STEP ONE (of SEVEN)
We start with your dream--seeing your novel on the New York Times bestseller list! If it was there, you would see a one-sentence description of it, like some of the ones from today's list:
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WINTER OF THE WORLD, by Ken Follett. (Dutton,
$36.) In Book 2 of the Century trilogy, members of five interrelated families
from five countries, some of them children of characters in the previous
book, “Fall of Giants,” grapple with the tumultuous historical events of the
years 1939-49.
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A WANTED MAN, by Lee Child. (Delacorte, $28.) A
carload of people involved in a conspiracy pick up a disheveled hitchhiker,
Child’s vigilante hero Jack Reacher.
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GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. (Crown, $25.) A
woman disappears on her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer?
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THE TIME KEEPER, by Mitch Albom. (Hyperion,
$24.99.) A fable about the inventor of the world’s first clock, who returns
to our world after centuries of banishment; from the author of “Tuesdays With
Morrie.”
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LOW PRESSURE, by Sandra Brown. (Grand Central,
$26.99.) A woman makes disturbing discoveries — and acquires a stalker — when
she writes a book about her sister’s murder.
INNER CIRCLE:
You have two days (although I know most of you will finish it today) to write the one-sentence description of the bestseller you are about to write in November, 2012. Step two on Wednesday!
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A young boy searches for answers about his brother's death, drawn deeper and deeper into everything his brother tried to save him from.
ReplyDeleteIn a city void of color, a discontented boy disrupts the status quo on his quest to find a sunset.
ReplyDeleteFive people, each with one sense enhanced, must find a way to fuffil their purpose of stopping a war.
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Harold St.Isles has a steamy secret and an appetite for troubled women, but when Lucy gives him a run for his money he makes a choice. Is she worth the risk?
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ReplyDeleteA young man from England must make a difficult decision when his father passes away from a bombing by the German enemies.
ReplyDeleteAfter the failure of his leading knights, a king sends his worst court jester on a quest to recover his head wizard.
ReplyDeleteA group of wacky teenagers at their bland summer jobs must maneuver their way to the Wal-Mart when a zombie apocalypse breaks out.
ReplyDeleteA group of circus performers, working under a manipulative and oppressive owner, are surprised to find a man willingly join their ranks to help them in their situation.
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At a time where rock 'n' roll is a man's world, a three-piece all-girl rock band must fight to get their band a tour and record deal, but it's not easy to be the opening act for a group that is already well-established in the jungles of rock 'n' roll.
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A small island community is shaken when an old island legend is being acted out in real life with bizarre consequences, and at the centre of the resurrected mystery are two high school girls.
ReplyDeleteThroughout the roaring 20's, a young runaway makes her living by assuming different identities.
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Chronic science fiction enthusiast Jeff searches for the answers to why his co-workers are better than him.
ReplyDeleteThe principal calls in a group of seemingly random students on the first day of their senior year and they discover that they aren't all as different as they thought they were.
ReplyDeleteA series of fires and kidnappings leads a police officer of a small town down a dark road, and at the end may be a truth far more horrifying than anyone could have imagined.
ReplyDeleteA native and her dragon are put into a fight against an ex-native who has delved into dark magic.
ReplyDeleteA young girl struggles with her own haunting paranoia. She is forced to come to grips with reality but just when she thinks the pieces of her life are coming together she realizes that her life might actually be in danger.
ReplyDeleteA woman with a lot of determination and perseverance finds a point in her life where she is the decider on how the future will be, a decision that will affect everyone.
ReplyDeleteRunning from her past, a middle aged woman tries to change someone else's by giving them what she had needed most, but in doing this she finds her own life altered by the one she was attempting to help. -MARY BEVAN
ReplyDeleteSet in 1962, England, it’s a story about a boy and how his world has been turned drastically upside down, by the mere presence of his grandmother’s old book.
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ReplyDeleteA boy has to learn to become a man quickly as he rises from being a nobleman to a king; all while juggling love, power, and surprises. -Alyshia D
ReplyDeleteShe wouldn't have much longer, if there was one thing she knew would be eternal it’s that he would come back
ReplyDeleteNadira
Enter a dark world of unrequited love and fixation as Jon Keller, a teacher from a small town in Northern Ohio, obsessively pursues one of his students in a misguided attempt to capture her heart.
ReplyDeleteIn an attempt to cope with her father's terminal illness, Rayne must learn to contend through love, friendship and tragedy without her best friend.
ReplyDeleteTalia Joyce
Abandoned, alone with her tattered porcelain dolls, a young orphan struggles to cope with her own reality.
ReplyDeleteA crippling new drug is ivolunarily pumped into the veins of both civilization and an undercover dea agent.
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