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Friday Kiss is one of many weekly Twitter writing challenges.
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December 2019
Review – Whisper of Shadow & Flame (Book 2, Earthsinger Series)
From the publisher: The Mantle that separates the kingdoms of Elsira and Lagrimar is about to fall. And life will drastically change for both kingdoms. Born with a deadly magic she cannot control, Kyara is forced to become an assassin. Known as the Poison Flame in the kingdom of Lagrimar, she is notorious and lethal,
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Useful Things
The brown ceramic cups Decorated in painted flowers Peonies in amber Meant for your morning tea We found a pair of them while searching through the used shop Rummaging for something useful Something, but I no longer remember what The memory has long been Swallowed up in the recollection of those peony fields Pink on
#IStandWithCourtney
When I joined the Romance Writers Association (RWA) two yeas ago, I never thought to identify it as a racialized institution. I didn’t have the benefit of knowing its history, because I had always interacted with romance as a reader, not a writer. However, after the release of documents from the Ethics Committee outlining the
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Code Blue: A Short Christmas Romance
Short Romance: Thiago goes into cardiac arrest on the operating room table. Clara has been in a catastrophic car accident. That’s only the beginning. Code Blue is a 6,000 word short story originally published under the title “White” in Moonlight, Monsters & Magic: A Paranormal Sexy Shorts Collection (2018). Subscribers can download this story –
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Review – Hurricane Reese
From the publisher: Tony award-winning musician Reese Matheson’s life resembles a natural disaster, and caregiver Jude De La Torre is caught in the eye of the storm. Can the love these two opposites find together survive caring for an ornery octogenarian with wayward balls and a meddling family insistent upon tradition? A public break-up is
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Review – The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics
From the publisher: As Lucy Muchelney watches her ex-lover’s sham of a wedding, she wishes herself anywhere else. It isn’t until she finds a letter from the Countess of Moth, looking for someone to translate a groundbreaking French astronomy text, that she knows where to go. Showing up at the Countess’ London home, she hoped
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Review – An Untamed State
From the publisher: A Haitian American woman survives a brutal kidnapping in this “commanding debut novel” from the New York Times–bestselling author of Bad Feminist (The New Yorker). Author and essayist Roxane Gay is celebrated for her incisive commentary on identity and culture, as well as for her bestselling nonfiction and short story collections. Now,
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