Hello Readers!

Welcome to the Literary update at Whispers of the Muse.

Today we’d like to welcome a NEW Sneak Peek of Crooked Moon by Lisette Brodey to the Muse!

Just a reminder … If you write erotica at any level, as a little spice or as the primary focus of your work, you MUST pop in and take a look at WriteSex, a brand new blog created by the WriteSex team of successful, published erotica authors (Sascha Illyvich, M. Christian, Oceana, Jean Marie Stine, Dr. Nicole Peeler and Thomas Roche). The weekly blog is chock full of advice for writing those love scenes better than ever before! WORTH A SERIOUS LOOK!

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And now, let’s get on to the update …

SNEAK PEEK, NEW “Crooked Moon”, Chapter 1 by Lisette Brodey. Frankie and Callie, childhood friends, meet again after 23 years. Each woman ends up not only with a life-altering secret regarding the other, but the burning question of what to do with it.

SNEAK PEEK, NEW “Warrior Demoness”, Chapter 3 by Fran Heckrotte. Underworld-weary, the warrior demoness, Sabnock, chooses to live in the mortal world instead of her own and discovers there are worse things in life than boredom.”

SNEAK PEEK, NEW “Songs from the Other Side of the Wall”,Chapter 4 by Dan Holloway. Since her mother returned to England the day the Berlin Wall fell, Szandi has dreamed of leaving her father’s vineyard in Hungary for life in the West.

SNEAK PEEK, NEW “All for a Fist Full of Ashes”, Excerpt 1,by Ann Siracusa. Travel with tour director, Harriet Ruby, and handsome spy, Will Talbot, through Italy in search of a lost grave, an assassin, and once-in-a-lifetime love.

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LITERARY FLASHFICTION, NEW from author Marc Nash, FlashFiction story entitled “The Green Zone”. Marc Nash is an author known to squeeze every nuance and rebellious meaning from a word, and he does no less in this striking flashfiction series that will make you think or tremble or wrench your guts, all in less than 600 words!

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AND … NEW LITERARY PRO TIPS.  “Author Platform Building, One Plank at a Time.” NEW, article from Deborah Riley Magnus, from Magnus Consulting. Part three of a 9 part series, Developing Your Unique Hooks.

Enjoy the great reading! Support our authors in the NEW BOOK SHOPPING GUIDE, with 35 published authors and 80 books in various genres for you to peruse, choose, enjoy or give as gifts … and the guide keeps growing! See you all February 21, 2010 for another Literary Update. As always, thank you all so much for reading at Whispers of the Muse!

Write on!
Riley and Natalie