Thursday, November 09, 2006

How's this for a hook?

Over at Miss Snark's blog, she'll be doing a crapometer next month on hooks. The plan is to post hooks to novels and she'll critique. This is intended to hook an agent/publisher's interest in a query letter. She wanted it in under 250 words, and mine is247 - so just in there. If anyone is reading my blog, let me know what you think:

The Blood of Es
by Rhease Linnell.

Not even the dragons had heeded Jayth’s warning. Now they are dead and even the goddess has abandoned the people of Es.

Es and its people are dying and Jayth must find the last of the dragons. With their help, it might be possible to rescue the goddess.

Mistaking Her warning for a threat, Davyl has done his utmost to protect those that he loves. In so doing, he has imprisoned the goddess and taps too deeply into the power of Es itself. Warped by powers he cannot control the Chief Druid breaks the veil between the world of the living and that of the dead.

Told in the third person, this novel weaves a web of magic and intrigue. The style is brief and the pacing fast. It begins with a prologue in which the goddess delivers her warning. The story then continues three hundred years later as Davyl is preparing to go to a barren region of Es where he will mine so deeply that he taps into the Blood of Es. It follows him on his journey and in alternating chapters, also follows the fortunes of Jayth and his companions.

As Jayth searches for the lost dragons, he comes to realise that he must enlist the help of the dark fire god, Koto. He must be careful, for Koto’s agenda has always been destruction.

But Koto is the counterweight of light. Without him, there cannot be balance.

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