Hi Everyone,
I am hoping you can help me catagorize my recently finished rough draft book. It is titled Town Curfew. Here is a (rough) brief description of the book.
Kendra Jackson is searching for a refuge away from real life. As her life becomes unbearable, she runs, and stumbles across a small town named Kassel Maine. It is small and the people are a bit odd, but it is far enough away from Brandon, her husband, and she takes up the local teaching position. It isn't long before strange things begin to happen and she discovers this town is cursed. The people are trapped at the same age and condition they were since 1802 when the town discovered they had a witch in their midsts, Rhianna Demona. Following the Puritan's ways, and uneffected by the world around them since 1692, they burned her at the stake, but she was real.
Uttering a powerful curse that bound not only the people of the town to this life and confining them to the boundaries of town. In doing so she cheats death, but at a terrible price, forced to live a wretched existence she wanders the forest at night in search of those caught outside after sunset. If touched, they must join her in the forest and haunt the town at night, hungry for more victims. Kendra must find a way to break the spell and stumbles across the guardian, Haress, whose black book she guarded gave the Demona's their power many generations before. Together they must set the town free using an anti-curse and returning the black book to the guardian.
Before she is able to return the book she loses parts of her memory and leaves the town thinking it is all over. She and Brandon pick up the pieces of their lives and work out their problems. Kendra, knows it isn't over yet, even though she can't remember what happened. Through nightmares and visitations by Haress, the trapped guardian, she regains the urgency to help save the people still trapped in the small town.
She returns to the horror of a life draining spell, cast over the inhabitants of the town, bringing immortality to Rhianna and a new life stirs in her womb. Kendra has run out of time, and she must confront Rhianna, or lose everything she and the others have fought for.
This doesn't have a lot of scare factor, at least not to me, athough it does have elements of horror. Maybe its one of those you have to read it to figure it out, but any input would be greatly appreciated. I am the worst at classifying my own books!
I was going to submit this to Penguin and Putnam's DAW sci-fi section but it doesn't appear to fit science fiction as someone else pointed out.
Thanks
Sara
I am hoping you can help me catagorize my recently finished rough draft book. It is titled Town Curfew. Here is a (rough) brief description of the book.
Kendra Jackson is searching for a refuge away from real life. As her life becomes unbearable, she runs, and stumbles across a small town named Kassel Maine. It is small and the people are a bit odd, but it is far enough away from Brandon, her husband, and she takes up the local teaching position. It isn't long before strange things begin to happen and she discovers this town is cursed. The people are trapped at the same age and condition they were since 1802 when the town discovered they had a witch in their midsts, Rhianna Demona. Following the Puritan's ways, and uneffected by the world around them since 1692, they burned her at the stake, but she was real.
Uttering a powerful curse that bound not only the people of the town to this life and confining them to the boundaries of town. In doing so she cheats death, but at a terrible price, forced to live a wretched existence she wanders the forest at night in search of those caught outside after sunset. If touched, they must join her in the forest and haunt the town at night, hungry for more victims. Kendra must find a way to break the spell and stumbles across the guardian, Haress, whose black book she guarded gave the Demona's their power many generations before. Together they must set the town free using an anti-curse and returning the black book to the guardian.
Before she is able to return the book she loses parts of her memory and leaves the town thinking it is all over. She and Brandon pick up the pieces of their lives and work out their problems. Kendra, knows it isn't over yet, even though she can't remember what happened. Through nightmares and visitations by Haress, the trapped guardian, she regains the urgency to help save the people still trapped in the small town.
She returns to the horror of a life draining spell, cast over the inhabitants of the town, bringing immortality to Rhianna and a new life stirs in her womb. Kendra has run out of time, and she must confront Rhianna, or lose everything she and the others have fought for.
This doesn't have a lot of scare factor, at least not to me, athough it does have elements of horror. Maybe its one of those you have to read it to figure it out, but any input would be greatly appreciated. I am the worst at classifying my own books!
I was going to submit this to Penguin and Putnam's DAW sci-fi section but it doesn't appear to fit science fiction as someone else pointed out.
Thanks
Sara
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