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Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power. it is the best friend of those engaged in literary pursuits.
--Baron Justus von Liebig (1803-1873) German chemist
Some friends and I were griping about the people who write the back copy for books. (Not me of course -- since I happen to know that my editor did this job and she is Perfection Personified. Of course.)
So how easy is it?
You have been handed a romance cover. A standard for your romance publishing group -- either a Romantic Suspense, a historical or ummm a comedy. You don't have time to read it, someone lost the descriptive sheet, and they're hoping you can come up with the title. Go on, WRITE THE BACK COPY. Make it compelling. Make it short.
Top three winners a book that comes with a title, back copy and everything. Grand prize winner gets a book PLUS SOCKS.
Here are the cover illustrations you must work with. Pick one. Remember: Romance. . . though, okay, you can fudge the sub-genre (number one screams erotica).
PICTURE ONE
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PICTURE FOUR
PICTURE FIVE (update -- the other one was too fuzzy.)
[To all you people who do fab graphics? P~~~~~ I'm a rioter, Jim. Not a computercompetent designer]
OKAY GET TO WORK -- THE CONTEST ENDS WEDNESDAY APRIL 27!!!!!! Word limit is about 200. You know because you read the backs of books . . . . .and snicker. This'll teach ya.
Alexandra thought it was just another day at the pool. She was a professional syncronized swimmer, and training to compete in the Olympics, when he dove into her pool one day. Roman - the Russian diver, a gold medalist. His back stroke made her heart beat faster. As she opens her heart to love will she loose her Olympic dreams because of a dark secret in his past? Let Alexandra's Pool of Passion wash you away...
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What a great idea for a contest! I love all the entries, Kate. I'm not entering because I actually wrote the back copy for my two books. (My editor then tweaked.) It IS hard -- even for those of us who have marketing experience!
I have been laughing so hard at these - Great job everyone!
NO, no, NO! I will disqualify NO ONE. Not even any real editors who enter. This is an open to all sort of a contest.
Picture 3...