Welcome back to another blog hop, with #OpenBook. Here’s this week’s prompt.
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Whatās the best line youāve written recently? Or ever?
You might think, with over twenty novels to my name, that I would be overflowing with lines of such sumptuous magnificence that I would be lost for choice. Or something.
Well, I have written some lines of which I feel proud, but therein lies a problem.
They mostly rely on context for their appeal.
So, I could give you a line but then Iād have to explain a lot about it. Which kind of spoils the effect.
Actually, the line that Iām most proud of comes not from a novel, but from a blurb.
In a blurb, itās different, you have to make a statement without context that grabs a potential reader by the throat and gives them a good shake.
This is from the blurb for my Steampunk adventure, The Sensaurum and the Lexis.
The story is a bit of a nod to Jules Verne and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a quasi-Victorian romp filled with amazing machines, mad professors, megalomaniacs bent on world domination, plucky underdogs, etc. etc.
āIn a world of steam and clockwork, evil forces are at work.ā
I love this line, because itās so suggestive of what the whole story is about. Click the cover to find out more.
Is Jackson Thwaite ready to discover the secret of Makewright Orphanage?
Although he doesn’t know it, he has been selected to be part of something vital to the land of his birth.
Norlandia is a country under threat, as never before. The old heroes are but a memory, while evil forces gather, seeking power.
They are armed with the latest devices that perverted science has devised.
Control of Norlandia and everyone in it is their ultimate aim.
Who will stand in their way?
Under the command of the mysterious Mortimer Langdon, all that stands between civilisation and anarchy are Jackson and the rest of The Orphan Detectives.
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Stevie Turner
That’s a good blurb, Richard. I always find blurbs very hard to do.
Richard Dee
Thank you. I normally do, but this idea just popped up.
Samantha Bryant
Context is everything, I agree. @samanthabwriter from
Balancing Act
Richard Dee
Thanks, if it needs explaining, then it’s failed.
P.J. MacLayne
That’s a great line! I hope it sells lots of books.
Richard Dee
Thank you, so do I, š
Kelly Williams
Nice log line!
Richard Dee
Thanks, I’m really pleased with that one.