'll be signed up on the site @phoenicianbooks and will combine the #SixSunday hashtag on Twitter with the #PhoenicianSeries hash and a link to the current week's snippet. Alas, just as I've signed up, it seems SixSunday is shutting down later this month on January 27, 2013. The Twitter hash should still work though. I'm also cross-hashing on #SampleSunday of course ^)^
Although each scene will be in sequence, the scenes themselves will be done out of order (in regards to how they will eventually appear in the book). Oh, and I'm starting near the end of the book (hah!) Just search the blog tag cloud for SixSunday and/or PhoenicianSeries to find another snippet .
The first six lines of the first scene will be snippet (1a) and have a tag on it "snippet1a" so you can find it again. The following Sunday will be tagged "snippet1b" for the first scene, second six lines, and so forth. Remember, I'm not snippeting the first scene of the book; that's the first scene released.
I'll add a tag to each snippet for where it falls in the sequence of the scene but the scenes are out of order (can't stress this enough because some people just can't seem to grasp it). To find, forex, the third piece of the first scene snippeted, you would search the blog for "snippet1c" which is today's snippet so don't bother searching for it (ggg). Read Snippet (1a) and Snippet (1b) here to get the whole scene in sequence.
If you haven't read any of the books in the series yet, you can get them both from Smashwords. The short story/novella When Minds Collide (#WMC) comes first and the long novel Conditioned Response (#CondResp) comes next. What I'm snippeting, Raif's Story, will fall in between them on the timeline of the series.
Snippet (1c)
If the Council wanted to go to war with the Phoenicians, it wasn’t going to be Raif’s fault. He wouldn’t be the one to start it and not just because he knew a war would mean his likely death in an attempt to end it. The inter-species relations were simply not the concern of a Proctor. A war with these people whose world his human ancestors had invaded would not be blamed on some idiotic, self-serving comment Raif made here and now just because he thought he was more than “just a Proctor.”
Besides, Shayla had asked him to be nice so he would be nice. For her sake. Even though it would probably kill him, he'd suppress his real feelings and make his next remarks come out nice. He could do it. He would do it. And he would not make it obvious how much it was killing him inside, not even if he had to sit through another half hour of this bullshit.
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Let me know what you think of this stuff. Tweet me
-Friday
@phoenicianbooks
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