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- May 14th, 2010, 4:29 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: TRINITY, a novel (#4, revised)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 9490
Re: TRINITY, a novel
When I read this, I had a major 'buzzah?' moment. You really need to establish why the Mayans care about leukemia research, and why they would destroy a lab over it. Rainbow covered everything else.
- May 1st, 2010, 6:03 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: Query Revision: Euphonious Brine
- Replies: 36
- Views: 12234
Re: Query Revision: Euphonious Brine
Dear Agent, Thirteen year-old Griffin Tutela doesn’t believe. (This sentence confuses me. Doesn't believe what?) His lineage is supposedly from another world and his family has been left on Earth to protect the gateway to the Aureus Wood, a sacred forest behind his Grandmother’s house. But he’s sur...
- May 1st, 2010, 4:54 pm
- Forum: Books
- Topic: Start with THE HOBBIT or FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING?
- Replies: 85
- Views: 37362
Re: Start with THE HOBBIT or FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING?
Hobbit or Lord of the Rings?
Neither!
Neither!
- May 1st, 2010, 4:35 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Voice and YA
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3638
Re: Voice and YA
Voice is simply the color of the prose. A great writer is something akin to a painter, using prose as paint.
- April 28th, 2010, 3:33 am
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: Fantasy Query - THE COURTESAN'S BLADE
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2733
Re: Fantasy Query - THE COURTESAN'S BLADE
[personalized agent greeting here] (Everything I've read says to start with the story, then do the personalized greeting.) In an attempt to avoid any more scandals in a politically unstable kingdom, the king secretly hires a courtesan to occupy his wild son. Prince Anton, known for his drinking and...
- April 25th, 2010, 2:14 am
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: dirge of the desert - new attempt, new slant
- Replies: 50
- Views: 17565
Re: dirge of the desert - new attempt, new slant
Dear Agent: Janelle’s life was almost perfect. Her divorce was nearly finalized. She enjoyed a flourishing career at the premier genetic experimentation facility in the world. Best of all, she was carrying the child of her true love, the geneticist whose work she’d followed since high school. It wa...