Looking for a CP/BR for 84K Psychological Thriller
Posted: March 23rd, 2021, 12:39 pm
Hi. My name is Daniel and I am looking for a critique partner/beta reader. I would love to swap with another thriller, but I am open to reading just about anything. My query is below and I look forward to hear from you!
NIGHT AFTER NIGHT is an 84,000 word psychological thriller that combines the search for meaning in a shifting reality similar to Ottessa Moshfegh’s Death in Her Hands with a mental unraveling triggered by the past akin to Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House.
Dealing with the death of his fianceé, 52-year-old Felix Browning, a notable Los Angeles artist, returns to his grandparents’ rural mountain home. The home was the sight of unsubstantiated hauntings that Felix started experiencing when he was eight and continued until the day of his grandfather’s suicide. Felix has returned to prove his long-held belief that his grandfather died as a result of the hauntings and not by his own hand. Felix needs to know that his grandfather didn’t kill himself; that he overcame the demons of his past. Felix now has a demon of his own and he desperately wants to believe he has a chance against it.
A screenwriter by trade, I’ve had numerous screenplays optioned. My latest projects include Sinfidelity for the Lifetime Network, Search and Destroy for Millennium Media and I’m currently writing a Melissa McCarthy comedy that is the brainchild of producer Rob Cowan. I’ve been published in the Los Angeles Times and I provided the story for The Time Traveler’s Guide to Dating, a recently released six-issue graphic novel. Night After Night is the culmination of my lifelong scrutiny into the death/suicide of my own grandfather and the ‘shadows’ that used to inhabit his secluded mountainside home.
NIGHT AFTER NIGHT is an 84,000 word psychological thriller that combines the search for meaning in a shifting reality similar to Ottessa Moshfegh’s Death in Her Hands with a mental unraveling triggered by the past akin to Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House.
Dealing with the death of his fianceé, 52-year-old Felix Browning, a notable Los Angeles artist, returns to his grandparents’ rural mountain home. The home was the sight of unsubstantiated hauntings that Felix started experiencing when he was eight and continued until the day of his grandfather’s suicide. Felix has returned to prove his long-held belief that his grandfather died as a result of the hauntings and not by his own hand. Felix needs to know that his grandfather didn’t kill himself; that he overcame the demons of his past. Felix now has a demon of his own and he desperately wants to believe he has a chance against it.
A screenwriter by trade, I’ve had numerous screenplays optioned. My latest projects include Sinfidelity for the Lifetime Network, Search and Destroy for Millennium Media and I’m currently writing a Melissa McCarthy comedy that is the brainchild of producer Rob Cowan. I’ve been published in the Los Angeles Times and I provided the story for The Time Traveler’s Guide to Dating, a recently released six-issue graphic novel. Night After Night is the culmination of my lifelong scrutiny into the death/suicide of my own grandfather and the ‘shadows’ that used to inhabit his secluded mountainside home.