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Sunday, November 18, 2012

4 new ShortStories and a brand-new Poetry section!

P'kaboo has 4 more Shortstories up (and one still under revision).  Also, please visit our bookshop to inspect the brand-new POETRY division, with pearls of beauty, nature and life's-like-that by Marie Marshall.

Enjoy!

A Tale of Heroes
A Tale of Heroes - by Douglas Pearce
Settling Up
Settling Up - by Nick Legg


Get What You Can
Get What You Can - by Nick Legg
Outside
Outside - by Dr Emma Briant



Naked in the Sea - Poetry
Naked in the Sea - by Marie Marshall

  





Friday, November 16, 2012

Naked in the Sea

...by Marie Marshall is the first book in our Poetry Section




Pearl 2:
you secret
enfolded
in salt-flesh
hidden
in a sea
of love-songs 


 ~


Enjoy this book!

Thursday, November 8, 2012

7 tips for writing a good blurb - Blurb competition


Blurb-writing is like fly-fishing. Not angling. A reader’s attention in a bookshop or book site is limited, by time restraint, the overwhelming selection, and his attention span.

P’kaboo is running a blurb-writing competition:


Go to the “Freestuff” page of P’kaboo, at www.pkaboo.net/freestuff.html.

  1. Write a blurb for any of the short-stories in the short-story project. The three best entries will win a paperback novel.
  2. Alternatively, write a deliberately lousy blurb (specify this in the subject line). The three funniest entries each win an e-book from our shop, in pdf format (which every e-reader handles, even the intelligent phones).

Mail your entry to info@pkaboo.net, and specify which part of the competition you are entering for. You may email unlimited entries, and you may participate in either part.

The decision of the judges is final and no negotiations can be entered into.

 

7 Tips for writing a great blurb:



1. Start intriguingly.


2. End by leaving unresolved conflict in the reader. The more tension, the better.


3. Be specific to the story.


4. Include “hooks” (e.g. shoutlines and questions)


5. Spoiler-alert. Beware of telling too much.


6. Keep it short – under 30 seconds to read, between 50 and 100 words. Make every word relevant.


7. Go for the jugular – and leave the reader wondering whether it will be ripped .



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