NEWS: Am working hard on putting together a book trailer for the book. Just trying to scare up some images for it.
EXCERPT:
My eyes darted to the words under the photograph that had called to me. Fished from the water by a sightseeing boat the morning of Saturday, May 30, 1931, the day before yesterday. Apparent cause of death: stab wound to the heart. Under distinguishing characteristics they listed a heart-shaped tattoo on his lower back which said Father. No identification present.
I needed none. I knew the face as well as my own, or my sister Ursula’s, with our own square jaws and cleft chins. I wore my dark blonde hair cut short into a bob, but he wore his long, like our mother, like any woman of a certain age, although he was neither a woman nor of a certain age. He was my baby brother, Ernst.
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Yay!! You’ve given the world a birthday present, Beck!! 🙂
Let me know how it goes with the trailer. Making another one (and starting a podcast) are on my infamous list … but who knows if I’ll be able to get them done before July.
Glad you’re thinking early!! 🙂 And glad you took the blog plunge … I love this idea! 🙂
xo,
Kelli
Thanks for stopping by, Kelli! My list is getting longer and longer. I get exhausted just looking at the list. 🙂 But I think you are making good headway, and envy your marketing savvy.
I hope that readers will respond to this lazy writer blog idea. It keeps it focused on the books.
Aloha,
Rebecca
I rather enjoyed the dual hearts… the stab and the tattoo…
Overall, a neat little bit of intrigue in a very short section… dense and informative.
I also like the use of “baby” brother as opposed to another adj. such as “younger” or the such.
Anyway, proof positive that the Hell that is Facebook actually results in someone coming over and reading…
Regards,
the Wreck.
Thank you! I do often wonder what Facebook will result in, besides drinks and thrown groundhogs and such. Glad you liked it. I’ll post another bit next week…and the week after that…and every week up until the book comes out and then folks have to buy it on their own. Then I’ll post stuff from “A Night of Long Knives.”
Thanks again for stopping by. Hope to see you again.
Aloha,
Rebecca
I think this is a great idea… a bit more than just a first-chapter teaser. I’ve always felt that more short excerpts from the book during a blog book tour is a great way to buy reader interest. The Page 69 approach. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks, Dani! We’ll see how it goes. I’m only three weeks in, so I can’t really judge, but I do have a bit more traffic to the site since I started. I’m hoping some people will sign on for the RSS feed, as I imagine those will be the ones that will most like the book.