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August.
Novel: Booked Train to Baarda
Genre: Fantasy
110,060 words so far  

About August.

Location: Cleveland, OH

Home Region:
United States :: Ohio :: Cleveland

Age:17

Website: http://augustfalcon.livejournal.com

Favorite novels: From E to You, Good Omens, The Mandarin of Mayfair, Neverwhere, Desperate Duchesses, England's Perfect Hero

Favorite writers: Terry Pratchett, Patricia Veryan, Eloisa James, Neil Gaiman

Non-noveling interests: ATP tennis, skiing, trains, politics, NASCAR, hiking

Joined: Mei 3, 2007

This Year: Official Participant

NaNoWriMo History:
'06 '07

NaNoWriMo posts: 225

NaNoWriMo buddies: 13

 

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Synopsis: Booked Train to Baarda

The Baarda Library Train is experiencing financial difficulties, so the engineer takes on some paying passengers. Brigita Van Wieren plans to ignore them, be a good librarian, and get her paycheck. Oh, and steal a little magic from train lines on the side. Eysteinn Alkema just cares about getting to university - and keeping the stowaway a secret. Then a campaigning politician hijacks the train, followed by a businesswoman seizing control, followed by everyone battling for it. A wizard girl tries to end the fighting, and that evening the head librarian finds her corpse stashed behind the shelves in the caboose. Meanwhile they have to avoid avalanches, trainwrecks, and the mysterious, annoying personality tests that are popping up everywhere. This isn't the end of the problems - nobody has remembered to feed the Official Library Cat, and he is not amused.

Excerpt: Booked Train to Baarda

"Someone DIED?" Joona was asking incredulously. "Seriously, DEAD?"

"I don't know why you're so surprised by death when you've apparently been causing it all over the place," said Eysteinn.

"I have NOT been causing death all over the place."

"Tell that to the twenty-four people you slaughtered."

"It wasn't slaughter! It wasn't even my FAULT! I didn't EXPECT the whole place to explode like that!"

"Explode...do you know anything about exploding sheep?"

"Actually, that was a case of an exploding sheep."

"SERIOUSLY?!"

"It was very unfortunate."

"How did it happen?"

"If I knew I'd be a rich man. Some magic went wrong, I guess. Hit the sheep. We were on a farm. Shearing season. You can guess the rest."

Visions of wool and sheep parts flying everywhere passed in front of Eysteinn's eyes. "How many sheep died?"

"We lost count."

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