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Blurb for upcoming book - Order of the Stone - Book 1 - The Dreaming Crystal
Releases Nov / Dec 2022
It’s 2096 and the ancient ghost of a murder victim rages in a lost gemstone, striving to win free. The chains of power that bind it are weakening and disaster looms though the world is unaware.
More than ever, humanity is beleaguered by drought, flooding, poverty and society shot through with corporate corruption.
Tina wants to stay dry, make enough money to get stoned and get by, and figure out if she should dump Nate.
Nate is small fry with a big brain on a mission for equality in the corporate-run world. But he’s got to eat too so he side-hustles hacking jobs. That’s how he finds out who Tina really is.
Strange earthquakes gather force off the cost of Akarana and nobody has time to care. But when an old house is demolished, something unbreakable is broken and Nate, Tina and everyone in the world will be drawn into the legacy of the curse of the ghost in the Stone whether they believe in such nonsense or not.
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The idea of this is not really (or at all) to give a plot synopsis. It's more to give the reader a feel for what they can expect of the contents. It can be changed easily enough right up to publication date but I'm starting the marketing now. So what I need to know is less how good it is and more how much it doesn't completely suck. I used various popular sci-fi fantasy novels as a guide.
Typical word count recommended for a blurb is 150-250 words and the less the better. For the A Song of Ice & Fire novels, it's usually down near the 150. This is 164 so... acceptable creepage.
Who wants to read this book? Who doesn't want to read it?
Releases Nov / Dec 2022
It’s 2096 and the ancient ghost of a murder victim rages in a lost gemstone, striving to win free. The chains of power that bind it are weakening and disaster looms though the world is unaware.
More than ever, humanity is beleaguered by drought, flooding, poverty and society shot through with corporate corruption.
Tina wants to stay dry, make enough money to get stoned and get by, and figure out if she should dump Nate.
Nate is small fry with a big brain on a mission for equality in the corporate-run world. But he’s got to eat too so he side-hustles hacking jobs. That’s how he finds out who Tina really is.
Strange earthquakes gather force off the cost of Akarana and nobody has time to care. But when an old house is demolished, something unbreakable is broken and Nate, Tina and everyone in the world will be drawn into the legacy of the curse of the ghost in the Stone whether they believe in such nonsense or not.
***
The idea of this is not really (or at all) to give a plot synopsis. It's more to give the reader a feel for what they can expect of the contents. It can be changed easily enough right up to publication date but I'm starting the marketing now. So what I need to know is less how good it is and more how much it doesn't completely suck. I used various popular sci-fi fantasy novels as a guide.
Typical word count recommended for a blurb is 150-250 words and the less the better. For the A Song of Ice & Fire novels, it's usually down near the 150. This is 164 so... acceptable creepage.
Who wants to read this book? Who doesn't want to read it?
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