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​The Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook asks its members to share six sentence snippets from their work each weekend (I'll beg forgiveness in advance for sometimes going over the sentence limit!). Check out the group's Facebook page to read all the snippets and add lots of great books to your TBR. You'll find all sorts of books with the common thread that the main character identifies as LGBTQ.

I'm sharing another snippet this weekend from The Merchant's Love. It's as close as I have to a holiday book at this point, and I often describe it as a warm hug in book form. In it, Faelen, a bookish royal, and Maxen, a merchant, fall in love over books and baked goods as fall turns to winter. In this snippet, Faelen and Maxen have been at a family Midwinter holiday dinner.

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​The Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook asks its members to share six sentence snippets from their work each weekend (I'll beg forgiveness in advance for sometimes going over the sentence limit!). Check out the group's Facebook page to read all the snippets and add lots of great books to your TBR. You'll find all sorts of books with the common thread that the main character identifies as LGBTQ.

I'm sharing another snippet this weekend from The Merchant's Love. It's as close as I have to a holiday book at this point, and I often describe it as a warm hug in book form. In it, Faelen, a bookish royal, and Maxen, a merchant, fall in love over books and baked goods as fall turns to winter. In this snippet, Maxen is shopping for a Midwinter gift for Faelen and has decided to buy him hair combs, since Faelen uses them in his long hair. Maxen's younger brother is with him and has some insights too. The Selene they mention is their sister. (The snippet is a bit long—sorry!)

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​The Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook asks its members to share six sentence snippets from their work each weekend (I'll beg forgiveness in advance for sometimes going over the sentence limit!). Check out the group's Facebook page to read all the snippets and add lots of great books to your TBR. You'll find all sorts of books with the common thread that the main character identifies as LGBTQ.

I'm sharing another snippet this weekend from The Merchant's Love. It's as close as I have to a holiday book at this point, and I often describe it as a warm hug in book form. In it, Faelen, a bookish royal, and Maxen, a merchant, fall in love over books and baked goods as fall turns to winter. It snowed here this weekend, so I decided to share a snowy-themed snippet: 

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​The Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook asks its members to share six sentence snippets from their work each weekend (I'll beg forgiveness in advance for sometimes going over the sentence limit!). Check out the group's Facebook page to read all the snippets and add lots of great books to your TBR. You'll find all sorts of books with the common thread that the main character identifies as LGBTQ.

​I decided to share a snippet this weekend from The Merchant's Love. It's as close as I have to a holiday book at this point, and I often describe it as a warm hug in book form. In it, Faelen, a bookish royal, and Maxen, a merchant, fall in love over books and baked goods as fall turns to winter. In this snippet, Maxen has been having some trouble with family, and Faelen wants to help.

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​The Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook asks its members to share six sentence snippets from their work each weekend (I'll beg forgiveness in advance for sometimes going over the sentence limit!). Check out the group's Facebook page to read all the snippets and add lots of great books to your TBR. You'll find all sorts of books with the common thread that the main character identifies as LGBTQ.

Last weekend I shared a snippet from The Envoy's Honor because it had been out in the world five years last Sunday, and I thought I would share another today. This book is the eighth book in the Chronicles of Tournai series, though it stands alone just fine (it also pairs well with The Dragon's Devotion, the other dragon shifter book in the Tournai series, since Bastien from that book is the brother of Griffen from The Envoy's Honor). The Envoy's Honor is an adversaries to lovers romance—Griffen and Kirill are put at odds in diplomatic negotiations, one trying to protect his family, the other his people. But when someone is murdered, they can only trust each other to find the killer (because they were kissing each other in the garden when it happened, so they know they didn't do it!) and they may save everyone they care about in the process. This snippet follows directly after last weekend's.

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​The Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook asks its members to share six sentence snippets from their work each weekend (I'll beg forgiveness in advance for sometimes going over the sentence limit!). Check out the group's Facebook page to read all the snippets and add lots of great books to your TBR. You'll find all sorts of books with the common thread that the main character identifies as LGBTQ.

The Envoy's Honor has been out in the world five years this weekend, so it only seemed appropriate that I share a snippet from it to celebrate the occasion. This book is the eighth book in the Chronicles of Tournai series, though it stands alone just fine (it also pairs well with The Dragon's Devotion, the other dragon shifter book in the Tournai series, since Bastien from that book is the brother of Griffen from The Envoy's Honor). The Envoy's Honor is an adversaries to lovers romance—Griffen and Kirill are put at odds in diplomatic negotiations, one trying to protect his family, the other his people. But when someone is murdered, they can only trust each other to find the killer (because they were kissing each other in the garden when it happened, so they know they didn't do it!) and they may save everyone they care about in the process. Here's a snippet leading into that kissing:

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​The Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook asks its members to share six sentence snippets from their work each weekend (I'll beg forgiveness in advance for sometimes going over the sentence limit!). Check out the group's Facebook page to read all the snippets and add lots of great books to your TBR. You'll find all sorts of books with the common thread that the main character identifies as LGBTQ.

Since Asexual Awareness Week ends October 25th, I decided to share a snippet from To Love the Dragon King, one of my books with an ace spec main character (the others are The Merchant's Love and A Dance of Water and Air/A Harmony of Fire and Earth). In To Love the Dragon King, Lysander, king of Ivria, is trying to uncover the extent of a plot against himself and his kingdom when he meets Sascha, a beautiful man being used as a pawn in that plot by his family. The (overly long) snippet I'm sharing today is a conversation between Sascha (who is gray ace) and his cousin Romilly (who is demisexual and will absolutely get their own book in the series!) after the king has indicated he might want Sascha to be his concubine.

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​The Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook asks its members to share six sentence snippets from their work each weekend (I'll beg forgiveness in advance for sometimes going over the sentence limit!). Check out the group's Facebook page to read all the snippets and add lots of great books to your TBR. You'll find all sorts of books with the common thread that the main character identifies as LGBTQ.

This weekend, I'm sharing a snippet from The Prince's Consort, which was first published ten years ago on October 16th—my tenth anniversary of being a published author! The Prince's Consort is a royalty/commoner romance with lots of magic, secrets, and intrigue. My writing has definitely improved since I wrote this book, but I still love Amory and Philip and their story. This snippet is Amory's first glimpse of Philip.

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​The Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook asks its members to share six sentence snippets from their work each weekend (I'll beg forgiveness in advance for sometimes going over the sentence limit!). Check out the group's Facebook page to read all the snippets and add lots of great books to your TBR. You'll find all sorts of books with the common thread that the main character identifies as LGBTQ.

This weekend, I'm sharing a snippet from The Spymaster's Secret because it will have been out in the world six years this coming week. I love this book—I had so much fun writing it, writing Alexander and Marcus as they fell in love. Alexander is a flirtatious royal with hidden depths and Marcus is a mysterious older widower, and their story includes lots of banter, shenanigans at a masquerade ball, plus some spies and intrigue. Here's a snippet from the beginning of chapter two.

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​The Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook asks its members to share six sentence snippets from their work each weekend (I'll beg forgiveness in advance for sometimes going over the sentence limit!). Check out the group's Facebook page to read all the snippets and add lots of great books to your TBR. You'll find all sorts of books with the common thread that the main character identifies as LGBTQ.

Today I'm sharing a snippet from A Dance of Water and Air because it had an anniversary this past week—seven years out in the world! (If you're going to be at Rainbow Space Magic this weekend, you'll hear me read another snippet from the book too.) A Dance of Water and Air is the first book in the Elemental Magicae duology. In Dance, Prince Edmund is told that he must marry the queen of the neighboring country in an alliance marriage, but when he arrives there, something isn't right and Edmund becomes close to—and then falls in love with—the queen's brother, Arden. Then Edmund is accused of trying to assassinate the queen and he and Arden going on the run, trying to find a way to save themselves and their countries. This snippet is from the very beginning of the book. Edmund is enjoying a peaceful moment...which is about to be interrupting.