TGIBBF!
Welcome again to Book Blurb Friday. If you're a newbie, here's the scoop so you understand what follows. Please click HERE or click the tab under the blog header for details of the Book Blurb Friday meme. This is the shortened, abridged version:
Write a book jacket blurb (150 words or less) so enticing that potential readers would feel compelled to buy the book.
Below is this week's "book cover," generously offered for our creative blurbs by the talented and generous Sioux Roslawski at Sioux's Page. My blurb is below.
Kiyodee King
(147 words)
George and Meredith Briscoe’s young, wheelchair-bound son has endured numerous illnesses and surgeries due to his spina bifida. The Briscoes see their lives as an endless stream of disasters, so neither is surprised when, while driving home from a doctor visit, they become lost in an unfamiliar part of the city.
Engine trouble forces them onto a seedy side street, the tow truck never arrives, and their cell phones stop working. Afraid to separate after dark when the squalid streets come alive with violence, they opt to pass the night locked in their vehicle in fearful watchfulness.
Taunted by gangbangers and assaulted by thieves, the Briscoes want only to pass the night in safety. But a chance encounter with a vagrant named Kiyodee King will bring them through the dark night and into daybreak on a journey they never imagined, with an outcome they never dared dream.
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Here is our "book cover" for next week's Book Blurb Friday #48, provided by the funny and talented Tammy Goodsell at Message in a Bloggle.
Thanks for participating in Book Blurb Friday. If you have any photos you think would be appropriate as a "book cover," please send them to me via email (writinginthebuff@hotmail.com).
See you next for Monday's microfiction. Have a great weekend!
Lisa
13 comments:
Hey, Lisa! Wow, I didn't see that coming. What a great blurb; full of action and solutions that need solving. It sounds great. I don't have a problem leaving comments on your site, but I do to some others who have changed things around.
Thanks for visiting me early.
Hey Kathy - Glad you didn't have a problem commenting. Maybe Blogger is feeling better. :)
Very enticing last line, Lisa. I would have to find out what happened. I'd buy this book.
K
Thanks Kay!
There's part of me, when the photos are of people, that feels a bit diffident about assigning unpleasant characteristics to them, so I apologise in advance for mine. You, Lisa, have captured the evident sadness in this photo very well.
I always look forward to 'competing' at this site!
Sandra - Thanks. I'm always wary with the people pics, as well. I don't want to offend anyone, even though the photos are offered up for fun.
Rinkly - So glad you continue to join the meme. :)
This promises plenty of chills, as well as a happy ending. I like the opportunity to provide fresh perspectives on homelessness through the use of Kiyodee. How did you come up with that name?
Oh, Lisa, I love this. I couldn't look at it without thinking of a trite love story, but you came through with a complex and moving plot yet again. And thanks so much for the kind words!
Grandma - The name? I stole it. LOL Well, sort of. I heard of a man with the first name pronounced Kiyodee but actually spelled "Kaode" and I thought it was cool and so took creative license with the spelling.
Tammy - Thanks for the great photo for next week's blurb! :)
You're blurbs are Brilliant, Lisa. I thoroughly enjoy visiting your blog.
Michael - Thanks for the compliment. :) Thanks also for cluing me in on how to fix my "comment" problem. It's finally working again!
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