So I've read a few excerpts from the werewolf novel I'm finishing up (Lycanthropic Summer).
It's structure is unique for, and the tone is, well, as my editor for Before The Blood remarked, "It's definitely not "'Bryony!'"
The novel has three components: part diary, part sub-novel, part flash fiction.
The diary part has three sections (June, July, and August) and each of those sections has entries.
Woven into the diary is the werewolf novel the protagonist is writing - along with flash fiction pieces of very short werewolf stories she's written.
Tropes and motifs in this novel include traditional and lesser known werewolf facts and lore (lycanthropy as mental illness, medical conditions that suggest a werewolf appearance, historical werewolves, and objects associated with werewolves) and a nod to mythology and fairy tales: Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, Pandora's Box, and The Green Lady.
Cameo appearance by unicorns.
The book also addresses some ethical questions, as you will read in the summary below.
It's not as long as my other novels (will finish up around 60,000 words, I think), but, I hope, it's just as engaging.
It didn't sit in my head as long as Bryony did, but it's probably been there at least a decade as I was still writing Bryony when I had the idea.
Here is its back cover copy:
Caryn Rochelle loves werewolf stories and promised herself she would write the world's greatest werewolf love story before her eighteenth birthday. But with the date just months away, Caryn has shredded more drafts than she's kept and is feeling desperate.
But then she learns the town's most prestigious couple has a dark secret: they're keeping a savage boy her age locked in their basement. One glimpse, and Caryn's inspiration skyrockets. Caryn knows she ought to report them, but...
It's structure is unique for, and the tone is, well, as my editor for Before The Blood remarked, "It's definitely not "'Bryony!'"
The novel has three components: part diary, part sub-novel, part flash fiction.
The diary part has three sections (June, July, and August) and each of those sections has entries.
Woven into the diary is the werewolf novel the protagonist is writing - along with flash fiction pieces of very short werewolf stories she's written.
Tropes and motifs in this novel include traditional and lesser known werewolf facts and lore (lycanthropy as mental illness, medical conditions that suggest a werewolf appearance, historical werewolves, and objects associated with werewolves) and a nod to mythology and fairy tales: Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, Pandora's Box, and The Green Lady.
Cameo appearance by unicorns.
The book also addresses some ethical questions, as you will read in the summary below.
It's not as long as my other novels (will finish up around 60,000 words, I think), but, I hope, it's just as engaging.
It didn't sit in my head as long as Bryony did, but it's probably been there at least a decade as I was still writing Bryony when I had the idea.
Here is its back cover copy:
Caryn Rochelle loves werewolf stories and promised herself she would write the world's greatest werewolf love story before her eighteenth birthday. But with the date just months away, Caryn has shredded more drafts than she's kept and is feeling desperate.
But then she learns the town's most prestigious couple has a dark secret: they're keeping a savage boy her age locked in their basement. One glimpse, and Caryn's inspiration skyrockets. Caryn knows she ought to report them, but...
Can it really hurt to wait until she finishes her story?
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