Note to Readers
Hello my friends! I’m so excited to get this exclusive content rolling again, and to share a bit of what I’ve been working on lately.
In between re-releasing my young adult dystopian novel Departures and pre-drafting a space opera I’ve been calling Snow White x Star Trek set in Lisa Frank goes Goth, I’ve been revising a witchy, murdery dark fantasy thriller story that gets campy and dark in a celebration of unapologetic female power, ambition, hunger … and well, revenge.
As I revise, I’m turning a manuscript that previously switched between two timelines—a primary one of the witches as adults and a secondary of the witches as teens in their witching academy days—and turn them into a single timeline with a few crucial flashbacks.
As such, there are huge pieces of this manuscript that I am quite attached to that will not see the light of day now. I’m so glad to be able to share some of those segments here, with you.
Here’s one of them, featuring one of our core characters in her moment of introduction to magic.
Twitch + Task: Cut Segment
Alicia huffed and folded her arms, settling into the ground. She had never been so angry in all her twelve years. How dare her classmates taunt her like that. As if they could even know. She tore a handful of wildflowers out of the ground.
“Why dearie, what’s wrong?”
Alicia jumped. She’d thought she was alone, and disliked the interruption to her sulking. She peered up to see who dared infringe. The old woman matched the creaky strangeness of her voice—frazzled, grey hair sticking out around her head in odd