I have just realised that it’s Wednesday! And that means only one thing – Hump Day Hook!
By clicking on that link to read all the other snippets you will be excited, enthralled, entertained and maybe even a teensy bit aroused. Or you can stay here and read mine XD
My snippets come from a parody Regency Romance that I wrote when I ran out of Georgette Heyers and couldn’t find anything else approaching her good-humoured daffyness. So how far have we got? Aubrey has given Cholmondely [pronounced Chumley] his IOU and they have separated.
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Aubrey made his way a trifle unsteadily to the supper room where he sat, wolfing ham and mustard and eyeing the Olympian gods and goddesses who could still be discerned on the smoke-stained ceiling.
“I say, Charles,” he called as he spotted a friend making his way towards him, “that Venus is a bit of an armful.”
Charles glanced upwards, grimaced, and jerked a thumb towards the main salon.
“Freddy sent me,” he grunted. “Best come, Chum’s in a pickle.” Then he set off again towards the ham.
Aubrey stretched and sighed. It was wonderful to be young and rich and have a good head for claret. He would extricate Chum from his ‘pickle’, he promised himself, and then – well, the night was young, anything might happen.
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Regency meals were very meat heavy. No wonder they got gout. Have you ever had gout? Believe me, you don’t want it.
‘Extricate him for his pickle’ LOL. Very funny, Elin…I love this. But, the link leads me to a dead end so I can’t read any other ‘hooks’. 😥
On no! I forgot that the linky thing didn’t work for this week.
I just added you to the Facebook page for HDH, which is where we can pick up our links for this week. http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/129119
LOL i really liked this. Nicely done x
Nice hook. I loved the last line for some reason!
Pickle? I wonder what it is. Yes, anything might happen. LOL
*snicker* That Aubrey’s a handful! Can’t wait to see where the night leads him. 🙂 Love your writing style, Elin. So smooth and laced with humor.
Good hook. I liked the ‘pickle’ line. 🙂
I like the “fruitiness” of the wording. Very tongue twisty.
I need to know what happens in this young night. You have me very much hooked on these snippets from your writing.
lol funny and entertaining as always 🙂
His pickle, lol. I wanna see how he gets him out of a pickle 😉 Great hook!
I have to describe this snippet as ‘jaunty’ and I liked it! Thanks for sharing.
Lovely little bit, Elin!
Dad had gout – no thanks – I am loving this You really have the language down pat, I can just hear it. You may have written it as a parody but it still works.
Sounds very heavy, indeed! Never had gout but have treated a lot if patients with it!
Enough people have already commented on Chumley’s “pickle” so I’ll leave that alone, lol, but I’ve decided after reading several of these excerpts that I really like Regency Romance. Great hook, leaving us all wondering how the night will go for them. 🙂
I’ll pass on the gout, thanks. *shudders* But I wonder, were Regency meals heavy on the meat because it was a symbol of status to be able to afford to eat meat?
An excellent hook there again. I like the illustration too.