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Thanks. BLOOD WILL TELL is temporarily retired in favor of the new book MAGE STORM.

How is this? Twelve-year-old Heidi Meyers wants nothing more than to have fun fooling around in class. Did someone say substitute teacher equals no work? Heck, yeah! This tells me that Heidi is like pretty much any other twelve-year-old. It doesn't give me a reason to care specifically about Heidi....

Here is my working query... __________________________________ Dear [Agent Name]: Seventeen-year-old Nadine refuses to marry arrogant, ruthless Prince Kellan, even though the marriage is the Queen's dying command. On the eve of the grand wedding, she flees this obligation—and runs headlong into ano...

Dear Ms. Agent: While sixteen year old sixteen-year-old Lillim Callina has made a few blunders in her lifetime, none are quite as bad as being tricked by a vampire coven into awakening an ancient dragon. Unfortunately, her ruthless former mentor, Warthor, has caught wind of her slip up and has deci...

Thanks. Newer Version, pared down a little: Dear Agent: The only traces of magic left in Rell's world are the violent, semi-sentient mage storms made up of the ashes of the magic-wielders killed in the great war. Or so Rell believes until a mage storm infects him with magic he can’t control. The mag...

Dear agent, Cash Flaherty is fed up with his small Texas town and the office-bound future that’s mapped out for him by his affluent parents. The heck with Business and Finance; he wants to find his own place in life. To break away, the seventeen-year-old books summer school in Ireland instead of SM...

I've been absent for a while, polishing up this project and working on a couple of others. Dear Agent: The only traces of magic left in Rell's world are the violent, semi-sentient mage storms made up of the ashes of the magic-wielders killed in the great war. Or so Rell believes until a mage storm i...

Thank you so much for taking the time to answer, even though you're not "in the business" any more. And for all the great information disseminated through this blog.

Good luck with your new career.

I have recently expanded a short story I wrote into a novel. The first chapter of the novel and the short story are not quite identical, but they're very, very similar. Should I stop trying to get the short story published? Would publication of the short story help or hurt my chances of getting the ...

Thanks in advance for any advice offered. All constructive compliments welcome. I'll take extra effort to critique the works of people who help me out (where I can, of course. I wouldn't even know where to begin helping someone write historical fiction, for example) Also, I'd love comments on my qu...

Thanks in advance for any advice offered. All constructive compliments welcome. I'll take extra effort to critique the works of people who help me out (where I can, of course. I wouldn't even know where to begin helping someone write historical fiction, for example) Also, I'd love comments on my qu...

Rell jumped to his feet when his sister brought the water jug around. He wasn’t that thirsty, but he was glad of any break from the monotonous task of weeding the fields. He’d far rather be working with the animals in the barn and pasture, but his older brother Bren always got that job. Bren didn’t ...

Dear Agent, Thirteen-year-old Aaren Danielson had a seemingly normal life until a class assignment turned his life upside down- he now has only one week to live. When Aaren is forced to trace his family’s roots for a history class project, he stumbles across some very disturbing information which m...

Hi there. I am new to these forums and decided that with my novel being Beta read, now might be a good time to practice writing a query. My novel is a dark fantasy epic with horror and steampunk undertones. Here is my query: Dear [agent] What would you do if you knew too much about everyone you met...

Hello guys :) Haven't been on here for a while working on my new novel called Fairy Blood. Be harsh and please guys what I really want to know is if and if you like the premise. Let me know! Agent, Ricardo is a vampire, once a young Spanish sailor. But his life as a walking corpse will soon be over...