Still Proofing … Yup, Proofing On — But, Excerpt!
You may have noticed that I left those 3 lovely (new!) US book covers for the Wall of Night series up for you to enjoy all day today—even tho’ they did post yesterday.
That’s because I am “busy as”, dear readers, with the Great Daughter Of Blood Proof.
And must now go and Proof On!
In the meantime, if you missed Friday’s post, it contained an excerpt from Daughter of Blood. So if you havena read it already, hie thee and read now:
Friday’s Daughter of Blood Excerpt
If you did happen to read it Friday, well here’s another wee snippet to keep you going. And since Friday introduced one of the characters that is new to Daughter of Blood, this snippet features another of those new-to-you characters:
AKA—Meet Myr 😉
“Outside, the latest Wall storm had blown itself into a brief respite of calm weather, but inside the Red Keep the storm that had been raging between the ruling kin for weeks continued to generate acrimony and raised voices. Although, Myr thought, wrapping her arms around her drawn-up knees, “raised voices” was only her former governess Ise’s way of being polite. Anyone else would say shouting, usually over the top of whoever else was yelling at the same time.
She stared out over league on league of cloud wrack and bitter peaks toward the dark smudge that concealed the farthest limit of the Wall of Night. Sometimes, when the sky was more overcast, she caught the flicker of lightning through the smudge and would shiver, thinking about all those who kept watch over that dark boundary. Today, though, the sky was as close to clear as it ever got on the Wall of Night.
Peaceful, Myr told herself, thinking of the dispute that still rumbled in the keep below her. “
And if you should want to read more–well, I’d better hie me back to that proofing!
Hie, Helen, Hie!
Indeed! Tis all ‘head down, tail up’ here, for certain sure; “flat out like a lizard drinking”, in fact. 🙂