Today we have a giveaway. It's a pretty nice one: a medium weight "sherpa fleece" throw blanket, suitable for...throwing over people and abducting... Sorry. Mystery writer took over for a moment. Actually, it's very nice for cuddling up and reading. Or cuddling up and writing.
The design is based on a description of the wallpaper at Captain's Seat.
One of the very coolest things that had happened so far was when the workmen had gone down to the cellar and discovered never used rolls of vintage wallpaper from the 1930s. The blue and silver paper featured delicate drawings of pairs of herons framed by acanthus and oak leaves in front of a mansion that looked remarkably like Captain’s Seat.
(I think that's from Death at the Deep Dive, but don't quote me.)
Anyway.
To be elegible for the random-in-every-sense drawing, share one of your all-time favorite quotes from the Secrets and Scrabble series in the comment section below.
I won't be choosing a winner until the calendar has ended.
So many good ones, but I am going with: “I thought you would show up looking like a prince walking out of the pages of a fairy tale, which is exactly what happened.” Jack’s tone was unexpectedly harsh.
ReplyDelete"Arf! Arf! Arf!" Watson
ReplyDeleteI love Ellery's irony, so one of my favorite quotes is this:
ReplyDeleteBody at Buccaneer's Bay (Secrets and Scrabble Book 5)
He was hoping with all his heart the shark was gone by the time they left the ship. That thing had been eight feet long at least. At least. The very thought of it made him feel queasy. Until now, he hadn’t realized he was afraid of sharks. Theater critics, spiders, financial ruin, sure. But a Great White put the hairiest of spiders – and theater critics – into a whole new perspective.
Thank you for this opportunity!
Oh gosh, there are SO many! For sheer laugh and cry at the same time I have to go with:
ReplyDeleteSQUEAKeeee. SQUEAKeeee. SQUEAKeeee.
Watson dropped the slimy toy on Jack’s foot.
“Oh. My. God,” Jack groaned. “Every time! Every single freaking time I start this, we get interrupted! This must be my fourth attempt to propose to you!”
“A-are you proposing?”
“Yes! Hell, yes, I’m proposing!”
Okay, not so much a quote as an internal thought. I love when Elery plays scrabble in his app.
DeleteTo his irritation, he got ROMANCE right off the bat (fifteen points + fifty for using all his tiles), and then JILTED (say what? fourteen points), and then nothing. Not NOTHING, mind you. Literally nothing. It was like the Scrabble gods were conspiring against him. (Murder at Pirates Cove, Book 1)
I'm glad I'm not the only one who think the "game" gods conspire against them. Don't even get me started on a recent Strands "diacritics" puzzle. I mean, seriously!?! ( and for all the writers out there thinking, that was an easy one, just hush. LOL).
Fun! From Mystery at the Masquerade;
ReplyDelete“Yeah, but that’s pretty much a crime-fiction thing.”
“Is it?” Ellery asked slowly, “Are you asking to stay the night?” “Yes.” “To wake me up every few hours.” “Sure.” “And that’s it? You’re just going to wake me up every couple of hours and tell me to go back to sleep?”
Once before he’d seen that slow, sweet smile from Jack. “I guess we’ll find out when I wake you up.”
About Jack's bisexuality, it hit home for me. "My family had no problem with friends and colleagues being gay, but when I came out, they struggled. Which is to say, they thought maybe I was mistaken.”
ReplyDeleteEllery considered and discarded several responses. He settled on a neutral, “Hm.”
“When I fell in love with Hannah, they latched on to the idea that I’d worked out the kinks"
Ellery snapped the puppy into his blue harness, found his leash, found his shoes—Ellery’s shoes, not Watson’s, although they did seem to share ownership, judging by the teeth marks—and bundled the puppy into the VW.
ReplyDelete“Oh. My. God,” Jack groaned. “Every time! Every single freaking time I start this, we get interrupted! This must be my fourth attempt to propose to you!” loved this !!
ReplyDeleteI absolutely adore Mystery at the Masquerade. There’s a lot in chapter 20 that hit me. Jack describing his feelings to Ellery and trying to explain what was going on in his head.
ReplyDelete"It's like living with a bullet in your heart. You figure it will kill you eventually - hell, you rely on that - but until then you go through the motions of pretending you're still alive. And that's how it is and how you figure it will always be. But then one day you notice the sunrise is beautiful. And one day you enjoy your cup of coffee. And one day something makes you laugh. And finally one evening you look across the room and see a guy having dinner and think, I wonder what he's like."
Ellery swallowed.
Little by little, day by day, you come back to life. You learn to be happy again. Happy with you've got.”
Jack studied Ellery, said slowly, “You even start wondering if you could love again.”
I’m also a big fan of the “motivated by jealousy” conversation. It made me smile. Jack saying, “But just because I wasn’t motivated by jealousy doesn’t mean I wasn’t jealous.”
I love a lot, one of my absolute favorites is typical of what made me fall in love with your writing: this gift of yours to find the perfect image that conveys so many feelings in very few words.
ReplyDeleteSo my favorite is "It's like living with a bullet in your heart." from Mystery at the Masquerade. It's so short and still so perfect *_*
Love all mention of Watson in the book so went poking around for the pupper; I enjoyed this description from scandal at the salty dog because I can totally see that under breath doggy grumble 😆
ReplyDelete“Watson began to bark, his shrill indignant puppy voice bouncing off the hard floors and steel appliances .
Arf. Arf. Arf.
Shhhh! Ellery did his best to his Watson. It’s okay buddy. Its okay. really.
Watson was unconvinced but subsided to muttering darkly beneath his breath”