#SixSunday Part 2 #snippet 1b #PhoenicianSeries #Raif's Story #novelines #samplesunday
Today is Snippet1b - first scene released, second 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 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 hasn't been published as of this writing so that search won't work yet). Today is Snippet (1b). Read Snippet (1a) here.
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 (1b)
“I’m glad I amuse you, gentlemen, but,” Raif unfolded his legs to get up but had to pause to shake one leg before he could put weight on it, as his foot was all pins and needles. “I’ll just be—” Raif stopped when the old man’s cane tapped at his booted shin.
“Not. Yet.” The old man bit off in a raspy whisper.
“Really, it’s been so much fun just sitting here staring at all of you while my legs go to sleep, but I should—”
“We frighten you.” The old man said. It was not a question, nor an accusation, but merely a quiet observation.
Raif stretched his legs out in front of him, crossed his ankles and leaned back on his hands to study the man a moment while choosing his response. He wanted to tell the whole lot of them to go fuck themselves, but that wasn’t going to happen no matter how much he might enjoy doing it. Even though this was Shayla’s problem, he’d maintain a diplomatic relationship with these people. For the sake of inter-species relations.
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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 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 hasn't been published as of this writing so that search won't work yet). Today is Snippet (1b). Read Snippet (1a) here.
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 (1b)
“I’m glad I amuse you, gentlemen, but,” Raif unfolded his legs to get up but had to pause to shake one leg before he could put weight on it, as his foot was all pins and needles. “I’ll just be—” Raif stopped when the old man’s cane tapped at his booted shin.
“Not. Yet.” The old man bit off in a raspy whisper.
“Really, it’s been so much fun just sitting here staring at all of you while my legs go to sleep, but I should—”
“We frighten you.” The old man said. It was not a question, nor an accusation, but merely a quiet observation.
Raif stretched his legs out in front of him, crossed his ankles and leaned back on his hands to study the man a moment while choosing his response. He wanted to tell the whole lot of them to go fuck themselves, but that wasn’t going to happen no matter how much he might enjoy doing it. Even though this was Shayla’s problem, he’d maintain a diplomatic relationship with these people. For the sake of inter-species relations.
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Let me know what you think of this stuff. Tweet me
-Friday
@phoenicianbooks
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