This is something I pieced together for the post-apocalyptic action/comedy thing. Probably only keep it up for a few days, but I’m hoping to show some of the comedy and kind of mention that it could be R-Rated without saying the term. I’m also curious about Kindle Scout for this and will have to look into it. Not sure how it works. Anyway, let me know what you think:
The United States of America have been crippled. Violently contained by a global military force and left without its leaders, the country has become shattered and chaotic. It has been a decade since the first strike and a new landscape has emerged where survival is more important than anything else. Who will uncover the truth behind the attack and revive the once great nation?
It certainly won’t be Cassidy and Lloyd since they couldn’t care less about that stuff. She is a young woman on a mission to honor her mother’s dying wish, which is to toss her ashes off the Golden Gate Bridge. He is an infamous serial killer she broke out of Rikers Island since hiring a bodyguard wasn’t working out. Not the perfect plan, but having an insane, oddly charming murder-junkie on your side is a plus in the Shattered States.
Bullets and swear words are going to fly as Cassidy and Lloyd travel coast to coast, facing one challenge after another . . . including Nebraska.
Legends of Windemere 
Great Blurb. I would clean up “couldn’t” care less to could care less. (I know I know Long Island) Other than that terrific.
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Is that right? I always thought ‘could care less’ means a person cares a bit. Could not care less sounds more like it would be that it isn’t their business.
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Okay. Stick with couldn’t care less which originated in old English. Could care less has evolved as the non-colloquial version. Either way you are right. Was just a suggestion.
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I know what you’re saying. It’s a really confusing thing that kind of results in both phrases meaning the same thing even though they’re opposites. My only concern is that it’s become really popular to pounce on someone for using the ‘could care less’ when they mean they don’t care. So I’m wondering if the tide is turning on that one.
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could be.
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Nice! I like how you set it up as a “who will save the States,” then pull the rug under our feet with the “could care less” (I’m with John on that one, BTW, even if you’re technically right). Nice how you worked in there the Shattered States, too 🙂
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Thanks. I’ll have to think about the ‘could care less’. Has it become the way to say it even if it’s incorrect? I mean, I’ve seen so many people pounce on an author for using the term. I do like the term ‘Shattered States’ and it did become what a few characters called the country.
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I love how you went from serious to hilarious. This is going to be a fun one. My vote is also “could care less”, meaning they don’t care.
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That phrase is going to get me into so much trouble.
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Sounds great to me. It makes me want to read it – though in fairness I already want to read it, having met the characters. But still… 😀
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Thanks. Need to figure out that ‘could not care less’ and ‘could care less’ issue. It’s such a weird one.
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Trust a brit on this, Charles. It’s couldn’t care less! Unless I missed something in the thread and the issue is something else?! 😀
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That’s pretty much the debate. Seems it got changed in America and explained as sarcasm, but that doesn’t always come across in the written word. To the ear, it could make sense, but it visibly doesn’t look right.
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I agree and I think, if used in speech it makes more sense because we get lazy and the sarcasm works. Other than that – not a fan! 😀
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Thanks. 🙂
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