Exclusive! ANCIENT WHISPERS book trailer debut

The American Title V contest has begun! Sponsored by Romantic Times Magazine and Dorchester Publishing, the American Title Contest pits eight unpublished manuscripts against each other in a show down of best first line, best hero and heroine, best story summary, best dialogue scene and best love scene. Each round a contestant or two is voted off the island. The winner gets her book published by Dorchester. Let the games begin!

Contestant Marie-Claude Bourque’s book ANCIENT WHISPERS is a powerful dark paranormal romance of star-crossed lovers from Acadian literature reunited centuries later by a sorcerer’s magic spell. Marie-Claude is a friend of mine. Please take a moment to watch the book trailer for ANCIENT WHISPERS and vote. The voting this round is open until November 24, 2008.

Two ways to vote:

1. visit http://www.romantictimes.com/news_amtitle3.php
2. email votes@romantictimes.com with the title “ANCIENT WHISPERS” in the subject line

The inspiration for ANCIENT WHISPERS:

Evangeline

A Tale of Arcadie

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

from the 1893 Cambridge Edition
(Originally published in 1847)

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THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,
Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic,
Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.
Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean
Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.
This is the forest primeval; but where are the hearts that beneath it

Leaped like the roe, when he hears in the woodland the voice of the huntsman?
Where is the thatch-roofed village, the home of Acadian farmers –
Men whose lives glided on like rivers that water the woodlands,
Darkened by shadows of earth, but reflecting an image of heaven?
Waste are those pleasant farms, and the farmers forever departed!

Scattered like dust and leaves, when the mighty blasts of October
Seize them, and whirl them aloft, and sprinkle them far o’er the ocean.

Naught but tradition remains of the beautiful village of Grand-Pré.
Ye who believe in affection that hopes, and endures, and is patient,

Ye who believe in the beauty and strength of woman’s devotion,

List to the mournful tradition still sung by the pines of the forest;

List to a Tale of Love in Acadie, home of the happy.

Read more: Part I, Canto I

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