If I Fall: The Cover

This bookcover was created by my bestest friend, number one fan, and photoshop wizard: Saba A! She is a fantastic short story writer and if she lets me, I may one day share her work with you. Until then, you can just sit back and admire this positively beautiful cover! :)

If I Fall: The Pitch

 IF I FALL

What if there was a war in your history that you never knew about? A war you cannot find in your history textbook . . . because they never wanted you to know. What if that war was caused by a race of people who are special, who have gifts, who are Marked?

 People like me.

My name is Elvira Hamilton and I have a secret . . . I'm not like you.

In 1901, there was a war.

My people were special and yours were jealous. So jealous, you tried to kill us. All of us. One night, the war reached my village. Those who despised us had come, at last. Radicals we called them. My sister and I escaped, but my mother and father were not so lucky. With the war raging in England, we only had one choice left. Escape the war and flee to America with the other refugees. The only problem is, we are not refugees and we are not supposed to leave.

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Full of action, suspense, magic, and love, If I Fall is a story about a girl with a Mark everyone fears; though as far as she knows, she has no powers. As a stowaway on the ship, a series of reoccurrences with a Mr. Laurence have her in a bind. Should she tell him the truth and risk being handed over to the Radicals or should she continue to lie, risking the loss of his trust and friendship along with everything else . . .

Over to you . . . Does this pitch capture your attention? Does it sound like what you might read on a book jacket? Does it make you want to read the book? What qualities do you think make the most appealing pitches?

Inspiration

It's hard to always say what inspires you to write. It could be the need to fill the white void that follows that blinking black line at the beginning of a new document or the immaculate first page of a notebook. It could be an event, a person, an emotion. It could be that first sprout of green in a land of ice. It could be someone else's words.

Inspiration can be anything.

My inspiration can be found on the pages of every book I ever read. The words that made me feel something. The ones that made me smile, cry, laugh . . . Those words inspired me to do the same, to make someone else feel something just by skimming over the words I put on paper. It is a direct transaction between writer and reader. Sometimes, it's not even what we meant to give. But it does not matter, because the point is that the reader found something that struck true in their hearts . . . something that inspired them!

I want to be that inspiration for someone.

I want my words to have an effect on their emotions, good or bad.

Why? Because words are power.


Over to you . . . what is your inspiration? What do you think inspiration is? Have any books inspired you?

A Brief Introduction

My name is Kelseyleigh; I am seventeen years old and like thousands of others in this world: I love the written word. Even more importantly, I love to create the written word. Writing is an escape, a ship built solely out of words that is able to take me wherever my heart desires. Distant lands full of menacing beasts, my own backyard, a high school cafeteria . . . the possibilities are endless.

Possibility.

That is what lies at the tip of an author's fingers or the point of a pen: possibility and power. Not the power of a dictator or overbearing mother as one might find in a book, but the power to evoke emotion. I am not sure there exists a writer who does not have this one goal in mind. To make the reader feel something is the ultimate goal.

It is certainly my goal.

And hopefully, I will be able to achieve my goal with my newly finished novel, If I Fall. But first, one must have readers. I have already begun the daunting task of sending out query letters like so many others. JK Rowling, Stephen King, and numerous other great authors have experienced the harsh blow of the rejection letter (or in most cases, many rejection letters). I have no doubt in my mind that I will experience the same, but hopefully, one day, I will also have the opportunity to experience that one other kind of letter. The letter that incinerates the pile of rejection letters with its brilliance. The letter that says "I want to publish your novel."

Those seemingly small six words are my dream, my future, my every wish.

Those six words are power.

Words are Power.