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- February 10th, 2022, 4:59 pm
- Forum: Nominate Your Query or First Page for a Critique on the Blog
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Dear ---, I am seeking representation for my completed 70,000-word novel, And That Divine Eye. This is what I remember: the gray field. The wind. The rain. The river. Nothing at all. The tornado that presumably killed Georgia’s entire household rescued her, setting her down gently in the grass miles...
- February 10th, 2022, 4:41 pm
- Forum: Nominate Your Query or First Page for a Critique on the Blog
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Adult Lit Fic 70,000 words Chapter One July 15, 1967 Dear Violet, This is what I remember: 1. The gray field. 2. The wind. 3. The rain. 4. The river. 5. Nothing at all. Here’s the thing. The clincher. I may or may not remember any of it. Maybe it’s just a dream I had, a hazy wish, fingers crossed in...
- June 24th, 2021, 4:39 pm
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Chapter One July 15, 1967 Dear Violet, This is what I remember: 1. The gray field. 2. The wind. 3. The rain. 4. The river. 5. Nothing at all. Here’s the thing. The clincher. I may or may not remember any of it. Maybe it’s just a dream I had, a hazy wish, fingers crossed in the middle of the night, w...
- June 24th, 2021, 4:34 pm
- Forum: Nominate Your Query or First Page for a Critique on the Blog
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Dear -----, Sixteen-year-old Georgia is a dead ringer for Twiggy, and is obsessed with pyramids, the moon, and with Ben, intern extraordinaire. She doesn’t speak, but she writes letters to her dead mother and is drawn to the drama of the hurricanes passing through her home with her Aunt Bridger and ...
- April 29th, 2021, 6:07 pm
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Title: And That Divine Eye by Mary Duquette July 15, 1967 Dear Violet, This is what I remember: 1. The gray field. 2. The wind. 3. The rain. 4. The river. 5. Nothing at all. Here’s the thing. The clincher. I may or may not remember any of it. Maybe it’s just a dream I had, a hazy wish, fingers cross...
- April 22nd, 2021, 6:24 pm
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Dear (agent's name), Fifteen-year-old Georgia is a dead ringer for Twiggy, and is obsessed with pyramids, and with Ben, intern in the special ed class – even though her moronic fascination with him makes her a complete hippopotamus. She doesn’t speak, but she writes letters to her dead mother and is...
- September 4th, 2014, 9:00 pm
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Song of Cerberus Ingredients: • 1 cup cynical yet spirited woman, Susie, cuckolded; French chef and ineffective yogi • 1 tablespoon cheating husband, Richard, remorseful but complacent • 1 teaspoon lover of cheating husband, Dolores (or Dodo, as she is not-so-affectionately called) • 2 cups teenager...
- September 4th, 2014, 8:49 pm
- Forum: Nominate Your Query or First Page for a Critique on the Blog
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Title: Song of Cerberus Genre: Commercial/Upmarket Fiction Word count: 235 It wasn’t the Studebakers’ annual fall bash that made Susie feel like she had gum stuck in her hair. They were, after all, a couple who held semi-royalty status around town. No one declined an invitation to a Studebaker party...