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Book Synopsis Snippet from Geoffrey Edwards' Fire Bell in the Night:
It is late June and paranoia is rampant in Charleston following the murder of a South Georgia planter and his family by a small group of slaves. One of the killers remains at large. With a half-black population and as many as twenty mysterious fires per month, the city is in turmoil and civil order is breaking down. Charleston's ire finds a target - a white farmer caught harboring a fugitive slave. He will stand trial for his life.
Be prepared for twelve days of building suspense as John Sharp, a young New York reporter, is sent to cover the trial and finds himself caught up in the glamour and the horror of the antebellum South. It is a story of unlikely heroes and good men who do the unthinkable, as some try desperately to hold a nation together, while others would die for their patriotic right to dissolve it. Sharp must sift for the truth amid offers of friendship, manipulation, seduction and betrayal - oddly, in a tale with few villains. Fire Bell in the Night renders bittersweet the actual historical events which briefly forestalled Armageddon.
Please make sure to check back on Thursday, May 31, when we will be announcing the Grand Prize Winner of the First Chapters Writing Competition!
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Comments: 14
Your talent got you this far. Good luck.
It is a wonderful book....what I have read anyway.
Congrats! Best of luck in the final round.
We all know that its between your's and Stephen's book (anything else would be a grave miscarriage of judgement) Either way, whoever of you wins, I expect you will both get published. Both are worthy, and ready.....just different kinds of stories. Like I said in my review, your facts are accurate; based upon my research.
Although I hate the fact that you'll get the Denmark V. story out before I do in my upcoming book on Charleston; I like the way you intend to do it. A ghostly apparition results in a bit of retribution, eh? Poetic justice? Mine covers 300 years, so we compliment each other....more Michener-esque. We all know I can't say ANYthing in a few words :-)
I look forward to that author signed copy (of course, for a price ;-)
Oh, and the cocktail parties??? They sound fun. (I wouldn't try one in Charleston, though ;-)
Oh, we are so jealous.....yet, happy for you :-)
I am from the south and am very proud of it. If you don't win, you damn well should!! Good luck! I hope to be able to read the entire story soon. J.D.Cole
Good luck!
Congrats on the win, and best of luck. S&S made a good decision here.