BOOK: The Sequel
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BOOK: The Sequel is now available!
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Be sure to read excerpts of sample sequel sentences. (Say that 5 times fast!)
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this fun (and quick) project!
Ever wonder what happens to Harry Potter after twenty years of marriage and a steady government gig?
Or what Karl Marx would say about today’s financial crisis?
If the Bible had a sequel, what would its first sentence be?
Write that sentence and you could be published! It’s easy!
- Pick a book.
- Imagine its sequel.
- Write the first sentence.
- Give it a great title.
- Click Submit Sequel Now! to enter.
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Some inspiration to get you started:
See, I was right. —From Das Kapital 2 (sequel to Das Kapital by Karl Marx)
HappyMeals are all alike; each unhappy meal is unhappy in its own way. —From Anna McKarenina (sequel to Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy)
Bob Marley was dead, to begin with. —From Kwanzaa Tunes (sequel to A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens)
All animals are equal, except those with swine flu. —From Mexican Animal Farm (sequel to Animal Farm by George Orwell)
Featured Submissions
The great fish moved silently through the night water, hoping to get some fiber in its diet. —From Jaws: Deep Constipation (sequel to Jaws by Peter Benchley) Submitted by Jeremy Wagner, Struggling Novelist, Waukegan, IL
"Jonny," Dolores thinks to herself, staring at a handsome, dark-haired boy across her crowded classroom, "sun of my soul, inferno of my lap." —From Jonny (sequel to Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov) Submitted by Blair Mastbaum
Guy Montag walked through the burning shell of the city, with his backpack full of books, feeling if not quite happy, then at least satisfied he was saving something, when suddenly Granger called out a warning, but it was too late, Montag had fallen through a street grate into the city sewers, "Nooooo," Guy called out from the putrid river that he and his books had plunged into, "no no no no! Aww this really sucks." —From Fahrenheit 452: The Wettening (sequel to Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury) Submitted by Brendan McGinn, NYC
It was Grigg's fault that our group evolved; his influence was clear when Jocelyn said, "Who knows? Each of us might end up with a private Dick of her own. Wait, that didn't come out right." —From The Philip K. Dick Book Club (sequel to The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler) Submitted by Laura Martone
There really is a sucker born every minute—and luckily for me, most of them grow up to be movie stars! —From Ha Ha, Fooled You (sequel to Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard) Submitted by Anonymous
Who watches the watchers of the Watchmen? —From Watching Watchmen (sequel to Watchmen by Alan Moore) Submitted by Jordan Earls