Demarcations Book Proposal

Book Proposal

WORKING TITLE: Demarcations (Book 1 of the Sacred, Colorado Series)

THEMES: New Beginnings, Love, Living a Dream, and Community.

LENGTH: Approx. 97,000 words * 24 chapters

HOW DIFFERS: It’s a multi-generational novel where the grandmother was estranged from Sara and her siblings and how they get to know each other in a small town. The characters of the town, and the communal aspect they bring, along with the prospects of the Bradford family starting anew, makes it different from other novels.

MARKET: Church, chapel, and internet (including three blogs and Twitter).

BIO: Married to my best friend without 2-legged children, but have a Beagle. Work full time as a novelist. Have two blogs that I try to keep up with daily. Addicted to coffee, tea, counting-calories, and exercise. Avid reader.

AVAILABILITY: Available immediately via disc or emailed in Word 97-2003 or Word 2007.

SUMMARY: Sara moves to Sacred, Colorado, a small mountain town, in order to start over and get to know her Grandmother Mable for the first time. Therefore, this is a book about a relationship between the two. Neither one of Sara’s parents are still living and she went through several hardships recently. Therefore, she needed a change of scenery anyway. Sara meets several new friends in town and rents a house and a building for a café and bookstore from Jarett. He also provides her a romance and he fixes up her places since he’s in the construction field. He even surprises her by fixing up a place for her siblings, Mick and Jackie, to stay when they move to town. Mable, her sweet Nanna, is arrested for assault with a rolling pin. The same incident brought Sara’s arrest as well. Both incidents only make life a little more colorful for Sara’s new beginning. Sara is also surprised when her Christian Nanna has a relationship with a local bar owner. The friends she makes in town, along with other townies, make this a lively novel with words of wisdom from Nanna’s journal scattered throughout the novel. The book closes with a cliffhanger where Sara’s older brother pretends to be married to a townie he just met recently.