I’ve joined the Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook. From their description: “Rainbow Snippets is a group for LGBTQ+ authors, readers, and bloggers to gather once a week to share six sentences from a work of fiction–a WIP or a finished work or even a 6-sentence book recommendation (no spoilers please!).” Pretty cool, eh? Don’t forget to “Like” my Facebook page and/or my Facebook profile while you’re over there checking out this fantastic group!
In celebration of its upcoming release in audiobook format, this week’s snippet is a scene from ’Til Death Do Us Part. This is from one of the early flashback scenes and picks up immediately where I left off last week where Henry has been lamenting a recent rejection he’d received from Sam (this is the final scene for this thread).
Scene background: Sam and Henry are merely business acquaintances at this point, and they’ve recently arrived in the Solomon Islands on a research trip.
Told from Henry’s 3rd-person POV.
Click to expand refresher scenes from this thread:
This week’s new snippet:
They still had a few more days to spend together in Honiara, then weeks in close proximity on some of the smaller islands. Then they’d be back to rubbing elbows in the biology department at the university.
He decided it would be best to just prattle on as if nothing had been said next time he saw Sam. Simply ignore the incident and hopefully Sam would forget all about it, and things would get back to the way they were. Except for Henry; Henry would always know that the man who occupied his dreams didn’t want him.
Fans of the story can access all the bonus scenes and alternate POV scenes for ’Til Death Do Us Part, here: https://authoraddisonalbright.com/free-stuff/bonus-scenes/bonus-scenes-til-death-do-us-part/
You can find the blurb, a long excerpt, review and buy-links for the book, here: https://authoraddisonalbright.com/my-publications/series/vows/til-death-do-us-part/
’Til Death Do Us Part is currently available in both ebook and print formats. I can’t narrow down the precise release date for the audiobook, but the release blitz is scheduled for Thursday, 12-October. The target release date is “sometime shortly before that.” If the ACX standard estimate of 7-14 days is accurate, then they’ll probably be available somewhere in the first week of October.
From This Day Forward is a novelette that picks up immediately after ’Til Death Do Us Part ends. That audiobook will also be live about the same time.
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Aww… poor Henry
Knowing me, it’ll probably work out in the end. 😉
Awww! Sniffles.
IKR? How could Sam turn him down like that?
Got to feel for him. But from what I gathered from previous snippets it wasn’t an outright rejection. So perhaps he’s misreading Sam. 😉
Or maybe he gave an inaccurate impression of his intentions and just needs to clear that up? 😉
Awww… way to rip out my heart…
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Aww, poor guy!
Gee, I hope they get things sorted out between them soon! 😉
Aw, poor Henry. But maybe Sam will change his mind?
Oh he will. It’s not even much of a spoiler for me to say so since this is a flashback scene (the book starts out with them as a married couple). The fun is in seeing how it happened. 😃
Oh, Henry! Poor thing. 🙁
He was hurtin’ for certain at this point. 😔
Aww poor Henry
He’s going through a rough patch (I doubt it’ll be long-lived, though 😉).
Awwww, poor Henry. Is it pathetic of me to sob a little considering I know how the story ends? 🙂
Hehehee…sob away! ♡ No more pathetic than my melting into a puddle of goo with happy tears after finally reading the final version of Cinnamon Eyes!
Lol, it feels good to not be alone in my patheticness 🙂 ❤️
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Oh, Henry! Hugs. That must be hard to take.
Rejection is never easy, but maybe it’ll be short-lived?
Oh, poor Henry.
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Thanks for sharing 🙂 I really get the emotions coming out <3
Thank you! 💕