I’ve been in the mood to give away some signed copies of my first novel, INSPY finalist in the Speculative Fiction category, The Resurrection. You can find a detailed synopsis HERE. How to win? Writers: Leave a comment with a one sentence summary of your WIP. By way of example, here’s the blurb for The Resurrection:
An unassuming crippled woman raises a boy from the dead and unlocks a centuries old curse.
That’s it. I’ll be selecting three winners, what I consider the most compelling, well-written blurbs, and sending the authors a autographed copy of The Resurrection. I’ll announce the winners early next week. Have fun!
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A pilot ejects from an exploding shuttle into the future when only she can bridge the gap between the past disaster and the present danger.
Or maybe…
A pilot ejects from an exploding shuttle into the future when only she can bridge the gap between a disastrous first contact and the present menace.
This is the first time I’ve thought about the blurb for my WIP. I probably should have thought about it more in depth before spouting off this from the top of my head.
Blane’s race for power drove his siblings to their death. Will the discovery of Telmark bring them back?
A chain-smoking, academic nun and her foulmouthed protégé become pawns in an unfolding prophecy, in alternate-history San Francisco.
Wow, it sounds like I’m writing a circus act.
lol, now that might be reason enough to head to the circus…
In Welsh legend three brothers were given the true Secrets of Medicine when their mother mysteriously vanished. They are the legendary Physicians of Myddfai (Mothvey) and the book of herbal pharmacology she left them changed the world of medicines forever. This sweeping saga follows the generations of their families through the turbulence of history.
(yes, it’s more than one sentence. But it’s a big book. You can disqualify me.
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Okay, this is kinda long…I modified a logline I’d done that allowed two sentences! I’d love to check out your book!
GOD’S DAUGHTER–
As chieftain’s daughter, Gudrid, travels with her husband to Vinland, she faces down murderous crewmen, hostile natives and raging sickness, only to realize that it’s her own relentless longing for Leif Eiriksson that just might tear her marriage apart.
(Just realized this is for a work in progress! Hoping that although the book is finished, it’s still in progress b/c it hasn’t been published yet!)
Most mornings Kevin Klaag couldn’t wait to step out of the shower and discover his new identity; but today, he knew he wasn’t going to like what he saw.
…in the mirror.
Blah, I’ve been writing two-sentence blurbs for my story. Let’s see if I can do one sentence.
A young man must take his newly-learned magic and stop a living storm from outside space and time from devouring all the worlds.
A young woman’s probe into her late husband’s fate unleashes a flood of long buried secrets from those she thought she knew.
Two men who were once friends find themselves on opposite sides of a bloody war for their homeland.
After a stagecoach robbery leaves them alone in the wilderness, an adventurous young man and his shy sister must brave the hardships of the trail to meet their parents in the West.
“When he accidentally uncovers the rightful heir of the motherland, a passionate prince rebels against his powerful overlord in an attempt to restore the long-lost king.”
Thanks for hosting! I absolutely love this idea for a contest/giveaway.
If Canadians are admissible…
An aging water-slave discovers true freedom after sacrificing all that is hers for the sake of the child she loves and the king she honours.
On the run from law, a demon-possessed Billy The Kid and his band of Regulators – secretly aided by an immortal King Solomon – throw down with a man-eating beast and its zombie progeny in the small mining town of Tascosa, Texas.
I want to read this one and then see the movie.
One can only hope H0llywood is listening…
Thanks?
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Typo:
On the run from the law, a demon-possessed Billy The Kid and his band of Regulators – secretly aided by an immortal King Solomon – throw down with a man-eating beast and its zombie progeny in the small mining town of Tascosa, Texas.
The shadows had long feared Ethan and those like him, but now the Darkness would unleash evil upon the world that ages ago passed into myth and legend.
*is dragged over*
“A lonely, half blood alien must uncover the secrets of two world governments when he steals their top secret project – a mysterious young girl. “
After a curious teenage girl accidentally unleashes a madman’s experiments on their unsuspecting small town, she and the madman’s son set out to stop the monsters, unaware that ruthless criminals have their own plans for the monsters.
An edgy detective can only solve his latest case by facing the literal demons of his past to rescue a kidnapped author from supernatural forces.
As brassy wings sprout from his body, a hunchback flees to a beleaguered Galileo for shelter from the Church’s wrath.
Thanks for the opportunity to win your book, Mike. I’m only 11,000 words into my current project, so I haven’t given a blurb any thought as of yet. I’ll give it a shot:
“Haunted by the memory of his dead wife, Paul has just inherited an old house from an aunt he did not know, where he finds himself surrounded by ghosts both real and imagined.”
-Jimmy
Great idea for a book giveaway! Here’s mine:
“When Josh agreed to a late-night coffee run with his best friend, he never knew that he would be introduced to the secret Underworld of monsters and fae–and he never guessed that his life could become a pawn in a cult’s search for a deadly relic.”
Sounds great, Heather! I’d pick this one up!
Historical Fantasy:
A vigilante archangel, haunted by visions of a bleeding tree growing atop a blackened skull, guards the ancestral line of a prophesied Heir against a demonic army seeking their annihilation.
When a textile conservator accepts a commission to restore an old quilt stitched by the wife of a New England whaling captain, she discovers long-buried secrets of forbidden love and redemption refused, a hidden enemy, plus her own chance for love and redemption. (Whew. That one wore me out.)– Tempest’s Course, Abingdon Press, late 2013
And your blurb sounds great, Mike!
A Tulsa police detective searches for a missing friend but finds a string of murders dating back 77 years.
This one sounds very interesting to me!
This is terrific!
In researching a long forgotten endeavour to reach the first extra-solar system planet discovered, Abe Hannah finds an unsuspecting helper and another faster than light travel method that ends up being the only one of four methods that lead to eternal life rather than the eternal damnation and death.
One sentence is tough. I suspect that I’ll be re-thinking this one a few times.
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