March 8th, 2010 by Carrie Vaughn
A short and sweet post today: Next week, my first young adult novel is due out from Harper Teen. It’s called Voices of Dragons, and it’s an alternate history with dragons, rock climbing, jet fighters, and boyfriend trouble.
(Ever since my first book came out, I’ve found it useful to try to condense the premise into a one-sentence soundbite. i.e. “It’s about a werewolf named Kitty who starts a talk radio advice show.” People will always ask, “What’s your book about?” and if you take more than one sentence to explain, their eyes inevitably start to glaze over. So one punchy sentence to sell the book.)
I’ve posted the first chapter over on my website, if you’d care to take a gander. Voices of Dragons, Chapter One.
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Thank you for sharing Chapter One! It sounds like it’s a great story. I’ll have to add it to my reading list
And, I love the ‘sound bite’ idea. I’ll have to work on that for mine.