Thursday, November 22, 2012

PRIDE & PRINCESSES ORIGINAL BLURB and First Page




PRIDE & PRINCESSES by SUMMER DAY
Mix a teenage version of Emma with a touch of Pride and Prejudice, transfer the drama to an American high school and the results can be...contagious:

& this is one of the original drafts of the first page, it changed a lot prior to publication: 
Chapter 1
Arrivals
    The day Mark Knightly transferred to Sunrise High from some snooty boarding school in England was the day Mouche and I began the Boy-Rating Diaries. They weren’t written in the traditional manner although they started that way. We wrote our thoughts on pink notepaper and used a feathered pen popular with countless teenage girls from previous generations. Suddenly, the secret diary became a blog that ended up as a how-to-guide to dating within the hallowed halls of our Performing Arts School. We went from social wallflowers to social winners in under a month all because our fantasy men walked the halls one surprising day in September and stopped to ask my best friend Mouche directions to  home room. ‘And not a minute too soon,’ Mouche noted, ‘I was beginning to think high school could only be fun in movies...’


PRIDE & PRINCESSES by SUMMER DAY: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0069JLAPA