Bondi Beach: Blog

NANOWRIMO 2018 is over, and I have a cover and over 51K words to shape into a coherent story. It's in there somewhere, I'm sure, but it will take a little while to tease it out.

A man believes the young woman came into their perfect marriage to steal his wife away, and he fears his wife will go willingly.

That's the story.

Fred is something of a sequel to Sarah's Honeymoon, but it will stand on its own.

In case the cover isn't clue enough, "Fred" is short for "Fredericka."
~JBB

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