Will iconic images recorded in the grooves of an ancient vase unite the Holy Land or rip it further apart?

THE VASE

A novel by Mark M. DeRobertis

Muhsin Muhabi is a Palestinian potter, descended from a long line of potters. His business is run from the same shop owned by his ancestors since the day his forebears moved to Nazareth. The region's conflict saw the death of his oldest son, and rogue terrorists are in the process of recruiting his youngest in their plot to assassinate the Pope and Israeli prime minister.

Professor Hiram Weiss is an art historian at Nazareth’s Bethel University. He is also a Shin Bet operative on special assignment. With the help of fellow agent, Captain Benny Mathias, he plans to destroy the gang responsible for the death of his wife and only child. He puts a bomb in the ancient vase he takes on loan from Muhsin’s Pottery Shop.

Mary Levin, the charming assistant to the director of Shin Bet, has lost a husband and most of her extended family to recurring wars and never-ending terrorism. She dedicates her life to the preservation of Israel, but to whom will she dedicate her heart? The brilliant professor from Bethel University? Or the gallant captain who now leads Kidon?

Harvey Holmes, the Sherlock of Haunted Houses, is a Hollywood TV host whose reality show just flopped. When a Lebanese restaurant owner requests his ghost-hunting services, he believes the opportunity will resurrect his career. All he has to do is exorcise the ghosts that are haunting the restaurant. It happens to be located right across the street from Muhsin’s Pottery Shop.




Friday, February 11, 2011

New Text Under Blog Header

You may notice the spiel under my header is more detailed in its description of my novel, THE VASE, and it introduces some of the characters by name. I'm not sure if I should be so wordy right there, but I didn't know where else to put the back cover copy. Maybe I will revert to the more simplistic version I had before. You may remember it went like this:

The Vase, a novel soon to be published by Virtual Tales

featuring:

A simple merchant in the old city market
An art professor who moonlights for Mossad
An IDF veteran, now the head of Kidon
A reality TV host whose ghost-hunting show just flopped

I have another version of back cover copy, but it's on my teacher's website. I like it better actually, but I thought different ones for different sites are preferable because then people won't be reading the same thing all over again. As for which one makes it onto the actual back cover of the book, or onto the Virtual Tales site description of the book, I would think it would be the other one. This one here looks more fit for a bullet type format. But both give the reader a better idea of what THE VASE is about.

On Monday, I'll talk about the characters in more depth.

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