Terrence Zavecz's Blog: The Joys and Worlds of Fiction - Posts Tagged "novel-s-description"

There is an art to the Elevator Description of your Novel. The challenge lies partly in the need to summarize your work into a line or two of conversation while at the same time selecting the best lines to capture your customer's imagination.
Example and perhaps valuable feedback for me, vote on the description you like and perhaps say why for the Novel "Origin of a Species":

1) "OUR FIRST INTERSTELLAR MISSION should have been easy, after all, we had help.
2032; The Asteri gave gifts resolving energy and social issues with one demand; we visit.
The Argos launches & responds flawlessly until a terrorist bomb detonates. Inhaled into a cosmic maelstrom, the ship limps back to Earth only to discover everything has changed. The Argos and its crew are 99 million years in the past; Earth dominated by dinosaurs. … and the Asteri are not the kind who easily forgive favors spurned."

2) A new, Science Fiction/Adventure/ Time Travel novel.
In 2032, a mysterious extraterrestrial intelligence began transferring technology to our planet resolving energy and social issues. One demand accompanied the gifts – our ET friends required humanity to visit their home world aboard a vessel of their design – the Argos.
The fates intercede, drawing the Argos into a cosmic string and they emerge 99 million years in the past to find an Earth dominated by dinosaurs.

3) A burning question lies exposed in the ‘Fermi Paradox’ regarding humanity’s isolation in the universe. Physicist Enrico Fermi calculated that for each grain of sand in our world, there exist a hundred Earth-like planets in our universe. Yet, we find no trace of any civilization beyond our own.
So, where are the extraterrestrials -- why are we alone?"
.... and why is the answer so closely tied to the dinosaurs?