Manusctipt Status: 2 Weeks Delivery
Mentor: Joanna Hathaway
Mentee: Marilyn Chin
Title: THE SCRAPPY RASCALS AND THE GREAT APOCALYPTIC RACE
Age Category: Young Adult
Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy
Word count: 110,000 words
Pitch:
The world is ending and an eccentric prince is holding a race. The prize? A starship powerful enough to escape the apocalypse. Captain Rei Luu-Kaida and her crew of scrappy misfits must outrun and outfox the deadly competition. But when they discover the contest is something far more sinister, it’s up to them, the underdogs of the Territories, to save their world in this genderswapped MAD MAX meets China Mieville’s RAILSEA.
Excerpt:
The stars burnt fiercely in the night sky, as cold and distant as the first time Captain Rei Luu-Kaida set eyes on them. They were her earliest memories, those stars, and they were all she ever dreamed about; they were her pharos, her beacon in this transient world of death and rebirth. The stars were the first thing she saw when she closed her eyes at night and the last thing she remembered before she woke up.
And they might be the last thing she ever saw if Rei and her crew didn’t get out of Shezamite’s territory in a hurry.
Howling winds tore at Rei’s hair and filled the sails of the Scapegrace, propelling the hovership across the moor. Just two hundreds clicks away, safety awaited in the forest of pale corpse-trees that denoted the end of Shezamite’s territory. Safety from the howling berserker army that was currently hot on their heels, wielding cutlasses and spiked chains, urged on by their Queen, the White-Faced, White-Eyed Shezamite, as she gunned her hover-chariot after Rei’s fleeing ship.
And they would have made it, just by the skin of their teeth, with the strong tailwinds fuelling the ship’s speed – that is, if said winds hadn’t died away abruptly, causing the sails to droop and the Scapegrace to stutter to a halt over the moor.
Rei looked about her and muttered, “Shit.”
5 Comments
Kaitlyn Johnson · November 2, 2017 at 11:01 pm
This sounds great! I’d love to see the full. Please send to https://querymanager.com/query/KaitlynJohnson/Contests with synopsis and PitchWars in the referral blank.
Peter Knapp · November 6, 2017 at 11:54 am
Oh, I’m glad I saw Cindy Baldwin’s tweet about this, as I somehow missed it. This sounds excellent: I’d love to read! Please send the full manuscript attached as a Word document to queries@parkliterary.com with the query pasted in the first page of the doc. Please also attach a one (or so) page synopsis if available. Put “PITCH WARS REQUEST — PETE KNAPP” in the subject. Thank you, Marilyn, and I look forward to reading!
Pete
Rena Rossner · November 6, 2017 at 4:23 pm
I’d love to take a closer look! Please send the full manuscript attached as a word document to: rena@thedeborahharrisagency.com
Thanks!
– Rena
Christa Heschke · November 6, 2017 at 10:26 pm
I’m intrigued and I’d be interested to see more! Please send a query, first 50 pages and synopsis to chquery@mcintoshandotis.com. Look forward to reading!
-Christa Heschke, McIntosh & Otis
Steven Salpeter · November 7, 2017 at 8:48 am
Hello, Marilyn,
I’m fascinated by your pitch. Would you please send me a sample of about 100 pages via this form?
https://www.literaryagents.io/pitch-wars-submission-form/
All my best,
Steven
Steven Salpeter | Curtis Brown, Ltd. | Ten Astor Place | New York, NY 10003
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