Genre: YA Sci-FiWord count: 79,000 Query letter: Dear Mr./Mrs. Uber-Agent, The Surgeon Generals are liars. The lives squirming inside the guts of Katia and the other clones aren’t parasites. They’re Freeborns. The squirming in Katia’s gut means two things: she is infected with the dreaded parasite, and her boring life Read more…
Genre: YA Dystopian Word count: 72,000 Query: Dear Ms. Chapman, When sixteen-year-old Misty Evans discovers a hidden notebook in her mother’s art room, she’s excited and terrified. Paper is against the law. In the pages of the notebook, Misty learns that events leading up to her mother’s disappearance might have Read more…
Genre: Contemporary YAWord Count: 57,500 Query: Dear Ms. Chapman: I found the Super Intern Contest on Twitter and am pleased to send you the opening 250 words of my contemporary YA manuscript, Dead Sister Days. The story might appeal to readers who enjoyed the candid emotion and colloquial style of Read more…
Genre: YA historical fantasy romanceWord count: 50,000 Query: Falling in love isn’t easy when it’s challenged by a brutal duke, a murderous king, and the threat of war between kingdoms. But truelove doesn’t care about convenience, and it certainly has no aversion to danger. When Princess Araya flees an arranged Read more…
Genre: Romantic Fantasy Word Count: 98,000 Query: Being a half-demon isn’t easy. Neither is being wooed by a mask-wearing warlord with vengeance on his mind. Embyr tends her tavern and maintains her quiet life while keeping her dangerous parentage a secret until she’s attacked by a hellhound and saved by Read more…
Genre: Upper YA historical fiction, Bildungsroman Word count: 120,000 Query: Dear [Agent], I noticed you’re interested in historical fiction, and hope you will consider And Jakob Flew the Fiend Away, an upper YA historical Bildungsroman set in the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies between 1940-46. Fourteen-year-old Jakob DeJonghe can Read more…
Genre: MG Mystery Word Count: 41,500 Query: Twelve-year-old Maggie McCoy wants to be brave and spontaneous. But she’s not. So when she and her fearless cousin Jake stumble upon century-old clues leading to gold coins hidden by Butch Cassidy—farm boy turned infamous bank robber of the Wild West—she crumples her Read more…
Genre: MG FantasyWord count: 50,000 Query: Dear Erica, Thirteen-year-old Princess Leila thought her biggest problems were picking out which dress to wear and entertaining boring princes like Henrick. But when Leila is kidnapped by a dragon who plans to use her and the book-smart Princess Margriet as rescue bait to Read more…
Genre: YA Post ApocalypticWord Count: 66,000 Query: Eri sprints into the night seeking a beast that wants nothing more than to feast on her flesh. She knows this is suicide, but she can’t deny the pull. The Calling is too strong. As the beast’s claws reach for her throat, a Read more…
Genre: YA Urban Fantasy Word count: 57,000 Query: Seventeen-year-old Selina Kane always knew she was different, but never imagined she was last-living-necromancer different.Not until she starts speaking the language of the Underworld and visiting Acherusian Lake in her dreams. Caught between chasing a destiny she doesn’t yet understand and wanting to Read more…