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by aldernans
January 12th, 2024, 9:47 am
Forum: Nominate Your Query or First Page for a Critique on the Blog
Topic: NEW - Nominate Your Query for a Critique on the Blog
Replies: 152
Views: 123981

The Projects, a memoir

Dear Agent, I am emailing you because…. Please consider my 75,000-word illustrated memoir, THE PROJECTS, a collection of fantastical schemes from the hopes of a man with faulty perseverance - my dad. Despite his ambitions, he died alone and homeless behind a Winn Dixie dumpster. Set in small Souther...
by aldernans
July 21st, 2022, 9:37 pm
Forum: Nominate Your Query or First Page for a Critique on the Blog
Topic: NEW - Nominate Your Query for a Critique on the Blog
Replies: 152
Views: 123981

Re: NEW - Nominate Your Query for a Critique on the Blog

Dear agent, Dixie Griggs is too poor and too human. She is consumed by guilt after she taunts a girlfriend. She wanted to toughen her up, but instead she caused her to give it up - the girl killed herself. Dixie’s determined to find any distraction from her misery, so she signs up to be on a popular...
by aldernans
July 16th, 2021, 11:03 am
Forum: Queries
Topic: Alice and The Mushroom Shop
Replies: 0
Views: 3763

Alice and The Mushroom Shop

Dear Agent, Please consider my YA Fantasy novel, Alice and the Mushroom Shop finished at 63,000 words. 15-year-old Alice Dale wants his family back together, the love of a girl named Dan, and his best friend alive. Unfortunately Alice’s sister is in an insane asylum, his dad is a drug-addict, his mo...
by aldernans
May 10th, 2020, 10:36 am
Forum: Nominate Your Query or First Page for a Critique on the Blog
Topic: NEW - Nominate Your First Page for a Critique on the Blog
Replies: 207
Views: 177565

Re: NEW - Nominate Your First Page for a Critique on the Blog

Most people hear about something tragic and say, “Oh, that’s horrible.” They go on about their business, and live their lives. I’m not most people. I don’t just hear about tragedy. I feel it. My mama says I’m too empathetic, but my dad says I have the feelings of an angel. Empathy, angel, it all boi...
by aldernans
April 3rd, 2020, 4:03 pm
Forum: Nominate Your Query or First Page for a Critique on the Blog
Topic: NEW - Nominate Your Query for a Critique on the Blog
Replies: 152
Views: 123981

Re: NEW - Nominate Your Query for a Critique on the Blog

Please consider my 78,000-word YA mystery novel, BUTTERFLY WARS: What Really Happened to Grandmother? This is a retelling of the original Red Riding Hood story and told in three perspectives: The Wolf, The Grandmother and Little Red Riding Hood. This story is set in a small town with queer grotesque...
by aldernans
April 3rd, 2020, 3:43 pm
Forum: Nominate Your Query or First Page for a Critique on the Blog
Topic: NEW - Nominate Your First Page for a Critique on the Blog
Replies: 207
Views: 177565

Re: NEW - Nominate Your First Page for a Critique on the Blog

Chapter 1 January 15, 1965 From the diary of GoGo Storm Most people hear about something tragic and say, “Oh, that’s horrible.” They go on about their business, and live their lives. I’m not most people. I don’t just hear about tragedy. I feel it. Literally. My Mama says I’m too empathetic, but my D...