Ahem. On the bright side, mid-November means it's my turn in the November Blog Chain Hosted over at AbsoluteWrite!
This month's prompt?
Write up a back cover blurb for a book you have written or would like to write. It should be short, sweet, yet give a sense of people and events without totally spoiling the ending. The blurb may be for fiction or nonfiction as you see fit.
I was going to post the blurb for my as-yet-unfinished NaNovel, but I already spammed you guys with a summary recently. Instead, here's the back cover blurb I'd slap on the YA memoir I'm currently querying, <3 (less than three):
One click of a mouse can change your life.
In my junior year of high school, that click sends me to RavenBlack City: a fast-paced role-play game full of prankster vampires, evil ballerinas, and giant salsa pools. I start to fall for one guy there. He’s smart, a good listener, and best of all, he doesn’t laugh at my lame attempts at flirting. I get to know him better through the computer screen than anyone I’ve met in real life (because trust me, those are disasters).
Problem is, my character has a mind of her own. And she’s falling for someone different. Someone way too flirty and untrustworthy. Someone she’s supposed to be spying on. But whenever I’m upset, he's the one who stays up late to talk. He makes me smile again.
I have to figure out if my character is really a fictional being, or if maybe the fake persona I invented knows what I really want…
Oh, and the worst part of all? Both guys live 3,500 miles away.
You should also check out the other participants' blogs (I'll add direct post links when blogger stops being a BLEEP):
orion_mk3 - http://nonexistentbooks.wordpress.com
Ralph Pines - http://ralfast.wordpress.com
MysteryRiter - http://incessantdroningofaboredwriter.wordpress.com/
AuburnAssassin - http://clairegillian.com/
Jarrah Dale - http://brattysramblings.blogspot.com/
SinisterCola - http://acgatesblog.wordpress.com/
dolores haze - http://dianedooley.wordpress.com/
pyrosama - http://matrix-hole.blogspot.com/
Alynza - http://www.alynzasmith.blogspot.com/
writingismypassion - http://charityfaye.blogspot.com/
Cath - http://www.cathsmith.com/
Inkstrokes - http://drlong67.wordpress.com/
egoodlett - (that's me!)
LadyDae - http://ladydaewrites.blogspot.com/
SuzanneSeese - http://www.viewofsue.blogspot.com/
Anarchicq - http://anarchicq.com/
Stu Ayris - http://tollesburytimeforever.blogspot.com/
Oooh, very interesting! I'd certainly read the book! I didn't do the blog chain this month...too much else going on, but I enjoyed reading your entry!
ReplyDeleteSounds like an interesting dilema. Good luck.
ReplyDeleteLove the roleplaying game/Web 2.0 angle. A very fresh approach, plus it allows the inclusion of vamps in a post-Twihard world that's frankly sick of them (I see some wonderful possibilities for satire as well).
ReplyDeletePlus the whole divide between the real and the constructed and digital entities with minds of their own push all the right buttons with me in general too :)
@orion - haha, ohh yeah, I definitely like to play up the satire... written RPGs are a strange land of oddness anyway, doesn't take much effort to point out the quirkiness in the vamps :)
ReplyDeleteSounds like the Young Adults would eat this up. Good luck with it!
ReplyDeleteI like this idea because it's not just the typical romance. It's asking the question that really comes up in these role playing games. Are the avatars extensions of who people are or who they really want to be, or is it just a game that the player gets a little too caught up n every now and then.
ReplyDeleteI think I would certainly read this and repair my love of the romance genre because Twilight has really just disgusted me in regards to romance.
Very interesting premise. Must have been hard to pull off when the characters never actually get to "meet."
ReplyDeleteA nitpick, its role playing, role play is the act, not the game. ;) Interesting, I like the avatar with a mind of its own angle. Has potential. :D
ReplyDeleteInteresting, love it! Is this game "text-based"? :)
ReplyDeleteI would like to see them meet - it would increase the stakes quite a bit. But this is a good sounding premise to start with. YA seems very popular at the moment!
ReplyDeleteOh, they do meet! ... eventually... :)
ReplyDeleteCool idea - and very neat blurb.
ReplyDeleteI think you have the setup of an interesting book here with the online vs. offline personas!
ReplyDelete~Alynza (wouldn't let me post under my google acct.)
I'd love to see how 2 online personas, one supposedly real and one supposedly fictional, differ, especially since all online personas probably have some elements of fiction to them.
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