{"id":1148,"date":"2016-09-21T04:59:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T10:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2016-09-07T15:36:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T21:36:01","slug":"covalent-bonds-cover-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/covalent-bonds-cover-reveal\/","title":{"rendered":"Covalent Bonds Cover Reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It says cover reveal up there in the subject line, so let&#8217;s get to it, shall we? (Also, shall we admit that you&#8217;ve totally seen and processed the cover before you even began to read these words? No? Okay, we&#8217;ll pretend that hasn&#8217;t happened&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Ta-da!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldweaverpress.com\/store\/p116\/Covalent_Bonds.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Covalent-Bonds-Front-9.6.16-1-685x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Covalent Bonds\" width=\"500\" height=\"748\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Covalent-Bonds-Front-9.6.16-1-685x1024.jpg 685w, http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Covalent-Bonds-Front-9.6.16-1-201x300.jpg 201w, http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Covalent-Bonds-Front-9.6.16-1-768x1148.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Covalent-Bonds-Front-9.6.16-1.jpg 1808w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Covalent bonds aren\u2019t just about atoms sharing electron pairs anymore\u2014it\u2019s about the electricity that happens when you pair two geeks together. This anthology celebrates geeks of all kinds (enthusiasts, be it for comics, Dr. Who, movies, gaming, computers, or even grammar), and allows them to step out of their traditional supporting roles and into the shoes of the romantic lead. Forget the old stereotypes: geeks are sexy.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring nine stories ranging from sweet to hot, by authors G.G. Andrew, Laura VanArendonk Baugh, Tellulah Darling, Mara Malins, Jeremiah Murphy, Marie Piper, Charlotte M. Ray, Wendy Sparrow, and Cori Vidae, <em>Covalent Bonds<\/em> is a chance for geeks get their noses <em>out<\/em> of the books, and instead to <em>be<\/em> the book.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My <em>Covalent Bonds<\/em>\u00a0contribution, &#8220;Critical Hit&#8221;, is a short, sweet story about Dungeons and Dragons and the kind of things that can happen when you roll the dice.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cYou could just say, &#8216;Natural twenty. Critical hit. You do double damage&#8217;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cI could, but that wouldn&#8217;t be as much fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cYou mean it wouldn&#8217;t be as gross,\u201d Lila said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cWhatever,\u201d Hallie flipped her reference books closed and shrugged. \u201cIt doesn&#8217;t matter. You killed it, saved the village, yay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cYou&#8217;re enthusiasm is overwhelming.\u201d Terrance stretched and leaned back in his chair, his stretch pulled his shirt from his jeans, revealing a band of olive skin just above his waistband. A sprinkling of dark hairs, two shades darker than those on his head, trailed down from his belly button to disappear into his jeans. Now that was a treasure trail she&#8217;d like to follow\u2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">She looked quickly back behind the screen, hoping Terrance and Lila hadn&#8217;t noticed her distraction, the track her thoughts had taken\u2014the same track they took more and more these days. \u201cI&#8217;m just tired of the same campaign again and again. Why don&#8217;t they ever do anything different? It\u2019s always find the missing item, save the village, rescue the maiden, kill the dragon&#8230; blah blah blah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p>A little intrigued? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/30627093-covalent-bonds\">Add it to your shelves on Goodreads!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Interesting side note: This was written as part of my &#8216;She&#8217;s on the Bottom&#8217; Erotica Under Glass theme&#8230; it started out from a very different place than it ended up LOL<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It says cover reveal up there in the subject line, so let&#8217;s get to it, shall we? (Also, shall we admit that you&#8217;ve totally seen and processed the cover before you even began to read these words? No? Okay, we&#8217;ll &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/covalent-bonds-cover-reveal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[158,176,219],"tags":[246,159,247],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cover-reveal","category-shes-on-the-bottom","category-short-stories","tag-covalent-bonds","tag-cover-reveal","tag-critical-hit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}