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," offered for our creative blurbs by the talented and generous Kathy Matthews at Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy. My blurb follows:
Moonlight Monsters
(146 words)
Gracie Porter wants to be a writer. But she’s so busy talking about her stories that sometimes reality and fiction smoosh together as easily as her favorite banana-and-pickle sandwich, making it difficult to tell if something is true or a story from Gracie’s busy imagination.
So when Gracie claims she saw something “kooka-bazooka-crazy” on the night of the full moon, no one believes her. And when she insists that the thing she saw is now prowling the halls of Wolfe Middle School disguised as the new principal, Ms. Lycan-Thrope, her friends think she’s written too many scary stories.
But when students sent to the principal's office start disappearing, Gracie’s two closest pals begin to think Gracie may be onto something. Together with Gracie they devise a plot to spy on Ms. Lycan-Thrope and prove she’s the wiliest of monsters—a hungry werewolf in the perfect disguise.
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Here is our "book cover" for next week's Book Blurb Friday #59, provided by the talented and funny Sioux Roslawski at Sioux's Page.
Thank you 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
11 comments:
Your blurb is as moody as the photo. Nice job as usual!
This one will be popular with a wide crowd. What young adolescent could resist the lure of exposing an evil principal? And what adult hasn't wished, if only for a moment, that an unruly child would just go away?
Regardless of the outcome, I'm betting the story is filled with lots of fun and suspense. I'd love to read it and so would my granddaughter.
Lisa - once again I'm glad I resisted reading your entry before writing mine! Love the writer angle.
I remember that very headmistress! Now you've solved the mystery. I'd buy it.
Fascinating photo and great blurb. A banana and pickle sandwich?
Our teenage granddaughters would be begging you to finish this story so they could read it. You are atrue writer, word weaver, story spinner. You amaze me. Come tour our riverfront on my blog.
Despite being a bit spooky, this sounds like a perky read! I love the writer losing the line between reality and fantasy because sometimes I get lost in my own head...know the feeling! Happy Easter, Lisa.
Not only did I have a good laugh, this is absolutely adorable. Fifth- and sixth-graders will love it. Seriously. They may even make it into a series....
Lisa, what an awesome story! I agree with everybody else, you have a hit on your hands with this one.
You know, until I enlarged the photo last night, I didn't even realize that it was as spooky as it was. Thank you for choosing it for this week's prompt.
Hope you guys have a wonderful Easter.
Kathy M.
It's hard to outshine any blurb you write. Just when are you going to finish a book, because I want one! Signed of course.
Sounds like a hit to me!
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