Formula for tagline/summary

Per my Twitter conversation with Colby Hodge/Cindy Holby, here's the short blurb I created yesterday for my upcoming young adult Novel, The Ghost and The Goth, using Linnea Sinclair's "character+conflict+hook" formula. She does it way better than I can, but I'm pretty proud of this one: 

 

The Ghost and the Goth by Stacey Kade

After a close encounter with the front end of a school bus, Alona Dare goes from Homecoming Queen to Queen of the Dead. Now she's stuck here in spirit form with no sign of the big, bright light coming to take her away. To make matters worse, the only person who might be able to help her is Will Killian, a total loser/outcast type who hates the social elite. He alone can see and hear her, but he wants nothing to do with the uberbitch of Groundsboro High.
 
Can they get over their mutual distrust—and this weird attraction between them—to work together before Alona vanishes for good and Will is locked up for seeing things that don't exist?

 

From Hyperion Books in Summer 2010. Visit StaceyKade.com for more details.

 

Update

Edits for my YA novel are in--yea! So, I'm working on those, which is using up most of my brain power at the moment. I am really excited about this book! The title will not be changing, it seems, so it will be The Ghost and the Goth. It will likely be a summer 2010 release. 

Lessons to remember for next time? I should have written up all the rules for my world when I was actually writing the book so I could refer back to them now, the edit phase, easily instead of trying to cobble together all my scrawled notes into some semblance of sense. They made sense at the time, I swear! But I wrote the first draft of this book two years ago. That's a long time to try and remember/decipher notes on the back of a credit card envelope. :) So...next time, write book, take notes on rules while writing the book, and then write up the rules at the end of the book. 

I'm also getting ready for RT--just five weeks away! Buying my giveaways for the goody bags, creating (or starting to create) new promotional postcards, making flight arrangements and plans to meet up with friends. 

Excellent books I've read lately include:

Hope's Folly by Linnea Sinclair--I was lucky enough to read this one while it was under development. It has become my new favorite! Philip and Rya...wow, the chemistry between them is amazing. Love the May-December thing too. Plus, I'm a sucker for a good "rebellion against the evil empire" story. My favorite part was Hope's Folly (the ship) herself. Always limping along, something always breaking, the mysterious smell of oranges--reminds me of Serenity, you know? 

The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan--wow, this one just completely sucked me in. It was wonderful! Zombies and the end of the world. Kind of like 28 Days Later meets The Village. :) 

What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell

Airhead by Meg Cabot--I put off reading this one for awhile as I thought I knew which way it was going to go, but I've never been more delighted to be wrong! :)

Okay, off to finish laundry and then bed! More later... :)