Snippet and AMA! (Patreon)

Deadline brain--it's a thing. Trying to rewrite Curses (again-I think this is the third full rewrite? Plus lots of revision?) and I keep forgetting to do things. I need to start leaving myself post-its around the house like Joan Wilder in Romancing the Stone. Actually, I just want to be Joan Wilder. Anyway, I thought I'd share a wee snippet from the current rewrite. All you really need to know is that Fedorova, one of the suitors, has been turned into a swan.

Also, it's been awhile, so if any of you have any questions about my books, writing, or whatever, comment below and I'll do my best to answer them.

-Lish

Curses Snippet:

The band started warming up, the teasing notes of a fiddle floating through the air. Merit heard a throat clear below her and looked down. Fedorova the swan preened next to her.

“Would milady grant me the first dance?”

Merit frowned. “Can you still? I mean, not to be rude, but—” she waved a hand at him, indicating his avian status.

The swan ruffled his feathers. “I’m an excellent dancer, milady, do not worry.”

Merit didn’t think the mechanics would work the way Fedorova was used to, but she decided not to argue. The first dance was a country reel anyway, so she figured they could manage well enough. He wouldn’t have to hold her like a waltz and she could grasp the tip of his wing as easily as if he still had a hand. It wouldn’t be any worse than dancing with the other suitors. 

“I would be happy to join you, then.” 

The swan extended a wing and she gently grasped the tip. She wondered briefly if it had been a mistake to forbid the fairy godmothers from their magic. Her suitors would likely be much easier managed if they were all turned into birds.