Bondi Beach: Blog

I updated Amélie to fix a couple of glitches and smooth some things out. It's now available from Lulu in ePub format, and soon from the other usual places.

Amélie also has a new cover, apparently more acceptable than the original one to Lulu and its retail partners.

It's a free download, and the story as posted here with the original cover will remain here. I'm working on a print edition, too.

~ JBB

Many thanks to Lazeez for his revision to Amélie to add the three section divisions, I. SUNRISE, II. OXFORD, and III A BRIEF JOURNEY, plus the corresponding epigraphs. It looks exactly the way I had envisioned. Take a look. Thank you also to those who've commented on the story.
~ JBB

Amélie is complete and I've queued the remaining chapters for posting. Please check the blurb and codes before you read. There are a few brief but important scenes with violence. Amélie, Sandrine and Gérard have challenges ahead. Enjoy the story and, if you have a moment and are so inclined, please let me know what you thought.
~ JBB

I've queued the first three chapters of Amélie for posting. The story, three sections and 35 chapters, is written. This first posting is a test to check formatting.

From the blurb: From steamy Caribbean islands to rainy Oxford, England, a family journal more than three hundred years old reveals romance, a journey, first love, skinnydipping, pirates, heartbreak, and a new world and new friends.

The story contains explicit language and is written for adventuresome readers with a sense of humor and an appreciation of purplish prose. Written by a 17th century family matriarch who, it is safe to say, lived her life to the fullest. If her journal is to be believed, of course.

Heads up: Be aware there's a bit of MM here and there, oral, but it's not a major part of the story.

Most of the "Sunrise" chapters appeared as Emily's Journal in Emily and Daniel (2015).

~ JBB

Harper is a quick little vignette featuring two of the characters from a sequel (still very much a work in progress) to Sarah's Honeymoon. Although they are not named, Sarah and Matt also appear. Off-screen is Fredericka, Julian's mother, known to the family as "Fred."

There's some similarity to the characters in Stockings with respect to lingerie because I wanted to play a little more with the idea, but otherwise there's no connection between the stories.

A lot happened between the time Sarah and Matt met on the island. It's arguable things didn't turn out the way they expected, they turned out better.

Cheers,
JBB