The Next Big Thing
This is the infamous "Blog Hop". I've heard nothing but complaints about this subject -- in fact, exactly one complaint ("I don't understand how this works"). I'm fairly incompetent when it comes to blogs, so in all fairness I might have heard more comments and not recognized what people were talking about. I tend to ignore what I don't understand.
Thank goodness Nancy Johnson tagged me and listed all the rules and questions I have to answer about my Work In Progress (cue reverb). The Q&A follows:
1. What is the working title of your book?
Answer: "Dream Talker"
2. Where did the idea come from for the book?
Answer: A troublesome little adventure from my youth. There was this girl...
3. What genre does your book fall under?
Answer: Fiction, Action/Adventure, Paranormal
4. Which actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie rendition?
Answer: I shouldn't answer this. It could jinx the book.
5. What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?
Answer: Ella Stone threatens Amanita White Bear, a powerful Cherokee shaman who curses her father and her lover (one with visions of perpetual rain and the other to a life where rain never falls), and to save them she must form an alliance with a strange shopkeeper who has a plan that carries a deadly price.
6. If you plan to publish, will your book be self-published or published traditionally?
Answer: Kiefer Sutherland as Adrian Bishop! Oh, that's for number 4. It just sort of jumped into my head and out my mouth. "Dream Talker" will probably be self-published. I have a low threshold for Post Rejection Stress Disorder. Unfortunately, I tend to write query letters that are used as bad examples in writing courses. I'll tell you what...if anybody out there hooks me up with a decent agent, I'll cut them in for five percent of all revenues from "Dream Talker" for five years. Hey! I'm good for it!
7. How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript?
Answer: 1st draft, 9/2011-3/2012. 2nd draft, 3/2012-9/2012 (at which point Barbara Rogan called it a "first draft", thus destroying my self image as a young, energetic, Keifer Sutherland-like leading man).
8. What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?
Answer: I wouldn't. It's completely unique. "Dream Talker" stands alone and is will be a bargain at its sale price of $15.99, available on Amazon and in airport coffee shops near you!
9. Who or What inspired you to write this book?
Answer: I want to be a writer. It's how I'll become immortal.
10. What else about your book might pique the reader’s interest?
Answer: Magic, murder, military meteorology, madness, and mayhem. Lots of action verbs. A cross-country escape by bus. And sex! There's one scene with full-frontal nudity! OH! Mila Kunis as Ella Stone!
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FIVE BLOGS I'M TAGGING
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(this is hard. i don't know anybody)
Thank goodness Nancy Johnson tagged me and listed all the rules and questions I have to answer about my Work In Progress (cue reverb). The Q&A follows:
1. What is the working title of your book?
Answer: "Dream Talker"
2. Where did the idea come from for the book?
Answer: A troublesome little adventure from my youth. There was this girl...
3. What genre does your book fall under?
Answer: Fiction, Action/Adventure, Paranormal
4. Which actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie rendition?
Answer: I shouldn't answer this. It could jinx the book.
5. What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?
Answer: Ella Stone threatens Amanita White Bear, a powerful Cherokee shaman who curses her father and her lover (one with visions of perpetual rain and the other to a life where rain never falls), and to save them she must form an alliance with a strange shopkeeper who has a plan that carries a deadly price.
6. If you plan to publish, will your book be self-published or published traditionally?
Answer: Kiefer Sutherland as Adrian Bishop! Oh, that's for number 4. It just sort of jumped into my head and out my mouth. "Dream Talker" will probably be self-published. I have a low threshold for Post Rejection Stress Disorder. Unfortunately, I tend to write query letters that are used as bad examples in writing courses. I'll tell you what...if anybody out there hooks me up with a decent agent, I'll cut them in for five percent of all revenues from "Dream Talker" for five years. Hey! I'm good for it!
7. How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript?
Answer: 1st draft, 9/2011-3/2012. 2nd draft, 3/2012-9/2012 (at which point Barbara Rogan called it a "first draft", thus destroying my self image as a young, energetic, Keifer Sutherland-like leading man).
8. What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?
Answer: I wouldn't. It's completely unique. "Dream Talker" stands alone and is will be a bargain at its sale price of $15.99, available on Amazon and in airport coffee shops near you!
9. Who or What inspired you to write this book?
Answer: I want to be a writer. It's how I'll become immortal.
10. What else about your book might pique the reader’s interest?
Answer: Magic, murder, military meteorology, madness, and mayhem. Lots of action verbs. A cross-country escape by bus. And sex! There's one scene with full-frontal nudity! OH! Mila Kunis as Ella Stone!
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FIVE BLOGS I'M TAGGING
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1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
(this is hard. i don't know anybody)
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