Summarize your book in one sentence?

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Whenever someone ask me what my book is about, I tell them; words that form sentences, sentences that form paragraphs and paragraphs that fill pages creating tension, conflict, and romance.

Allow me to paraphrase for you .......


An intriguing main protagonist reluctantly responds to a dire need by utilizing a unique remedy which then lands him at the center of a classic struggle of Good against Evil.



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A struggling plumber accepts a millionaire's under-the-table contract to discreetly fix a leaky heating oil tank in the basement of her country estate, and then finds himself caught up in an international web of bankster politics and deep military secrets.
 
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16yr olds Faith and Alex thought they had enough problems in their lives with a crumbling country estate, overpowering mothers and an unwanted pregnancy, but they hadn't reckoned for a desperate Librarian that would do ANYTHING for a baby - even if she had to kill to get one...
 

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A man wakes with a countdown inside his head that tells him he has only eight hours to live, but he won't let unnatural selection beat him just yet.

WIP: Five years after the internet collapses overnight, a journalist with a dark past teams up with the world's only mind-reader to investigate the disappearance of her sister.
 

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A teacher with eccentiric if not questionanble reading skills, can hypnotically transfer his students into a dream state and experience their world.
 

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Hmm... This could be a challenge.

Sometimes your childhood fantasies can come back to haunt you -- David's certainly did.
 

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Just one idea: The Lady's Got Potential: A teenage kitchen servant has conflicting emotions about the cult of personality during a military dictatorship.
 
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Untitled (Far future Sci-fi): A young half-breed girl searches for long buried knowledge that could change the world as she knows it.
 

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This is tougher than I thought.


A surgeon, her assistant, her best friend and an unscrupulous information broker break into a prison/licensed human experimentation centre in order to free an immigrant woman who, whilst unknowingly serving as a guinea-pig for experimental mind-control drugs, broke into a school and murdered 16 children. Hilarity does not ensue.


...oh god, that sounds like the worst book ever.

ETA: need to think about this a bit...
 
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Just ONE! What's your current WIP about?

Rules: no character names, no semi-colons (don't be that guy), no em dashes, no prefacing your sentence with a paragraph of excuses/world-building/back-story/history. Just post one simple sentence.

Mine:

My story is about a boy who lives below ground in 2070 and wants to find a way to Earth's surface which has remained untouched by humans for over 50 years.

My book is about a goblin drugdealer and his prostituted girlfriend who are searching for a key in a gargantuan mountain city.
 

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Ne'er do wells, never do well, is the gist.

But I will say:

In a dystopian world, a young girl discovers her destiny through involuntary servitude.

ETA

Poutine What's that?

A Quebecois dish of chips and cheese curds covered in brown gravy or sauce.
 
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WIP1: A paranormal detective is sent to investigate a series of brutal killings at a University.

WIP2: At the dawn of a supposed Golden Age, two rival hitmen engage in a game of cat and mouse as one attempts to assassinate the Prime Minister.

Bear in mind that sentence is pretty much all I have to show for WIP2.
 

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Arctic Wargame



After two unidentified icebreakers appear off the Canadian Arctic coast, the reconnaissance team investigating the incident finds itself fighting a battle for the country’s survival.


Thanks,


Ethan
 
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