- You choose the genre of your prospective novel. Is it a mystery? Chick lit? A romance? A sci-fi story? (Well, probably not, with this picture.)
- Post your blurb on your post... and then link your blog, using the charming Mr. Linky below. (It's really easy. If I can do it, your golden retriever can do it.)
- Make it enticing. A book blurb is crafted to seduce the reader into buying the book.
- Check out the other linked blurbs, and leave a comment. You'd be surprised how different our inspiration is, given the same photo.
Usually, I start one and think it's going to be easy, but I end up having to condense and delete and tighten. And making your writing tighter is always a good exercise to engage in.
Here's the photo for this week:
Here's my blurb:
Because
on their final day in France, she's finally going to talk... (148 words)
And here's the photo for next week:
Here's my blurb:
The Trek
Marie
and Jeanne had been friends for over ten years. Babies. Divorces. New
Love. New love gone sour. They'd been through it all—together.
For
months they'd planned this: a trip to the South of France.
Pau, Toulouse, Contis and all the tiny villages and beaches in
between. Marie was into all kinds of wine. Jeanne had never met a
loaf of bread or a hunk of cheese she didn't adore. They were going to
eat, drink and laugh their way across the country.
This
vacation-of-a-lifetime was going to end with a three-day hike in the
Pyrenees. The two women wanted the mountains to be their last
memories of France.
But
one of the women has a secret... a secret she's had buried for seven
years. She's hoping the serenity of the hills will soften the blow.
And here's the photo for next week:
My book is a lesfic romance called Granola Falls. Rae meets Bryndle while they're both getting labrys tattoos. They talk a lot, then almost do it, but don't. They get confused, something happens, they don't see each other, then they do and WOW but they find themselves talking and talking and the moment passes...or does it?!?
ReplyDeleteOr does it?
DeleteShay, you leave the reader on the edge of the cliff... overlooking Granola Falls. (Hilarious title.)
Great take on this photo, Sioux. The setting alone is breathtaking and a terrific backdrop for your plot. I can see you using the scenery to set the mood and maybe even somehow have descriptions of the location act as a metaphor for revealing of the secret. Not a "finding yourself" tale so much as a "revealing yourself" tale. Cool idea for a women's fiction novel.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Lisa. I remember yours--always compelling and enticing. I feel fortunate when I can simply come up with something lucid that's within the word limit...
DeleteI'm always glad that I read everyone else's piece first because I know I'd chicken out. I love your take on this and think it will make a great fictional novel.
ReplyDeleteNow do I have to fill out Linky wink every time? Seems like the 2nd blurb, it filled it out for me. Or durp, I'm missing something.
Okay, I left a comment BEFORE linking. So now I'm commenting, but the linky thing didn't take... or my Internet, as usual is acting up. Guess it's to keep me off the computer and work on my book...
ReplyDeleteLynn--If your internet is THAT smart (wanting you to stay off so you can make more progress on your book), you're quite fortunate.
DeleteListen to your internet. ;)
Who is stalking them, taking their picture? They didn't even have a chance to smile and say "Fromage."
ReplyDeleteVal--Or pain. Pain et fromage. Now THAT is a reason to smile.
DeleteWhere have I been? Love the photo and blurb idea. I'll have to check out next week's.
ReplyDeleteDonna--Where have you been? Probably working on YOUR novel, right? ;)
ReplyDeleteWell, whatever they're doing, they certainly have a pretty place to do it in!
ReplyDeletePat
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Pat--But in my book, only one woman leaves this beautiful scenery alive... ;)
DeleteAfter a 3 day hike and copious amounts of cheese and wine I'm not sure I'd be feeling any pain whatever anyone told me ;-)
ReplyDeleteSarah--I guess the cheese would plug you up but with enough wine, who would care?
DeleteHere is the link to my blurb: http://successfulteaching.blogspot.com/2016/03/back-of-book-blurb-3-challenge.html
ReplyDeletePat--I followed the Mr. Linky link, but thanks for also posting the link here. I enjoyed your blurb. The woman on the right is almost 60, so she'd be thrilled to be characterized as a recent high school graduate. ;)
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