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Miael #4
Miael: The Couturier
As the hour came now upon midnight, as Duchess Cressida Courtlandt stood alone on the nearly deserted London street, she could not quite compel herself to enter - to carry on towards the couturier's penthouse suite and some horrible temptation, some horrible ruin worse than anything Bedlam has to offer.
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The Courtier is a super short story (AKA short read) of about 5,000 words. It is intended as a supplement to Miael: Lovers by Grea Alexander and a preview of the new series The Phoenix and the Seraph (also by Grea Alexander) that will be released over the course of the next couple of years...or so.
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The Courtier is a super short story (AKA short read) of about 5,000 words. It is intended as a supplement to Miael: Lovers by Grea Alexander and a preview of the new series The Phoenix and the Seraph (also by Grea Alexander) that will be released over the course of the next couple of years...or so.
24 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 7, 2020
8 people are currently reading
21 people want to read
About the author
Grea Alexander
38 books442 followersGrea (pronounced Gray) Alexander is a female writer of African American, Native American and Caucasian...American descent who does not write her profiles in the 3rd person.
Born and raised in Houston, TX, I have successfully wormed my way across many a border and have, in effect, managed to infect all that I survey with my particular brand of grea-ness. My books are very character-driven with a focus on flawed, dynamic, culturally-diverse characters and strong, smart female protagonists.
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Also, please note: I do not write children's books. My books are for adults. My books contain adult themes, adult situations, sexual situations, cursing, intoxication and violence. Some books have more than others. Some characters engage more than others. If you find such offensive, you might not want to read my work. Then again, you just might feel naughty and want to read them anyway. (wink)
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Goodreads: 200+ ratings/reviews with an average rating of 4.xx and over 21,000 books shelved: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list...
Bookbub: where they begrudgingly email notifications of my new releases to my followers https://www.bookbub.com/profile/grea-...
LibraryThing: 36 reviews with an overall rating of 4.11: https://www.librarything.com/author/a...
Seamonkey Ink: It's where I live...online. Ok, so it's a seedy, faux physical address store front where I get my mail. www.SeaMonkeyInk.com
Barnes & Noble: It’s where I ride around in heavy armor and charge at windmills with my quill…Don Quixote style. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/”Gre...”
Amazon: It’s where I take steamy, slow-motion river baths with tall, warrior women and sweaty, well-muscled, male sex slaves. www.Amazon.com/grea-alexander/e/B00HV...
SeaMonkey Sores…es: Other retailers that I pick at as much as possible – to hell with the consequences. www.greaalexander.seamonkeyink.com/gr...
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Q: How do you pronounce Grea?
Like the color gray. Or as an admirer once pointed out, like great without the t. (grin)
Q: Why the name SeaMonkey Ink?
Why not? (grin) What's not to love? I mean it's Ink squirting out of a Seamonkey. I mean sure no one has ever witnessed such a phenomenon, but that doesn't mean it couldn't happen. (laugh)
Seriously, when I was in school (high school and beyond) I used to play pranks under various code names - one of which was Seamonkey. I also have always enjoyed writing and back when I started to do so, I used to write everything by hand (which requires either lead or Ink) even long after I got my first word processor and computer. After I finally started typing directly, it still took ink to print.
Hence SeaMonkey Ink.
Q: Have you ever actually owned Seamonkeys?
Actually, I have and I'm pretty well convinced that there is a wanted poster with my name and likeness up somewhere in the SIA (Seamonkey Intelligence Agency) headquarters for mass genocide. (laugh) I try but I fail.
Q: Are any of your characters based on people you know/knew in real life?
Not really. Most are composites. However, I will say that more than a little of my own personality/thoughts/expressions pop up in my stories and among my characters.
For instance, in Rebellion Book I: Book of Quay, Phong Quay makes a statement that one day he is changing his name and not telling anyone what he changed it to. I've said that to people since I was like 5 - particularly when I get agitated at being disturbed.
So, if any real life person is used as a template for some of my dialogue and character behaviors it would be myself.
Born and raised in Houston, TX, I have successfully wormed my way across many a border and have, in effect, managed to infect all that I survey with my particular brand of grea-ness. My books are very character-driven with a focus on flawed, dynamic, culturally-diverse characters and strong, smart female protagonists.
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Also, please note: I do not write children's books. My books are for adults. My books contain adult themes, adult situations, sexual situations, cursing, intoxication and violence. Some books have more than others. Some characters engage more than others. If you find such offensive, you might not want to read my work. Then again, you just might feel naughty and want to read them anyway. (wink)
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Goodreads: 200+ ratings/reviews with an average rating of 4.xx and over 21,000 books shelved: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list...
Bookbub: where they begrudgingly email notifications of my new releases to my followers https://www.bookbub.com/profile/grea-...
LibraryThing: 36 reviews with an overall rating of 4.11: https://www.librarything.com/author/a...
Seamonkey Ink: It's where I live...online. Ok, so it's a seedy, faux physical address store front where I get my mail. www.SeaMonkeyInk.com
Barnes & Noble: It’s where I ride around in heavy armor and charge at windmills with my quill…Don Quixote style. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/”Gre...”
Amazon: It’s where I take steamy, slow-motion river baths with tall, warrior women and sweaty, well-muscled, male sex slaves. www.Amazon.com/grea-alexander/e/B00HV...
SeaMonkey Sores…es: Other retailers that I pick at as much as possible – to hell with the consequences. www.greaalexander.seamonkeyink.com/gr...
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Q: How do you pronounce Grea?
Like the color gray. Or as an admirer once pointed out, like great without the t. (grin)
Q: Why the name SeaMonkey Ink?
Why not? (grin) What's not to love? I mean it's Ink squirting out of a Seamonkey. I mean sure no one has ever witnessed such a phenomenon, but that doesn't mean it couldn't happen. (laugh)
Seriously, when I was in school (high school and beyond) I used to play pranks under various code names - one of which was Seamonkey. I also have always enjoyed writing and back when I started to do so, I used to write everything by hand (which requires either lead or Ink) even long after I got my first word processor and computer. After I finally started typing directly, it still took ink to print.
Hence SeaMonkey Ink.
Q: Have you ever actually owned Seamonkeys?
Actually, I have and I'm pretty well convinced that there is a wanted poster with my name and likeness up somewhere in the SIA (Seamonkey Intelligence Agency) headquarters for mass genocide. (laugh) I try but I fail.
Q: Are any of your characters based on people you know/knew in real life?
Not really. Most are composites. However, I will say that more than a little of my own personality/thoughts/expressions pop up in my stories and among my characters.
For instance, in Rebellion Book I: Book of Quay, Phong Quay makes a statement that one day he is changing his name and not telling anyone what he changed it to. I've said that to people since I was like 5 - particularly when I get agitated at being disturbed.
So, if any real life person is used as a template for some of my dialogue and character behaviors it would be myself.
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December 8, 2020
This book is a flashback into Miael and Zazi's past lives. Miael in flashback is his usual creepy self. Even when he is seducing his fated mate he still takes pleasure in luring her into his depraved twisty side. This is a little tidbit into the history of The Phoenix and the Seraph and their fans will enjoy this little morsel of morbid romance.
Advance Review Copy provided for voluntary review consideration
Advance Review Copy provided for voluntary review consideration
January 17, 2021
Thanks to Sea Monkey Ink for a free copy of this ARC ebook in exchange for an honest review.
This is definitely a short story or a glimpse of Miael and Cressida story. Seems to have tons of passion between the two so looking forward to read the other books by this author Grea Alexander.
This is definitely a short story or a glimpse of Miael and Cressida story. Seems to have tons of passion between the two so looking forward to read the other books by this author Grea Alexander.
November 8, 2020
For those of you who read Miael: Lovers, you'll know that there is reference to Miael and our minxy, little seraph's time together in Victorian London. This short delves more into that time and lets me have a little sexy time fun with the two characters.
I really enjoyed writing this piece - so much so that at some point.... eventually, if I ever start back writing again, it will become a prequel trilogy to the Miael series, entitled "The Phoenix and The Seraph." Like "The Couturier", the new series will have a more sensual slant to it (without losing the supernatural, angsty high jinx I do so love to write).
Please note that this work is a Short Story AKA a Short Read
More specifically, it's a 30-minute short read.
Why should you BUY a Short Read?
Well, because I am your queen and I say so.
But also, if you’re like me, you may actually have a life outside of this book (scary to imagine but true). You may not have the time or inclination to read a 1,000 page monster novel or you simply may not care about how 3 paragraphs of comfortable the chair in the center of the room is (unless of course its comfort is caused by the corpses stuffed inside of it or something of the like). You may have a low threshold for magazines with all of their endless pages of ads, tireless celeb gossip dribble or writers telling you (and quite authoritatively at that) what’s best for you and how you should live your life (not to mention that that’s my job). You may also be wanting something to read a little more substantial than how to wear stripes or position your package in your underthings for maximum effect. Then again, you may just have a really, really short attention span.
That’s where a short-read comes in handy. It’s just long enough to keep you occupied for a small chunk of time but not so long that you end up neglecting your family (thus resulting in divorce and CPS involvement), spending your whole vacation in a book (thus being mugged by local thugs) or going to work the next day a stressed out, sleep-deprived wreck because you just HAD to finish it (thus causing you to get fired for sexual harassment). Not only that, but several completely fabricated studies show that people who do not add short reads to their library diet run a 300% higher risk of stroke, heart disease, impotence, diarrhea, brain damage, Tourette’s, drug, alcohol & gambling addiction, schizophrenia, depression and Alzheimer’s than those who don’t.
If you can’t do it for yourself, do it for your family.
Grea.
I really enjoyed writing this piece - so much so that at some point.... eventually, if I ever start back writing again, it will become a prequel trilogy to the Miael series, entitled "The Phoenix and The Seraph." Like "The Couturier", the new series will have a more sensual slant to it (without losing the supernatural, angsty high jinx I do so love to write).
Please note that this work is a Short Story AKA a Short Read
More specifically, it's a 30-minute short read.
Why should you BUY a Short Read?
Well, because I am your queen and I say so.
But also, if you’re like me, you may actually have a life outside of this book (scary to imagine but true). You may not have the time or inclination to read a 1,000 page monster novel or you simply may not care about how 3 paragraphs of comfortable the chair in the center of the room is (unless of course its comfort is caused by the corpses stuffed inside of it or something of the like). You may have a low threshold for magazines with all of their endless pages of ads, tireless celeb gossip dribble or writers telling you (and quite authoritatively at that) what’s best for you and how you should live your life (not to mention that that’s my job). You may also be wanting something to read a little more substantial than how to wear stripes or position your package in your underthings for maximum effect. Then again, you may just have a really, really short attention span.
That’s where a short-read comes in handy. It’s just long enough to keep you occupied for a small chunk of time but not so long that you end up neglecting your family (thus resulting in divorce and CPS involvement), spending your whole vacation in a book (thus being mugged by local thugs) or going to work the next day a stressed out, sleep-deprived wreck because you just HAD to finish it (thus causing you to get fired for sexual harassment). Not only that, but several completely fabricated studies show that people who do not add short reads to their library diet run a 300% higher risk of stroke, heart disease, impotence, diarrhea, brain damage, Tourette’s, drug, alcohol & gambling addiction, schizophrenia, depression and Alzheimer’s than those who don’t.
If you can’t do it for yourself, do it for your family.
Grea.
January 12, 2022
A very short short.
This is really a 10-15 minutes read, historically inaccurate, follow up of an horror saga but divergent from the original genre.
In 26 pages there are 2 sex scenes and a whole lover over the centuries story, but the short is not marketed as romance or erotica.
Disappointed.
This is really a 10-15 minutes read, historically inaccurate, follow up of an horror saga but divergent from the original genre.
In 26 pages there are 2 sex scenes and a whole lover over the centuries story, but the short is not marketed as romance or erotica.
Disappointed.
May 13, 2021
Interesting. Well-written. I was surprised by the graphic content, didn't see it coming. I liked the concept but not the graphic content.
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