Rainbow Snippets

[jana_denardo]

Hi. Now I'm buried in helping Mom pack Christmas away from another year and let me say Mom takes this holiday seriously. I could open a Christmas shop with all this crap.

I almost didn't get to play along with the Rainbow snippets this weekend since my flash drive died taking everything (including all my work stuff with it) and I won't be going home for another week. But I had some stuff up for other challenges so I cannibalized one of them. If you'd like to play along Rainbow Snippets is a Facebook community where we post up 6 sentences every Saturday. it's been fun and you can find it here

This one is from the Vampires in Las Vegas novel I just finished and am polishing (needs help!) right now called Blood Red Roulette This snippet is centered on Arrigo, a vampire from Roman times who is living in Vegas. He owns a paranormal investigation shop with Taabu (She's psychic). Also in this snippet is Taabu's police detective sister, Shani. They're giving Arrigo crap about his dating life (Arrigo is bisexual but single at the moment. He's interested in Luc who you'll surely see in the future but right now you're getting what I was able to find in older posts!) Enjoy.

“I am currently in between lovers by choice. I needed a break.” He wondered how long of a break it had been. Taabu had noticed. That was the thing with vampires, sometimes time seemed like nothing at all when it had been in fact years.

“Not even a nibble on the line?” Taabu asked.

“You’re assuming he has bait,” Shani got up, looking around before heading to the recycle bin with the bottle.



Here's the face I'm using for Arrigo

Comments

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the bisexual character. There's so much antipathy towards the Bi folk!

[jana-denardo.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Oh I know! Temple in Soldiers of the Sun is also bi and all I hear is bitching about it. I've learned that they only want a Bi character if the only relationship we see is the homosexual one. (I saw that in real life with my bi friend at work who ended up in a hetero relationship and was abandoned by so many of her friends as a result)

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

I lucked out in that I fell in love with a woman, but I dated men through college; I always feel a great deal of annoyance with people who act like being Bi is not acceptable or right even when it's PART of "LGBT." :P

[jana-denardo.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine the annoyance and frustration. I was really shocked to see how the readers (and some of the authors which I find worse) react to Bi characters actually being Bi.

Of course these are often the same people who say 'if I see a woman in the story I stop reading.'

It moved from annoyance to horrifying watching what happened with my coworker and several others I'm getting to know via Jana's community.

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

Eeg. Some people. (Unfortunately, they must be pandered to if you're gonna sell books, I guess.)

[jana-denardo.livejournal.com]

Yes in some cases. Heck it occurs to me that all my current long works have at least one bisexual character. The two in the icon, Aaron and Rhys, Rhys is a bisexual immortal fae prince with kids. And you just have to go look at the reviews to see how that went over.

[p.t. wyant (from livejournal.com)]

So glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read Shani's line.

Love the interaction between them -- fun snippet.

[charley descoteaux (from livejournal.com)]

"I've learned that they only want a Bi character if the only relationship we see is the homosexual one."

This is my largest frustration with the current market in a nutshell.

I love reading books with bisexual characters, no matter who they end up with. Thanks for taking that risk, Jana--especially with a hot vampire. :) Being bi myself, i can imagine what you've been hearing. *hugs*

[jana-denardo.livejournal.com]

Thanks Charley! It is frustrating. Definitely. Like I said it's been a problem in the Soldiers of the Sun series and I suspect it will be here. One of Arrigo's on again/off again lovers is in the story heavily (though they are not a couple in it). It'll be a problem for some.

My friend at work shared this article written by another bi woman who also ended up married to a man and how she ended up ostracized by her lesbian friends and considered 'greedy' by the hetero set (which is exactly what I saw happening with her). She shared it with the LGBT club at the university with the hopes it would help some of the bi students with what they are and probably will face.

[jana-denardo.livejournal.com]

thank you very much

[dianne hartsock (from livejournal.com)]

I like Shani's snarkiness! Could be a good balance for the others.

[jana-denardo.livejournal.com]

thank you very much

[clarelondon.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like that comeback! :)

[jana-denardo.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Shani got him good.