Lines 9/9 - From Fearless Part II

My favorite bit of what I worked on this weekend.

Fearless

Part II: "Crossing Lines"

Copyright © 2014 by Lauren Gilley

 

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Dartmoor bustled with its typical Saturday traffic. If the citizens renting trucks, buying mulch, having their oil changed were concerned about the murder that had hit the papers that morning, they didn’t show it.

            The clubhouse was flanked by a handful of bikes, but had that sleepy, empty look about it; the boys were working or hunting up intel. The hangarounds and prospects had cleaned up the carnage from the party; the place looked as tidy as it ever did.

            Ava parked and spotted a man in the shadows beneath the portico – a tall man, his long legs stretched out in front of him as he reclined back with his elbows resting on the top of a picnic table.

            Mercy.

Hopping The Pond

It's release week! There's so many terrifying things going on in the world right now that a person could lose major sleep worrying. So I'm going to try to focus on the positive things - the things to be excited about. And I'm so excited to release the third volume of the Russell Series this week.

One of my favorite things about this novel, in particular, is that I got to "send" some of my characters across the pond to London. It's someplace I'd love to visit. The motherland calling me home, I suppose. I love the imagery of this city, the aesthetics. And I especially love that it was appropriate to name one of the Lean Dogs' haunts Baskerville Hall.

 

All photos courtesy Pinterest

 

If you want to catch up before Friday, the Russells can be found in Made for Breaking, God Love Her, and "Things That Go Bang In The Night." And if you won't hold it against me, you'll probably be able to download KBC a day or two early. I just can't wait to share it.

Cozy Book Places

I like to read in the big living room chair with the ottoman. Or in bed. Or on the front porch. But no place in my house has anything on these awesome book nooks. Found this article on BuzzFeed. My favorite book spot would have to be Shakespeare and Company in Paris.

Also, this one: the Hearst Castle Library.

Threads for the Outlaw Gals

For Ava

I'm not real big into fashion. As my frayed purple tank top could attest to if you could see me now. My barn boots would also like to chime in and add that they are super-not-cute. In case you were wondering. But for some reason, I love dressing my characters; so much more fun than dressing myself. And while style isn't anywhere near the most important aspect of a character, I decided to show some of my outlaw girls' pin picks. Lest anyone worried Maggie and Ava were walking around in leather bustier-and-stiletto getups, rest assured, they don't need their clothes to tell the world around them that they're not to be messed with :)

Workshop Wednesday - The Overlooked

My tagline is "finding the extraordinary in the ordinary." Anyone can notice the spectacular. The glittering, flamboyant, in-your-face, boisterously beautiful. The extremes. The perfect clichés. Those things were crafted for love. The over-the-top uber badboy; the billionaire; the supermodel; the award-winning neurosurgeon. The extremes. Each a sun orbited by a solar system of overlooked ordinaries. For me, those suns hold no fascination. They're too easy and too plastic. For me, it's about the overlooked ones, finding their beauty beneath the tarnish.

Just a quick thought for today's Workshop Wednesday.

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A Buncha Book Covers and Stuff

You'd think I would learn by now that I'm a very small person who can't pick up large things without completely throwing my back out. You'd be wrong, though. This time, the heavy thing is my squirming puppy. My gosh, is he growing. My gosh, does my back hurt.

I've figured out how to write while lying very still. That's about the extent of doable things, though.

So why not read, instead? My favorite contemporary author has a new book out today, and I'm so excited for it.

I love that each of her Dublin Murder Squad novels features a minor character from a previous novel, made major. I love her prose. Her novels are all super-absorbing and I can't wait to dive into this one.

I'm also excited about Part II of Fearless, "Crossing Lines." I hope to have it out by late October.

 

Also coming out in October, another book by one of my favorites.

 

 

And next Friday, the 12th, this finally releases.

 

 

 

Go forth and read. And enjoy being upright for me. 

 

 

September

Who can believe it's September already? This morning marked the beginning of my obnoxious Season of Unrepentant Sunrise Photography. I know my Facebook friends grow weary of waking up to sunrise shots each day. But I just can't stop taking pictures. That's how you become a better photographer - take and take and take and take.

This was my favorite shot of the morning. I love the way the golden light softens the jagged edges of the pecan tree leaves. I adore this tree. It's riddled with woodpecker holes. With the exception of the live oaks, there's not many trees more Southern than pecans.

I love how Viktor wandered into the shot and I didn't even notice until later.

I love the dew on the grass and the crystalline spiderwebs between the tall stalks.

Authors never really take a vacation - there's no getting away from your thoughts - so I'll be spending the next few hours working. This September arrives with it's fair share of busyness and stress - a good kind of stress. It's good to be busy and have things to do.

A quick reminder that Keeping Bad Company comes out Friday September 12. Just a couple more weeks! I'm excited about this one because it's a crossover between the Russell Series and Fearless. You can grab it now for 99cents on Amazon.

Happy Labor Day, everyone.