Copyright © 2008 - Lora Gray
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Specifications
The manuscript of "Moko and the Well" is complete and ready for review by a publisher or literary agent. It is available as a Microsoft Word document, which is 105 pages long - 12 point, 1.5 spaced. The story is comprised of approximately 26,500 words. The intended audience is middle readers who are interested in mythical creatures, fantasy worlds and creatively mischievous resolutions to modern-day problems. The story, while using fantastic creatures as a device, approaches real-life issues in a positive way.
Synopsis
Moko is not a typical child. In fact, she is truly unique. She is a lonely, introverted orphan armed with a dictionary and a morose vocabulary. Moko’s life takes a dramatic turn for the better when she is unexpectedly adopted by a once-happy but now dysfunctional family. She makes it her mission to figure out how to lift them from their depression and return their lives to them, along with something very precious which has been taken from them. With the help of her dictionary and a strange creature who lives in the abandoned well behind her new home, Moko manages to figure out how to reach her goal and learns just how wonderfully unique she really is.
About the Author
Lora Gray, a graphic designer and freelance visual artist, has spent the last fourteen years working as an award-winning Art Director for Harcourt Brace College Publishers, The Dryden Press, Cluzi Design and IBM/Tivoli Education. She is the writer and producer of a series of theatrical plays based on the radio dramas of the 1940s. She is also the composer of several award-winning songs and the winner of three 2006 Tribeca Film Festival awards for her short films. Raised in Texas, she has lived and worked in London and the Slovak Republic and currently lives with her husband Clark and their three children in an enchanted cove near Austin, Texas.