NaBloPoMo

***This post is part of the Absolute Write November Blog Chain***

This month’s theme:

NaBloPoMo – National Blog Posting Month (not affiliated with the real NaBloPoMo).

Write up a back cover blurb for a book you have written or would like to write. It should be short, sweet, yet give a sense of people and events without totally spoiling the ending. NaNoWriMo participation is not required, and the blurb may be for fiction or
nonfiction as you see fit.

This is just a little bit about my NaNo novel; it’s crime fiction of course. It’s my temporary blurb and probably not very good but that’s okay. I’m not marketing it yet. Enjoy!

 

Kyle Fitzgerald is a murderer. He knows it, his wife knows it, the police know it. But after being found innocent in his murder trial, Kyle is absolved of all charges and is free to go. He should be happy with the result – after all, he did get away with murder – but he feels a powerful longing for his wife who abandoned him following the murder trial.

He killed his friend.

Stripped of his kids and his wife, he doesn’t care about the loss of his job, his friends or his respect, he just wanted his family back. As he attempts to wheedle his way back back into their lives, desperate for forgiveness, Kyle is pursued by an obsessed cop in search of his motive for killing his friend. Flashing back from past and present, the reader is taken into Kyle’s mind leading up to the murder; as it grows closer and closer, Kyle’s motive becomes clearer and clearer. His friend is depressed, morose for some unknown reason. Kyle struggles to comfort him, trying his best to display sympathy… but what along the way turns him bad?

[Insert witty title here] explores the dark world of murder, betrayal and deceit, as Kyle struggles to not only win back his wife but to find himself as well…

 

And here’s a brief, unedited excerpt from page 1 of my MS:

“And for a moment – one terrible moment – Kyle’s cold, rigid expression softened. The ferocity that had prowled within his eyes melted away into something that Hannah had not seen in Kyle in the longest time – regret. And in that one terrible instant, Hannah almost felt sympathetic for her suffering, melancholy husband as she saw into that struggling soul of his, which had become trapped beneath his hard, unflappable exterior as it desperately sought out a way to reveal itself. Hannah wanted to reach out to him, to touch his hand, to fall sobbing into his outstretched arms and to have him tell her it would all be okay, to let her take him back no matter his past mistakes. But she knew better than that. Hannah could never again trust that cruel, sadistic man; much less take him back. The kids didn’t deserve him, she didn’t deserve him… no one did. No one deserved a man like Kyle. No one deserved a murderer.”

What’d you guys think? Thanks and be sure to follow the AW blog chain. It’s awesome this year, as always. Have a great evening! I’m 5.5k words into this project and off to write some more!

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