My dear friend and fellow scribbler, @Susan_Buchanan, she of the outrageously successful novel, SIGN OF THE TIMES, has decided to put my new-found computer and web-by skills to the test by goading me to respond to a challenge that goes like this:-
The Lucky Seven Challenge
The Challenge
To post seven lines from an unpublished work of fiction or non-fiction. My seven lines are taken from VENGEANCE WEARS BLACK, due out around the end of July this year. VENGEANCE WEARS BLACK is the second in a series featuring Jack Calder, an ex-SAS soldier and his former colleagues in their specialist security company, ISP, as they use their black ops skills to tackle triad drug mobsters and East European gangsters.
So, the rules:-
–Go to page 7 or 77 in your current manuscript, fiction or non-fiction
–Go to line 7
–Post on your blog the next 7 lines or sentences as they are–no cheating
–Tag 7 other authors to do the same–and have fun.
Here are the 7 lines from page 7 of VENGEANCE WEARS BLACK:-
“There,” Jules pointed to a mangled part of what had been the man’s chest. Jack eased away a two inch flat piece of dark grey metal. “And there.” Another part, curved this time, about one and a half inches across. His partner nodded as Jack slipped the two pieces into separate jacket pockets. Whatever evidence the local bomb squad would get, ISP at least had a comparable start. Just then the dying wail of sirens announced the arrival of the Metropolitan Police SWAT guys. Reaction time from the blast to their arrival was only four and a half minutes. Jack nodded in approval. Good team. Response doesn’t get much better than that.
My nominations for those I would like to display their 7 lines or sentences for the world to see go to:-
Stephen Edger
Mike Thomas
C.R Hiatt
Anya Lipska
Kate Laity
Colin Baines
O.G.Tomes
Post it on your blog or failing that on Facebook or Goodreads ( or ALL of the above). Will you accept the challenge?
Seumas Gallacher 