It's weekend, and time for more Rainbow Snippets. The Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook asks its members to share six sentence snippets from their work each weekend. 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+.

When I was trying to choose a snippet of something for Father's Day weekend last week, I kept finding scenes I loved with fathers and children, and I wasn't sure what to share. I also came across this scene in The Artist's Masquerade in which Flavian meets Amory and Philip's baby son for the first time and has absolutely no idea what to do when presented with a baby. (It's a bit over six sentences again—sorry! I'll do better next time!)

If you'd like to know more about The Artist's Masquerade, you can find it here. The Artist's Masquerade and the rest of the Tournai books are also 30% off at Dreamspinner now, but the sale ends today. Thanks for stopping by and reading!

It's weekend, and time for more Rainbow Snippets. The Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook asks its members to share six sentence snippets from their work each weekend. 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 have a snippet from The Artist's Masquerade for you, in which Cathal is thinking about (really, trying not to think about!) Flavian.

​And Cathal was rather looking forward to the outing, not for any particular interest in glass art but for how Flavian would react. Cathal’s new favorite pastime seemed to be finding ways to get past Flavian’s outer shell, the mask that Flavian wore, and see him interested, excited, full of wonder.

Lost in passion.

​But he couldn’t think about Flavian like that at the moment— couldn’t remember what happened to Flavian’s face when Cathal touched him, how his cerulean eyes went dark with desire—not when he was surrounded by his father and cousins and his betrothed and her family. Because no one could suspect what they’d done, not just for his sake, but for Flavian’s. 

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If you'd like to know more about The Artist's Masquerade, you can find it here. Thanks for stopping by and reading!

It's weekend, and time for more Rainbow Snippets. The Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook asks its members to share six sentence snippets from their work each weekend. 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 week, I have a snippet with Cathal and Flavian from The Artist's Masquerade for you. We're in Flavian's point of view here. 

You can find out more about The Artist's Masquerade here. And, The Artist's Masquerade and the other Tournai books are all 25% off at Dreamspinner this weekend. Thanks for stopping by and reading! 

It's weekend, and time for more Rainbow Snippets. The Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook asks its members to share six sentence snippets from their work each weekend. 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+.

​Another sort of random snippet this weekend, this one from The Artist's Masquerade. In this scene, Cathal has arrived home exhausted and dejected after a couple of difficult encounters to find Flavian waiting for him, and Flavian ends up keeping him company and taking care of Cathal, even though Flavian thinks it would probably be smarter if he left. But because he's Flavian, his sharp tongue will always make an appearance.

​He took Cathal’s hand and led him into the bedchamber to the bed. Pulling back the blankets, he urged Cathal up onto the soft bed, and once he was, Flavian pulled the blankets back over him.

“Are you tucking me in to sleep? When you mentioned bed, I thought you had something else in mind,” Cathal said with a flash of a smile.

Flavian narrowed his eyes in a glare. “I did, but I can just leave if you’d like.” 

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You can find out more about The Artist's Masquerade here. Thanks for stopping by today!

It's weekend, and time for more Rainbow Snippets. The Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook asks its members to share six sentence snippets from their work each weekend. 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 last couple of weeks, I've been snippeting first kisses, and since it's February and Valentine's is coming up, it only seems appropriate to continue. Here's Flavian and Cathal's first kiss in The Artist's Masquerade from Flavian's point of view. (I actually posted a snippet of the lead up to and beginning of the kiss from Cathal's point of view a while ago. You can find it here if you missed it.)

You can find out more about The Artist's Masquerade here. And, all of the Chronicles of Tournai books are all 30% off at Dreamspinner this weekend. ​Thanks for visiting and reading today!

It's weekend, and time for more Rainbow Snippets. The Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook asks its members to share six sentence snippets from their work each weekend. 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 can't believe it's this is the last snippet of the year (or perhaps the first of the new year depending on when you're reading this!). I decided to give you a little more of The Artist's Masquerade this week. This snippet is from a little later on the same night as last week's snippet, and things have progressed between Cathal and Flavian. You also should know that Flavian is disguised as a woman at this point as he tries to escape a very bad situation. Cathal has already found out the truth, but Flavian still has some doubts.

​It was... odd. What Cathal’s mouth was doing to that spot on his neck sent shivery heat racing through his whole body and tore a moan from his throat that was almost embarrassingly wanton. But he was also being held firmly yet so carefully, Cathal’s arms curving around him in a way that was almost protective. He didn’t understand it. Cathal had thrown him against a wall moments ago, and now, he was... what?

“I’m not really a woman, you know,” he rasped out.

“For the last time, I’m quite aware of that.” Cathal’s voice was lower, rougher, enough to send another shiver through Flavian, and that was before he felt Cathal’s low chuckle rumbling through the places where they touched. “Come to bed, Flavian.” 

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If you'd like to know more about The Artist's Masquerade, you can find it here. Thanks for reading, everyone, and Happy New Year!

It's weekend, and time for more Rainbow Snippets. The Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook asks its members to share six sentence snippets from their work each weekend. 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+.

December 21st marked one year since The Artist's Masquerade was published, so I thought I would share a snippet of that with you this weekend. In this scene, Cathal has drawn Flavian away from a party that neither of them was enjoying (but both should be present at) to show him a room in the royal palace created to house a particular enchantment. Or perhaps just to be alone with him...

If you'd like to know more about The Artist's Masquerade, you can find it here. And The Artist's Masquerade and the other Tournai books are included in Dreamspinner's 30% off sale this week. Thanks for reading! Happy Holidays, everyone!

It's weekend, and time for more Rainbow Snippets. The Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook asks its members to share six sentence snippets from their work each weekend. 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 have a snippet from The Artist's Masquerade for you. I'm continuing my random theme, and pulling snippets from a random page in each book. Here's a bit from page 145, which is the morning after Cathal and Flavian spend their first night together.

​He had to fight back a smile when Flavian blinked his way to awareness, big, cerulean eyes hazy and confused, hair tousled. Memories of what happened and where he was began to seep in, Cathal saw it happen, and those eyes flew open as Flavian sat bolt upright, nearly whacking Cathal in the head as he did.

Cathal did laugh then, but it was a soft chuckle, and even he could hear the affection in it, which scared him more than a little. But he wanted Flavian to see that even less than he wanted Flavian to see the affection itself. He leaned forward and kissed Flavian quickly. “Come on. Let’s get you dressed.” 

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Thanks for reading!

It's weekend and time for more Rainbow Snippets. The Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook asks its members to share six sentence snippets from their work each weekend. 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 had to skip posting a snippet last weekend due to multiple deadlines and general busyness. Deadlines have passed and everything was submitted on time, and now I'm playing a bit of catch up. I'm no more prepared for this week than I was last, but I didn't want to skip two weeks in a row. I hadn't decided in advance what snippet I wanted to give you this week, so I grabbed a book at random off the shelf (which ended up being The Artist's Masquerade) and opened it to a random page (page 170, if you're curious) and I'm giving you a snippet from the beginning of that page.

Thanks for stopping by!

How is it May this weekend already? Time is flying by! And since it's weekend, I have another Rainbow Snippet for you. ​The Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook asks its members to post six sentence snippets of their work each weekend. Visit the group page on Facebook to read all the wonderful snippets, and add some books to your tbr pile!

The Scholar's Heart, the third book in the Chronicles of Tournai series, will be out on May 30th (yay!), and I'll start sharing snippets from it next weekend. Each of the books in the series stands alone, but the main characters of The Scholar's Heart, Etan and Tristan, have appeared in both of the previous books. So I thought it might be fun to share snippets over the next few weeks involving Etan and Tristan in the previous books to introduce you to them before I dive into snippets from The Scholar's Heart itself.

This week's snippet is from The Artist's Masquerade. It's the scene where I made Etan very sad, which of course will be fixed (eventually) in The Scholar's Heart, because if I can promise you anything, it's a happily ever after.

Have a great weekend, everyone! And check back here on Monday for the cover reveal of The Scholar's Heart.