Greetings and welcome to another round of Weekend Writing Warriors. The rains have come, and my writer self is very happy to have a cold, wet Sunday to hunker down by the glow of computer and read all the wonderful snippets being shared. Six months from now, I’ll be less enamored of the rain, but for now, I’m in my happy place.
I’ve been sharing from my new WIP, tentatively titled Prowl. It’s a cozy gay shifter romance mystery (Yes, all those genres squeezed into one package) and my hero is Jacqui, a fashion-designer and cat shifter who has a knack for sticking his whiskers where they don’t belong. Last week, I left him standing on his apartment balcony, considering a shift and a prowl through the neighborhood.
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Jacqui made the mistake of looking down, letting his gaze wander across the street to where a moving van had recently been parked.
Jacqui had a new neighbor.
Back—to—work.
Jacqui’s new neighbor was Wyatt West, the new deputy sheriff in town. Yes, Jacqui had played around with the name in an endlessly juvenile fashion as he fantasized about Wild Wild West with the broad shoulders, lean waist, auburn hair, amber eyes and a crooked smile that made Jacqui’s heart do a little squeezey thing, leaving him breathless. How wild was West, Jacqui couldn’t help but wonder?
So they’d never spoken. Minor detail, didn’t matter. Until this weekend Wyatt West of the exceptionally hot body was a live aboard, a local brand of lunatic who lived on a sailboat surrounded by fucking water. Jacqui wasn’t about to go sniffing around a mental case like that.
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Example of a “live aboard”
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Alexis Duran 
I love Jacqui’s thoughts here! This is a great snippet
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I have a feeling Jacqui won’t be avoiding Wyatt for long.
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Yeah, Jacqui’s not very good at self-restraint.
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Beyond wonderful and so amusing.
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Interesting developments – Jacqui has quite a vivid imagination all right. Very catlike, I think!
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I LOVE Jacki! What a charming glimpse at the neighbor. I’m intrigued as well.
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Way to make West sound suuuuuper enticing! 😉
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Love Jacqui. Sounds like a man on a mission 🙂
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Jacqui isn’t patient, is he? I’ll be he’ll shift and his cat persona will pay a visit to Wyatt.
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Great intro, I really grasp Jacqui’s voice.
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Oh Jacqui – you’re going to fly right into that flame, aren’t you? Nicely done!
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He is clearly NOT one of those cats who likes water. I think a few of mine would agree with him! 😀
I hope Jacqui doesn’t try any of those names on Deputy West–I bet he’s heard them all before.
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Oh my, I LOVE his imagination!! lol And I must admit, names can certainly guide the wandering mind… Wyatt West… Yep. 🙂
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Haha, sometimes there’s nothing better than the crush you’ve never met. Though I have a feeling someone will be acquiring a kitty-cat soon. 🙂
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Do you know yet which of your multitudinous genres you’re going to market to? It’d be hard to market to all of them at once, I imagine.
Sorry for being tardy to comment. Blame *#@!@ LAX for getting me home a day late.
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I suppose I’ll market to my niche, gay romance, and hope the subgenres of cozy mystery and shifter take care of themselves. One can dream.
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