Here's the synopsis on the front inside flap. Comments and critiques are welcome before I solidify this.
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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 rare book cataloguer for a university in London, and books are his life. But when that university 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, where he will be surrounded by security, and he can return home, straightaway.
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 careens into a chaotic mix of a punk child, a too-cool henna 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 near Santa Monica Boulevard, 50 cans of salmon (no wildebeest; can't get that in LA)...and the horrible realization he’s falling heal over heels in love with a woman every man in the world desires, whom he knows could never love him back.
Or could she?
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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 rare book cataloguer for a university in London, and books are his life. But when that university 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, where he will be surrounded by security, and he can return home, straightaway.
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 careens into a chaotic mix of a punk child, a too-cool henna 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 near Santa Monica Boulevard, 50 cans of salmon (no wildebeest; can't get that in LA)...and the horrible realization he’s falling heal over heels in love with a woman every man in the world desires, whom he knows could never love him back.
Or could she?
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I've also finished inputting changes and will make one more pass through the meat of the story to see if it's ready...then it's done. I am so excited...and ready...
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