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While Charlene submitted this to me as a straight review, I’d like to call attention to this as an excellent example of a quick blurb, suitable for a query to an agent or an editor. While it is not the complete synopsis that you would send to an editor who had expressed interest in your work, it is the kind of hook that will get an agent or editor interested in asking for the entire ms or chapters and synopsis! Charlene you can write a blurb for me any day!
------ Mary Rosenblum, Web Editor
DICE ANGEL
By Brian Rouff
Hardway Press
Paperback 222 pages
ISBN: 0-9717148-1-9
"Losing streaks in Las Vegas can be the worst in the world."
Jimmy Delaney, owner of Jimmy D’s saloon and supper club
is on a big one. His cranky ex-wife is no "Joy." His insurance
is only going to cover a fraction of the loss when the bar top
slots at Jimmy D’s are burglarized. His ex-brother-in-law,
Mormon Bishop, accountant, Owen, has disappeared—with
all the money in his bank accounts. His checks are bouncing.
His credit cards are being declined. And when he goes to the
bank for a loan he is out of luck; because, Owen took the
money for the tax payments too. Now he has two weeks to
come up with over $50,000 or lose Jimmy D’s.
When Pete, the homeless man he often feeds at the bar, handed
him a crumpled, dirty, business card for the Dice Angel,
Jimmy slippped it in his wallet to humor the old man. He
certainly had no intention of using it. But he’s hocked everything
he can think of, he’s drunk and he’s desperate. Is the kinky,
star charting, chanting, Amaris really a DICE ANGEL? Or is she
just another Vegas con artist?
Brian Rouff’s clever, witty, writing style captures the real
Las Vegas. The glamour and glitz, grit and sand, excitement
and everyday boredom of its unique lifestyle. His characters
are people I know, see, and pass on the streets as I dodge the
"Nevada state bush," those darn orange construction cones that
decorate the streets.
Dice Angel’s twists and turns will whip and toss and thrill you like
the roller coaster ride at the New York, New York. It’s a stay up all
night, edge of the seat read right up to the literary, tip you upside
down, ending.
© November 2003 Charlene Austin
http://home.earthlink.net/~clyons55
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