It's been forever since I did a first lines meme
And now that Handbook for Dragon Slayers is delivered and accepted, and I have a bit of time on my hands until copyedits come back, I get to play around in my sadly neglected New Words Sandbox.
So. This meme!
Fairer (MG fairy book)
fairer, not fairest
wiser, not wisest
kinder, not kindest
better, not best
Queen of Thonos
I hadn't been married three months before my husband got himself kidnaped by a demon.
The Courts of Arcanum
I was drowning.
"The Spell-Hedge" or maybe The Spell-Hedge, I just don't know
The Infant Orphling Home of Condolence Falls had one child left, and that was a boy the monks had named Billy Bays.
The 64 Kingdoms book
"You aren't really inviting sixty-three princesses, are you?" I asked Mom, dropping to the chair beside her desk and mopping the sweat from my nose with my sleeve.
untitled YA comedy of manners
"No one wants to go to college a virgin," Lexa said, jamming her fork into a crouton. She pointed the crouton at me. "Not even you, Taylor."
"Madison Schofield's Annotated Wicked Fairy Peerage"
This is a wicked fairy peerage. This is my updated and revised version of the famous DeLong's Wicked Fairy Peerage that was supposed to keep me safe from wicked fairy peers. Mostly, that one worked? But kind of not really, because here I am, as you see me.
"The Kindest Month"
One time we celebrated the New Year in April because we were being medieval. We reversed the dates, too, so all throughout the night of December 31st instead of wearing sparkling doodads on our heads and breathing into noisemakers, we played pranks. When the Times Square Ball dropped on TV and everyone else in our time zone counted and kissed, we shouted "APRIL FOOLS!" and taped paper fish to each other's backs.
Mending
On the first day, I woke up in the great hall's hearth, curled in the warm ashes of the fireplace.
Last Girl on Earth
Every time I wake up, but before I open my eyes, I think: it didn't really happen.
But it did.
So. This meme!
Fairer (MG fairy book)
fairer, not fairest
wiser, not wisest
kinder, not kindest
better, not best
Queen of Thonos
I hadn't been married three months before my husband got himself kidnaped by a demon.
The Courts of Arcanum
I was drowning.
"The Spell-Hedge" or maybe The Spell-Hedge, I just don't know
The Infant Orphling Home of Condolence Falls had one child left, and that was a boy the monks had named Billy Bays.
The 64 Kingdoms book
"You aren't really inviting sixty-three princesses, are you?" I asked Mom, dropping to the chair beside her desk and mopping the sweat from my nose with my sleeve.
untitled YA comedy of manners
"No one wants to go to college a virgin," Lexa said, jamming her fork into a crouton. She pointed the crouton at me. "Not even you, Taylor."
"Madison Schofield's Annotated Wicked Fairy Peerage"
This is a wicked fairy peerage. This is my updated and revised version of the famous DeLong's Wicked Fairy Peerage that was supposed to keep me safe from wicked fairy peers. Mostly, that one worked? But kind of not really, because here I am, as you see me.
"The Kindest Month"
One time we celebrated the New Year in April because we were being medieval. We reversed the dates, too, so all throughout the night of December 31st instead of wearing sparkling doodads on our heads and breathing into noisemakers, we played pranks. When the Times Square Ball dropped on TV and everyone else in our time zone counted and kissed, we shouted "APRIL FOOLS!" and taped paper fish to each other's backs.
Mending
On the first day, I woke up in the great hall's hearth, curled in the warm ashes of the fireplace.
Last Girl on Earth
Every time I wake up, but before I open my eyes, I think: it didn't really happen.
But it did.