Entry for Cupid's Literary Connection: The Writer's Voice!

TRISKELEON - Karen McCoy

Title: TRISKELEON

Genre: YA sci-fi/fantasy

Word Count: 92,000 words

Query:

Fifteen-year-old Marnie Sayebrooke is one of the last known Momenta--with the unique ability to manipulate time and space. When an ancient book transports her to the magical realm of Anderli, she must use her newfound powers to save the land from Terrsarah, who has unnaturally re-created the Great Famine.

 First 250:

The bookstore bell dinged, but Marnie didn’t hear it. She was too busy studying the tower of un-shelved books. A mottled cover at the very bottom stood out amid the store’s stained glass windows, narrow doorways, and low ceilings. Its gold interlace and Celtic designs mesmerized her.  She wanted the book more than anything—even more than getting away from her step-mom, which surprised her.

           

With a shaking hand, she grabbed the cracked spine. It tingled under her fingers. Wincing, she pulled the aged leather until the book popped into her hands, leaving the books above teetering precariously. Her fingertips grazed the gold-edged pages. She traced the cover’s etchings until she reached the title, Anderli, engraved in laced script, surrounded by a triangle of knots. The author’s name, “Feverish Poppenjay,” was written at the center.

           

Marnie barely glanced up before the other books collapsed over her, crashing and thundering to the floor.

           

She unearthed herself, dumbfounded, and found the clerk glaring at her through wire-rimmed glasses. Giving him a sheepish smile, she gripped Anderli under her arm, and handed him some bills from her jean pocket. As soon as she heard the ding from the cash register, she ran out as fast as she could.