I've surfaced! Spent the first quarter of this year doing developmental editing for a friend. I'm more than 90% of the way through that. April will bring my last run of edits before an Autumn indie release for Begging Your Pardon, Mister Wolfe. Still aiming for trad for Tumbled Emeralds.
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Today's #WIPSnips is #retrograde.
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Welp.
See you tomorrow.
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Today's #WIPSnips is #burger.
In a rare moment of pure levity, Anna Florakis gets to try a hamburger from Burger Royalty, something she always hoped to do if she ever got to visit America. Erik feels privileged to witness her wholesome reaction.
#UrbanFantasy #Supernatural #Thriller #BYPMW
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Today's #WIPSnips? #Trail. I chose a long snippet, because #Silenus doesn't deserve to have the stage pulled out from under him. He joins a scene where Erik's reality truly steps from the shadows, unveiling itself as something... different.
#UrbanFantasy #Supernatural #Thriller #BYPMW #OftDTftW
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Today's #WIPSnips is #steel. This allows me to post the very beginning of my first book, Begging Your Pardon, Mister #Wolfe!
Erik's world begins to shift, starting with an encounter with #Baku, an uninvited spirit greedily consuming his nightmares.
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Today's #WIPSnips is #nice.
Erik & Jonathan fly to Greece to find Anna, the medium & seer chosen by the #Keepers to guide the reincarnation of #Wolfe through the rules of the hidden #Mythical society. Jonathan just learned of the Drekavac's presence.
#UrbanFantasy #Supernatural #Thriller #BYPMW
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Today's #WIPSnips is #monster. In thousands of pages of #UrbanFantasy, there's only ONE place where I wrote it. Interesting. 🤔📚
Here, #Wolfe faces rare uncertainty. An unpredictable (possibly insane) vampiric ally has given him the reins of a runaway moral train.
#Supernatural #Thriller #BYPMW
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Today's #WIPSnips is #spell.
Erik's hard-won vacation time is disrupted when he finds out demonic hit squads are coming for his loved ones. Meanwhile, unrelated, equally murderous and vengeful sirens are out for HIS blood. Rough vacation. 😮💨
#UrbanFantasy #Supernatural #Thriller #BYPMW #OftDTftW
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Today's #WIPSnips word is #Costume.
From my #UrbanFantasy, Begging Your Pardon, Mister Wolfe. Erik grapples with his abruptly altered reality. Sarcastic thoughts about superhero costumes are interrupted by the police showing up with questions he shouldn't answer.
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#WIPSnips is #blood-curdling.
The vibes it evokes are definitely present in this scene, as #Wolfe is flown into Greece to save his as-yet unmet mentor, Anna Florakis. The seer is trapped in an apartment complex with the #Drekavac, a child's ghost.
#UrbanFantasy #Supernatural #Thriller #BYPMW
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Today's #WIPSnips is #total.
Here, Erik is being hunted by agents of Enzo, the necromantic seer who foresaw his own demise as a result of the rebirth of #Wolfe. Jonathan is completely unconcerned, and Anna is quietly confident. Their calm helps anchor Erik.
#UrbanFantasy #Supernatural #BYPMW
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Today's #WIPSnips word is #gradient.
From my #novella WIP, "A Proper 'Goose Pilfers." The delightful, #nonbinary Aussie thief #Goose meticulously plans their next hair color decision. Priorities!
#AProperGoosePilfers #UrbanFantasy #Supernatural #Thriller #BYPMW #OftDTftW
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The #WIPSnips for the day is #charge.
Here, Erik and his brother meet with a contracted #Mythical, a #Hound. She's a tracker who has cornered #Wolfe's tormentor, Katerina. There's a complication, and this mama bear could die on her hill.
#UrbanFantasy #Supernatural #Thriller #BYPMW #OftDTftW
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Today's #WIPSnips is #second.
In this scene, #Baku, the being who first heralded the changes in Erik's life and his future as #Wolfe, is about to offer an #accord. Erik cannot delay and consult with #Lykaios. It is his decision to make.
#UrbanFantasy #Supernatural #Thriller #BYPMW #OftDTftW
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Today's #WIPSnips is #dodge. There are some very intense action scenes Erik is forced to be an unwilling participant in,. This is a #snippet of one of those, where Erik has to face some hired muscle trashing the kitchens in the diner where he works.
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Today's #WIPSnips is #loaf. My books don't feature a lot of loafing. Here, Erik is forced to face violent, sudden changes in his life. He begins to confront the realization that he should be dead, and wonders what it all means and where it's all going.
#UrbanFantasy #Supernatural #Thriller #BYPMW
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Our #WIPSnips word is #might.
The #Mythical spirit #Lykaios passively grants Erik a "gift": #ataraxia —profound calm, regardless of external circumstances. He faces a terrifying question: Does Lykaios simply enhance Erik?
Or is she taking him over?
#UrbanFantasy #Supernatural #Thriller #BYPMW
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Today's #WIPSnips word is #care.
From my #UrbanFantasy, Begging Your Pardon, Mister Wolfe. Erik's brother, Jonathan, has an answer for most problems. Here, the answer involves a shadowy clan of operatives, using a budget that would make a tech billionaire flinch.
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Today's #WIPSnips word is #ultimate. In this scene, Erik is on his way to meet the #Keepers, and Anna is teaching him about them. Normally prim and proper, she seems to have unchained a wild and silly side that Erik finds he likes very much.
#UrbanFantasy #Supernatural #Thriller #BYPMW #OftDTftW
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Today, the #WIPSnips word is #push. We meet Erik's next-door neighbor, a quiet ex-military man with a rose garden, who harbors more #secrets than a video game guide in the '90s. Erik needs to find out what the man might know about #Wolfe.
#UrbanFantasy #Supernatural #Thriller #BYPMW #OftDTftW
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The #WIPSnips post for the day centers around #hope. Here, a violent battle was fought by a vanguard of the #Organization, while Jonathan, Anna, and Erik remained a relatively safe distance back. When asked how such battles are covered up...
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#WIPSnips of the day is #welcome. My #UrbanFantasy universe of #Mythicals has a governing body all supernatural entities are beholden to: The #Keepers. Erik sets out to meet them for the first time, with the flirtatious #seer Anna acting as his guide.
#Supernatural #Thriller #BYPMW #OftDTftW
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#WIPSnips of the day is #Prize. From my #UrbanFantasy, Begging Your Pardon, Mister Wolfe:
Puckish #Lykaios has some strange coping techniques for her fear of flying. Erik finds insight into her sudden change in behavior, but isn't sure how to act on it.
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#WIPSnips of the day? #Battery.
After a string of missed calls while he was working, his sister's phone is dead. Now Erik crosses two state lines in under an hour just to find her, hoping for a simple explanation... and fearing the alternatives.
#BYPMW #UrbanFantasy #Supernatural #Thriller
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I just razored 1000 words of expository bloat from Chapter One of my flagship book, Begging Your Pardon, Mister Wolfe. The "lost" info was seeded in snippets throughout the book.
It took lots of thinking & examination, because I didn't want to lose its importance.
#UrbanFantasy #BYPMW #AmQuerying
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Today's #WIPSnips was #dungeon. Synonym: #prison is my chosen word.
Here, #Wolfe's 'pack' has seen glimpses through Jonathan's smokescreen of plausible deniability. The 'gangsters' out to get Erik have become too convenient in Kenna's eyes.
#UrbanFantasy #Supernatural #Thriller #BYPMW #OftDTftW
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Today's #WIPSnips is #safe.
In this #scene, Anna and Erik are headed for a swim when a suspiciously timed disaster strikes. Erik decides to take a big #risk, subtly displaying #superhuman powers to save a life. Anna briefly chides him.
#UrbanFantasy #Supernatural #Thriller #BYPMW #OftDTftW
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Today's #WIPSnips word is #miss. Erik and his brother Jonathan are both reflective, but for different reasons...
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Today's #WIPSnips is #store.
#Wolfe is adrift after a series of misadventures. Erik is reflecting on what amounts to trust born from desperation, as an odd pair of allies help him try to find his footing against the rising tides of fate.
#UrbanFantasy #Supernatural #Thriller #BYPMW #OftDTftW
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#CONTENT WARNING: NUDITY🌶️
Today's #WIPSnips is #hunt. I chose a #snip from my 2nd #book in the #Wolfe series. Here, while Erik sleeps, he learns more about his enemies from a frustrated and annoyed #Lykaios on a dreamscape tropical island.
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