Tag: writing excerpt
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Excerpt: “If Love is a Crime: A Christmas Story”
Here’s an excerpt from the opening scene of my new Christmas Story, where Beatrice finds an unexpected visitor shivering in the cold in front of her cabin. The full story can be purchased exclusively on Kindle for only $0.99 cents HERE! EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT: She pulled at the nearly finished shawl hanging off the side of the…
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The Strange Ways of the Universe – an Excerpt
One of the things I really enjoyed doing with my soon to be released third novel, The Reach of the Banyan Tree, was to pepper small doses of history into the writing to better frame the time period. Here’s the opening paragraph to a chapter entitled “The Strange Ways of the Universe” which help set the…
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Writing Excerpt from Novel #3 – to be released in 2014
My third novel is split into two completely different time periods. Here’s a short excerpt about Vietnamese villagers, caught in the complexities of war at the tail-end of WWII, in Tonkin, French Indochina – 1945. The long hard sorrow doesn’t end easy in a place like Tonkin, but sometimes an epic struggle that demands justice…
Author Mark W Sasse 