Writing In The Buff's Book Blurb Friday: "Girl's Gone Camping"

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“Girl’s Gone Camping”

While watching Man vs. Wild and Survivorman, the tall and beautiful Miriam Sheilds figured out a practical approach to teaching newbies to camp as they sat in front of the telly.  This book is the back-story of season one of the new hit reality show “Girl’s Gone Camping”.


Producer and star of her own series, Miriam is excited about the first day of filming at Pristine River. Her brother Mike agreed to be her cameraman. Miriam walked to the beautiful campsite with a backpack full of standard camping gear and a fishing pole.


Setting up camp on the flat rock, Miriam notices fresh cougar tracks on the bank.  Hearing her name being called, Miriam looks around to see Mike’s best friend Jeff; but no Mike. Oh, great, now what?  Jeff may be gorgeous, but he drives her crazy.  Miriam wonders if she has a better chance fighting off the cougar.  (150)

You guys, I rewrote this three times.  The second time was better for the story, but wasn't so much a blurb and explaining the idea for the show, so I redid it.  I decided to post it here too because it focused more on Miriam's feelings for Jeff.  (Except that her name is Sarah there.) To sum them up, it is like the line in Jim Croce's song Operator: "A man she knew well and sometimes hated."    Miriam also has a pet wolf named Aslan., who helps do things like protecting her from cougars.  Mike broke his ankle, and that is why he couldn't make it to the first day of filming.  Here is a copy of that version.  Which story do you like best?

“Girl’s Gone Camping”

Tall, beautiful blond Sarah Shields was stoked!  Her brainchild of producing and starring in her own reality TV show was coming true.  Filming began today at Pristine River, with Sarah’s brother Mike as her cameraman.

Watching Bear Grylis and Lee Stroud on television, Sarah knew her show was more practical.  The storyline was a woman and her pet wolf, alone in the wild, teaching camping and survival skills to newbies.  Sarah allowed herself standard camping gear that fit on her hiking pack, and a fishing pole. (Surviorman always seemed to need one.)

Setting up camp, two things were just plain wrong. First, Sarah found cougar tracks.  Worse, Mike didn’t show up.  Instead, his annoying, gorgeous best friend Jeff did.  A man she knew well and sometimes hated, but was very drawn to.

What will be the Sarah’s biggest challenge: the cougar, or keeping her heart safe from that sexy Jeff?

This post is part of Lisa Richard Claro's Writing in the Buff's Book Blurb Friday!  Read the instructions below and give it a try ... it's fun and challenging, and if I can do it, YOU can do it.

I am participating in Lisa's Book Blurb Friday, from over at Writing in the Buff.   It is fun, and you can play too!  Pretend that the picture on the top of this post is the cover of a book.  On the inside jacket, you have 150 words to entice the reader to buy your book.  Lisa gives us a week to think about next week's entry (she's gracious like that).  Please CLICK HERE  to read what everybody else wrote!

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