{"id":272,"date":"2009-06-11T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/?p=272"},"modified":"2009-06-11T11:47:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T19:47:00","slug":"those-blasted-blurbs-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/those-blasted-blurbs-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Those blasted blurbs again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I&apos;m working on another blurb. This is for NEW&nbsp;TRICKS, the BDSM&nbsp;story I&nbsp;just sent for the Phaze anthology. Let me know what you think of it?&nbsp;Does it get your interest? Would you want to read this? Anything I&nbsp;should change, or add that you don&apos;t see here? Also, Broad Horizons is a BDSM club where all the stories are set, which would be clear to anyone reading the blurb on the antho sell page&#8230; but I&apos;ve got a second version where&apos;s more specific.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">2nd draft,:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\">hopefully addressing pronoun issues&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Skeptical and straight-laced Blake isn&apos;t so sure about attending Broad Horizons&apos; Christmas Eve Party. He&apos;s never gone in for any of that kink, but he wants to humor Jay as they spend their first Christmas together. Despite his initial aversion, Blake&apos;s powerfully drawn to the scene and eager to experiment. After Jay reveals a hidden secret from his past, he gives in to Blake&apos;s request to play, and in the end receives a gift more precious than he ever expected.<\/p>\n<p>Another version (differences in purple)<\/p>\n<p>Skeptical and straight-laced Blake isn&apos;t so sure about attending a <span style=\"color: rgb(128, 0, 128);\">Christmas Eve Party at a BDSM&nbsp;club<\/span>. He&apos;s never gone in for any of that kink, but he wants to humor Jay as they spend their first Christmas together. Despite his initial aversion, Blake&apos;s powerfully drawn to the scene and eager to experiment. After Jay reveals a hidden secret from his past, he gives in to Blake&apos;s request to play, and in the end receives a gift more precious than he ever expected.<br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\">All comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><lj -cut text=\"previous drafts\">1st draft<br \/><strike><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/>Skeptical and straight-laced Blake isn&apos;t so sure about attending Broad Horizons&apos; Christmas Eve Party. He&apos;s never gone in for any of that kink, but he wants to humor Jay as they spend their first Christmas together. Despite his initial aversion, he&apos;s powerfully drawn to the scene and eager to experiment. After Jay reveals a hidden secret from his past, he&apos;s willing to play, and in the end Jay receives a gift more precious than he ever expected.<\/span><\/strike><\/lj><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&apos;m working on another blurb. This is for NEW&nbsp;TRICKS, the BDSM&nbsp;story I&nbsp;just sent for the Phaze anthology. Let me know what you think of it?&nbsp;Does it get your interest? Would you want to read this? Anything I&nbsp;should change, or add that you don&apos;t see here? Also, Broad Horizons is a BDSM club where all the [&hellip;]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pzLgx-4o","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","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=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}