Summarize your book in one sentence?

In a fantasy world, an indebted, disgraced university student, bringing along his albino scientific subject, hopes to escape the law and debt collectors by signing up as a siege engineer/mercenary for a exploratory vessel that's breaking a major social taboo by trekking into the ominous mainland continent.

The church's best gunslinger, Devin, is assigned to eradicate a suspicious female demon who's taken up residence in a church.

Gosh, that's as close as I'm going to get in one sentence (without run ons) but there's so much more...

Blinkk said:

Gosh, that's as close as I'm going to get in one sentence (without run ons) but there's so much more...

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It's hard, isn't it?

Ack! I can't even summarize my book in a query letter. You guys are good.

A young monk seeks his brother who was stricken mad after attempting to replace the Scarlet Archon, a powerful ruling deity who vanished under mysterious circumstances.

Not sure if it'd be better to start a new thread or just bring this one back, but here goes:

(TLS): Vidya and Héloïse are the love spares—the poor dupes left over when their lovers fell in love with each other—and now they might be in love, too.

(THK): When Sahar Benett is catapulted back in time to a tragedy, she has two choices: change history or become its next victim.

(Unearthly): The sudden disappearance of the planet Earth was the Milky Way's most famous unsolved mystery—until, three hundred years later, Earth came back.

Anybody else game?

Perry Drinkwater thought she knew what she wanted, but marriage to the Bear means a bigger world, bigger plans... and bigger problems.

Sunweaver: Deril, a talented Sunweaver magician, must rescue his father before his father's captors use his immense powers to release an insane god from prison.

Empire of Chains: Nadia will stop at nothing in her quest to avenge her mother by killing Emperor Warrick, even if that means going up against a man who can read potential futures, a man who might not even be as evil as she thinks.

Watersong: Firia must free her tropical island nation from their godless occupiers before the occupation eradicates her religion altogether and allows the dark god manipulating these events to gain in power.

Blinkk said:

The church's best gunslinger, Devin, is assigned to eradicate a suspicious female demon who's taken up residence in a church.

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This sentence caught my eye - I love the intersection of the gunslinger and the church.

A childless couple resorts to an adoption agency and gets snookered into adopting three mischievous ghosts that need their damned souls saved.

A bunch of words shuffle and blur in a writer's mind until he finally collapses into the shower, fully clothed, sanity gone.

A cosmetically-enhanced and once-adored celebrity searches for meaning in her life after the economic collapse of Western civilization.

Zane, a bassist, is tricked into helping a strange creature and ends up being granted a wish he didn't want; Zane now has no emotions.

I'll try again:

Everyone wants a piece of Nadir, whose life sucks as it is, so he kills himself.

In a world of islands, two people must go on a voyage and fight for their lives against a curse, a vengeful god, and warring landowners.

(It sounds so dull written like that! Blah.)

RobLineberger said:

A bunch of words shuffle and blur in a writer's mind until he finally collapses into the shower, fully clothed, sanity gone.

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You've been spying on me!

Right now: A woman whose life was torn apart by the forces of dark magic has been on the run ever since, but now the magic is invading our reality and she has to face her deepest fear to save the world.

"Face her deepest fear" - really? Must kill the cliche.

Twins possess a superpower in which one resists injury while the other bares it.

nastyjman said:

Twins possess a superpower in which one resists injury while the other bares it.

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Adult-themed?

InspectorFarquar said:

Adult-themed?

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Oops... Nope, it's superhero themed.