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#BookTour: First Daughter, by Marlie Parker Wasserman @partnersincr1me #FirstDaughter #MarlieParkerWasserman #historical #crime #fiction #LevelBestBooks #excerpt #giveaway #PICT
FIRST DAUGHTER by Marlie Parker Wasserman May 4-29, 2026 Virtual Book Tour Synopsis: In the summer of 1895, President Grover Cleveland and his pregnant wife, Frances, retreat to their secluded Cape Cod home, eager to avoid Washington’s heat and hassles. The very day that Frances gives birth,…
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#BookTour: Daughter of Mine, by Angie Stanton @partnersincr1me #DaughterofMine #AngieStanton #fiction #crime #literary #womens #excerpt #giveaway #PICT
DAUGHTER OF MINE by Angie Stanton April 27 - May 22, 2026 Virtual Book Tour Synopsis: "One mother's nightmare. One mother's secret." In the maternity ward of Mercy Hospital, two women's lives collide in an act that will haunt them both for years to come. For Melissa Grout, a fifteen-minute shower becomes an eternal…
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"All this searching high and low, but eventually, you'll just have to stop and say, 'This is home.' Only then will you be able to rest."
"Where is home?"
"Here, with me. I could be your home."
"I can't stay here. I have to go."
"No, you don't."
"It won't stop, not until I've ended it."
"Then return to me once you have."
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#ScribesAndMakers ∆ 2026.04.08 — Victuals?
Wherever story intersects a meal, ya betcha! Bolt (a day angel with wings) has arrived looking for a friend at an up-and-rising victualists' red popup tent restaurant. This #excerpt is from the current chapter.
…[l]ots of chatting feathers and friends merrily eating, their plates ringing when struck with flatware, swinging big glasses of amber-red sudsy beer. Still hot inside, despite the cooling miracle, the popup smelled of sweat, beer, grilled food, and sweat. Happy people with food, in other words. Mid-tent, grill illuminated by multi-color directional sprites, three day angels threw down crimped saffron dumplings, brown noodles, blocks of fermented tofu, and knots of cabbage-shred, beside what might be mackerel or pickled river-pike to the grill that got spiked to what dish demanded it. A fledgling rushed over with a slopping pot of batter. The sizzling competed mightily against the din and shouting, but failed to even place. The clatter of the wood handled spatulas did compete, tossing, splatting, and chopping musically, definitely with rhythm. A red-feathered man (the owner's bother) squirted their signature black smoked-oil and then spicy orange sauce from bladders, fanning the food with his wings for the twin women victualists, raising clouds of delicious grey-brown steam.
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
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#ScribesAndMakers 2026.03.30 —Do birds ever feature in your work? Give an example #excerpt.
The current title I am writing in the reluctance series features a day angel. She has wings, owl patterned with blue and white feathers, but Bolt would take exception if you called her a bird. For a woman, it's a slur. It's an SF story, so her being able to fly requires more than pure muscle power. She calls it gravitics. This is very 1st draft and it needs work. I still have to check my aeronautical terminology, but let's take flight anyway!
I heard a familiar whistle, not Boss Mead or one of his shadowy bodyguards, either. Never was. Clink. Jangle. I glanced at the pavement. Three silver coins spun where the cement met the dirty formerly absolute white wall.
I grinned. I flicked my left wing up with a waveguide twist. Immediate anti-gravitic thrust let me throw my feet upward and my torso ahead, cartwheeling with six limbs in a way a saint with all her strength and a piddling four limbs could never do, or most non-athletic feathers. I snatched the coins as I spun past. The bonus conserved momentum let me launch myself forward. Flapping for all I had to level out, I rocketed along the centerline of the road until I could bank west, sideways, into a slot alley. Wingtipping the walls with my crazy velocity—my feathers made a zzzzz sound—tilted diagonally, left primaries warped to the left wall, the rights toward the right, I sent uncompensated gravity torque pushing against those walls. Raw thrust kept me from dropping more than a handswidth per heartbeat to the cobblestones, still frighteningly quickly toward my left wing tip as I accelerated toward an almost to distant exit. Leaves, dirt, and cans shot away in spirals or as if kicked, banging walls or jumping a couple stories upwards.
A lost memory now found surfaced from when I was twelve: I remembered side-flying that got me suspended, trying to embarrass a girl classmate—Sage Peaches was it?—who'd bullied me before I fledged. Had the boy blocking the alley between buildings not dove to the pavement, nothing but feathers would have remained when we would have collided, but flap that was fun! I remembered screaming in glee as I buzz cut the vice headmaster's hair, unaware of my impending disaster.
I stormed over a parked wagon; a load of recycled newspapers snapped and roared as they got sucked aloft behind me. The alley opened up to a dome, across a city street, with light traffic but thankfully no busses or lorries, that often had an upsweep thermal. It did today. I rolled in the turbulence greeting me, back-flapped and pulled up against all the gees I could stand and shot up like a firework easily twenty stories, flapping for all I was worth, barely clearing the curving away wall, squealing in glee until I shed my momentum and leveled off without stalling.
I might be approaching 30, but flying risky maneuvers were the water of life, and my racing heart agreed. Skill or chance, skill prevailed for me. These days, little else fun was guaranteed me but flight. It didn't hurt as I kept my muscles tuned at Sky Dancer's Gym. I banked toward the Residency. A 10º horizon trim set my glide path, feathers buzzing nicely as my racing heart slowed. The News Building tower to its southeast hove into view above the skyscrapers and rooftop trees between.
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
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photographer chef cooking
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#BookTour: Artist, Lover, Forger, Thief, by Sheila Sharpe @partnersincr1me #ArtistLoverForgerThief #SheilaSharpe #mystery #literary #crime #fiction #RedwoodPublishingLLC #excerpt #giveaway #PICT
ARTIST, LOVER, FORGER, THIEF by Sheila Sharpe March 30 - April 24, 2026 Virtual Book Tour Synopsis: Artist, Lover, Forger, Thief is a riveting, wildly entertaining, complex, and adrenaline-fueled art crime novel that is as intriguing as it is satisfying. Nick McCoy wants out of…
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CW: WordWeavers 2026.03.28 —When was the last time your MC got excited? Why? CW: Passing reference to sex in a passage about food.
This passage is near the end of the chapter I am currently writing. Bolt narrates. She's a flighty day angel. You tell me, is she excited?
Gloss: Tarantino teaches us that nothing equalizes people or is as relatable as sharing a meal… Teri is the name the devil-girl is using at this point in the story. It is short for Night Terror. She can perform what to us looks like magic. The passage is a barely revised first draft.
My worries fluttered away like a moth to a street lamp when the server delivered a golden custard dessert, a mound on a plate sealed under a burnt-brown crazed caramel-glass shell, in a moat of purple-brown, fragrant with cooked sugar and orange-berry liqueur.
"What's this?" I asked.
Her spoon floated over and tapped. Shards of glass sugar popped into a rubble skirt revealing the yellow hill, flecked with red, green, and brown herbs, which when I sniffed caressed my nose with hints of anise, mint, cinnamon, and… that tingle? Cayenne?
Teri replied, "We danced, so now you've had dinner and here's dessert."
"Sweet," I said, before thrusting my spoon in. Reflexively.
Dancing, dinner, and dessert? Men propositioned by a woman who was too lazy to have a plan suggested that.
Teri is not a guy, I reminded myself, then, a spoonful of—
Oh. My. Stars! Creamy, spicy, sugary bliss. I hugged myself, wings and arms, brushing the napkin off my lap and nearly dropping the spoon. Sweet was something I rarely had, but need it, want it, must have it instantly commandeered my brain, annihilating all resistance, maybe more so than my excuses to allow myself to be ridden by Teri had. I scooped glistening perfection. I sighed enjoying each spoonful. I won't admit to an occasional moan. I barely paused to wipe my chin.
"You happy now?" Teri asked as I crunched on the faintly carob flavored sugar shards.
"Ecstatic!"
Not exactly When Harry Meet Sally…
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
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#BookTour: Murder on Site, by TG Wolff @partnersincr1me #MurderonSite #TGWolff #legal #mystery #whodunnit #excerpt #giveaway #PICT
MURDER ON SITE by TG Wolff March 16 - April 10, 2026 Virtual Book Tour Synopsis: The Rizk Brothers Legal Mysteries In the corridors of Indiana’s justice system, power is both a weapon and a curse. Jakob Rizk never expected to become Indiana’s acting attorney general—especially not after his mentor’s sudden death. Two weeks in, he’s losing…
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Book excerpt: "Streetwise" by Lloyd Blankfein
https://misryoum.com/us/economy/book-excerpt-streetwise-by-lloyd-blankfein/
Penguin Press We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In his new memoir, "Streetwise: Getting to and Through Goldman Sachs" (to be published March 1 by Penguin Press), former CEO Lloyd Blankfein writes about...
#Book #excerpt #Streetwise #Lloyd #Blankfein #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com
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#BookTour: Hard Headed Woman, by Howard Gimple @partnersincr1me #HardHeadedWoman #HowardGimple #mystromedy #mystery #comedy #MystromedyBooks #excerpt #giveaway #PICT
HARD HEADED WOMAN by Howard Gimple February 2 - 27, 2026 Virtual Book Tour Synopsis: No one but Hannah Johansson believes her father was murdered. Not even her mother. The doctors say he had a stroke, but Hannah knows he was poisoned. She just doesn’t know who did it or why. One thing she does know is that…
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Reading a #book excerpt.
Calling all #writers…I do love hearing writers read from their books, it’s real, it’s personal. It’s like being at a book launch. If you do read and share here, please send me a li’l notice!
Here’s my short excerpt (I’m using the mic on my iPad.)
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Reading a #book excerpt.
Calling all #writers…I do love hearing writers read from their books, it’s real, it’s personal. It’s like being at a book launch. If you do read and share here, please send me a li’l notice!
Here’s my short excerpt (I’m using the mic on my iPad.)
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Reading a #book excerpt.
Calling all #writers…I do love hearing writers read from their books, it’s real, it’s personal. It’s like being at a book launch. If you do read and share here, please send me a li’l notice!
Here’s my short excerpt (I’m using the mic on my iPad.)
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Reading a #book excerpt.
Calling all #writers…I do love hearing writers read from their books, it’s real, it’s personal. It’s like being at a book launch. If you do read and share here, please send me a li’l notice!
Here’s my short excerpt (I’m using the mic on my iPad.)
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Reading a #book excerpt.
Calling all #writers…I do love hearing writers read from their books, it’s real, it’s personal. It’s like being at a book launch. If you do read and share here, please send me a li’l notice!
Here’s my short excerpt (I’m using the mic on my iPad.)
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#BookTour: The Long Shadow of Murder, by Eleanor Kuhns @partnersincr1me #TheLongShadowofMurder #EleanorKuhns #historical #murder #mystery #Indie #excerpt #giveaway #PICT
THE LONG SHADOW OF MURDER by Eleanor Kuhns September 29 - October 24, 2025 Virtual Book Tour Synopsis: A Will Rees Mystery When the body of a visitor is found in the woods by the local Shaker community, suspicion immediately falls on them. Rees is reluctant to believe anyone in this peaceful community…
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#BookTour: Reaper, by Sam Stone @partnersincr1me #Reaper #SamStone #political #thriller #Indie #excerpt #giveaway #PICT
REAPER by Sam Stone September 8 - October 3, 2025 Virtual Book Tour Synopsis: A TASK FORCE RAVEN THRILLER In the aftermath of a devastating terrorist attack on a U.S. Border Patrol station in McAllen, Texas, Major Jake Baylor faces his most personal mission yet. When a VBIED explosion and mortar attack kills dozens, including his best friend Clint…
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#BookTour: Mild Mannered Men, by Walter Horsting @partnersincr1me #MildManneredMen #WalterHorsting #spy #action #adventure #Indie #excerpt #giveaway #PICT
MILD MANNERED MEN by Walter Horsting September 1-26, 2025 Virtual Book Tour Synopsis: The Rain Will Wash Away The Blood An action-packed thriller, Mild Mannered Men explores how a simple mistake can change the lives of countless people. An honest mistake leads to the accidental exchange of a disc that holds…
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#BookTour: The Girl in the Maze, by R.K. Jackson @partnersincr1me #TheGirlintheMaze #RKJackson #psychological #thriller #Penguin #RandomHouse #excerpt #giveaway #PICT
THE GIRL IN THE MAZE by R. K. Jackson August 25 - September 19, 2025 Virtual Book Tour Synopsis: USA TODAY BESTSELLER • Perfect for fans of Alice Feeney, Megan Miranda, and Tana French, R. K. Jackson’s lyrical, twisty psychological thriller follows an aspiring journalist as she uncovers dark truths in a…
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Social Movements Are Physically Reclaiming Spaces to Replace the State
More than a way of protest, social movements are occupying spaces to challenge authority and fight against oppression.
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The #BookTour for Death at Rock Bottom (Reluctantly Psychic Murder Mystery) is at Angel’s Book Nook with an #Excerpt & #Giveaway - “If you love supernatural sleuths, small-town intrigue, and mysteries with a geological twist, Death at Rock Bottom is your next must-read! Grab your copy today!”
https://angelsbooknook.com/2025/08/04/death-at-rock-bottom-reluctantly-psychic-murder-mystery-by-kris-bock-booktour/
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for no reason in particular, an #excerpt from “let this #radicalize you”
"Let This Radicalize You" by #KellyHayes and #MariameKaba
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#PennedPossibilities 0.001 /2 New Year Bonus Question: What kind of drunk is your MC? 🥳 🥂.
Okay, that calls for an #excerpt, revised for the audience.
I kept eating until the bartender in a white shirt and black bow tie placed a pink drink before me. I smelled almond, chocolate, and based on the condensation on the outside, vanilla ice cream. Red sugar sprinkles rimmed what my former guardian had taught me was a martini glass, and a cider-soaked cherry sat on top. The bartender pointed a finger.
A tan fellow sat around the corner. He had short cropped hair and wore an open-collared blue shirt. He some High Desert blood in him because he was tall and refined-looking, though only in his mid-twenties. A long scar on his jawline and blue eyes made him look both weathered and intriguing. I gave him a come-hither wave.
He started, "Hi. I'm—"
Waving a hand, I said, "Sorry. I can't accept this. I'm underage and I don't want the restaurant to loose its cidering license."
"Oh." He sounded surprised, but only blinked, obviously rethinking his approach. The bartender slid the drink in front of him. Helpful Hanna. The buck sat on the stool beside me.
Before I could object, he said, "Hey, barkeep! A Surely Contemplative for Lady—" He raised an eyebrow at me.
Wasn't going to say my real name or let on I was a transporter for the mob.
[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]
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Even when faced with hard facts, people don’t budge from their beliefs 🤦🏽♂️:
“The Shroud Of Turin”, Michael Shermer (https://michaelshermer.substack.com/p/the-shroud-of-turin).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41871427
#Books #Excerpt #ShroudOfTurin #Relics #Christianity #RadiocarbonDating #Science #Religion
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#Explore the #Darkest #Corners of the #Internet to #Understand #Real-#World #PoliticalViolence: Read an #Excerpt of #BlackPill by #ElleReeve
If you’ve been struggling to understand how we arrived here, with an #insurrection in our recent past and #politicalviolence becoming almost #commonplace, take an eye-opening journey with an award-winning #journalist who has breached the #digital and #reallife #spaces where #hate and #conspiracy coalesce.
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An #excerpt to #TheDemon by #VictoryWitherkeigh.
Face your #innerdemons with Victory Witherkeigh’s thrilling #YA Novel about a #demon who #possesses a #teen #girl and faces her #toughest #challenge yet.
https://booksbywomen.org/the-demon-by-victory-witherkeigh-excerpt/
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"Todd’s nerves had kept him awake for most of the previous night, and he felt a little sick to his stomach. But evidence of his grit and the battles he’d already waged in his life was etched into his skin: a jagged-edged divot in his lower left shin.
https://longreads.com/2024/07/09/traumatic-brain-injury/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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#BookTour: What Grows From the Dead, by Dave Dobson @GCDaveDobson @dollycas #WhatGrowsFromTheDead #DaveDobson #mystery #Indie #excerpt #giveaway #GreatEscapesVirtualBookTours
What Grows From the Dead by Dave Dobson About What Grows From the Dead What Grows From the Dead Mystery Stand-Alone Setting - North Carolina Independently Published (March 9, 2024) Paperback : 367 pages ISBN-13 : 979-8884545977 Digital ASIN : B0CXN1KQ1B Morris Drummond is not at his…
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BookTour: Breach, by @hollysrobertsauthor @dollycas #Breach #BaileeAbbott #psychological #thriller #Indie #excerpt #giveaway #GreatEscapesVirtualBookTours
Breach: A Terrifying Summer Adventure by Holly S. Roberts About Breach Breach: A Terrifying Summer Adventure Psychological Thriller Setting - Off the coast of California Publisher : Independently Published (March 22, 2024) Hardcover : 202 pages ISBN-13 : 979-8320606989 Digital: Wicked Story Telling (June…
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#BookTour: Witchy Bad Blood, by C.A. Phipps @CherylAPhipps @dollycas #WitchyBadBlood #CAPhipps #paranormal #cozy #mystery #Indie #excerpt #giveaway #GreatEscapesVirtualBookTours
Witchy Bad Blood: A Paranormal Cozy Mystery (Midlife Potions) by C. A. Phipps About Witchy Bad Blood Witchy Bad Blood: A Paranormal Cozy Mystery (Midlife Potions) Paranormal Cozy Mystery 4th in Series Setting - Good Fortune - Oregon Independently Published (June 1, 2024) Print length : 169…
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From Silverwood: Book I Chapter I, second edition in progress, posted chapter by chapter
Follow along at: https://betsystreeter.com/silverwood
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The #Secret #Nazi #Plot Inside #America.
In an #excerpt from her new #book, #Prequel, #RachelMaddow dives deep into a forgotten #history of a #Nazi #campaign waged on the streets of #America — and the #fifthcolumn that could have cost the #Allies the #war. It's a chapter of #history that is especially #relevant today.
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The #dramatic #story of the “#exgay” #industry’s #implosion.
The following is an #excerpt from #LieswithaStraightFace: Exposing the #Cranks and #Cons Inside the ‘#ExGay’ #Industry by #WayneRBesen out October 11, 2023. All #proceeds from #book #sales will go to #TruthWinsOut, to help #efforts to #fight the “#exgay” #industry.
https://www.queerty.com/the-definitive-dramatic-story-of-the-ex-gay-industrys-implosion-20231011
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#RomanceWonders: Day 16 — Feb 16: Sex
Gosh! So hard to answer these and make it entertaining, too. I'll try...How important is sex to your couple?
These characters are as incredibly complex as they are broken. She has two love interests, and I won't go on about the alternative ones who'd be ready instantly given the signal, one who has a crush on her, one her former soulmate. She never takes half-measures, is willing to be physically and inappropriately close, and has a certain snarky eloquence that transcends innuendo. No one doesn't understand what she wants. That said, when you know the exact number of days to the end of the world, many things are unimportant. She's said:
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"Attraction isn't love. It's like needing to eat. Everyone needs to. You do it, satisfy the hunger— you get hungry again.#excerpt
"The woman, too? Very sneaky. The two of you?"
"Consensual."
"Legal definitions and prosecutors might disagree. The woman. Huh?"
"Skin and nerves. They all function the same." I shrugged. "It's meaningless. Occasionally, I have an urge to pee, too."Also, what's your WIP's heat level?
Sex unmistakably happens. Mostly it's innuendo and double entendres, and the fact she likes to use kissing as a dominance maneuver. Well, there was that time he grabbed her from the candle-lit tub where he carried her all wet to the bed, dripping suds. She likes sweat. Of course, waking up in his bed with his arms and legs hugging her tightly was warm and cozy, but less so when her limbs had fallen asleep.
"You and Kurv," I asked my roommate, almost in a whisper. I'd pushed him her way, despite her vulnerability and his having a crush on me. I hadn't expected them to spend a day in bed.
She chuckled. "I like the guy."
I took a deep breath—but she interrupted whatever my emotions might blurt without thinking, to say, "Yet, when your guy always has some other woman on his tongue, you realize he's probably not fully into you."
She suddenly blushed beet red, backing away, realizing she'd innocently pronounced two double-entendres in a row. "Oh, no. Oh, no!"What was this?
Both had been there for me. Both had opened up in dramatic ways to me. Me?
Eyes closed, it came to me. I remembered both nights. One freely gave me what I wanted and the other gave me what I didn't know I needed. Equal but different.
I had no desire to choose between them.#fantasy #fiction #allusion #innuendo
Writing #sexscenes
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The first issue of Illustrated Worlds -- with my cannibal mermaid story Ocean Games -- is available for purchase. I am *so* happy with how it looks!
There are both print (8 usd) and e-copy (5 usd) available. Please throw some support behind a press that is very clearly trying to do things right and consider purchasing the first volume!
#Excerpt #IllustratedWorlds #FantasyHorror #Bookstodon #ReadingCommunity
https://www.illustratedworldsmagazine.com/store/p1/Illustratedworldsmmagazine.html#/
