Mark Adam Thomas
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Return to Turtle Cove
A young half-blooded islander boy, Kibbe, is in a tough spot. Racial prejudice from the village elders has put him at the breaking point. On the run, an encounter with pirate slavers forces him to choose whether to save those who have shunned him, or let them be captured.
Return to Turtle Cove was my very first novel, written in 2005 during National Novel Writing Month. It proved challenging, and it was this novel, and its hero Kibbe, that showed me I had a knack for writing, even if unrefined. R2TC was not my first novel idea, however. I had been developing Apprentice Bound for a number of years prior to joining NaNoWriMo, but I did not want to cut my teeth on such a large project. So I started small, finishing the story of Turtle Cove in about 55,000 words. It is still in the process of editing, and should clock in at 90,000 words when finished.
I present you with the revised Chapter One.
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