Genre: Science Fiction Word Count: 104,000 Query: Dear Ms. Chapman: If Dima could remember her life, she’s damn sure she’d want it back. The Humani Project’s latest test subject believes she’s human, but her sleek black fur, claws, and tail make that seem impossible. Her only clue to an existence Read more…
Genre: YA light Sci-FiWord Count: 90,000 Query: The first time Leah saw the Shadows,they clung to the man who kidnapped and murdered her friend. That was the Shadows playing nice. After they murdered her family, Leah fled Los Angeles in a stolen BMW with one thing on her mind: survive 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: Paranormal YAWord count: 71,000 Query: Dear Agent, In GRACEFUL DEATH, fifteen-year-old Grace thinks insomnia is her biggest problem, until she starts seeing shadow people that can’t be real. A black clad doppelganger splitting off from Raf, her best friend/secret crush, causing mischief? Yikes. Determined to sleep and end Read more…
Genre:YA Sci fi Word count: 90,000 Query: A popular junior at an elite New England prep school, Marc is on his way to becoming his charming, power-hungry U.S. Senator father. Marc’s friendships and short-lived hook-ups are as selfish and self-serving as everything else he does. After stealing a test and blackmailing 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, ContemporaryWord count: 56,000 Query: Dear Ms. Chapman, Thirteen-year-old Ramon Mendes Figueroa is on track to become the principal cellist in the honors orchestra when an ugly break-up between his young uncle, El Guapo, and his cello instructor, Stefany, sends her to a new job a thousand miles away. Read more…
Genre: Dystopian Literary Fiction Word count: 97,000 Query: On a planet ravaged by a horrific virus, a family blessed with genetic immunity controls a growing empire with a treatment derived from their blood. As the virus spreads, so does their power; as their power grows so do their secrets. To 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: YA Urban fantasyWord count: 82,000 Query: Dear Erica, Seventeen-year-old Caleb Dunnelly spends his weekends searching the net for clues about his parents’ disappearance. Which is why his best friend has to trick him into going out one Friday night. The two end up at Confessions, local hotspot and—apparently—the perfect Read more…