the whole shebang…

the ins and outs & ups and downs of a new novelist's journey

my new pitch. September 21, 2009

the hook::
Visions of another dimension usher a young woman through an adventure of immorality, virtue, and self-discovery.

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the pitch::
Alexis has always experienced intense dreams. They used to be all sunshine and rainbows, but lately they’ve entered a much darker, depraved realm.

The dreams are actually visions, intended to prepare her for the truth. The reason she’s felt so different since she was a child…
Avalon, an other-world where faeries live, is her real home. Brought into the human realm when she was born, she’s lived that life for twenty-four years.
But now it’s time to venture back with her kind.

A horrible evil has been brewing — waiting just for her.
Something is killing humans and she’s the only one who can stop it.

While attempting to do so, and learn her new place in the universe, she meets up with other, helpful fae. But one shows her that their true nature is to test the limits and mess with the balance.
Will she be able to stay strong and save the humans?
And what will she do when she finds the way to protect them means subjecting some of her own to a horrible death?
She must choose between her two worlds. Which is the right choice?

 

looking for a blurb critique. pretty please =) June 13, 2009

So, this is the blurb (and logline) for Avalon.

At the moment, I’m fine with the logline.
I’m just curious as to what readers think of the blurb. Is it something that draws you in? Does it tell enough? Too much?
I’m up for any and all suggestions. I still have quite a ways to go until the book is finished, but I already know what’s going to happen. It’s just a matter of finding the time to write it all down…
I suppose I want to know that it’s not all for nothing ;)
Let me know your thoughts!! Thanks, ya’ll!!!

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*Visions of another dimension usher a girl through an adventure of immorality, virtue, and self-discovery.

*Intense visionary dreams transport twenty-year-old Alexis to the unseen world of faeries. She soon discovers this is the world she was born into, and it’s where she truly belongs—it is Avalon.
Two understanding friends guide her home after a nightmare reveals that one of her kind is attacking mortals. History has never seen such evil, and Alexis is the only faery who can stop it.
The unexpected help of a Depraved faery makes this quest much easier. But, when Alexis becomes attached to him and begins to see the world differently, will she have the strength to choose the right path? Or, will she succumb to her innermost demons at the expense of innocence?

 

take two. March 5, 2009

Filed under: 15 words. — Eden Tyler @ 11:39 am
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Neither she nor anyone else is who she thought.  
Can she decide who to save?

 

take one. March 5, 2009

Filed under: 15 words. — Eden Tyler @ 11:37 am
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Visions of another dimension usher a girl through an adventure of immorality, virtue, and self-discovery.