Title: I’m currently calling it [name_m]Canton[/name_m] (the name of the town that it takes place in), but I know for a fact that that won’t be the final title.
Targeted Demographic: I haven’t thought about this yet. I think it will probably fall in the [name_m]Young[/name_m] Adult bracket, but I just adore the idea of kids growing up with the series (this book is gonna be the first in a series, I didn’t mention that).
Genre(s): Fiction, [name_m]Young[/name_m] Adult, Dystopian, Coming of Age, & [name_f]Mystery[/name_f].
Medium: Definitely a novel, I’ve never questioned that.
Main characters (there are many many characters): [name_m]Seanan[/name_m] McCarthy, [name_m]Peter[/name_m] Moynihan, [name_m]Joel[/name_m] [name_m]Amadeo[/name_m], [name_u]Reese[/name_u] Bakker, & [name_u]Zion[/name_u] [name_m]Laurent[/name_m]. For extra fun, their middle names are (in the same order): [name_u]Oliver[/name_u], [name_m]Zachary[/name_m], [name_m]Adrian[/name_m], [name_m]Andrew[/name_m], & Courage.
Blurb: (I just made this up for this post and my friends said they think it’s great, so hopefully people here think so!)
Life in [name_m]Canton[/name_m] is normal… or, as normal as life under a dome can be.
Literally cut off from the rest of the world, those that live in [name_m]Canton[/name_m] live in peace.
When the Originals woke up in a strange place, locked under a dome, with the last thing they remember being from 2 weeks before, they didn’t plan to still be living in that same place 25 years later. Now, they and their next generation are living within the same walls that they woke up between all those years ago. All of their peaceful living is upset by the arrival of a stranger. One that stumbles into their town, their home, their peace. And that’s where everything starts to crumble.
Excerpt:
“It’s okay to be a little broken, [name_m]Joel[/name_m].” [name_u]Aris[/name_u] said, assuring him. She felt that he deserved at least that.
“But, what if I’m really broken?” [name_m]Joel[/name_m] sighed, looking up from the floor and straight into her eyes. “What if I’m so broken that I don’t know to get back to my original form? What if I’m shattered? What if I’m so broken that all the king’s horses and all the king’s men could never put me back together again?”
[name_f]Silence[/name_f]. And a moment of it. Until [name_m]Joel[/name_m] scoffed.
“Is there even a king in the Outside?” He shook his head after asking the rhetorical question. He had thought for the past 12 years - his entire life - that he was a smart person. He was learning Latin, for [name_m]Christ[/name_m]’s sake! But, really, in the Outside, in the Real World, he knew nothing. He was lost, and he was broken, in the Real World. How was he ever supposed to be the person he was in [name_m]Canton[/name_m], outside of it?
Extras: [name_m]Canton[/name_m] is gonna be the first book in a series. I have no idea how long the series will be; I’m just gonna write the story and whatever happens happens.
Questions: (None at the moment! )