Free Story: The Queen and the Soldier

Originally written for the Torquere Social Happy Hour, "The Queen and the Soldier" is a short >1K m/m story written to the prompts supplied by various members.

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Saturday is like an extra Friday

I'm pretty sure this really will be a short round up, unlike last week's short round up.

For those curious, my speech recognition software is still making my teeth clench, which is at least a different kind of repetitive strain injury. But moving along to the interesting news (some of which I have already covered):

1.) I have a new website (which is to say, I have a website): www.mollychurch.com. Please check it out.

2.) I have a new release, Pentimento: Poppy, available from Torquere Press.

2b) If you're interested in an excerpt or a "sexy snippet" for Poppy both are available (just follow the links).

2c) An extra scene, which doesn't appear in Poppy is also available.

3.) Another free story in the Dylan and Xavier semi-series was written on Wednesday (St. Patrick's Day) in honor of release day. It follows in a separate post.

New Release - Pentimento: Poppy is OUT NOW

Pentimento: Poppy (10700 words and published by Torquere Press), is out now.

To celebrate that, and St. Patrick's Day, I'm throwing a bit of a party on the Happy Hour LJ.

In other news, I have a website: www.mollychurch.com. Please check it out!

Try, try again

Aside from apparently having some black hole in my memory where the fact that it is Friday falls in, I have had two good reasons for not being properly up-to-date with my blog - my apologies.

Reason the first: I am having a real problem with RSI, making it important to prioritize story-writing. I am still having problems there (although I may be investing in some speech recognition software - I hope to try it out today), so this will be a short post.

Reason the second: I had news, but wasn't ready to share it. Well, it wasn't sharing-ready. It is now.

News:
1.) Grisaille in Brown is out on April 28th. The title is Brown: Grisaille in Sand and Sunset.
1b) I just got, yesterday, the cover-art request form (for Grisaille in Brown). I'd seen it already, so it wasn't like I didn't know what to expect - but it was surprisingly hard to pin down what I wanted to say. I'll definitely be filling them out in advance, in future. But the really interesting thing for me wasn't just the filling out the form, and musing on what the cover might look like (though that was fun). The really interesting thing was that it was just how hard it was to answer some of the questions. I really think that thinking about those questions in advance will help me as a writer, and that was something very cool to discover.

2.) Those keeping up at home may remember that Grisaille in Brown is the first part of a two part (I hesitate to say series, because the stories do stand alone, but) series, and that Grisaille in Gray is out in September. BUT! There is another piece rounding out our tale, currently called Pentimento: Poppy, with is an interlude, of sorts, between Brown and Gray. Again, they all stand alone, and I think there are advantages that Poppy is out first, in terms of storytelling, regardless of chronology.
2b) Pentimento: Poppy should be out, all going well, March 17th, which yes, is St. Patrick's day (come along to the Torquere Social Happy Hour that day!)

3.) Speaking of the Happy Hour, I will be there the following days:
Tues. March 9th
Weds. March 17th
Thur. April 22nd
Weds. April 28th

Okay, back to Grisaille in Gray - which, please be patient if/when you see me writing it as 'Grey' here, as grey is the default spelling of gray in my head - but the title is 'Gray'.

Free Story: Facade

Originally written for the Torquere Social Happy Hour, "Facade" is a short >1K m/m story written to the prompts supplied by various members.

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I used to be such an organised person. Anyway, in the spirit of organization, I think I shall name Fridays as my blogging day. Well, we'll try it for a while, and see how it goes.

First! some catching up.

I, on a rather spur of the moment whim, took over the Torquere Social list for another day - I don't think I'll do it again until April, though, as I do feel a bit silly, with nothing new out recently. But, it meant another installment of Dylan and Xavier, and their world is becoming increasingly clear - and murky, too, but that's worlds for you - to me. I'll put that up in a bit.

Second, what I'm working on at the moment... well, actually, my brain is hopping with ideas, which is always good - wonderful, actually - but it does make settling down to work on one thing very difficult. Fortunately, deadlines come in handy for this sort of thing, so what I am working on is Grisaille in Gray, but I'm not entirely sure what do start on after that. I think I know what it will be, but we'll see.

Free Story: The Club on the Cliff

Bleurg. So. Tired.

Acts of god and war, indeed - well, acts of tiny virtually immortal biological agents anyway.

But I'm mostly better now. Today's update will probably not include the fabled story I started writing for my Torquere day - and if I don't get it done soon, it'll probably have to keep til next year, and nobody wants that. Although I suppose early in the new year would still be okay - but although it's not Christmas themed, it is Christmassy. You'll see why when you see it.

Anyway, enough whining. There is plenty of time yet.

So! Today's update will include a repost of my latest prompt story (another Dylan and Xavier story, and for those curious, yes, there might be more to their story at some point, though it's unlikely to be at any point very soon).

I will also update my lj (including with my previous post, which I failed to copy over due to an attack of extreme featherheadedness).

But, onto Dylan and Xavier.


Written to the prompts supplied here.

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Free Story: Of Wax and Waffles

Originally written for the Torquere Social Happy Hour, "Of Wax and Waffles" is a short >1K m/m story written in about 3 hours to the prompts supplied by various members.

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Another update, so soon?

It IS an update, but not about the stories I'm working on at the moment. Sorry! I did mean to come back and finish that post, and I'm sure I will eventually, but frankly, it's harder to come up with a short non-spoilery summary than I expected.

No, this post is to announce that I'm taking my first turn behind the bar at the Torquere Social List Happy Hour somewhat early.

Like today.

So come along and check it out if you have a chance.