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.
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.
Edmund swam, long limbs slicing through the clear, warm water. His mind quieted in the repetitive motion, in the weightlessness and the comfort of being surrounded by his Element. Everything washed away, leaving him calm and relaxed, the only time he ever was lately. If only he could stay there.
He imagined it for a moment. Spending his life swimming and sailing. All his time in the soothing embrace of the water, or at the shore or bank, feeling Water’s power, learning to use its magic. It was a lovely dream. A lovely, impossible dream. With that thought, tension—the tension his morning swim had briefly dispelled—came flooding back. He stopped swimming and flipped onto his back, closing his eyes and taking a deep breath before letting it out in a long sigh.
The sigh had barely left him when he heard the scrape of a shoe against stone.
You can find out more about A Dance of Water, including where to buy it, here. Thanks for reading today!
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