Picture courtesy Synthesis by shafeen charania This week’s Six Sunday sample is another from my work-in-progress (almost done!), One Shade of Red. It’s a parody of Fifty Shades — but I know you figured that out. This selection is a little different from the excerpts I’ve posted over the past few weeks. Here, the protagonist, Damian, is doing […]
I jumped deep into National Novel Writing Month this year. I had an idea during the summer for a book, and somewhere around late September, I decided to make it my NaNoMo project. The idea: to write a parody of the bestseller Fifty Shades of Gray, but to do it better. The goal: 50,000 words […]
Image: Wikipedia Commons Today’s Six Sunday Sample is another from my National Novel Writing Month work-in-progress, One Shade of Red, a parody of (you guessed it!) Fifty Shades of Grey. This excerpt comes from what’s shaping up to be Chapter 7: The Dinner Date. It takes place in a high-end restaurant in downtown Toronto. The […]