Hello all! For fun I’m posting a scene from my work in progress, tentatively titled Why Rapunzel Let Down her Hair. A couple things of note–this book isn’t edited. It isn’t even finished. This scene may or may not appear in the final version. If it does, it will probably get better, potentially with fewer… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Tales of the Underlight
Extended Author’s Note for How Beauty Loved the Beast (Caution! Spoilers Ahead!)
I wrote an authors note at the end of How Beauty Loved the Beast regarding my own confused debate on how to end Hauk and Jolie’s story. Several people have commented on it, so I thought readers might like to see an expanded version of my thought process. Before I start, though, I want to… Read more »
Writer of modern fairy tales seeks fairy godmothers…
I need help. You may have noticed that I haven’t been online this week–odd behavior for an author who’s about to have a book release. We’ve had a family emergency that has occupied my time and will put me on a plane the day How Beauty Loved the Beast hits the virtual shelves. I’m… Read more »
How Beauty Loved the Beast has a Cover!
And it’s so pretty! (So is Hauk, but as AngelBlue pointed out on Twitter…that’s how Jolie sees him.) For more details, including an excerpt, look here!
Heartbreaker Hop w/ Carrie Ann
Ten years before Pat Benatar bewailed the heartbreakin’ man, Led Zeppelin released their own song about a Heartbreaker. And she was a woman. Mostly famous for its insane guitar solo, the song also reminds us that not all heart-taking, dream-making, right kind of sinners are men. Jolie Benoit, heroine of the Beauty and the Beast… Read more »
Six Sentence Sunday–1/27/13
For the final (official!) Six Sentence Sunday, I’m pulling a quote from How Beauty Loved the Beast, the final book in the Beauty and the Beast arc of the Tales of the Underlight. (Releases in May.) In this scene, after a near death experience, Hauk and Jolie have figured out the date that Ananke will… Read more »
Banners!
I’m so excited. I won a set of book banners from artist and writer Marion Sipe, and she has produced some beautiful mini-banners and square banners for the Tales of the Underlight series. Check ’em out, and feel free to grab any you like for your own site!
Six Sentence Sunday–1/06/13
From How Beauty Loved the Beast, the final release in the Tales of the Underlight‘s Beauty and the Beast trilogy. Hauk (beast) lives in the Underlight, a community of anarchists living under The University of Texas. This scene is the morning after Jolie (beauty) spends the night at his place for the first time. At… Read more »
Six Sentence Sunday–12/30/12
The beginning of Chapter 2 from How Beauty Saved the Beast, the second book in the Tales of the Underlight series. Sweaty bodies, heavy breathing, one man, one woman…and for two months, Hauk and Jolie had somehow kept their near-daily workouts from being awkward. Jolie had been consistently impressed with how easy Hauk was to… Read more »
Six Sentence Sunday-12/16/12
A holiday post from How Beauty Met the Beast, available now from Carina Press. The speaker is our heroine, Jolie Benoit, as she introduces her burlesque act, “I’ll Get Nothing–and Like It.” “We get one day—one day—of presents for three hundred and sixty-four days of being good. Boxes of useless crap for a year’s worth of… Read more »