Derry, Northern Ireland

Derry, Northern Ireland
A book I'm working on is set in this town.

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Potential synopsis for "The Alice '65"

In Boston waitin' on a plane so thought I'd share this. If anyone wants to comment, I'm open to it.

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Lewis Carroll’s Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was first printed in late 1865, but the illustrator so disliked how they turned out they were recalled to be replaced by a new printing. All but around 50 were returned and destroyed, and of those 50 fewer than half are still in existence.

Adam Verlain knows all about this because he’s a library archivist for a university in London, and books are his life. But when that library acquires a newly discovered copy of The Alice ‘65, he declines the opportunity to travel to Los Angeles to pick it up. He has sworn never to leave his careful, cloistered world because his father was robbed and killed on a similar business trip. He only agrees to go when he is told the book will be brought to him at the airport and he can return, straightaway...meaning he will be surrounded by security.

However, from the moment he boards the plane things start to go wrong...and then he meets the amazingly beautiful Casey Blanchard, the movie star who inherited The Alice '65. She will not let him have the book unless he accompanies her to a premier of her latest film for reasons that seem...well, quite odd.

But Adam has to go along with whatever Casey wants in order to get the book and keep his job...even as his world crashes into a chaotic mix of a too-cool artist, a protective mother, a drill-sergeant stylist,  questionable edibles, mistaken identity, hysterical fans, Hollywood royalty, their courtiers and minions, maniacal LA drivers, an outlandish party, a drowning pool in the middle of Beverly Hills, a love-struck wild animal on a homemade veldt, 25 cans of salmon...and the horrible realization he’s falling heal over heels in love with a woman every man in the world desires but who he knows could never love him back.

Or could she?

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