2017 is almost over, folks, and I couldn’t be happier. I accomplished a lot this year, but I’m so ready for a new year. Have a lot of changes to make, many of them including publishing. So I’m ready 🙂 That said, it’s the weekend, which means it’s #RainbowSnippets time!

In case you didn’t know, #RainbowSnippets is a Facebook group for LGBTQ+ authors, readers, and bloggers to gather once a week to share six sentences from a work of fiction–a WIP or a finished work or even a 6-sentence book recommendation.

Since I’m gearing up for Little Infinities’ release in February, I think I’ll give ya’ll a glimpse into Sebastian and Apollo’s heads for the next month or so. These two came out of nowhere (I was 40k into a YA novel for my other penname at the time, but they DEMANDED I write them NOW) and I finished their story in 39 days. As of this post, they are my favorite couple I’ve ever written, and I’ve been writing since 2005 (and publishing since 2011).

Sebastian

Lazarus was a fellow musician whose band had opened for Brackenhyde several years back. We’d become good friends during that tour, though it ended up more of a friends-with-benefits situation. I got to explore my sexuality and he got off—it was win-win, in my book.

We’d hooked up and dated under the table for a few months, but after what had happened to my little brother? The idea of coming out spooked me. Lazarus was the one to gently break it off. He wasn’t happy stuffed back in the closet and it was selfish of me to expect him to be. And yet, I missed what we’d had, because Lazarus Knight was a catch.