Works in Progress

Since I said I was done, then realized I wasn’t, I thought I’d post a new teaser in penance.

If you read one of the first teasers, you know Dori was given a year to learn the skills necessary to be self-sufficient without drawing undue attention. Her time’s now up. In this snippet, she’s meeting the various Council members before her hearing begins. It’s not going at all how she expected as the President of the Council, Lyle Bainsbridge, plays host for a bit:

“Please, call me Lyle.” I smiled. He smiled. Donovan smiled, but the corner of his mouth trembled from the effort. “And let me introduce you around. Donovan, I think you can stop hovering for a bit. She’ll be okay with me. I promise.” He followed his statement with a wink, but Donovan continued to exude tightly coiled tension. Continue reading →

Last night as I worked on my WIP, I needed to find a designer of women’s tight, sexy dresses. In my head, I saw the Alaia dress Alicia Silverstone wore in Clueless that she risked a bullet for because she didn’t want to wrinkle it. But, since I’m finding more and more of my pop culture references need to have the dust blown off, I decided to do an internet search first. Good thing I did. As I suspected, Alaia ace bandage dresses are not current on the fashion scene. These were early to mid-90’s. Epic fail. I began searching for other designers, looking at their collections, trying to find a dress that a fashion conscious man would buy for a woman (or vampire in my case) he wanted to make as tempting as possible. I searched Missoni, Galliano, Betsey Johnson, until I settled on Zac Posen. Continue reading →