#WWW and #WIPpet Wednesday – 06 April, 2016

First of all, thank you to those who stopped by on Saturday and helped me celebrate the release of A More Complicated Fairytale! I’ve put a link to the GoodReads and Amazon pages in the sidebar there so you won’t have to hear me banging on about it all the time in the future.

Now it’s Wednesday, and that means a WIPpet. Where we left off last week, Ginny was being threatened by a scary man who spoke a different language. She’s now been carted off by him and discovered that he and his cronies have a whole bunch of Nardowyn folk that they’ve taken prisoner for seemingly no reason whatsoever. Now I have ten sentences (6th of the month plus 4th month) following on from there:

They walked for a long time, before emerging out of the forest. Ginny looked around. It was like they had left the city all together. There were buildings around, but they were all single-storey, and not crammed side-by-side the way the ones Ginny and her family lived in.

A wagon with two horses hitched up was waiting between the edge of the forest and the closest path. Three other horses were tethered nearby. The captives were rounded up the stairs and inside the wagon, and then the door was slammed and locked from the outside. Heavy footsteps could be heard crunching away from the wagon. Ginny wasn’t sure but she had wondered if the building they were behind was some sort of inn. Were they to be left here in the cramped space while their captors went drinking?

If you’re unfamiliar with WIPpet Wednesday and are curious, it’s a blog hop we writer types do each week, in which we share snippets from our WIP that somehow relate to the date. I shared six sentences by adding the two and the four of 24 together. You can find our linky by clicking the blue link to the right. This might be my last WIPpet Wednesday for a while. I have three WIPs all in various states of completion, and I have decided for the next little while I’m going to focus on ironing out the kinks, figuring out how they end, and just generally planning in more detail.

Next up is WWW Wednesday, a blog hop in which we answer questions about what we’ve been reading this past week. This is hosted by Sam over at A World of Words. You can join in by commenting on today’s post over on her blog.

• What are you currently reading?

I’ve started Air Awakens, which I think Kay mentioned on a couple of WWW posts. The main character is a library apprentice, which I figure is close enough to librarian for me to use it for the “a book where the main character has the same profession as you” prompt on my 2016 reading challenge. So far it’s not too bad, though the MC does read a bit more like a 15/16-year-old than an 18-year-old. That’s okay though.

• What have you recently finished reading?

Captive Prince: Volume 1 by C. S. Pacat. Yeaaaaahnope. I was not a fan. This is my (ranty and spoilery and triggery) review.

After that, I read The Black Orchid by Celine Jeanjean, with which I had a much better experience. This is the second in the Viper and the Urchin series. I maybe didn’t love it quiiiiiiiiiiite as much as the first one, but I think it would be an impossible task for an author to write two books in a row that I loved as much as I loved the first one. My review of The Black Orchid goes up this Friday; in the meantime you can read my review of Book 1 here.

• What do you think you’ll read next?

I keep saying The Bloodshade Encounters/The Songspinner by K. C. Finn but I think at the moment I’m more in the mood for something like A Stolen Kiss by Kelsey Keating, which I got from NetGalley and which sounds nice and lighthearted. But we’ll see what the week brings.

That’s it from me for this week.

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