Paige Hawthorne: Blog

The last chapter - # 16 - of "Winter's Risk" has been written, edited, submitted, and, probably through site-incompetence, posted here.

I realize that many of you Winter-haters wait until a story is complete before unloading on it … well, now's your time. Sharpen those pitchfork tines, simmer the pine tar, rip open those feather pillows.

I only regret that I have but one chapter to give for my story.

Paige

You've waited, salivating, runner's spikes in the blocks, butt up, aching for the starting pistol … I've imagined a couple of you boys frothing, but that's poetic license of course. Maybe.

Ready … set … BANG! Voting on "Winter's Risk" is now open. Now's your time to vent, to unleash all that repressed Winter-fury.

I can take it. Probably.

Paige

Better half-staff those flags, boys. A new Winter Jennings story is completed and the first chapter has already slunk its way past the mods.

Sorry, haters. Adding insult to insult, "Winter's Risk" is the longest story yet in this silly little endeavor. Around 80,000 words according to some thing on my thing that mysteriously keeps track of … um, things.

But look at the sunny side - there's more to execrate!

Paige

Several readers have alerted me - all of my Winter Jennings stories have been disappeared from the Clitorides Awards competition. Not that I'm the least bit interested in these types of contests.

So it's only in the interest of justice, that I've notified Interpol, the Yard, RCMP, and seven other international snoops about this blatant miscarriage of … decency.

Paige

PS I, personally, don't pay the slightest attention to reader scores. My actions in here are altruistic. Solely in the interests of the common weal.

Several readers recently told me that some of my Winter Jennings stories now have four votes in the Clitorides. Unless my son has figured out how to cast more than one ballot … well, welcome aboard, stranger!

Not that I pay the slightest attention to reader scores.

On that subject - so many of you boys have written to ask why I include that particular disclaimer in my reflections. Does the phrase 'tongue' when coupled with 'in' and appended to 'cheek' resonate? Just askin'.

Paige