14 April 2007

Competition of twelve words

Quick, there is a great competition over at BRIAN SIBLEY : my blog: BROUGHT TO BOOK.

How would you pitch a well-known book that is, as yet, unknown? The challenge is to "in JUST TWELVE WORDS or less to outline the content and make it so irresistible that the publisher couldn't pass up the chance to snap it up.
The Lord of the Rings or The Lord of the Flies, Gibbon's Decline and Fall or Waugh's Decline and Fall...
The choice is yours. Not more than FOUR submissions per blog-reader and the wittier the better!"

Head on over....

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