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The new Connections eMagazine issue is live. I have an eleven page spread. Read all about me and my work. https://view.publitas.com/mpsmith-publishing/connections-emagazine-s..
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#8Sunday & #SnippetSunday #Excerpt from #HIM, a #suspense/thriller
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Today’s excerpt comes from chapter nine of my suspense/thriller, HIM.
“I plan to turn him over to the cops, remember. I can’t do that from here.”
“I know, but I really want you to stay here.”
“I love you, too, little brother,” I said, messing up his hair.
“Ew. I’m not saying this because I love you. I’m saying this because Shane and I can take care of you better if you are here.”
“But it isn’t your job to take care of me.”
“Yes, it is,” they said together.
I laughed at them and shook my head.
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What I'm Reading 5-15-15
I've been busy editing Resistant and getting Saying Goodbye ready to go one of my editors, so I haven't had much time up date you guys on what I've been reading. To be honest, I've only been reading Sherlock Holmes, and nothing but since Friday of last week.
Well come to #WIP IT UP WEDNESDAY with an #excerpt from #Resistant
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This is my nineteenth week on this blog hop. I’m continuing this week with an excerpt from my current romance WIP, Resistant. Resistant is a romance set in the middle of the zombie apocalypse. I received my first round of edits for Resistant last weekend. Oh my at the typos. Sorry guys. I hope what I post from here on out will be a little better. I’m nearly through reviewing all the typos and such and will start the few large changes tomorrow. There were a couple of large scenes that my editor didn’t feel went well with the story or that needed further explanation, and once she explained why, I completely agreed. I don’t think any of it has anything to with what I’ve shared so far. I plan to have the novel back to her by the end of the month or the beginning of next month. If everything movies as quickly as I hope over the next few months, I’m looking for the novel to go on sale in August or September. I don’t have a cover yet, which I’m okay with because of the changes. I think I’m going to wait until late June or July to get with him and finalize everything.
Anyway, on to the excerpt. This scene is a continuation from last week’s scene. I hope you enjoy it. J
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My hands quickly found the waist of his sweatpants and underwear and began pushing them down his body. He helped when I could only get them so far by shoving them by kicking them off. At no point did he stop kissing me. When he was free from his clothes, I pulled him against me, wanting to feel his body pressed to mine.
His penis pressed into my lower stomach, and absolutely not where I wanted it to press. I lifted my leg up and wrapped it around him. This action shifted our bodies so that his penis rubbed between my legs; still not where I wanted it, but at least where it was it would give me pleasure. We moved against each other, building our need until I begged him to take me.
Unfortunately, he didn’t immediately comply with my request. He lifted his head, wrapped one hand around the back of my neck, and tilted my face so that I was looking up into his eyes. His other hand slipped down between us, rubbed my clit for moment before taking himself in his hand and moving his head to my opening. I held my breath. Once he had positioned himself where he could slide easily into me when he was ready, he brought his hand up and cupped my face.
In a soft, low voice he said, “I love you,” and moved his hips.
Uncontrollably, my head fell back as far as it could, breaking our eye contact. I closed my eyes and let out the breath I was holding in a satisfied sigh as he filled me. The pleasure was so intense, so wonderful, I couldn’t do anything but lie there relishing in the feel of him inside me, stretching me, filling me, and corny enough completing me. He undoubtedly felt the same because he didn’t move in me. He just said my name and sought my lips.
We kissed for a long time that way, but eventually our desire became too much and we had to move. Our lovemaking was slow, gentle, but that didn’t stop me from quickly exploding. Feeling myself tighten around him as I came made my orgasm stronger. I wanted to scream, to beg for more, but we were more or less in the open, and whereas most people assumed we were already having sex, I didn’t want them to hear us doing it.
I took great satisfaction in the fact that he came seconds after I did. I loved knowing that the feel of my orgasm pushed him so far over the edge that he couldn’t hold his. I also loved that he didn’t immediately pull away when he was done. He stayed inside of me, even though he was no longer fully erect, though he maneuvered us so that we were on our sides.
“I love you,” I whispered.
My words caused him to pull me tighter to him.
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#8Sunday & #SnippetSunday Excerpt from HIM
Thank you, everyone, for stopping by my twenty-fourth Weekend Writing Warriors’ #8Sunday and my sixteenth Snippet Sunday post. If you want to read more excerpts from other authors or to join in the fun, stop by both blogs and peruse their sights.
Today’s excerpt comes from chapter eight of my suspense/thriller, HIM.
I was just crawling under the covers of the king-sized bed when he came out wearing only the sweats. His chest was completely bare, showing off a decently muscular body with a light dusting of dark brown hair on his chest. He was drying his hair with a towel, and it took everything I had to pull my gaze from him. I was surprised to feel a wave of lust run through me.
Here I was hiding from a man who was threatening to rape me in the most vicious ways possible, and I was actually lusting for someone. Only a sick individual could think about sex at a time like this, I told myself. These thoughts made me wonder for the first time if there was something wrong with me. Was that why that bastard was able to do all those things to me? Why I let him do those things?
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What I've read this week. 5-8-15
I finished listening to The Darkest Part of the Forest Friday. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20958632-the-darkest-part-of-the-forest?from_search=true&search_version=service
I finished listening to Dangerous Creatures Sunday. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18478946-dangerous-creatures?from_search=true&search_version=service
I listened to Dangerous Dreams Sunday night. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18478956-dangerous-dream
I read Day 21 Monday. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20454076-day-21
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#WIPITUPWEDNESDAY - Excerpt from #RESISTANT & Links to #Rafflecopters
Welcome back to WIP IT UP WEDNESDAY. If you are new to this hop or are just deciding that joining this hop would be a great idea, visit the WIP IT IP WEDNESDAY blog home page at: http://wipitupwednesday.blogspot.co.uk/ to read the sign-up instructions. Also on that page, you will find links to other wonderful authors and their WIP.
This is my eighteenth week on this blog hop. I’m continuing this week with an excerpt from my current romance WIP, Resistant. Resistant is a romance set in the middle of the zombie apocalypse. I finally heard back from editor. I should be getting the novel back from her this week or next. I don’t have a cover yet. I did speak with the photographer I’m hoping to use, and he has a few models and locations in mind, and may have a quote for me soon. Anyway, on to the excerpt. This scene is a continuation from last week’s scene. I hope you enjoy it. J
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As I began to come down, he lifted his thumb from my clit but left his fingers moving slowly inside me, and moved over to lie beside me. I felt the warmth of his body spread down my side, felt him prop his head up on his elbow and look down at me, but I couldn’t open my eyes. The feel of his fingers still inside me had me feeling vulnerable, exposed, and even more turned on than I was before the orgasm.
“Sahara,” he leaned down and whispered into my ear.
“Yeah?” I asked, unable to steady my breathing.
“Can I make love to you?”
“Please.” I barely breathed the words.
In response, he kissed, licked then nibbled on my ear and as he did so, he slid his fingers out of me. I groaned in displeasure. He chuckled against my neck, then bit into me lightly. The hand that had been between my legs slowly moved up my stomach, under my shirt and to one of my breasts. Inch by inch he kissed up my neck, over my chin to my check.
“Look at me,” he said softly.
I turned my face toward him and opened my eyes. He was smiling down at me. The expression on his face told me how happy he was at that moment. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing in his eyes. Against my control, a tear slid down my cheek.
“Are you okay?” he asked, wiping it way. “Did I do something wrong?”
“No, but can I ask one thing?” His fingers gently rolling my nipple were distracting, but I had to know.
“Anything,” he said and lightly kissed me. The kiss took my breath away.
When I was under control again, I asked, “Why?”
“Why what?”
“Why this? Why now?”
“I’m in love with you. I have been for a long time. I’ve wanted to do this almost from the first time we meet. As to why now, I got tired of waiting for the right time to come along. We’ve been so busy for so long. Been in so much danger. I didn’t want to love you, didn’t want you to love me just for one of us to lose the other. I wanted to wait until we were safe, but then you were kidnapped, nearly raped, nearly killed. I made the decision then that when I felt you were ready, I would make you mine. Also, before your kidnapping, I wasn’t sure if you felt the same way I did, but the way you kissed me that day told me that we could have something, that you might care for me, might even…”
“Love you? I do. With my whole heart, I do. I just didn’t think you loved me, not in this way, I mean.”
He kissed me again then. Harder. Longer. I wrapped my arms around him as we kissed and began pulling at his shirt. It took him a minute to figure out what it was I was doing, but when he did, he released me just long enough to pull first his shirt then mine off. He didn’t even bother looking down at my naked body once my shirt was off, he just went right back to kissing me.
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#8Sunday #SnippetSunday - Excerpt from HIM
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Today’s excerpt comes from chapter seven of my suspense/thriller, HIM.
The next step in the evolution of our “relationship” occurred the fall of nineteen ninety-one. He just showed up at the house one Friday around noon sans his kids. Of course, I was in school and didn’t know anything about his arrival. If I hadn’t had a big test the following week in Biology, I would have had plans for the weekend and wouldn’t have gone straight home after school. As it was, I was barely skating by with a C, and Mom was threatening to ground me for a month if I didn’t bring the grade up, so I had no means of escape. She wouldn’t even allow me to go to my grandparents for the weekend—that was how worried she was that I was going to fail the class—and she made this call before he even showed up.
Mom knew I had planned to cram for the test all weekend, I swore to her I would, which meant when I saw his car in the driveway, I knew I had no reasonable excuse to leave the house. My goal quickly became to hide out in my room all weekend and pray he left me alone. I snuck in the house as quietly as I could and eased up to my bedroom.
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What I've Read this Week 5-1-15
I finished listening to Dark Life Friday night. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7027735-dark-life
I started out unsure if I would like this novel, but it grew on me. I wasn't fond of the idea that the male lead was still like the skinny girl first and the heavy set one once he got to know her. I not like insta-love, but I would rather he had found her attractive from the beginning. I also wasn't a fan of the forced drama between the female lead and her ex. The author seemed to throw that end for extra drama that wasn't needed. Other than that, I story and the couple grew on me.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15739758-this-time-next-door?from_search=true&search_version=service
I finished listening to Rip Tide Last night. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8811401-rip-tide
I loved the references, especially the Stephen King ones. The Herald Lauder comparison gave me a perfect vision of who Oscar was. I love how I related to all the geek/nerd stuff. I found the supernatural element creepy and gave the piece an edge. Whereas it has been years since I have had a Spanish glass and was a tiny bit lost trying to translate certain lines and phrases the narrator throws in, I understood enough that they didn't halt my reading. The timeline threw me a bit a first, but eventually I sorted things out in my head well enough to follow the story.
I very much enjoyed this novel.
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#WIP IT UP WEDNESDAY #Excerpt from #Resistant -- Warning this scene is Rated R
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This is my seventeenth week on this blog hop. I’m continuing this week with an excerpt from my current romance WIP, Resistant. Resistant is a romance set in the middle of the zombie apocalypse. I still haven’t heard from my editor. Either she is very busy (she edits for me on the side) or I’m going to get this file back covered in red marks. I’m all right with either. I don’t have a cover yet either. I did speak with the photographer I’m hoping to use, and he has a few models and locations in mind, and may have a quote for me soon. Anyway, on to the excerpt. I’m not completely satisfied with this scene. I may play with it some more, but for now, you guys can tell me if you like the way Daniel plays with Sahara. J
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Finally, I felt his thumbs lightly breeze over the flesh near my opening and my folds. I was wet, so very wet, and he could feel it. He even carried that wetness with him as he passed over my clit and into the hair at the top of my mound. I stopped breathing for a second and so did he. He said my name again, and this time I knew what he was asking, so I said please.
He pulled his hands out from under my shorts, then reached up, grabbed the waistband, and pulled them down. I brought my legs up so that he could remove them one leg at a time. I let my legs fall back open the way they were, trying not to feel embarrassed at how open I was to him. I didn’t open my eyes, but I could feel him looking down at me.
I was shadowed from prying eyes since he had fashioned a canopy over the top of our sleeping area right after I was rescued. This had helped keep the few lights left burning each night in the rest of building from keeping me awake. Now it helped keep him from being able to truly see me. Part of me was thankful for that. I didn’t want him seeing my flaws at that moment.
Once he had me bare from the waist down he went back to messaging my legs, though his movements were slower, easier, lazier. Every so often, he would shift me further up the mattress. I wasn’t sure what he was doing, but I didn’t question things. I would let him do this how he wanted, even though ever part of my body was screaming for him to fuck me already.
For the longest time, he only grazed me. I didn’t open my eyes to see him doing this, but I felt his eyes all over me. Lightly running his hands through my hairs over my folds, my opening, he touched me…felt me. As he did this, he moved my wetness around causing me to moan quietly into my pillow. When he finally ran his finger down the center of me, lightly grazing my swollen clit, I pulled the pillow over my mouth and cried out. I let out another pleasure-filled cry when his finger slid between my folds. to slide over my clit. I gasped and the top half of me bowed upward in shock. I nearly exploded then. I was so close, but I didn’t want things to end so soon.
Daniel apparently felt the same way. He stopped moving his finger and waited for me to settle, then he slid his finger down to my opening, but didn’t enter me. I groaned. He groaned.
With that same finger, he slid back up me, opening me, letting his thumb move over me. When he got to my clit, he rolled it under his thumb. I gasped again and thrust myself into his hand. He whispered my name. I said his.
While one of his thumbs massaged me, he slid an index finger down and inside of me. I stifled a cry. Slowly he moved the finger in and out. I rocked my hips with him, silently begging for more. As if he heard my words, his middle finger joined his index. In seconds, my body latched onto those two fingers and exploded. How I kept from screaming, I don’t know. The sensations that were too intense, too long overdue kept washing over me until I couldn’t take it anymore. He continued to move slowly inside and around me, drawing my orgasm out as long as he could.
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What I've Read this Week 4-24-15
I finished listening to this wonderful paranormal fantasy Friday night. The Light Who Shines is my new addiction. I highly recomend it. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22878008-the-light-who-shines
I finished OUTLANDER Wednesday night. Loved the emotional roller-coaster this novel took me on. I am looking forward to the next novel, but I think I have to let my heart and nervous stomach rest for a week or so. I highly recommend this novel. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10964.Outlander?from_search=true&search_exp_group=group_a&search_version=service
The Softer Side of Kink is a very entertaining and enlightening collection of sexual fantasy collected by the author from woman of all walks of life. In this short piece Rhoda exposes the world to the realities of female sexuality and fantasy. American's are sexually repressed and our women are worse. As Rhoda points out we a dissuaded from voicing the fact that we have desires let alone from saying what those desires are. The most interesting part of this collection is that we see that a great deal of women have both varied and similar desires. These may or may not be acts that we would actually do, but they are things we think about, fantasize about, and if we are comfortable enough with are partners will discuss doing.
I gave this collection four stars for a few minor reasons. One, I think the title "Softer Side of Kink" as slightly misleading. When I downloaded it I expected sweet, innocent, tame stories, not something I might find in Penthouse letters. Don't get me wrong, I loved the surprise, as I tend to not like stories that sugarcoat the sex scenes. But I think some might be off put by the graphic scenes, which are so hot by the way.
Second, I was a little unsure on who the stories were written to. I started out under the impression that these women were telling the author their fantasies, but the tone switches to some of them telling them to their partners.
I like the sex tips, and think the piece could have used more, interspersed throughout the novel. I in the next volumes, I would like to see a wider variety of fantasies. Whereas the stories were different in their own way most kept with the same thing, domination--Not that I minded. ;)
I think this collection is worth reading for any woman whose sex-life is unsatisfying or how is wanting to try new things.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21865106-the-softer-side-of-kink
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#WIP IT UP WEDNESDAY - 4-22-15 - Exceprt from Resistant
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This is my sixteenth week on this blog hop. I’m continuing this week with an excerpt from my current romance WIP, Resistant. Resistant is a romance set in the middle of the zombie apocalypse. In this scene, I’ve moved up to the middle of the next chapter. Important things have happened, but I figured you guys would want more of the good stuff, and I’m on the verge of giving it to you. ;)
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I woke with the worst leg cramps I’ve ever felt. I tried stretching them out. Tried messaging them out. Tired getting up, but I couldn’t stand. Nothing was working. My efforts and my cries woke Daniel.
“What’s wrong? Are you all right?” he asked, jerking up in bed.
“My legs,” I cried.
He pulled the blankets off us and went immediately to my legs. My calves were knotted and my feet pointed straight out. I sobbed and panicked. He took both of my feet and pushed them so that my toes pointed up. This stretched my calf muscles and forced them to loosen. I fell back onto the bed, breathing hard but relieved. Charley horses, as my dad had called them, always scared me. The pain was horrendous, and my legs always felt as if they would never straighten out.
Daniel spent a few minutes messaging my legs, to my utter relief, before he moved off the mattress. He went to his mini-fridge and pulled out a bottle of water.
“Drink this. You are dehydrated,” he said, handing me the bottle.
I had figured that much. I drank while he returned to messaging me. The muscles were sore, but his touch was soothing. He rubbed my feet then spread my legs slightly so that he could move between them and rub each of my calves with each hand. I finished the bottle while he worked. Gradually he moved up to behind my knees, to the backs and tops of my thighs, then to the insides of my thighs. Slowly with just small bit of pressure, he moved his hands higher up the insides of my legs.
At first I my brain didn’t register what he was doing, how wide my legs were apart, or where he was positioned between them. When I felt him on the insides of my legs, I had to forcibly keep my eyes shut. I feared that if I opened them he would stop or I found out that I was only dreaming everything.
My breathing grew raspy, stuttery, and I grew nervous with anticipation of how high he would go. He opened my legs wider and his hands moved so very close to the center of my body that my heart stopped beating. His thumbs moved over the flesh where my legs joined my body, and I gasped. He didn’t stop, but his movements grew timid, softer. With that move he had discovered that my shorts are baggy and that I was not wearing panties and his fingertips felt the tiny hairs that covered me since shaving hadn’t been a priority in a very long time.
When his thumbs came oh so close to me again, I said his name. At that, he moved his hands up to grip my hips. I could feel the tremble in them. He leaned over me to get a better a look at my face.
“Sahara?” he asked. I don’t know exactly what he is asking, but I answered the question I hoped he was asking with a yes.
To my annoyance, he didn’t delve right into me as I hoped he would. Instead, he settled back down and continued to message my thighs. Worried that I had misinterpreted his question, I forced myself to calm. Each time his movements brought him to my center, he got a little closer to actually touching me. I needed him to touch me. I let my hips jerk toward his touch, letting him know what it is that I wanted. He didn’t acknowledge the movement. At least not right away.
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#8Sunday and #SnippetSunday 4-19-15 #Excerpt from #HIM
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Today’s excerpt comes from chapter six of my suspense/thriller, HIM.
I’d never in my life raised a hand to my mother or inflicted any kind of physical pain on her, and believe me I’ve wanted to on more than one occasion, but I did that day; the second day of our last vacation on Little Paw. When I saw that man walk into the main hall, I reached over, slammed my hand onto my mother’s upper arm, grabbing hold tightly, digging my nails in so hard I nearly brought blood. I was so angry, so hurt that my vision went a little blurry. I knew I was causing her pain, but my anger at her kept me from caring.
“Ouch. Damn it, Amy, that hurts,” she cried, trying to jerk her arm from my grasp. My grip just tightened.
“Tell me you didn’t know,” I demanded.
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What I've Read This Week 4-17-15
I read Darkest Flame over the weekend. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18169912-darkest-flame?from_search=true
I read Fire Rising Monday. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18404115-fire-rising
I finished reading Dark Heat Wednesday morning. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17566623-dark-heat?from_search=true
Goin’ Postal is an interesting collection of creative-nonfiction short stories about the author’s life working for the United States Postal Service. The stories are hilarious, serious, scary, heartbreaking, and do a great job of depicting what life is like working anywhere with a tight knit group of people. I’ve only worked in four places in my life, and all of those places felt like this. We had our in-house squabbles, our deaths, our births, our disasters, our nights away from the job, and everything in-between. We both loved and hated each other, as most families do.
This collection does a great job at giving its reader a look into the day-to-day life inside the post office and an even greater look how human and flawed management and upper-management are even when they won’t admit it. For anyone who has worked a job where your boss has come to you with the most ludicrous request and all you can do is look at him or her with a “you can’t be serious” expression on your face, this collection is for you.
The Creek is another collection of creative-nonfiction novellas that is about the lives of the people who settled the land on the creek on which Ms. D’Ettore grew up. She has a beautiful imagination, and carves out a wonderful of tale of love, murder, betrayal, heartache, death, and determination that surround a number of families that lived on the land over time. Her female characters are always strong and self-sufficient, which always draws me to her work. Her take on the lives of these families, from a young woman and her father who farmed the land, to a widowed mother of five who lost everything and had to move to the creek to raise her children alone, to the soldier’s family who suffered much in their grief over his loss, are realistic and not glorified. We are a people ruled by our hearts and our emotions, and her characters always depict this, making them relatable and true.
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For those of you who don't know, I'm in the process of working on a prequel to ALONE for an anthology a group of authors and I are contemplating putting together. The following is snippet from the Introduction I wrote today for that prequel.
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