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The Dimidiums Book Seven Sacrificial Tiger

The Dimidiums Book Seven Sacrificial Tiger

I don’t normally print whole chapters, but this is one of my favorites. Goldiva is a 300-year-old Dimidium who loves to goad people. Her favorite to pick on is her great-grandson Trevor. He can give it back as much as she gives. Goldiva had barely escaped an attack from vampires. Hope you enjoy this.

Chapter Six That Feeble Old Hag

Trevor and Janna were in Worthless, Nevada working with Barkley…

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The Dimidiums A Work Still in Progress

The Dimidiums A Work Still in Progress

The Dimidiums started out as one book. The story came to me while I was dusting shelves one day and never stopped nagging me. Then a second book came to be, and then a third.

Next thing I knew, The Dimidiums was a 5-book series, and then, of course, a 6-book series. Currently, there are seven books. Why does the story continue to progress? Who knows the workings of our muses?

Book One For Our Love

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Tuesday Teaser

From The Dimidiums, Book Two Blood Lust: “Cowards. Offenders of our laws,” yelled Ivarr. Filled with fury, he followed after them. He paused on the porch, waved his hand up, and the two men were lifted high above the ground, gagging. With a swift downward flick of his wrist, they slammed onto the sand. His eyes flickered from green to brown as he prepared himself for their demise. He curled his…

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Sunday Snapshot

What would your emotions be if 25 years ago, you fell into an alien community (literally) and lived with them? Then, after 25 years, you’re returned home.

Aubrey is lonely and lost without those she learned to love, but she has no choice since the Yardanians left for war. She’s sent home to meet her family again, including her grown children, but her daughter isn’t that happy to see her.

I nodded…

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My EBooks are at Walmart

My EBooks are at Walmart

Did you know you can purchase my ebooks at Walmart? Just click on the link below to find me: DM Yates Ebooks at Walmart

Love Honor and Respect

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Saturday Samples

My Dimidiums series will be a 7 volume set. What started out as one book continued to grow. Today I’m giving samples of the main character Trevor Dittmar.

Book One: A stocky fellow swooped down from a nearby tree in front of them and Chester immediately sized up the newcomer. The man stood about 5 feet 7 inches tall, muscled and tanned. His salt and pepper hair was short, worn in a butch cut. A…

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Wednesday WIPs

Ugh! I’m editing and revising 3 books at the same time. Have you ever had to do more than 1 book at a time? Whew. A lot of work.

I’ve been doing minor grammar corrections to Always, my first published novel. A tale of a man who loves his uncomplicated life. Leave it to a 16-year-old girl to complicate it.

Dixie’s enthusiasm wore on him and he hated when they argued, which was often. He could…

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Weaver of Tales That's what I am. It seems that stories never stop racing across my mind.

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Friday Fantasy

If you ask me why I write fantasies, I can only say because I love to read that genre.

The Dimidiums is the story of a race that is half human and half vampire. In fantasy, you get to create your world. Here is how the Dimidium race came about, in the words of the main character Trevor Dittmar.

“Do you have souls?” “Do you have a soul?” “It’s just that I’ve heard….” “You must forget all those…

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Thursday Tutorial Grammar

One mistake I make and I notice in others’ writings is the proper verb agreement with the word ‘there’. I often see ‘there is’ when the writer is talking about a plural subject. I’ve made the same mistake.

Ex: There’s five of them riding away right now.

Check your ‘there is, there are’ sentences. It’s easy to make this mistake, because we’re used to using ‘there’s’. I’m forever catching this in…

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Wednesday WIP

I’m spending most of my time in the final editing and revising of my three book series The Yardanians. I am thrilled to announce that the book has had over 2,000 views, but it’s changed dramatically since then and went from one book to three: Betrayed, Consort, and Abandoned.

I’m always surprised how books seem to write themselves, how the stories can nag you to be put in print. I never saw…

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Tuesday Teaser

From book 5 Dimidiums ‘The Sacrificial Tiger’:

Stefan keenly watched his distraught wife as she blinked away her tears. “You have something to tell us about Trevor that’s going to upset us, don’t you?” he asked. “About dedicating him to Eutychus?” Karla squeezed her husband’s hand. “It’s a heavy secret that I’ve kept to myself all this time, even from you because the thought terrified me, but it’s…

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Monday Mash-Up Yardanians

The Yardanians is a 3 book set, a dark and steamy scifi. Each book ends with a statement about the characters involved and what’s to be expected. Here are the ending statements.

So ends ‘The Yardanians, Book One, Betrayed’, where Aubrey’s defiance of her forced servitude to Rahzahn turns into a passionate love for him instead. In ‘Book Two, Consort’, a surprising source helps foster Rahzahn and…

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Sunday Snapshot

From Book 2 Consort, The Yardanians

I reside in a hidden community right here on Earth, exiled by my own government, only hours away from my human neighborhood in the U.S.A. I’m here because I made a rash decision one summer day that tore me away from my family and forced me into servitude to an alien. Before I stumbled onto the Yardanians, I lived pampered and sheltered in the suburb of a major…

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Thursday Threads

From ‘The Yardanians’ book three, ‘Abandoned’

The thought of unrestricted humans waiting to welcome me and no Rahzahn or Gardash to protect me was terrifying. My assistants sensed my fear and moved closer to me. We were led into the living room. The heavy dark azure drapes on the front window were drawn shut shielding us from the outside. The furniture was old and had a musty and dusty smell. The…

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Wednesday WIP

I’ve been working on a new short story that may end up being a novella. Here are a few excerpts:

Zaizal the Nihtebairn

Like the rest of our neighbors, we were aware of the internment camps cropping up across the country. As a matter of fact, there was one not too far away from us, and trucks would roll past all hours of the day and night. The government wasn’t clear about who was interred or why,…

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My Tic in Betrayed

My Tic in Betrayed

Every book I write, I develop a certain bad habit and it follows me throughout the novel.

In Betrayed, the word is ‘it’. This pronoun can make a sentence passive instead of active and become a terrible tic.

I find I use the word when I’m in a hurry to get my sentences down, but in my rush the sentence can become ambiguous.

It, it’s, its – many can be refined into better sentences. Let’s look at…

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