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?
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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 interminable knit-one, purl-one coding became much too tedious, so I developed knitting machine language, and then realized I could even make an automatic engine that could both compile all my notes within a few hours and also interpret them into normal French. —From Industrial Codes: The Autobiography of Madame Defarge (sequel to A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens) Submitted by Katherine Johnson
Once upon a time and a very bad time it was there was a nurseoo coming down along the hall and this nurseoo that was coming down along the hall met a nicens little old man named stephen doodoo ... —From A Portrait of the Artist As an Old Man (sequel to A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man by James Joyce) Submitted by Susan Schoer
Sit down, class, and get to work or, by the whale, I'll harpoon you to your seats. —From They Call Me Mr. Ishmael (a survivor of a doomed whale hunt goes back to the classroom to teach rowdy Londoners) (sequel to Moby Dick by Herman Melville) Submitted by Suzanne Arruda, Mystery Writer
Could someone please pick up that stepladder and help me down from this fan? —From Such People in It (sequel to Brave New World by Aldous Huxley) Submitted by Bruce Greenwood, Tahmoor, Australia
Hello Godot! What on earth kept you? —From No More Waiting For Godot (sequel to Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett) Submitted by John O'Byrne, Dublin, Ireland