Today's #bookqw word is old.

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It's #bookqw and the word is OLD

I forced my tail to whip in excitement. “And now I getta find out if my youthful energy will help me as much as I hope. And you don’t look any OLDer than I do. So…” I pushed my fist against her shoulder. “Cheer up for me, okay?”

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Elevator. "The woman who got on the elevator with him was tall and thin, about thirty, teetering on very high heels. They stood apart, as if they were not together, but they had been conversing. She said, 'You remember JFK's assassination? You must be really #old.'"

Is the man on the elevator the killer?
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Be careful what favors you ask of a goddess #Bookqw 'ancient' from DARIK'S QUEST...she sends him through time and space to the doomed planet of the ancestors... #booksky Available wide. #scifiromance www.amazon.com/DARIKS-QUEST...

Cover art by Ben Baldwin shows an otherworldly woman with pale skin, dark hair and opaque black eyes. Mysterious, misshapen creatures lurk in the shadows behind her. Book extract reads: ‘You should still leave well alone,’ Frai insisted. ‘These waifs and strays are no kin to you, or to the swan maidens.’ Before I could ask what she meant by that, the old dryad disappeared. ‘Daniel.’ Asca raised a hand to get my attention. ‘Never set foot in a fairy ring.’ From her expression, that was advice to equal ‘Never start a land war in Asia’. Then she disappeared as well. ‘Fairy rings.’ I looked at Eleanor. ‘More mushrooms.’ I tried to think if I’d ever seen a fairy ring in the pastures around Blithehurst, where the rare-breed cattle graze. I didn’t think I had. I’d never thought about that before. Eleanor looked startled. ‘Frai really doesn’t want us tangling with whoever these people are, does she?’ I had to admit that was unnerving. There couldn’t be much that scared the old dryad. ‘We know iron keeps us safe most of the time. Nothing can get at me when I’m inside the Land Rover. I know where to find rowan trees around here, and there are yew trees in the churchyard in the village. I can follow Asca’s advice and take some more protection with me.’ Eleanor didn’t look convinced.

Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'old' #BookQW #BookSky
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ART OF DECEPTION
(a Mystery on Lilac Lane story)
Every masterpiece tells a story—this one whispers murder.

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Today's #BookQW word: OLD

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'How do I know you'll keep your word? You're a southerner, an' all.' 'As Warden, my word is the empire's word. Normal hire rates.' 'Means nowt unless you shake on it.' He spat on his hand and held it out to her, with a gap-toothed leer. Foul old scarecrow. He expected her to back down. She spat on her own hand and held it out, palm up, staring him in the eye. 'Shake, then.' His forehead furrowed, then he slapped his hand against hers and turned his own palm up. She replicated the gesture. 'So, where d'you want this?' He gestured his head towards the cart. She turned to the cart, wiping her hand on the winding sheet draped over the corpse. 'Drive it to the House of the Dead and we'll take your details there.' The youth was still hovering nearby, waiting for a tip. She took a coin from her pocket and held it up. 'You know the way?' He nodded. 'Another of these for you if you show him the road.' She tossed the coin to him. He caught it and clambered up onto the cart with alacrity. Sooner him than her: the old man stank. She'd walk and take advantage of the fresh air while she could. And wash her hand at the fountain on the way past.

Today's #BookQW word is 'old'. Here's a snippet from a WIP, just because. All the usual caveats apply.

An important man has gone missing and a fisherman has turned up with a body, but he's not keen to hand it over without the promised reward. Especially not to a woman who hails from the south.

There was one slim chance, one angle, which would mean she wasn’t a complete lunatic. When pressed, her boss admitted the house “could be haunted” but dismissed the idea as a gimmick to attract tourists. “All old houses in New England are haunted. It’s a rule." 👻🕰️ #booksky #writingcommunity #bookqw Link to my books found in profile.

There was one slim chance, one angle, which would mean she wasn’t a complete lunatic. When pressed, her boss admitted the house “could be haunted” but dismissed the idea as a gimmick to attract tourists. “All old houses in New England are haunted. It’s a rule." 👻🕰️ #booksky #writingcommunity #bookqw

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Today's quote is from the prologue to The Matchmaker's Mare.
The word is Face
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It's Book Quote Wednesday! Today's word: OLD. #Excerpt is from NO MORE SECRETS. #bookqw #womensfiction

Left side is book cover of THE RILL LORD, sixth book of the Triempery Revelations series by L.L. Stephens. Cover has a stormy background with a red-robed sorcerer facing a distant fantasy city and magic. Right side is a text excerpt from THE RILL LORD: “Don’t you care that she’s his whore?” “Oh, are we down to name calling now? Well her choice of man is something men will hang on my name, seems to me, and none on yours!” “I bedded her. Was her first man.” “And the Old Mothers would tell you a woman’s first man is her first lesson in choosing badly! So I’ll put it straight. Aubrey’s my kin. She holds clan right. The man who shares her bed can live on Thegn lands and sit for the Witan.” Truth was, Nalf had half a mind to strangle Aubrey himself, woman or not, if only for that reason. “I sent her to bed Hans Thegn, get herself a King. But no! She had to make things complicated. Gets herself the one man no Kheld will stomach. But what do you think you can do about that? What can any of us do about it? Just up and kill her? For what? She’ll just say the Mother orders women to take what men they fancy, and she fancied that one!” So much talking about this was making Nalf queasy. “Besides, there’s more to this than Thegn honor. Hans Thegn wants our Aubrey close at hand, trusts her more than his own mother! If you think he was angry tonight, it’d be ten times worse if something happened to her! He’d break with us, he would, over that. I’m not going to get this close to putting a Kheld back on the throne, with Rill privileges, and then lose him over some woman’s choice in bedmates.”

It's Book Quote Wednesday and the word is OLD. #bookqw

Now that the cover is revealed, I can share quotes from THE RILL LORD. 😊

In this quote, Nalf isn't happy about his niece Aubrey choosing Dorilian for a bedmate, and he's even less happy being badgered about it by Fran. #WritingCommunity

Quote from Cursed Under London. Quote reads: ‘Sir? Good Sir? Excuse me?’ Lazare sighed inwardly, and painted his smile on for the approaching vampire. ‘I couldn’t help but notice that you appear to be afflicted, Sir.’ The vampire seemed to be a boy of around ten or eleven, although his eyes, like the eyes of any vampire, were old and tired. Like Lazare, the boy had a large pair of leathery wings, the same shade as the skin of his face. There was something familiar about him that at first Lazare couldn’t quite place. ‘Wulfric, Sir,’ continued the child, holding out a hand for Lazare to shake. Lazare accepted, politely. ‘Lazare de Quitte-Beuf, at your service. Um… have we met?’ ‘Possibly?’ Wulfric shadowed Lazare’s own expression as they tried to place one another. ‘Do you frequent the Moon and Werewolf? Upper Deptford?’ ‘Guilty as charged.’ He clicked his fingers. ‘You’re a pot boy there.’ Wulfric looked offended. ‘I’m the owner.’

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‘Don’t you Smiths know anything?’ Stan demanded, by now too exasperated with the boy’s ignorance to be suspicious of his motives. ‘This is how folks had it in my great-grandfather’s day, all right? No rhymes, no sound-echoing, it’s all in the beat. Open your ears; let’s see if you have any memory at all. And don’t go adding or changing words in your memory: you listen to what I say exact.’ Stan Mackem sat back to share an old clan memory-chant with a small and irritating Smith boy. Now Peter Alder was a learned man With too much in his head to do him good. By guile and boldness, stealth, and lack of ruth, He thought to steal a fairy from its court And make of it a servant and a carl To weave his nettle-flax to garb of silk.

#booksky #bookqw word: OLD

That time I got bored and shifted to iambic pentameter just for fun.

The Smith and Mackem fairy-smithing clans have different cultural practises. Smiths write things down. Mackems say it weakens the memory and feel it's vaguely sissy; they prefer to rely on old chants.

Lenore all but barged into the room. “Everything all right? Nice place. Nicer than I usually stay. That bed looks too soft.” “I think the beds are all of the same consistency.” Livesey ran her practiced eye over the furnishings. “We may have to bear with it. This isn’t a case of Goldilocks finding one that’s ‘just right.’” Solet couldn’t help but smile. “Goodness, that’s an old fable. My old nurse told me that one before I got my tribe markings.” “Humans have a strange capacity for remembering silly verses. While androids have the unfortunate capacity to remember everything.” “Speaking of remembering, is the map safe?” “Quite.” Livesey’s face softened suddenly as she remembered the datacube and its store of precious data. “Quite safe. Even if it weren’t I’ve copied all essential information, so if anyone takes the datacube itself, we’ll still have a copy.” “And if they take you with the cube?” “I’ll detonate it. And at the worst, wipe my memory core.” Livesey’s face took on a determined look. “I’m not letting them have this. It’s too fine to be handled by such lowly hands as I know would seek it.” “Like ours?” “I didn’t mean you. Or Faarax, or Lenore, or even Syndac. You’re good people, good to me. I meant Sygint and his ilk. They wouldn’t stop short of tearing my circuits apart to extract the data byte by byte.” No one laughed at this strange wordplay.

Book Quote Wednesday's word is "old". #BookQW
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Copy of and quote from Song, Stone, Scale, Bone: " I was fine. I was absolutely fine. It was just strange not to have a song to guide me, that was all. I’d hoped maybe once we were past the rockfall the old song would still work; but there was another, more comprehensive, pile of rocks just beyond that, several houses tumbled into one another, which definitively blocked off the song-route."

It's Book Quote Wednesday #bookqw and this week's word is OLD. Cade is not-quite-lost in the catacombs.

#Bookqw 'face' from DANGER ON THE NILE, #romantasy in ancient Egypt. A priestess and a warrior on the run from the enemy, carrying a treasure from the temple which must be protected at all costs. #booksky #romancelandia www.amazon.com/Danger-Nile-...

It's #bookqw and the word is FACE

"'[F]our-to-five rides a week going back about nine months in varying degrees of difficulty.'

Her FACE lit up. 'So you had a plan then, right? Seems simple enough.'

I let out a sharp breath. 'Not really. I… broke up with… that wolf… about two months ago.[...]'"

Dad had earned his retirement after two decades as Salty Dog’s head brewer. But the thought of facing Ryan Lee’s smug face every day curdled her stomach. Though easy on the eyes, Dad’s partner rubbed her every kind of wrong way possible. Always had.

#BookQW FACE
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Quote from Cursed Under London. Quote reads: Lazare let the fact slide that the stranger had in fact found Lazare, after Amber had immediately reacted to a dangerous situation by flying off and leaving him. ’You’re the other one?’ Lazare asked. This stopped the stranger. ‘“Other”?’ He narrowed his eyes at Lazare. ‘You have human teeth. You’re not a vampire?’ Lazare shook his head. ‘But you have wings.’ Lazare nodded. ‘Did you… die, recently? Or, that is, did you fail to die and just end up alive and awake and… changed?’ Lazare nodded again. ‘He’s like you, mister,’ added Amber. ‘Like when you didn’t die the other night. Remember? Remember how I nearly ate you?’ The stranger sighed. ‘Yeah.’ He looked Lazare up and down. Lazare wasn’t sure that he liked the tone of face he was being appraised in. ‘So, I’m not the only one.'

It's Book Quote Wednesday & the word is FACE. In Cursed Under London, when Lazare first meets Fang, he finds that Fang makes up for being good looking by having a very unsettling tone of face. #BookQW #BookSky Buying links: farragobooks.com/book-series/...

Young brunette woman with her hands to her face. “Perhaps we should talk,” he said. Kristen started to cry. She was as surprised as he was, if not more. She put her hands to her face to hide her embarrassment.

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Today's #BookQW word: FACE
HER HIGHLAND DECEPTION

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#Bookqw is from ART OF DECEPTION
(a Mystery on Lilac Lane story)
Every masterpiece tells a story—this one whispers murder.

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“You know there are many who will say it is what you deserve for treating with the landbound.” “But they still have all the advantages, Brennan. We cannot fight them by traditional means, so we must persuade them by other methods.” “Again, there are those who will say we need neither fight nor persuade them, but simply carry on as we have been.” “What, have they talked you round to their way of thinking in my absence?” Brennan laughed. “I’m not such an old relic, Marten, as well you know. If we do not embrace change, the freemerchant ways will be as nothing in another generation. We will be swept away like sand from the rock face here, leaving no trace but the dust of our passing.”

Cover of Waterborne Exile by Susan Murray. A woman dressed in a blood-spattered white gown moves past the viewer, holding a bowl of blood before her in both hands. A bloodstained dagger is tucked in her belt. Cover art by Paul Young.

Today's #BookQW word is 'face'. Too many shadowed faces to choose from, so I opted for a different definition.

In this extract from Waterborne Exile - sequel to The Waterborne Blade - Marten's back home after a long absence and facing opposition for bringing an exiled queen with him.

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#BookQW "We have to FACE it. We both know this isn’t going to work. You deserve someone whole. If we get married, you’re going to regret it.” NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE https://books2read.com/Never-Can-Say-Goodbye #newrelease #TimeTravelRomance #Angels #FamilySecrets #PNR #secondchancelove #Booksky