Book Blurb Friday: crown on gate

Each week, Lisa Ricard Claro, from her blog Writing in the Buff, posts a photo (this week by Ashley Ortiz) which writer-bloggers are asked to imagine as the cover of a book. Then we are to imagine we've read the book, and then to write for it an inviting "blurb" of 150 words or less, which will make browsers into buyers.
Congratulations to Lisa this week for reaching Book Blurb Friday #50.
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Now here is Ashley's photo, along with my Book Blurb of 108 words.
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Despite the crown and flowers, she saw she gate as defining her prison. No matter how many times she was taken out in the limousine, flown to exotic locales, wined and dined by the world’s shiniest luminaries, she must one day return home to hear the gate close behind her, saving her, the family said, from the world.

Was it any wonder, then, that she took she opportunity offered by a crowded airport lounge to slip away? She slipped away from the airport, away from the city where she had lived all her life, away to the other side of the country.

And then she slipped.

And fell.

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108 words

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Book Blurb Friday: elevation, 9000 feet

One of the most beautiful cities in the world, Quito, Ecuador, sits on the equator, but the weather is never too hot. The reason is its altitude: 9000 feet (2743 meters) above sea level.

Much of Quito's architecture is Spanish Colonial, but much of it is modern as well. It is a vibrant, thriving city, without being too big for comfort.

The symbol of Quito is the iconic statue of the Virgin Mary on top of a hill overlooking the city.

Author Kay Davies and her photographer husband Richard Schear visited Quito with an eye to retiring in the city or its environs.

In this beautifully written and superbly illustrated volume, Quito: ¿Si o No? learn what the author and her husband decided, and why.

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hosted by Lisa Ricard Claro at Writing in the Buff

Each week, Lisa posts a photo (see top photo, by Lynn Obermoeller) to inspire other writer-bloggers to imagine a book, of which the prompt photo is the front cover, and to write a "blurb" (maximum 150 words) for the back cover to entice people to buy this book.

This week's submission is 129 words.

(Additional photos by Kay Davies and Richard Schear.)

To see how the prompt photo inspired other writer-bloggers, please click

HERE!