Sunday, February 24, 2013

Weekend Writing Warriors: Sweet Lenora sequel


Hi all and welcome to my first weekend writing warriors post. Weekend warriors is a new eight sentence meme where writers post eight sentences of a current work in progress or a published novel. For more weekend warrior posts please click HERE 

I've been doing lots of promo of late.  I've got several books out in the world and it goes without saying I'd love it if you would go and check them all out. But for this meme, I thought it might be fun to give a glimpse of what I'm currently working on.


Right now, I'm deep into a writing the draft of a sequel to Sweet Lenora. Sweet Lenora is my very first historical romance novella. It's a love story between a sea captain and the daughter of a wealthy ship builder. I wrote it as part of Champagne Books "dark heroes" series and you can see more about the novella by clicking on the cover image. You can't read it just yet, it will be released this summer.

Sweet Lenora is written from the first person perspective of the heroine, Lenora.The second novella, with a working title "To the Wind" continues their adventures in the hero, Anton's,voice:



 After we fled, I kept my council because I did not want to cause my love a moment’s worry, nor did I want to remind her of the night she and I sailed from Rio, leaving Mr. Settle in a pool of his own blood. His death at her hand had already caused her far too much grief. There were times she would cry out in her sleep and I knew Settle was the source of her night terrors. How could I add to them?
            Yet as we came into the Pacific and drew closer to San Francisco, the meeting in the public garden weighed heavily on me. I did not want my marriage to contain secrets. I had seen firsthand how secrets could devour trust and cause more grief than any truth uttered. So it was that I vowed to tell her all that had transpired.




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14 comments:

  1. I love your writing, Ute. So fluid. This has drawn me in. I want to know those secrets...

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  2. Ditto what Catherine has said. You remind me of myself a bit.

    I need to know his secrets and also the reasoning behind his thinking. Whatever the truth may be.

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  3. Wow, a lot going on here but very intriguing. I like his resolve not to keep secrets but wonder what the consequences are going to be. Excellent excerpt!

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  4. Oh, that will be a hard telling in the garden, for sure. :-)

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  5. You're writing is beautiful. Great premise and best of luck on the summer release.

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  6. Intriguing! Am looking forward to learn "all that had transpired". Welcome to WeWriWa. :)

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  7. What transpired? You've hooked me, with your lovely writing. It has a nice flow to it. Welcome to WeWriWa, Ute!

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  8. makes you curious as to what really did transpire.

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  9. I love your style and he seems to be able to keep a secret or can he? Fantastic Snippet. :-)

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  10. Oh so unfair! Do we find out next week what transpired? Good job and well written.

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  11. You have conveyed a great deal in just a few sentences. A really great hook. Drew me right in

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  12. Thanks so much to all of you for stopping to comment! @ Claire--I do love Anton. He's kinda taking over my writing at the moment. @History--you'll have to tune in next week, LOL. Not sure it'll be disclosed, though...

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  13. This is so full of things to ask questions about? It could fill a whole night of dream possibilities....some good, some not so good.

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