Back Cover Summary

I'm wrapping up my final draft of Wilders before formatting it for publication, working through a few minor consistency details, and after a bit of toying around I finally came up with a summary for the back cover (which will also be the summary for Amazon, etc).

It's a pain to write these things sometimes... you want it to grab someone's attention and not give away too much, yet it has to be short. For this series I'm keeping them under 100 words. It took a long time to figure it out. I probably wouldn't be a good marketing copywriter... I can't come up with these things fast enough.

Like The Distant, it features one of the Tenets from Keryca's Treatise on Breeding, along with a vague summary. There might be a few minor changes before final publication, but thought I'd share something to make it look like I'm making progress.

Anyway, for Wilders, this is what I've got:

The Uses of Kutad
Kutad should only be used as a last resort for sedation, prior to a mercy killing or breeding. Some houlves will try to resist. Kutad is necessary in these circumstances to relax them, make them pliable.
- from Keryca's Treatise on Breeding

The Moon Star has disappeared, and the winds have come, an omen to those who remember.

To the north, the winds glide across the waves of a narrow sea, where a houlf is waiting for her friend to return.

To the east, the winds whistle through the yawning holes of a crashed starship, where wilders are growing anxious.

To the south, the winds skip along the road between human cities, following an unlikely alliance.

And to the west, the winds dance over a mountain lake, where a beast has found a new purpose.