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Friday, February 26, 2010

Excerpt - Snake Dance by Angelica Hart & Zi


The Story:

On the planet Starling wRen defies her heritage so she can be with VeIper, an outcast bent on freeing his species from ethnic cleansing.  Mong, a slayer, quells their ambition as he plots the subjugation of wRen and the death of VeIper.


EXCERPT FOUR

Found One

A dark male placed a heavy clawed foot through the thick grass and upon the throat of that which he pursued, now prone, holding it still as it struggled, and shouted, “Found one!”

Two other of his kind, they Kin ran toward him wishing to view his quarry and catch. Each brandishing steel or dagger, shoulders protected by tanned thick skins, and head hair braided creating a ridge that ran down their backs.

“Good,” spat the first to arrive, a cruel smile filling his face, a declarant, a single word of acclaim.

“Let me see,” insisted the second.

“Give it the Blow of Mercy.” The act was a declassing of another. The elite Kin felt they owned that right, and did it at their whim.


ABOUT AUTHORS

Their combined accomplishments include book publications in print and/or electronic versions of twenty-four titles, fifteen romance specific, ten manuscripts pending, EPPIE finalist for three books, Cecil Whig award, Hob-Nob Reader's Choice Award, written over 500 shorts with numerous published in both nationwide and small press magazines, articles published in various local, city and statewide newspapers, including four as a Guest Columnist in addition to trade articles. Both are members of various writing groups.

We'd love to hear from anyone interested in what we do.  Anyone who writes us at angeliahartandzi@yahoo.com and leaves an s-mail address, we will send you a gift and add you to any future mailings. 

Angelica Hart and Zi
KILLER DOLLS  ~  September 2009
Cover KillerDolls
SNAKE DANCE  ~  February 2010
CHASING GRAVITAS ~  July 2010
angelicahartandzi@yahoo.com
angelicahartandzi.com

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KILLER DOLLS can be purchased at
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Thursday, February 18, 2010

Excerpt - Snake Dance by Angelica Hart & Zi


The Story:

On the planet Starling wRen defies her heritage so she can be with VeIper, an outcast bent on freeing his species from ethnic cleansing.  Mong, a slayer, quells their ambition as he plots the subjugation of wRen and the death of VeIper.


EXCERPT THREE

Her Shell Breech

...“Her name,” he demanded more sternly than he intended, flashing to the monster all expected. Mong was controlling, though feral, he did not wish for all to know his interest but they did. It could not be evaded. He had the look of a devourer. She was his. He desired it. He silently claimed her, and none would dare to come against that claim once it was officially made known, and he intended to do so.

Charon stepped forward, honored that this noble elite took such an interest. “Her name will be from this point forward, wRen, she honoring my great Aunt.”

“wRen is to be mine,” Mong uttered in a low breath he could only hear. Then for all to hear stated, “wRen is a beautiful name, so apt, for your biddy is more beautiful than beauty could expect. Proud you must ache.” He turned to the fellow Kin, “Murd, you have done well.”


ABOUT AUTHORS

Their combined accomplishments include book publications in print and/or electronic versions of twenty-four titles, fifteen romance specific, ten manuscripts pending, EPPIE finalist for three books, Cecil Whig award, Hob-Nob Reader's Choice Award, written over 500 shorts with numerous published in both nationwide and small press magazines, articles published in various local, city and statewide newspapers, including four as a Guest Columnist in addition to trade articles. Both are members of various writing groups.

We'd love to hear from anyone interested in what we do.  Anyone who writes us at angeliahartandzi@yahoo.com and leaves an s-mail address, we will send you a gift and add you to any future mailings. 

Angelica Hart and Zi
KILLER DOLLS  ~  September 2009
Cover KillerDolls
SNAKE DANCE  ~  February 2010
CHASING GRAVITAS ~  July 2010
angelicahartandzi@yahoo.com
angelicahartandzi.com

angelicahartandzi_banner

KILLER DOLLS can be purchased at
Champagne Books
http://www.champagnebooks.com/

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Excerpt - Snake Dance by Angelica Hart & Zi


The Story:

On the planet Starling wRen defies her heritage so she can be with VeIper, an outcast bent on freeing his species from ethnic cleansing.  Mong, a slayer, quells their ambition as he plots the subjugation of wRen and the death of VeIper.


EXCERPT TWO

Her Shell Breech

On the morn of the third rain of this brooding season, in the Aviary of the Mew of S’wa in its central Nestuary, all waited. Mong of the Bundestag of Goos, brother to Mont and Mon attended the hatching of Charon’s biddy. The chickalas to be unshelled was of another stalker of the Kin, one Mong admired. His reasons for being at the shell breech were apparent. The mother, the grandest of beauty, possessed the draw and allure of a rare and stellar sexual being, all anticipated that her broodette would hold similar traits; all expected a female for the twitter of egg suggested it. If female, when she turned adult, he planned to claim rights to her, rights that included any and all pleasures he might take. All expected it and understood.

“Welcome,” Murd said as each of the exaltation of witnesses entered the Nestuary, they resembling the anxious anticipation of larks, this gabble hustling with understood duty. The pre-hatchlings were always maneuvered to pillowed pedestals of moss and clover, idyllic images so celebrated. The slightest hint of cinnamon was apparent, yes, pleasant to all. Crystals were hung as suncatchers and provided rainbows throughout the area. However, this event, this day held uniqueness for there was but one broodette to be birthed.

ABOUT AUTHORS

Their combined accomplishments include book publications in print and/or electronic versions of twenty-four titles, fifteen romance specific, ten manuscripts pending, EPPIE finalist for three books, Cecil Whig award, Hob-Nob Reader's Choice Award, written over 500 shorts with numerous published in both nationwide and small press magazines, articles published in various local, city and statewide newspapers, including four as a Guest Columnist in addition to trade articles. Both are members of various writing groups.

We'd love to hear from anyone interested in what we do.  Anyone who writes us at angeliahartandzi@yahoo.com and leaves an s-mail address, we will send you a gift and add you to any future mailings. 

Angelica Hart and Zi
KILLER DOLLS  ~  September 2009
Cover KillerDolls
SNAKE DANCE  ~  February 2010
CHASING GRAVITAS ~  July 2010
angelicahartandzi@yahoo.com
angelicahartandzi.com

angelicahartandzi_banner

KILLER DOLLS can be purchased at
Champagne Books
http://www.champagnebooks.com/

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Excerpt - Snake Dance by Angelica Hart & Zi


The Story:

On the planet Starling wRen defies her heritage so she can be with VeIper, an outcast bent on freeing his species from ethnic cleansing.  Mong, a slayer, quells their ambition as he plots the subjugation of wRen and the death of VeIper.


EXCERPT ONE
Fear

Her huge pendulous breasts rose and fell, nipples alternating elevation with the cadence, and matching the rhythm of running, running filled with urgency and panic. If running could scream, this gait would yell, help! Wavy blonde hair beset with leaf and twig sailed. Her lovely face, once admired and coveted by male thirst was now marked by soot, that filth the result of her trudge through the marshland. Beneath that soil was true alarm, dread that foredoomed from what she must have been running. Deep-green eyes revealed their screech of terror to be real.

Evil encroached.

While ducking through the snarl of brush, a low-hanging branch lashed her massive breasts and proud nipples, tore flesh, and brought the flow of crimson, but that did not dissuade her fleeing nor bring any shriek of pain. Evidence of fatigue made her body deadweight. Sweat glistened upon the flowerage of her beauty. Other evidence of blood and rosy welts marked her tight thin waist, the dip of her spine and long strong legs that drew eyes quickly, today those legs under threat jumped and dashed.

Evil encroached.

ABOUT AUTHORS

Their combined accomplishments include book publications in print and/or electronic versions of twenty-four titles, fifteen romance specific, ten manuscripts pending, EPPIE finalist for three books, Cecil Whig award, Hob-Nob Reader's Choice Award, written over 500 shorts with numerous published in both nationwide and small press magazines, articles published in various local, city and statewide newspapers, including four as a Guest Columnist in addition to trade articles. Both are members of various writing groups.

We'd love to hear from anyone interested in what we do.  Anyone who writes us at angeliahartandzi@yahoo.com and leaves an s-mail address, we will send you a gift and add you to any future mailings. 

Angelica Hart and Zi
KILLER DOLLS  ~  September 2009
Cover KillerDolls
SNAKE DANCE  ~  February 2010
CHASING GRAVITAS ~  July 2010
angelicahartandzi@yahoo.com
angelicahartandzi.com

angelicahartandzi_banner

KILLER DOLLS can be purchased at
Champagne Books
http://www.champagnebooks.com/

Monday, February 1, 2010

Tattle & Wrye - February 2010

FROM THE DESK OF
DONA PENZA TATTLE, ESQ.
AND
ASSOCIATE WRYE BALDERDASH


Greetings,

Dressed in an old-fashioned rose patterned dress with a sprig of violets sticking up out of her hair, laced high top leather high heels double bowed, Tattle waltzes into the office singing, “Love is in the air everywhere I look around…” 

Wrye stares with the triple O-look, eyes and mouth.  “Roses are red.  Violets are blue.  Voice lessons m'friend. Tattle's tone is askew.”

“Au contraire, m’Travelbud.  I am simply celebrating our book tour within the month of Valentines highlighted by romance.”

“Roses are red.  Violets are blue.  Love of Literature Leap.  Then let us do the do.”  Elbow out, arm proffered.  Tattle takes it and off they leap!


Tattle smiles an ooohhh ahhh smile as she looks up at a castle.  “How utterly beautiful, which is the perfect background for the paranormal romance THIS TIME YOU ARE MINE by SUZANNAH SAFI."

Roses are red.  Violets are blue.  A time journey love story.  Written just for you,” Wrye offers, thinking himself in the Valentine zone as he looks upon the characters who are in a yummy embrace.  “Ah, now that is quite a quixotic kiss!  Color me red for passion!”  Those words are quickly followed by ut oh as he watches Mac tear himself free from Miranda Blair, looking devastated.  “Roses are red.  Violets are blue.  Captivating drama.  Mac plans an adieu.”

“Aye, a dilemma indeed.  They are instantly drawn to each other, however, Miranda writes about mystifying deaths and plans on writing a book about the death of a child, Marcas Wardlaw.  Morass?  Entanglement?  The investigation triggers visions, ooooh, which brings her to Wardlaw Castle in Scotland and Mac, the Wardlaw’s nephew.  The plot moistens.  Mac doesn’t want this book written.  Contention!  And he might just do anything to keep that from happening.  What, what, what?  And he has secrets!" 

The wind whistles, "Weoooooo."  Is there haunt in the air?

“Roses are red.  Violets are blue.  Mystery abounds.  Mac has visions, too!”  Wrye tips his top hat, it rolls off his head, along his arm and into his hand, and with a tadaaa offers his revelation, having checked pages ahead, “Reincarnation!  Mac and Miranda are Rose and Duncan who loved, lost each other centuries earlier, and are now revisiting that love.  Tears follow!”

“Aye!  Only the loss ended with Rose being buried alive. I remember Poe's taphophobia, the fear in The Fall of the House of Usher.  Duncan vowed revenge.  Good for him!”  Tattle places a sprig of violets in Wrye’s lapel before adding.  “Well, in the present, Mac and Miranda begin to fall in love, amidst much sizzle and spark.  But all is not roses and violets, go figure, Mac’s uncle tries to destroy them for money.  Creep!  And I’m not going to spoil just what goes on with Mac’s parents.”

“Roses are red.  Violets are blue.  Spill your secret.  Telling me is poo-poo?”

“Aye, aye, m’Poet a' large.”  She gives him a friendly push.  “Leap!”

 

“In space, no one can hear you scream," announces Tattle, foreshadowing where they landed.  “We're in K. M. TOLAN'S science fiction ROGUE DANCER.

 

“Roses are red.  Violets are blue.  BLADE DANCER came first.  This is book two.”

 

“Ah, yes, Mikial Haran is back, a savior of her people, previously chosen to defend them from potential human encroachment that did not happen.  Heroine in waiting?  Mikial discovers Suria has undermined her. Does this foredoom?  Suria continues to discredit Mikial, hence the rising belief she’s not the savior might get her arrested.  This smacks of treachery!  To make things complicated, to avoid civil war, she places herself under the shield of the most powerful of the Qurl Holdings, the Holding of Kinset.  However, to tangle the woes, she is accused of murder and flees Kinset.  Oh, what a muddled web has been woven.”

 

“Roses are red.  Violets are blue.  Trouble is brewing.  Whatcha to do?”  Wrye skims a chapter or two.  “Listen to this, while trying to recoup, she has a vision.  Prophecy?  The mental mirage is that of a spaceship arriving in the desert at the ruins of an ancient civil war."  Reads and then sing-songs, "Roses are red.  Violets are blue.  She gathers together,,,an unlikely crew.”  

 

“So true, m’Blooming friend, and she plans on using the White Spear, a gruesome ancient weapon to destroy the trespasser.  Only all is not what it appears.  Da da da daaaaaaaaaaaaa!”

 

“Roses are red.  Violets are blue.  Tattle do you see?  A bit of romance, too?”

 

“Naughty?  Risky?  Steamy?  True?  Plus so much more.  This fast-paced story takes us from fierce combat to ruins to cascading waterfalls, spanning emotions, testing friendships, and the understanding that a repeat of history foretells a disastrous future.  Quell the beat of my now aerobic heart.” 

 

“Roses are red.  Violets are blue.  This sounds so good.  Give us another clue.”

 

“No more for you, Wrye m’Scribe.  One more book awaits for leaping sake!”

 

 

“Ah, this geography is quite familiar, don’t ya think?”  Tattle crouches, fear encroaching her demeanor.

 

Looking at the pages and the fabulous cover, he croons, “Roses are red.  Violets are blue.  Quite talented authors...for certain these two.” 

 

“Being such dear close friends we are a bit biased, but it does allow us to know all about the sci-fi/fantasy romance SNAKE DANCE by ANGELICA HART AND ZI."  Preening with pride.  "Romance will boil on the planet Starling where a complex race of three sects live in an authoritarian system.  Elitists of a beastly nature, the Kin, control the stunning and exotic females with the Kiss of Surrender.  Vanquished to the outlands, statuesque males of the Asp line are hunted and killed by the vile Kin.  She pulls four or five reeds, places them in her headband to camouflage herself from the Kin.

 

Realizing he's only armed with a box of chocolates, Wrye wonders does he push his thumb in or bite to see which is which.  “Roses are red.  Violets are blue.  Two enemies will be courting...the same rare ingénue."  He bites.  Finds a nougat.  Rejects the flavor and puts half back.

"The feel of a unique milieu tints this world in which the status quo has gone unchallenged until the birth of wRen.  She of extraordinary allure has been blessed by healing song and the rare ability to fly.  The Kin, Mong, claimed the rights to her innocence.  wRen refuses to accept the dictates of an enslaved society despite that Mong is of exalted status."  Hunched behind Wrye, Tattle slips her hand into the chocolate box.  (Comfort food).

Roses are red.  Violets are blue.   Enter stage left.  Give VeIper his cue."  Wrye notices Tattle's hand, hopes she grabs the half nougat.  "Of the Asp clan, he was built as a mighty man, brawn seductive, his attitude the harbinger of revolution.”

Thinking of VeIper and acting dreamy, though it may have been the chocolate, she says, “Bewitchment is in the air.  VeIper will be instantly drawn to wRen.  Lucky!  And she to him, braving the lethal legends of the Asp.  Dangerous bravery!  While he, fully awed by her, seeks to free his species from ethnic cleansing.”  She reaches for another chocolate.
 
“Roses are red.  Violets are blue.  wRen and VeIper’s...love is taboo.”  He thumbs the bottom of the heart shaped box to rap out a beat along with his da da da daaaaa.  “Roses are red.  Violets are blue.  Look out for Mong.  And his brother, Mont, too.  They have vowed to destroy those of VeIper’s kind, and have fully enslaved feral women called wohen in a cave of atrocities.”  Wrye's face grows cold with anger.
“VeIper’s attempt to rescue them, brings him to death’s abyss.  His slim chance of survival resides in wRen’s promise to surrender to Mong willingly.  At the same time, the lives of every Kin, Asp and wohen rest in the forthcoming measures taken by wRen and VeIper and wrapped in this are their stolen sensual moments.”
“Roses are red.  Violets are blue.  Peril's blood claws...are poised for the two.”  Wrye's right hand balls in a fist as if he's prepared to fight.

“What will they do?”

“Roses are red.  Violets are blue.  Our leap is ending. We’re not gonna tell you!”

“In other words…our dear friends…READ!”

And off they leapt back to the office, Tattle leaving a trail of petals and reeds behind her, chasing the box of chocolates.

 

Hope you enjoyed!  Next month an Irish toast to A STRUCTURED AFFAIR by CAROL MCPHEE, ONCE AN OUTCAST by JANE TOOMBS, and MORTAL COIL by JULIE EBERHART PAINTER. 


Happy Valentine’s Day to all! 


Dona Penza Rutabaga Tattle, Esq.
and Associate Wrye Balderdash
of Blather City, Wannachat

Created and written by
Angelica Hart and Zi
KILLER DOLLS ~ September 2009
Cover KillerDolls
SNAKE DANCE ~ February 2010

CHASING GRAVITAS (working title) ~ July 2010
Champagne Books