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julesjones ([personal profile] julesjones) wrote2012-07-15 11:22 am

comments wanted on blurb and tagline

I need to provide a tagline and blurb for the short story coming out in September, and this publisher doesn't do in-house editing of the blurb. So I could do with a second opinion on mine. I'd like comments from the romance fans in particular, because while this has a love story, it does not have a happy ending - I don't want something that will mislead romance fans into thinking they're getting an HEA or HFN.

One night of your life for seven years of love. But would you pay the price?

A modern man meets one of the sidhe and finds that legends are true, but the sidhe have changed. They have a new bargain to offer mortals who bring them fresh stories. There will be no coming forth from the green hillside to find that decades have gone by in the real world, the old friends and loves... old. But there is still a price to pay to have a fairy lover.


(5,500 words, speculative fiction, and yes there's a reason why I'm calling it specfic rather than fantasy.)
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[personal profile] choirwoman 2012-07-16 01:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not much of a romance fan --not straight-up romance, anyway-- but I'd absolutely read that.
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[personal profile] choirwoman 2012-07-17 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Hm, can't remember reading it (but then I haven't been reading zines lately, unsubscribed from a couple when the brain-melt was very bad. (Mostly solid again now, though, so I might seek out some of my old favourites.) Could you tell me, privately if you prefer, so I won't get frustrated searching and/or guessing?