If it's Monday, it must be drabble time!
Challenge #49 (the photos from Look At Me) is now closed. But you can expect a return of that topic (with different photos), since everyone seemed to love it, and it resulted in such excellent drabbles.
Challenge #50 is in the spirit of "Show; Don't Tell": portray a person by describing the belongings in his/her wallet, desk drawers, kitchen cabinets, car trunk -- you name it. The person can be a fictional character of your OWN (please no Buffy, Klinger, Batman, etc.), or a real person. Up to you.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
I have a page in the St. Martins Minotaur fall catalogue, and the best cover ever!
Yes, that is your best cover ever. Good!
Deb, that is GORGEOUS!!! Didn't you say that Matty Groves was "spookier" than Weaver or Famous Flower? The cover definitely gives that feel.
I just pinged Ruth. I'm dying to know the colour scheme.
Wow wow wow. Just - WOW.
Man, I want to have Marina Drukman's babies.
The catalogue copy is as follows:
MATTY GROVES
A Mystery
DEBORAH GRABIEN
Ringan Laine is hesitant to attend the Callowen House Arts festival. The house has a famous ghost, and after two close encounters with ghosts, Ringan and his lover Penny Wintercraft-Hawkes are not anxious to meet another. But they are relieved to find that this time no exorcism is required of them; Miles Leight-Arnold is quite proud of his family phantom.
What no one there knows is that there is another, fiercely evil ghost moving through the walls at Callowen House. Dormant for five centuries but awakened and seeking revenge for a lost lover, this ghost is driven to madness by the band’s flautist, Jane Castle, who bears an uncanny resemblance to the woman he loved.
Matty Groves adds the echoes of history, and the acts—and consequences—of days gone by to a very modern mystery.
Beautiful cover and great copy, Deb.
Deb, that's gorgeous! And a whole page in the catalog is very cool indeed. Can't wait to see it in color.
Love this week's drabble topic, too. Off to let it brew...
Drabble, describing my heroine from my original thriller (OT?)
Briefcase
Four granola bars, S'Mores flavor. Two small folders of CDs. The first one, music: blues, '80s rock, N*Sync and the American Idol compilation tucked in the back. The 2nd folder, software: Novell and Microsoft networking tools, but mostly burned CDs with cryptic notations in black Sharpie.
A paperback romance novel with an acrobatic pirate couple on the cover, bookmarked by a Tiffany receipt with charges on AMEX for watch battery replacement and a $2,800 gold necklace.
Two manila folders containing paperwork on corporate email configuration and computer communication over unreliable international networks.
