Blogathon - Real Entry 1
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I think I'm going to start the morning off with blurb descriptions for the various things I'm writing. Here goes the first one:
Title: Cast-Iron Roses
Once upon a time, the king and queen of Edanna learned the hard way that hell hath no fury like a witch scorned, when a scruffy-looking sorceress cursed their infant daughter to death-by-spindle. Eventually, the death sentence was commuted to eternal slumber, but even so, the events of her birthday party cast a permanent pall over the princess’s life…until she turned sixteen and the curse came true.
That was 450 years ago. Princess Arabella wakes up to the world she knew gone forever and a new age of blended magic and technology having taken its place. She must learn to make her way in this world, as well as get to know the man who woke her with a kiss – a man all the stories tell her she should be immediately in love with.
Intended Readership: I'm thinking YA.
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The thinking process behind this: Even ignoring the older, darker versions of the Sleeping Beauty tale, it always struck me as weird that, here was this woman who'd been asleep for hundreds of years. Her world is gone, save one moldy old castle and its inhabitants. But no version of the story ever tells of her having to adjust. None of the culture shock; no anything.
The other concept behind this story comes from my fascination with Steampunk and frustration with the way many of the authors writing it have a serious case of 'ooh, shiny', foregoing things like, oh, nuanced characterization. So it is that Ara falls asleep in your standard medieval fantasy era, and wakes up in a Victorian Steampunk analogue.
Yes, I'm going to have to do shit-tons of research.
Incidentally, if someone has recommendations of Steampunk with awesome characterization, I'd seriously love to hear them.
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I think I'm going to start the morning off with blurb descriptions for the various things I'm writing. Here goes the first one:
Title: Cast-Iron Roses
Once upon a time, the king and queen of Edanna learned the hard way that hell hath no fury like a witch scorned, when a scruffy-looking sorceress cursed their infant daughter to death-by-spindle. Eventually, the death sentence was commuted to eternal slumber, but even so, the events of her birthday party cast a permanent pall over the princess’s life…until she turned sixteen and the curse came true.
That was 450 years ago. Princess Arabella wakes up to the world she knew gone forever and a new age of blended magic and technology having taken its place. She must learn to make her way in this world, as well as get to know the man who woke her with a kiss – a man all the stories tell her she should be immediately in love with.
Intended Readership: I'm thinking YA.
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The thinking process behind this: Even ignoring the older, darker versions of the Sleeping Beauty tale, it always struck me as weird that, here was this woman who'd been asleep for hundreds of years. Her world is gone, save one moldy old castle and its inhabitants. But no version of the story ever tells of her having to adjust. None of the culture shock; no anything.
The other concept behind this story comes from my fascination with Steampunk and frustration with the way many of the authors writing it have a serious case of 'ooh, shiny', foregoing things like, oh, nuanced characterization. So it is that Ara falls asleep in your standard medieval fantasy era, and wakes up in a Victorian Steampunk analogue.
Yes, I'm going to have to do shit-tons of research.
Incidentally, if someone has recommendations of Steampunk with awesome characterization, I'd seriously love to hear them.
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