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- June 14th, 2013, 7:45 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: QUERY THE WOODLANDS YA Science Fiction
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4220
Re: QUERY THE WOODLANDS YA Science Fiction
It's alright. I read a few advice sites on queries which said, more showing less telling but I may have gone overboard. Is this what a more traditional query 'should' look like. When the hand of the Superiors’ paused over sixteen-year-old Rosa’s head – It should have kept moving. Rosa has always bee...
- June 13th, 2013, 5:18 am
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: QUERY THE WOODLANDS YA Science Fiction
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4220
QUERY THE WOODLANDS YA Science Fiction
Dear…. For sixteen-year-old Rosa, escape is just the beginning. When Rosa regains consciousness, her first memory is standing in Construction Class, her mates slapping her back too hard and congratulating her on her work. She smiles recalling how funny she’d looked standing next to those burly boys,...
- February 20th, 2013, 6:01 pm
- Forum: Self-Publishing
- Topic: Penguin Australia Open Submissions!!
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2369
Penguin Australia Open Submissions!!
Hi,
Just thought I'd let you know that Penguin Publishing Young Adult Division has opened a open submission window from the 14th Feb til the 28th March. For more info, click here:
http://thewoodlandsseries.blogspot.com. ... shing.html
Good luck!
Just thought I'd let you know that Penguin Publishing Young Adult Division has opened a open submission window from the 14th Feb til the 28th March. For more info, click here:
http://thewoodlandsseries.blogspot.com. ... shing.html
Good luck!
- February 18th, 2013, 10:26 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: What's wrong with it, please be critical
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6438
What's wrong with it, please be critical
Rosa never thought she’d make it to sixteen. In the Woodlands, where everyone must follow the rules or is punished harshly, Rosa’s mischief and individuality brands her a leper. No one wants to know her except Joseph, a laid back, ever-grinning opposite, who falls in love with her impulsivity and da...
- February 10th, 2013, 4:47 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: YA QUERY REVISED...
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4141
YA QUERY REVISED...
Dear.... Rosa never thought she’d make it to sixteen. In a world where everyone follows the rules or is punished harshly, Rosa is a beacon of mischief and individuality. In preserved Russia, the Woodlands rose from the ashes of a bitter race war that decimated the rest of the planet. Two hundred yea...
Re: YA QUERY
How about this?? Rosa never thought she’d make it to sixteen. In a world where everyone follows the rules or is punished harshly, Rosa is a beacon of mischief and individuality. In preserved Russia, the Woodlands rose from the ashes of a bitter race war that decimated the rest of the planet. Two hun...
Re: YA QUERY
Thanks. Guys I appreciate the critiques. I think I do get bogged down in the language and find it hard to simplify.
Good news though, just had a full MS request from an Aussie agency. So yay!!
http://thewoodlandsseries.blogspot.com.au/
Good news though, just had a full MS request from an Aussie agency. So yay!!
http://thewoodlandsseries.blogspot.com.au/
Re: YA QUERY
OR..... Dear…. Rosa never thought she’d make it to sixteen. She’s a red spark in a concrete grey world. Her kind of lash-lipped attitude isn’t tolerated in the Woodlands. And she was ok with that. No one would miss her; her father disappeared a long time ago, the replacement, a dark smile and hoveri...
YA QUERY
All Kind is the way of the Woodlands, the colony built in Russia after a monstrous race war destroyed most of the planet. All Kind states that every citizen should be mixed race. Characteristics should blur and everyone will look the same. Rosa is Own Kind. She looks Indian, too much like her border...
- November 19th, 2012, 4:55 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: YA Dystopian Pitch
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3071
Re: YA Dystopian Pitch
Option 3 really grabbed my attention. I like it!!
- November 19th, 2012, 4:52 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: YA Dystopian Query set in Russia/Siberia HELP!!!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2052
YA Dystopian Query set in Russia/Siberia HELP!!!
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks :) :) :) Dear…. There is no love triangle. And in this dystopian story Rosa doesn’t meet a boy, fall in love and change her ideas about her totalitarian society. She’s already there. Rosa is a lash-lipped, troublemaker who doesn’t buy the whole, the ...
- October 6th, 2012, 7:46 pm
- Forum: Finding An Agent
- Topic: How and when to 'nudge' an agent...?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 16321
How and when to 'nudge' an agent...?
Hi, I sent a full off 3 months ago. I was wondering at what point can you send an email to see how it's going? Or whether you should at all. Also how would you phrase a 'nudge' email?
Thanks.
Thanks.
- September 25th, 2012, 7:41 pm
- Forum: Books
- Topic: How many books do you read per week (or month)?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 21874
- September 25th, 2012, 7:24 pm
- Forum: Books
- Topic: What are you reading now?
- Replies: 528
- Views: 310898
Re: What are you reading now?
The Uglies by Scott Westerfield
Finding it hard to get into so far but I'm persisting.
Just finished Inside Out and Outside In. Really enjoyed them.
Finding it hard to get into so far but I'm persisting.
Just finished Inside Out and Outside In. Really enjoyed them.
- September 24th, 2012, 7:16 pm
- Forum: Finding An Agent
- Topic: Rejection Stats
- Replies: 227
- Views: 149936
Re: Rejection Stats
Queries sent: 25 Form rejections: 6 Personal Rejections with feedback: 3 Closed/no response: (not sure) Partial requests: 0 Full requests: 2 Rejections on full: 0 Open/no response yet: 10 or more I have no idea if this is good or bad. The whole query thing doesn't really exist in Australia. These ar...