{"id":4743,"date":"2017-10-13T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-09-12T15:13:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T19:13:40","slug":"beautiful-books-2016-introduce-your","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/beautiful-books-2016-introduce-your\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Books 2017 ~ Introduce Your Novel: Silhouette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"410\" data-original-width=\"410\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/bb-redone.png?resize=400%2C400\" width=\"400\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\n<span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">NaNoWriMo approaches so it&#8217;s that time of year again! Time for Beautiful Books! This is a link-up hosted by Paper Fury and Further Up and Further in! Instead of the usual character focus, this time it&#8217;s about your whole book in preparation for NaNo! I&#8217;ve been participating in it for the last three years with&nbsp;<\/span><i style=\"background-color: white; font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;\">Red Hood&nbsp;<\/i><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">(Post&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/2014\/10\/beautiful-books-red-hood.html\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif; text-decoration-line: none;\">#1<\/a><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/2014\/11\/beautiful-books-2-hows-writing-going.html\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif; text-decoration-line: none;\">#2<\/a><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">, and&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/2014\/12\/beautiful-books-3-lets-talk-editing-red.html\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif; text-decoration-line: none;\">#3<\/a><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">),&nbsp;<\/span><i style=\"background-color: white; font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;\">Subsapien: Hybrid<\/i><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">&nbsp;(Post&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/2015\/10\/beautiful-books-introduce-your-novel.html\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif; text-decoration-line: none;\">#1<\/a><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/2015\/11\/beautiful-booksthe-writing-process.html\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif; text-decoration-line: none;\">#2<\/a><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">, and&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/2015\/12\/beautiful-books-editing-process.html\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif; text-decoration-line: none;\">#3<\/a><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">), and<i> Starbloods <\/i>(Post <a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/2016\/10\/beautiful-books-2016-introduce-your.html\">#1<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/2016\/11\/beautiful-books-2016-novel-update.html\">#2<\/a>). It&#8217;s been great fun! If you&#8217;d like to participate, head on over to&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/paperfury.com\/beautiful-books-2017\/\">Paper Fury<\/a><span style=\"background-color: white;\">&nbsp;or&nbsp;<\/span>Further Up and Further In<span style=\"background-color: white;\">!<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><\/span><br \/>\n<!-- more --><b><br \/><\/b> <span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><b>What inspired the idea for your novel, and how long have you had the idea?<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">I&#8217;ve had this idea for four years now actually. I thought it up on my 20th birthday. I don&#8217;t remember what inspired it exactly, but I think it was something to do with clay golems. Then this line came to me:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><i><br \/><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><i>Two more years until I get my body back.<\/i> At the thought of being this close to feeling again, the gears rotated faster in my porcelain chest.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<b> <span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">Describe what your novel is about!<\/span><\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">This is a rough blurb, but hopefully, it&#8217;ll serve its purpose. The genre is adult romance sci-fi, so it&#8217;s a genre I&#8217;ve never written in. XD This should be interesting.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">For five years Cohen has endured a prison sentence with his soul trapped in a clay body while mining on the harsh volcanic planet Valdura. When his fifth year in this hell arrives, on good behavior he earns himself a position as a manservant for an abusive young aristocrat on the island planet of Inima. While there, a spaceship falls from the sky into the ocean and Cohen rescues the young woman inside it. She is unlike any other woman he has met and soon he takes a liking to her, but when his aristocrat master fancies her as well, Cohen&#8217;s love and concern for this foreign woman&#8217;s safety at the hands of his master could cost him his freedom and ever returning to his body again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-weight: bold;\">What is your book\u2019s aesthetic? Use words or photos or whatever you like!<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1600\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/SilhouetteAesthetic.png?resize=640%2C640\" width=\"640\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><b>Introduce us to each of your characters!<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"800\" data-original-width=\"601\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/max-irons-ConanEnlarged.jpg?resize=240%2C320\" width=\"240\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><b>Cohen MacIvor: <\/b>He is 25 years old and he grew up on Copec, before he was arrested for money laundering and sent to Valdura.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"768\" data-original-width=\"564\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/9b00cfd40e792f8172bb4f00743292a8.jpg?resize=235%2C320\" width=\"235\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><b>Adelaide: <\/b>She is 23 years old, loves plants, and she&#8217;s never seen an elderly person before.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"729\" data-original-width=\"564\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1a2b603573771c3fe4bed74198cc5c88.jpg?resize=247%2C320\" width=\"247\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><b>Laymond&nbsp;Huxley: <\/b>He is 26 and grown up in luxury his entire life and all of his priveleges have spoiled him into a wicked man who wants what he wants even if he has to hurt others to do it.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"707\" data-original-width=\"564\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/a5a4f4cf32967865a6aaf66f49294a93.jpg?resize=255%2C320\" width=\"255\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><b>Orville Beaumont: <\/b>He is the inventor of silohuettes and Laymond is his grandson.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"360\" data-original-width=\"270\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/16fed0d86ada39b8d12c82497e57f312.jpg?resize=240%2C320\" width=\"240\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><b>Osment Dao:<\/b> He is 25, raised on a poor island on Inima, and was arrested for grand theft and sent to Valdura where he and Cohen met and they&#8217;ve been friends ever since.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"471\" data-original-width=\"337\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/05ed05f63f48ae69dd5066a6e43afbda.jpg?resize=228%2C320\" width=\"228\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><b>Constance MacIvor:<\/b> This is Cohen&#8217;s older sister. She is 27 and stays home taking care of her sick mother. She also is a beekeeper and makes candles.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><b>How do you prepare to write? (Outline, research, stocking up on chocolate, howling, etc.?)<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">I&#8217;m currently doing some world building and character building by filling out worksheets. I&#8217;ll also be outlining soo and I&#8217;ve been researching intermittedly.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><b>What are you most looking forward to about this novel?<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">Well it&#8217;s definitely new territory for me. I&#8217;m writing an adult romance novel set in space. Never done that before. I&#8217;m kinda looking forward to that. Then also kinda nervous about it. XD<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><b>List 3 things about your novel\u2019s setting.<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">I have three planets so I&#8217;m going to tell you one thing about each of the three planets.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><b>Copec:<\/b> This planet is based on Eastern Europe, particularly Bulgaria, Serbia, and Ukraine.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><b>Inima: <\/b>This planet is based on Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><b>Valdura:<\/b> This planet has blue lava like on a certain island in Indonesia.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"580\" data-original-width=\"870\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Ijen-0207f.jpg?resize=640%2C426\" width=\"640\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><b>What\u2019s your character\u2019s goal and who (or what) stands in the way?<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">Cohen&#8217;s goal is to get his body back and Laymond definitely stands in his way, because if Cohen makes him angry then Cohen can get a longer prison sentence.&nbsp;<\/span> <b><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">How does your protagonist change by the end of the novel?<\/span><\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">I&#8217;m not exactly sure yet &#8230; Usually I figure this out as I go, but I think he becomes more satisfied with his life. That he can still enjoy the good times even while going through something hard.<\/span> <b><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><\/span><\/span><\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><b>What are your book\u2019s themes? How do you want readers to feel when the story is over?<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">I think a big theme will be satisfaction no matter where you are in life. Sometimes when you&#8217;re going through a hard time or feel like you&#8217;re not where you want to be in life it&#8217;s hard to feel content and I feel like Cohen has dealt with that for his entire life.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, &quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;, Palatino, serif; line-height: 20.79px; text-align: center;\">\n<b><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Are you doing NaNoWriMo? Are you writing a novel? Are you participating in this link-up? Post your link in the comments so I can see!<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, &quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;, Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br style=\"line-height: 20.79px;\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, &quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;, Palatino, serif; line-height: 20px;\">\n<b><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">You may also like:<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 20px;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/2017\/08\/beautiful-people-27-cohen-silhouette.html\">Beautiful People #27: Cohen (Silhouette)<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 20px;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/2016\/10\/beautiful-books-2016-introduce-your.html\">Beautiful Books 2016 ~ Introduce Your Novel: Starbloods<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 20px;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/2016\/11\/beautiful-books-2016-novel-update.html\">Beautiful Books 2016 ~ Novel Update: Starbloods<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 20px;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/2015\/10\/beautiful-books-introduce-your-novel.html\">Beautiful Books: Introduce Your Novel &#8211; Subsapien: Hybrid<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 20px;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/2014\/10\/beautiful-books-red-hood.html\">Beautiful Books #1: Let&#8217;s Talk About Books &#8211; Red Hood<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 20px;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NaNoWriMo approaches so it&#8217;s that time of year again! 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