Posted Monday June 1st 2009
by Nikesh Shukla
Welcome to our first Twitter/Booktrust blog/Facebook competition! How Web 2.0 of us! So here's your chance to win some Orange Prize for Fiction 2009 longlist books. All you have to do is write a sentence. Simple, eh?
We've invented a book, a fictional piece of fiction, called Abracadeathra. You can read the blurb below. All we ask is that you provide us with the last line of the book. The most imaginative, funny, creative ones will be collated into a future blog and will be retweeted on Twitter. We're looking for something more imaginative than '... and they lived happily ever after' or '... and then he woke up and it was all a dream.'
Abracadeathra
‘There was only one way this could end. He would have to make a choice. Save her from herself or save himself from her.’
Radford Quist has nowhere left to go. Excluded from the magicians’ circle for giving away trade secrets on Twitter, he’s down on his luck, unable to find work, unable to catch a break, unable to buy his mother the cosmetic surgery she desperately needs. Then he meets Magda, a car mechanic with a secret, and a taste for tricks cons and magic. Together, they must race against time to raise the money. But what is Magda's real interest in Radford?'
How to enter:
Write a last line, then either add it as a comment on this blog or, if you are on Twitter, follow us and tweet your last line with the tag '#booktrust' or add it to our Facebook wall
The competition will stay open till 15 June when we'll decide our favourite entrants and send them out books from the Orange Prize for Fiction 2009 longlist.
Happy writing!
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Renmeleon
Jun 4th, 2009 at 08:24:53 hrs
Magda herself wasn't even sure. She had followed him, found his Tweeted tricks to be less than fruitful, and yet she was still drawn to him. In the end it was Radford's mother who had been the catalyst for their meeting. She'd seen her face on TwitPic and been obliged to help, her own father under protective custody and growing restless. He was in between cosmetic makeovers for the CIA's Witness Protection program and she knew he needed an outlet. It would solve both their problems; Radford's mother would have her new face, Radford himself off the hook for the money, and her father would quit bugging her about getting married and starting a family. After all, how many grandchildren did he really need?
bthom526
Jun 2nd, 2009 at 08:03:48 hrs
The facial transmogrifier Magda created for Quist's mother from the plans Radford tweeted and financed from money his budding magician Peeps donated, began to smoke, so he had to decide if he could he fix the mirrored machine without Magda's help, but instead he sent the following Tweet: @Magda u r needed immedtly back home with Peep money to fix yr mirror due to smoke appearance and mom's Pelosi face.