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Tuesday, June 21st 2005

6:32 AM

CONTEST!!! Best of both

Your job is to write back cover copy in 65 words or less. Our judge points out that she's got a short attention span so this works best anyway.

You've been handed a cover, but the editorial department neglected to give you a hint about the plot of this Romance or (for else's sake) young adult book. The book can be any subgenre--mystery, comedy, erotica [umm skip that one for the YA] one of those annoyingly angsty Are You There Margaret, It's Me God things or fantasy.

You need to title this baby and write that backcover blurb. (Title doesn't count in your 65 words) As always, the winner gets some elegant Bosnian sox and a book!

# 1

contest notes: I had an attack of conscience and went for photos in the public domain this time...boooring. I'll post the example of the last contest as soon as I can find it again.

UPDATE: NUMBER SIX WILL BE ON THE PHONE CAM... You can use that one too.

DEADLINE: Saturday June 25

69 People Say.

Posted by cheryl b.:

I'm voting for you to replace pic #2, since it's a romance theme that's just creeping me out. Plus it kinda reminds me of those dead pictures you linked to (which I loved!), you should link that again.

Wednesday, June 22nd 2005 @ 8:05 AM

Posted by Kate Rothwell:

hmmmm . . .I'll go through my pile of photos and see what else I have. . .

I wasn't in love with that picture so I'll put up two others instead.

Thursday, June 23rd 2005 @ 1:39 AM

Posted by Kate Rothwell:

hey Cheryl and everyone else!! ENTER DAMMIT!

and it doesn't have to be romance, remember? Young adult works too.

Thursday, June 23rd 2005 @ 1:39 AM

Posted by Anonymous:

We had a HUGE wind storm and our power was out and now my whole appartment is covered in mud and dust since ALL of our windows and the slider were open (we were gone). If we could afford it I would seriously hire a cleaning service it is that bad. Plus it was really scary when we got home (it was dark) and saw that the panel to the not really an attic had shot up into the space up there and Mark had to get it down and all I could think of was The Grudge.
And the dog ate my homework. Entries to follow later.

Thursday, June 23rd 2005 @ 6:17 AM

Posted by Kate Rothwell:

so ummmm where's the title and which photo does that go withm, cheryl? [*snort*]

Thursday, June 23rd 2005 @ 6:41 AM

Posted by cheryl b.:

You like that do you? It wasn't ment to be anon, how did you know it was me?

Thursday, June 23rd 2005 @ 7:30 AM

Posted by Merry:

#4 - Joshua Bond, CIA agent, must guard a diplomatic compound full of women. No one told him every single one is pregnant. Including the stray dog. In an operation reminiscent of "THE GUNS OF FORT PETTICOAT" Joshua must teach 20 hormonal women to defend against insurgents. Amidst contractions and mortar fire, Joshua suavely handles the insurgents, puppies and transition. After all, he is Bond. Joshua Bond.

Thursday, June 23rd 2005 @ 8:46 PM

Posted by Cherie K:

Since no one liked this picture I Thought I would try my hand at it, please keep in mind that I'm no writer and probably should not have even attempted it :P But I thought it would be fun and it was, so here you go.

# 2

What my Mother taught me

leraine and her mother could not be more different, she was not the proper little house wife that would bow to a man no matter how stinky his feet.
No leraine knew their was something better out their for her it was just a matter of finding it. And when it is actually her mother who finds leraine the perfect man she learns theirs much more to her Mom then she once thought. and a new respect for her Mom blossoms along with the new love of her life who seems to know her own mother better then she does.
Who would have thought her mother had a secret identity?

Thursday, June 23rd 2005 @ 9:29 PM

Posted by Shirin:

#1

Love’s Laughter

Clare must forget Dr. William Wren, who broke her heart. She joins the Clown Care Unit, an elite group of clowns who nurse children in local hospitals. There, under her rainbow wig and greasepaint makeup, surrounded by her jolly band of fools, she begins to heal. Until the day Dr. Wren comes to Boston.

When will Will Wren wrench Clare from the clowns’ care?

o:)

Friday, June 24th 2005 @ 1:52 AM

Posted by Merry:

#1 They were cousins. They were siblings. And at Pearly Mae and Joe Bob's wedding, old hatreds boil over. Here, in their own words, is the story of America's most incestuous Family. Lost virginity, family love, secret assignations and even the dark underbelly of illicit moonshining are brought forth in this top Mob Family's best plan for keeping the money "all in the Family."

Friday, June 24th 2005 @ 2:18 AM

Posted by Merry:

As sisters, they shared everything. Even the axe. When a stranger came to their Pony Express station they offered food and drink laced with arsenic. No one knows how many people Agnes and Eleanor Fandango murdered, but when the law caught on, forty bodies were found. The sisters escaped to Mexico, living and sharing the last man they kidnapped. Or so the legend goes.

Friday, June 24th 2005 @ 2:30 AM

Posted by Merry:

The caterpilliar on his back would have to die. Derrick Hawkins knew it was an alien come to destroy Earth. He donned a costume and carried the dormant being for safety, but the day would come when he had to destroy it and the colony. But how? Tapping into the imaginative minds of children, Derrick discovers a way and in so doing, becomes Mankind's last hope.

Friday, June 24th 2005 @ 2:39 AM

Posted by Merry:

I'll do the last one later..when Boss isn't around. LOL

Friday, June 24th 2005 @ 2:39 AM

Posted by Merry:

She told her children she was joining a convent. But in reality, George Burns' mother ran off to Rome to join a circus. When the circus folded, she become a fixture in the Piazza, smoking her Cuban cigars and posing for passing artists. The true story of the woman who's tragic decisions influenced young George's comic genius.

Friday, June 24th 2005 @ 3:41 AM

Posted by Megan Frampton:

#2 Strange Love

They were of different backgrounds. Different ages. Different eyeball size. Same sex. What Lydia Kostanovich and Tessa Duran had in common was their love of upswept hairdos. And once they revealed their love, things would never be the same.

Friday, June 24th 2005 @ 5:53 AM

Posted by Julie:

#2 An Unexpected Blessing

Sophie may be the eldest of the Baxendale siblings, but whilst her sisters are marrying some of the ton's most eligible bachelors, she is stuck at home looking after her elderly grandmother. But things soon look up when an old friend of her grandmother's comes to visit - and she brings along her grandson Giles, an attractive bachelor with one thing on his mind - marriage!

Friday, June 24th 2005 @ 5:59 AM

Posted by Merry:

PhotoCam of diver:

Underwater archeologist Aqua-ita Prentiss proves beyond a doubt that yes, down in a meadow in a little bitty pool, swam three little fishes and a Mommie fishie too. Evidence she gathered in pictures and objects show that indeed, they swam and they swam all over that dam. Rare underwater camera footage, too! Soon to be a made-for-TV movie!

Friday, June 24th 2005 @ 6:10 AM

Posted by THIS! Christine:

#1 Surviving Snow White

A comically tragic look at happens after the fairy tale ends. Not everyone gets their happy ending as this insightful book reveals. The seven dwarves, betrayed by Prince Charming, abandoned by the ungrateful Snow White, move to Boston and begin a bittersweet existence as street performers.

Friday, June 24th 2005 @ 6:12 AM

Posted by Anon y mouse:

#5 Gracie Goes Bananas

After the death of her beloved George, Gracie wants to live life in the fast lane. Fed up with their dingy digs under a downtown bridge, Gracie moves uptown. Join Gracie as she discovers leftover Big Macs in the dumpster, old stogies in the ashtrays, and a hat a monkey would kill for. But does Gracie also find more than she bargained for?

Friday, June 24th 2005 @ 7:05 AM

Posted by THIS! Christine:

Oh Crap! they were supposed to be romantic... Note to self: read rules before entering.

Friday, June 24th 2005 @ 7:05 AM

Posted by Kate Rothwell:

dang. you're right. Could you call it YA? No one would call The City of Ember romance. . . OR...Maybe I'll go change the rules to fit the entries.

Friday, June 24th 2005 @ 7:12 AM

Posted by Merry:

oops! Mine weren't romance...I was just trying to tell the book by its cover...

Friday, June 24th 2005 @ 8:14 AM

Posted by THIS! Christine:

No. Hang on, I can do this.

#1 Surviving Snow White

The seven dwarves, betrayed by Prince Charming, abandoned by the ungrateful Snow White, move to Boston. By day they're street performers. By night...
Two explore an S&M relationship. Two deal with Crack dependency. Two work for an escort agency. But the story centres on Dopey. Hung like a mule, he moonlights as a Chip-n-Dale dancer. He's also secretly courting Sally-Ann, an evangelist's daughter.

Friday, June 24th 2005 @ 9:18 AM

Posted by Kate Rothwell:

X, might work, depending on which way the vote swings on RWA's the Meaning Of Romance.
1. between a man and a woman
2. between two people.

No, no threesomes in your entry... I think.

Friday, June 24th 2005 @ 9:24 AM

Posted by t-beth:

Picture #3

Title: HIGH-CRIME HIGH-FIVE

It tore at DEA Agent Nick Huntington's heart to tell English teacher Viviane Lancaster that there was nothing he could do about the drug ring masterminded by one of her students. Not when he'd spent a year tracking the suppliers from Colombia. Not even her compassionate blue eyes could sway him. Not even her tears.

But when his work takes him to the high school basketball tournament -- deeply undercover -- he finds himself in over his head. There's only one person he knows who can help him navigate the savage social rituals, maybe with a little extracurricular activity on the side. But will she listen to a crime fighter in a bear suit?

Friday, June 24th 2005 @ 11:13 AM

Posted by Danica aka Dream:

Picture #1

Meet the Rothwell family-their eccentricities and fun loving ways have a way of bringing couples together-or driving them apart. When mild mannered Roxy Rothwell meets the man of her dreams, will their wedding cause her embarrassment or help her realize that being a Rothwell isn’t the burden it seems?

Friday, June 24th 2005 @ 11:37 AM

Posted by Danica aka Dream:

Picture #2

Pirate Jacques Bustier kidnaps the Dupree sisters on one of his infamous panty raids on New Orleans. Keeping them prisoner in his private harem, Jacques realizes he’s playing with fire and is in very real danger of falling in love.

The pirate queens-one’s the angel, the other’s a devil, but will Jacques figure out which is which before it’s too late?

Friday, June 24th 2005 @ 11:54 AM

Posted by Danica aka Dream:

Picture #3

Despite the regulations against interspecies mating, Catriona McCall couldn’t fight her attraction to Dwork, first alien ambassador to Earth. Unable to communicate except for hand signals and hot monkey love, Catriona and Dwork fend off an alien invasion and teach the universe about the power of love.

Friday, June 24th 2005 @ 12:02 PM

Posted by Danica aka Dream:

Picture #4

Cyrano had nothing on Paul Goggins. Ashamed of a disfiguring birth defect, he roamed the streets of New York at night, and traded stocks by day from his penthouse overlooking Central Park. Rose McCall was born blind, and Paul knew he had to marry-the woman who couldn’t see his schnoz.

Friday, June 24th 2005 @ 12:08 PM

Posted by Danica aka Dream:

Oh shoot, I forgot the titles.

#1 Being a Rothwell
#2 The Pirate Queens
#3 Intergalactic Monkey Love
#4 My nose, my love

Friday, June 24th 2005 @ 12:11 PM

Posted by Danica aka Dream:

#5 Tears of a clown

Maggie Malone spent her life looking for love in all the wrong places. Just when she’s given up all hope, she finds herself at the geriatric clowns reunion and meets Buster the clown. Can their love survive pacemakers, greasy food on the road, and an allergy to Viagra? Or will she be burying him on the way to the altar?

Friday, June 24th 2005 @ 12:19 PM

Posted by Danica aka Dream:

Phone cam-Fondling Flipper

Legendary undersea treasure hunter Harry Winston has lived with a painful secret about an encounter with dolphins ten years ago. Haunted by erotic memories and unable to stay sober, he goes in search of the dolphin who stole his heart-only to find Flipper’s really a mermaid queen. Having already accepted his unnatural attraction to dolphins, Harry must learn to love humans again.

Friday, June 24th 2005 @ 12:31 PM

Posted by Bron:

Damn. I was pondering last night on a blurb for number two, and you CHANGED it. So now you'll never know about Maureen and her second cousin Murgatroyd and the murk and mayham of Bohemian Marseilles. P~~~~~~

And the guy with the dark hair and blue short in number 3? I KNOW him. I'm sure of it.

Friday, June 24th 2005 @ 4:56 PM

Posted by Bron:

Shirt. I meant blue shirt. I have no idea what color his shorts are.

Friday, June 24th 2005 @ 4:59 PM

Posted by Bron:

Picture 2:

AN EARNEST DEVOTION

Her parents forbade Evangeline all contact with men, so, for love of her, Ernest became Ernestine, her trusted companion. For three years he’s kept his secret – even from her. As a female, he can be close to her.... as a man, no chance. But how long can he keep his secret? And how long before she realises that he has absolutely no talent with hair?

Friday, June 24th 2005 @ 8:04 PM

Posted by Mollie:

1.
It Takes All Kinds!

Alice and Agnes felt like the oldest twin virgins in Twin Falls, Idaho! They got more than they bargained for with their personal ad! Once they say the gang that met them at the park, they thought "Jackpot!"

Who will deflower the the wallflowers first? It is true like they say, that once you go clown...? The girls really want to start off with a "bang!"

Friday, June 24th 2005 @ 10:41 PM

Posted by Mollie:

#5

Breaking ALL the Rules!

Gus saw the same things, day after day, at Shady Acres Retirement Home. He knew there was more to life than this! Once day, he decides to try something a little different. Goodbye Gus, Hello Gladys!
This heartwarming story is about the sexual awakening of Gladys, in her winter years. Gladys proves to us all, it is never too late for a little nookie!

Friday, June 24th 2005 @ 10:46 PM

Posted by Mollie:

picture #3
Spunky Finds a Mate

After years of self-loathing, Spunky was fairly certian that he was doomed to a life of gathering his nuts alone, and self-mutilation. One day at Six Flags, he meets someone that actually knows his secret Spunky signal! All of the sudden, he can see in color, and his man-root (which is unfortunately not anatomically correct) swells to monstrous proportions! Finally, Spunky finds his mate!

Friday, June 24th 2005 @ 10:54 PM

Posted by Mollie:

#4

Just Call me Hal

David Gest has a whole new life ahead of him. After breaking up with Liza, over-cumming those nasty rumors of his sexual preference, David is back there on the swingers sing. His breath, though, could kill a camel. Can he overcome with fresh-strips? Will he have to give up his vidalias?

Friday, June 24th 2005 @ 10:58 PM

Posted by Stef Kelsey:

#4

The Scent of Cinderella

Charlie Prinz went to the office party, expecting another boring event. What he got was pulled into a closet for a hot tryst.
As he's catching his breath, he realizes his partner has fled, leaving behind only the scent of her blossoming womanhood on his fingers. Can his nose lead him to his love?

Saturday, June 25th 2005 @ 12:54 AM

Posted by cheryl b.:

# 2
TILL DEATH DO US PART

Mary and Estella had found the love they had been searching for their whole lives. Unfortunately for "happily ever after" there was the not so small problem of their abusive husbands to attend to. With the bodies hidden they only have to outsmart the constable to be free. Will these two courageous woman find their fairy-tale ending, or will they find themselves facing the gallows?
-------------------------------------
Better late then never right?

Saturday, June 25th 2005 @ 4:37 AM

Posted by Cheryl S.:

#3

After his last mission, Cade thought his new assignment would be a "walk in the park". To his great astonishment, that's exactly what it turned out to be; he was working undercover . . . Cade was fuming inside the raccoon costume. He had a pretty good hunch he had Chief Detective Casey Simpson to thank for this inspiring new method of staking out drug dealers operating in the local amusement parks. She'd had it in for him since the day he was transferred to her division. Once his shift ended and he could lose the costume, she'd learn all about paybacks and Cade was the one who would be doing the teaching.

Saturday, June 25th 2005 @ 10:50 AM

Posted by Grace Atkinson:

#4 Dear John, er...Joe

Elder Joe Stallone just completed on a religious service mission, wearing an industrial strength polyester suit and conservative ties in the tropical heat. Now that he’s finally home, he scans the airport for familiar faces. His parents and five brothers are waiting, complete with welcome banner and balloons. But where is Cheryl Anne, the love of his life?

Grandma gently informs Joe that Miss Porter is wearing another man’s engagement ring. Twenty-four months of humanitarian service have broken down Elder Joe's manly barriers, and he succumbs to his emotions. With Cheryl Anne embedded deeply in his heart, will he ever love again?
_____

I know this is way over the word count, but it's the best I can do. I couldn't help thinking this guy was a weepy missionary, so I had to share!

Monday, June 27th 2005 @ 12:18 PM

Posted by cheryl b.:

That's lovely Grace! Plus my name is Cheryl Ann.

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