Two for Tuesday

      I'm playing along with Two for Tuesday today at the Women of Mystery blog. Decided I need a little push to get back to Surfer Dude & Co.  (Currently being torn in too many directions.) In the middle of a couple of WIPS--wildly different--both of which I like. Which to do, which to do? Lara & Cole (contemporary romantic suspense), Pierce & Mia (futuristic paranormal)?

Surfer Dude temporarily wins the day:

Pierce massaged the pebbled QWERTY tattooed on his forehead by the keyboard. He appreciated the Sirens’ thematic unity, but their off-the-charts decibel level tonight could deafen a dolphin.

Here's how you play: Pick two sentences from a book you're reading, and two from a book you're writing. (I'm declining to do the first part of that equation today, because I just read a sentence in a book that's consuming me, by an author I love, that was so clunky and awkward I couldn't believe what I was seeing!)

Have fun  with it, peeps!

Under the gun

"Hurry up and get dressed, baby."
[Stretches, rubbing sleep from eyes.] "What's going on, G-man?"
"Quit dawdling. We've got to get the hell out of here."
"Then let's get the lead out."

Double teaming

       "We've decided you need to give us more space."

       "Yeah. We're sticking together on this."

        Wait a minute. Get back here. What are you two talking about? Word count? Conflict? Separation?

       "Figure it out. That's your job, not ours."

        Do you think it's fair for you guys to gang up on me this way?    

       "Life isn't fair, sweetheart." 

       "And we've got better stuff to do."

Two-fers

     Over at  Women of Mystery,  they do a weekly feature called "Two Sentence Tuesdays."

      Most of these ladies are from our same neck of the woods and it is my hope that we can convince them to drop by HVRWA and check us out one of these days.

    Maybe we can even do a joint HVRWA/WomenOfMystery/SistersInCrime event of some sort.  That's my dream. And despite unsubtle arm twisting from me, I haven't yet managed to convince my new Twitter pal, Laura Curtis--who lives in my VERY OWN COUNTY--to wade across the Hudson.
    [Hell, if I can zip across the Tappan Zee, anyone .... Oh. Wait. Maybe we shouldn't go there.  ;) ]

    Still, drop by Women of Mystery -- it's a fun site. A few days ago, they had the Dr. Wicked Write or Die bells and whistles challenge, which some of you might like to try.
    On Tuesdays, they encourage commenters to post two sentences the poster wrote, along with two sentences the poster read.
    My two "reads" came from Nalini Singh's Archangel's Kiss.

    And here are my two "writes," in keeping with my new nasty habit of reporting all things Cole and Lara on-line.  Instead of...on the page.
 
    “What are we doing, Cole?”
    “You really need an answer?”

   And don't forget to drop by Mysteries and Margaritas also. These are the ladies who are currently running a blog contest called "Hook, Line & Sinker," a name very familiar to us since we've been using it 25 years!

   Cole and Lara are hoping to win a tote bag over there.

    Have fun, kids!