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Six Sentence Sunday – Meet the Creepy Old Woman

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Happy Six Sentence Sunday! Picking up where we left off, I am here to share a snippet from my current WIP and Brianna’s first encounter with the old woman who runs a local bookstore. Brianna’s world is spinning out of control. Greer is gone and she’s not sure where to turn so she heads to the place where she first met him….

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For that matter, it felt absurd to have such distrustful feelings for an elderly woman that couldn’t even manage standing on her own feet but the glimmer in the woman’s eyes made Brianna feel like the woman was capable of things that she could only just begin to imagine. After all, her world suddenly involved demons and ghosts and ex-boyfriends that once were human but later turned into something else. What next? Ninja grandmas?

“I do.”

“Could you tell me?…”

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Thanks for stopping by. I hope you enjoyed my six. Be sure to check out the official site for a list of the other great participants!

 

Six Sentence Sunday #9 – Who Do you Trust?

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Happy Six Sentence Sunday! In my weeks of participating in the fun, I’ve enjoyed introducing everyone to my three favorite characters from Ghosts Don’t Wear Silk Stockings. We have beautiful Brianna who wants nothing more than to find love but gets caught between drop-dead gorgeous Dan who just might be as evil as he is good with his hands, and the temperamental spirit Greer that insists she needs to dump Dan now for reasons that he’s reluctant to explain. But there is another player as well, who is no less important to Brianna’s life than Dan and Greer. Ex-boyfriend Jake proves early on in the story that he’s going to be a problem that won’t go away. We join him with Brianna in today’s six pulled from chapter three…

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“Let’s be rational about this, Jake,” she said slowly, afraid to provoke him. She closed her eyes tightly to try to stop the flow of tears but it didn’t help. He grabbed her by the hair and pressed his face against hers. She tried to shove him away but it was no use. She yielded to his kiss until he finally broke the embrace, keeping hold of her with one hand and watching her with wild eyes.

“You know you want to be with me,” he almost whispered to her.

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Jake is bad news but fear not, Brianna knows how to handle him.

I hope you’ll take some time to discover other fun six sentences from the long list of talented participants. Discover them HERE.

Want to read Ghosts Don’t Wear Silk Stockings? Add it to your Goodreads list today and be ready for the big release!

Jake will be waiting for you next week. 😉

Six Sentence Sunday #8 (More Ghosts!)

On By Stephanie IngramIn Six Sentence Sunday, Writing4 Comments

I can’t believe we’re into the last Sunday in July already. Where did the summer go? Needless to say, I’m still very much wrapped up in the rewriting of my WIP, Ghosts Don’t Wear Silk Stockings, and getting ready for a month-long editing process in August where I will break the story down chapter by chapter and make sure all the pieces are in the right place. After that is said and done, it’s clean-up time. I’ll comb through the manuscript several more times before it’s suitable for human eyes, or ghost eyes even.

But wait … that doesn’t stop me from sharing my little snippets during our Six Sentence Sunday fun day! I love participating and I love reading what other creative authors share on their own blogs. Want to check them out with me? Make sure you click HERE to visit the official Six Sunday website with a list of all participants.

Last week I posted the first six sentences of the novel. Today I jump forward a smidgeon and present you with a brief interaction between Brianna and Greer. Now that Dan has proposed, Greer is determined to make Brianna understand the danger she faces by marrying him…

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“I’m trying to understand,” she said hoping to ease the tension between them.

“And don’t even think about children,” he said practically choking on the word, “You probably wouldn’t survive having one of his kind.”

“One of his kind,” she repeated with a sigh, imaging a smaller version of the Greek god that slept by her side. She decided she could do worse as long as their children took after their father in looks. It was not an entirely unappealing thought.

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Ah the dilemma she faces… she is finally presented with the perfect man who wants her as much as she wants him but now she’s being told she can’t go through with it. What’s a girl to do?

Hope you’ll stop back next week for more…

 

Six Sentence Sunday #7 (Ghosts, chap 1)

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Happy Six Sentence Sunday! If you’ve visited my blog before, you’ve already had a tempting taste of my soon-to-be-released novel titled Ghosts Don’t Wear Silk Stockings. If you’re new to the blog, then you don’t have to feel left behind because today I’m rewinding all the way back to the beginning to pluck my six sentences from the first chapter.

As a matter of fact, these are indeed the first six sentences of the entire novel! I’ve chosen these six in light of the fact that I will be sharing my first chapter in August as a special sneak peek at the novel before the release. Hopefully these six will intrigue you enough to return. (Make sure you click the LIKE button to the right to connect with me on my Facebook author page.)

Like my six? Then I highly recommend visiting the official Six Sentence Sunday website and checking out the other participants as well.

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Dan Parker was six feet three inches and his own brand of delicious evil. Brianna Halloway had fallen for the wrong guy before. She’d been mixed up with married men, tangled in deceptive webs of womanizers and she’d even come across a few men that didn’t know the proper way to treat a lady. But never in all her years had she come across anything supernatural. Dan was a first in that department.

He lit a cigarette and gave her a sultry stare.

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Ooohh Dan…

Six Sentence Sunday #6 (Ghosts)

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As if I needed another reminder of how quickly time flies, I have Six Sentence Sunday. I almost forgot to sign up for it this week… that’s how behind I am. It feels as though I just combed my work-in-progress in order to come up with six sentences to share and here it is time to do it all again.

Not that I’m complaining, mind you. I love sharing my six as much as I love poking around to see what my fellow participants are up to. Be sure to visit the official site and check them out HERE.

Last week I changed gears from the WIP I’d been sharing to something completely new and not very developed. I am excited how well received that new work has been and I’m happy to say that I have it pegged as my September project. I’ll be able to focus all my time and attention to it once the  minions are back in school and I’ll have plenty more to share then.

For the moment? Well, I’ve got some good news. That manuscript that I’d finished and nearly dumped has found new life. Ghosts Don’t Wear Silk Stockings has undergone some serious overhaul during the week and if all continues to go well, I’m expecting a September release for sure. (It’s been touch-and-go for a while.) If you’re curious what this story is about, check out the ten questions I answered about it in my previous post titled “The Next Best Thing Challenge”. Since this is the manuscript getting all my attention right now, this is where I will pull my six over the next several weeks.

Without further ado, I leave you with another tense interaction between Brianna (my main character) and Greer. Greer has been adamant that under no conditions can Brianna go through with marrying Dan or she’ll ruin more lives than just her own. She’s trying to believe him but Dan just seems too perfect to let go…

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“How do I know that I can really trust you?” she asked him, the conversation she had with Dan still fresh in her mind. Dan had made a good point and the more she thought about it, the more she wanted to believe that she could melt into his arms with no fear of putting the entire world in jeopardy by simply being happy.

Greer said nothing. His form simply wavered and returned like the flame of a candle threatening to go out, making him seem fragile.

“You don’t,” he said, “so if you have something on your mind that you need to tell me then why don’t you just say it?”

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