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AUTHOR NOTE: This story begins in the future, then follows a chronological course through William and Alan’s life. This is not one of those stories that bounces backward and forward through time.
[In case you’ve heard me blab about this story before, I’ve changed the MCs name to “William Neeley” and switched the author to Sol Crafter, but that’s all.]
I’m sorry, but the Handspresso Auto http://gizmodo.com/5895577/handspresso-auto-makes-coffee-in-your-car/gallery/1 seems like an incredibly stupid idea.
Not only will there be more accidents due to people trying to make coffee at stop lights or whatever, but if someone crashes their car while brewing coffee… there’s more chance of serious burn damage to the victims, probably crotch localized. So yeah, I’m going to say “No thank you” to this idea.
You’re a lot better off pulling into a gas station or a coffee shop, walking around to stretch your legs, and saving yourself the $200 for terrible coffee.
Title: Serious Business
Genre: fiction
Excerpt rating: teen+/adult
Warnings: mentions non-con, language
Summary: She was not an object to be possessed. (This is the first part of an upcoming novel.)
Audio: [powerpress]
Excerpt —
SERIOUS BUSINESS
When she was a young girl, her mother had spoken of her growing up to marry a rich man that would treat her and her family well. It had seemed like nonsense at first, and she’d even joked about it with her friends. Then came the day she was told all the arrangements were made, contracts signed, and she’d realized that it was all real. They were marrying her off to some stranger for money.
Welcome to my stop on the 4th of July Blog Hop. My name is Harper Kingsley and I will be leading you on this tour through the history of my brain.
First there was “Visions of Blood & Shadow,” my vampire, elf, Other murder story. A young girl is hit by a car, and an uncontrollable snowball of events take place, culminating to the apocalypse. From there, we follow Valerie Pendleton Hardain into “Blood Wine” where he has to get used to his new way of life. And yes, the band playing at the beginning of “Blood Wine” is Ashes & Bones, but no worries. Ashley Valentine has his own story beginning in “Little Boy Blue” and to be concluded in “Residual Blue.”
In the same world as “Visions of Blood & Shadow” is the Julian Duncan series, about my psychic police consultant. Julian even had a cameo in “Visions of Blood & Shadow,” though his first story “The Center” is set before everything. I thought that I could start at the very beginning and go through his whole history. “Cannot Hold” is the next story and should be available in the near future.
After that, I switched gears and fell into the world of “Heroes & Villains.” A love story between an ex-superhero turned supervillain and one of the world’s penultimate superheroes. The love story between Darkstar (Vereint Georges) and Blue Ice (Warrick Reidenger Tobias) is one that makes me really happy. It’s basically the “how they met” as they handle dealing with terrorists and murderers and the unjust way the government controls metahuman criminals. My social discourse thinly veiled as a romance, “Muhahaha!” Not really. It’s more like a romance story between two very confused and stubborn men, from the first time they met (insta hate) right on until they get married in “Heroes & Villains: The Wedding,” which doesn’t need to be read to follow the series and contains a Mature mm scene. And coming soon in the “Heroes & Villains” trilogy will be “Allies & Enemies,” with “All That Remains” to wrap it up.
From romantic metahumans, I turned to the story of an amnesiac girl, Susie Smith, in the prequel to “Supergroup,” my YA superhero series. We follow Susie as she wanders through her own book, trying to figure out who she is, and dealing with the drama of discovering she used to run with heroes in “Pulse of the City.”