"I'm going to soak you in a nice vintage liqueur and slowly burn each page with one of those branding irons master chefs use to caramelize crème brûlée."
That bit of dialogue is from my villain. Who has a fetish for destroying books. Vellum and Green Vitriol is fantasy adventure, taking place in a 1920's England-esque landscape where grimoires are the main characters and most humans are clueless. Comparisons to badly written books are insults, paper cuts are deadly, and ink blots are far from ordinary. Or, as I tell people who inquire what it's about even though they're completely uninterested, it's about a magic book searching for her brother.
Hello :) Thanks so much for stopping by and for the congratulations. Congrats to you as well :) It really feels good, yes? Your novel sounds fascinating. I'm going to read it when I get more than a few minutes of quiet time.
As to reading, all month long I've been having to force myself not to get involved in a novel and it's been driving me crazy. Now that I've finished the majority of the writing, I'm finding I'm brain dead as well and haven't read more than a page or two :)
