Your Dimension or Mine ? #6BestHop #fantasy #magic #metaphysical #romance

Hi Everyone :) I keep forgetting to sign up for bloghops. So I figured I'd try the Sundays' Six of the Best where authors post 6 paragraphs of their work.

This snippet is from the very beginning of Your Dimension or Mine?

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“…and of course there is the effect on the economy…”

Sighing, Ari blinked her eyes and stared at the man seated directly across from her. He was still talking. And eating. From the moment they were seated at the private table for two in the neighborhood’s newest restaurant, Jay had been stuffing his face. Or talking. Sometimes he attempted multi-tasking and did them both at the same time. When that happened, Ari wanted to ask their waiter for a splatter guard but worried it would come across as rude.

“These damned politicians just don’t know anything,” he finished his newest rant, taking a big gulp of wine before letting out a belch.

If only Ma Nature would choose this moment to send a tsunami our way, she thought. Of course, the possibility of that happening was less than zero. The closest they got were flash floods in August. It was January.

“Have you noticed the price of gas?” Jay asked, munching on a breadstick as the waiter removed his salad plate and replaced it with a large bowl of soup. Without waiting for her to acknowledge his question, he launched into a diatribe about fixing prices and the state of pigs…or at least that was what she thought he said.

Letting her mind drift, Ari tried to remember why she accepted this date in the first place. Oh, that’s right—her sister Jane set it up without asking. Well, it wasn’t the first time. Ever since she entered college, Jane had taken it upon herself to introduce her little sister to men just like her husband Tony.

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Your Dimension or Mine?

When Ari Reynolds signed up for an online dating service, she only did it to get her sister off her back about her dateless life. She never expected to be contacted by men from other dimensions or have a demon claim ownership of her through a magical DNA contract. Now that her eyes are open, she is catapulted to Dimension Zeta. There, a powerful Fae named Mayir trains her to defend herself against the mysterious Orion.


Even more confusing, she finds herself falling for Terrian, a man from an entirely different dimension. Terrian promises to help defend her, but when Orion steals something of great importance to her, she must stand alone against him. Can a mere human fight off the magical control of an immortal being who wants her more than anything?

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My Sexy Mystery #MySexySaturday #bloghop

Okay, so I haven't posted in like forever. I figured maybe a bloghop might be the way to get my social media and writing back into gear.

So, this particular bloghop has a different theme each week. The one this week is My Sexy Mystery. As I'm writing a cozy mystery, I thought I would give you 7 paragraphs from it. Currently untitled. The town of Covington Bay is filled with all sorts of memorable places with even more memorable characters.

An urgent meeting was called at the Sip'n'Squat coffee shop so all the business owners are there.

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The Sip’n’Squat was filled with people when she arrived. Josephine waved and pointed at an empty seat next to her. Relieved she wouldn’t have to take the only other empty spot she saw next to Gretchen, Trill made her way through the crowd and sat down. “So what’s the meeting for?” she asked.

“Heck if I know. I was closing up and Ava informed me she’d called a meeting for tonight.” Josephine grunted. “Means I have to clean up twice.”

With a grimace, Trill nodded. That sucked. Because Ava insisted, no doubt, that people be allowed to buy coffee while they were here. Well, actually, she probably tried to get her to offer the coffee for free, but there was no way Josephine could afford to do that.

A few people sent strange looks their way. “Why are they looking at us like that?”

Josephine shook her head. “No idea. Someone’s got a bug up their ass about something. Maybe they’re pissed about the proposed stop sign.”

“Yeah, you’ve been pushing that for a while now. But it does make sense.” The avenue was long with no stops whatsoever. During most of the year, that wasn’t a problem. But once summer came and the tourists descended en masse, traffic was a bear. Add in all the people crossing the street and it became a logistics problem. Josephine had been gunning for one stop sign to give people a place to cross. The townies had fought it for three years but finally it was on board for approval. 

At seven on the dot, Ava stood up and walked to the front of the room. She stood up to her full five feet two inch height, put her fists on her protuberant hips and declared, “We’ve got a murderer in our midst.”

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That's all for now. The book still has a long way to go, but hopefully having a weekly bloghop will kick me into gear to finish it.

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