{"id":1728,"date":"2012-04-24T14:00:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T21:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2012-04-23T23:12:32","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T06:12:32","slug":"one-good-turn-by-amber-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/one-good-turn-by-amber-green\/","title":{"rendered":"One Good Turn by Amber Green"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Amber Green explains how when writing, nothing turns out like we expect it to, \u00a0particularly her Turner & Turner series. \u00a0And the opening lines of <\/em>One Good Turn<\/strong> aren’t what anyone might be expecting. Read on:<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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My first non-paranormal contemporary story started like this:<\/div>\n
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“Be sensible, Kendall,” my mother said in the patient tone that can drive me to a seething rage in three seconds flat. “In the video you are, to put it crudely, tanked.”<\/div>\n
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To put it even more crudely, I’d been tanked enough to let a guy I’d been stupid enough to trust – for a few months anyway – ream my ass until I gave in to his exhortations to squeal like a pig.<\/div>\n
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The video ended, with a curious delicacy, while I was still just bleating:\u00a0Ah! Ah!<\/em><\/div>\n
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Helpless noises. An aural demonstration of my pathetic, nonpredatory status. But not as bad as the next moments would have been.<\/div>\n
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“You must agree to counseling.”<\/div>\n
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I cleared my throat. “Certainly, Mother. Have you already identified someone willing to help with your unseemly interest in the details of your adult son’s sexuality?”<\/div>\n
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\"\"<\/a>One Good Turn<\/em>\u00a0http:\/\/www.mlrbooks.com\/ShowBook.php?book=TTONE001<\/wbr><\/a>\u00a0was to have been the first novella in a set of three, which I expected to see released at roughly four-month intervals.\u00a0\u00a0Real life didn’t follow that schedule.\u00a0\u00a0Two years later, the second book,\u00a0Turncoat <\/em>was released; the third,\u00a0Turnabout<\/em>, should be available in the same places around the end of May or early June.\u00a0Meanwhile, one of the characters also appeared in\u00a0The Golden Boys,<\/em>\u00a0a fluffy dick-lit beach read that is currently being reworked, and I’m drafting a related short story, a prequel, from Turner Scott’s POV.<\/div>\n
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Amber<\/div>\n
Visit\u00a0www.shapeshiftersinlust.com<\/a>\u00a0tonight!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amber Green explains how when writing, nothing turns out like we expect it to, \u00a0particularly her Turner & Turner series. \u00a0And the opening lines of One Good Turn aren’t what anyone might be expecting. Read on: My first non-paranormal contemporary story started like this: “Be sensible, Kendall,” my mother said in the patient tone that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,63],"tags":[299,254,300,271],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event","category-guest-posting","tag-amber-green","tag-backlist-strikes-back","tag-contemporary","tag-mlr-press"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pzLgx-rS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}