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ii was certain something lethal was about to hurl through space and split me in two as it turned out ben didn t need a ballistic missile or a grenade launcher he only needed a piece of notepaper dear gail i wish there was something more i could say have a great life benjamin silverstein the phone in the apartment was dead so i used the cell to call my friend marcy he did what that lousy bastard he left me a dear gail note and signed it benjamin silverstein like i didn t know his last name where are you i paced around in a circle by the wall phone near our pass through i m in our apartment our empty apartment he cleaned me out you ve got to come and get me aw shit gail there s a blizzard out there i don t care you said your friend has a heavy all terrain vehicle please marcy you ve got to get here hold up she covered the phone but i could still hear bruno we can play french maid all night yeah but i gotta get the truck back no you don t you ll tell him it s under three feet of snow which is where i ll put you if you don t get your pants on and get me over there she got back on with me no problem gail french maid marcy yeah he s tired of the cowgirl good thing those chaps were killing my thighs after she clicked off i roamed through the rooms the only things left were four boxes shreds of excelsior packing tape a week old daily news and three empty beer cans not his brand ten days basking in the sun and lounging on the pristine beaches of st croix ten days to work on my life plan and decide what i wanted to be when i grew up shattered by a three by a three piece of paper i looked through our bedroom window to the black late afternoon sky willing myself to picture ben s face as he wrote his final farewell to our bogus marriage yeah well fuck you too posted by rick daley at 11 03 am 7 comments labels romance jan 10 2012 query merm 8 revision click here to read the original query dear agent gene an ex boxer has made the most out of life on an earth almost completely covered with water salvage smuggling and avoiding the mafia he owes a debt to until he got himself a mermaid he didn t want her the damn thing swam up his ship s vent she only speaks gibberish so there s no telling where she came from or how she could exist it s bad enough he has to eke out a living on the ocean with only his portable ai assistant stitch fortunately there s a sea station nearby where gene s scientist friend works could be a lot of money in it meanwhile gene could lay low scrounge for jobs and fix his spit and chewing gum boat but he keeps finding reasons to visit the mermaid something draws him to her a need to know what she keeps gesturing about a need to protect especially when the general populace learns about her everyone wants to know if she s a fantasy come true or the bad omen sailors believe she is especially the scientist who grows more obsessed just as they discover the secret of her existence a mysterious silver ship attacks the station gene attempts to escape in the chaos like everyone else and rescues the mermaid on his way but his scientist friend won t let him through to his ship accusing him of stealing his find gene has an instant to decide whether he will betray his friend or save himself before the station collapses merm 8 is a 86 000 word science fiction novel in the vein of the little mermaid meets waterworld i have been previously published in electric spec flash me the dunesteef and received an honorable mention in the 2010 writers of the future contest thank you for your consideration sincerely me posted by rick daley at 9 39 pm 10 comments labels science fiction jan 8 2012 query coming of the dukebarr dear everyone believes in the creator everyone that is except cara cara a rebellious and stubborn thirteen year old has recently decided that there is no creator her beliefs however are considered high treason and grounds for exile in her small town desperate to protect his daughter the high priest of the village assigns an apprentice priest to babysit his daughter and help to recover her faith needless to say cara isn t pleased but her anger is quickly forgotten when foretold signs of a coming apocalypse the dukebarr begin to appear cara finds herself questioning her beliefs in the face of these events as her society begins to crumble around her will her faith or lack of it be able to prevent the destruction of her village coming of the dukebarr is a completed 40 000 word fantasy for middle grade readers i have one published short story in byline magazine thank you for your time and consideration sincerely posted by rick daley at 4 13 pm 6 comments labels fantasy middle grade jan 1 2012 query his muse revision click here to read the original query dear editor coralie boisson has one night in arles to sign a deal with the handsome and possibly mad artist jonah struik it s her big chance to finally prove to her father that she is just as good of an art dealer as the men at their paris art house the fact that jonah is the biggest rival of the secret lover that spurned her only sweetens the deal jonah struik who abandoned the fashionable society of victorian paris after his fiancée jilted him only agreed to deal with boisson cie in order to pay back his debts when jonah finds out that denis boisson has sent his daughter to broker the sale he knows that his former employer must be playing games with him only a strange feeling that he knows coralie from somewhere other than the art world keeps jonah from walking out of their meeting jonah soon realizes that coralie is not the silly or manipulative dilettante he thought she was and coralie realizes that jonah isn t the madman the art world has labeled him as the two come to find that they might just be the cure to each other s loneliness his muse is a historical romance novella complete at 12 000 words thank you for your consideration sincerely redacted posted by rick daley at 1 58 pm 5 comments labels historical fiction novella romance dec 31 2011 query his muse dear editor acquiring the work of jonah struik is coralie boisson s big chance to prove to the other art dealers at boisson cie that she is just as good at the job as any man if not better but more than that coralie can t wait to help her former lover s biggest rival steal the spotlight of the parisian art world when jonah finds out that denis boisson has sent his daughter to broker a deal he knows that the meeting must be a joke but there is a familiarity about coralie that keeps jonah from walking out he senses he knows her but how can the two begin to trust each other with their sordid pasts or will it end up another lonely night in arles for the both of them his muse is a historical romance novella complete at 12 000 words thank you for your consideration sincerely redacted posted by rick daley at 9 30 am 6 comments labels novella romance dec 15 2011 query white trash beautiful original dear agent name trey aston has stolen from the mob desperate to save her life she begs her father for help and agrees to sell her body as repayment every penny she earns goes into making up for his sacrifice but when trey discovers he hasn t been making the payments she s forced to turn to the one man she hoped never to see again as a deputy of the parkvista police department luke johnson refuses to acknowledge his high school sweetheart is a prostitute and is determined to make trey see it for herself that is until she starts treating him as a client his faith in his ability to know right from wrong is challenged and he isn t the only one who s noticed his brothers on the force don t have his back where trey is concerned leaving him to fight against them for a criminal the family is out to make her pay her father s drunken rages are getting worse and the town is cracking down on prostitution but what really has trey on edge is the fact she s falling for the deputy who wants her behind bars white trash beautiful is a romantic suspense short story complete at 17 000 words pub creds etc thank you for your time and consideration posted by rick daley at 10 13 pm 3 comments labels romance short story suspense dec 14 2011 query merm 8 gene has managed to make the most out of life at sea salvage smuggling and the occasional crab shipment despite his incredible debt to the black lagoon mafia and the tricks his ai assistant plays on him things are good until he finds a mermaid stuck in his exhaust pipe but this is not a world of magic and dragons the earth is almost completely covered with water most of the population has been driven out to corporate owned seaplexes giant spherical atolls that combine malls mines and shantytowns but this appears to be a genuine half woman half fish gene brings the mermaid to a scientist friend on one of these stations he studies her while gene tries to secure his next job as they decipher this affectionate girl s origins complications arise when she is discovered by the seaplex s populace more complications arise when gene s land born status earns him the ire of the station s riff raff even more complications arise when rumors of sinking ships start to emerge gene discovers more about the mermaid and has to reconcile his feelings for this non human he must return her to her home but her home is something he never expected posted by rick daley at 5 14 pm 4 comments labels guess the genre dec 6 2011 query children of the red sand sometimes anthe wakes up covered in blood wandering the desert alone but no one from her tribe worries about the scout it s all the work of demons and outside their interest they have something more important to worry about they are the watchers for the land bound since before history to keep watch on the massive sandstorm that surrounds the desert land it s known only as the wall legends say that it has moved before cleansing the land of any life and it is set to move again the first sign has been seen as part of the two person scouting team who discovers the discoloring of the wall anthe is sent to warn center and the leaders of the land so that they have enough time to gather everyone and get ready to move on the next passage but it has been so long that legend has become myth and tales to frighten children even anthe has trouble accepting what she saw but she accepts only wanting to get it over with and return to her quiet desert life of sand and demons dnoces her scouting partner relishes the chance to claim his own place in history now they need a way to convince the populace of the land and save everyone s lives as well as help anthe control her demons before they control her children of the red sand is a 126 000 word sci fi manuscript posted by rick daley at 8 36 am 6 comments labels science fiction oct 25 2011 query possessed dear agent julia knew something was wrong when she woke up in a haunted forest but she never would have guessed that her life as an eighteenth century novelist was a lie when julia and two other volunteers caleb and gabriel awaken prematurely in a research laboratory the scientists want them dead barely escaping julia and her new friends fight to stay alive in post bombed dallas while coming to terms with their disturbing pasts which was why they decided to do the psychological study in the first place but angry scientists and a psycho stalker are the least of their worries there are much more powerful beings after them physically helpless after a serious accident julia gabriel and caleb are brought by their demoniac pursuers into the supernatural realm and this time there is no way out possessed is a supernatural thriller that is 60 000 words long thank you for your time and consideration posted by rick daley at 3 00 pm 13 comments labels thriller query amelia s monsters note i posted this a long time ago on this site but i am re posting this to see how it has held up before i finally submit it dear agent since she was twelve amelia s nights have been plagued with visits from monsters each night they would terrorize her through the darkness of her closet calling her amelie and telling her that they ve been waiting for her no matter how many times she turned them away they would return bringing with them the terrors of the night and they followed her no matter where she went now fourteen amelia is getting a fresh start in a brand new home in a gated community sadly not even the gates can protect amelia from her deepest fears when her cousin lily comes to visit the monsters return and steal lily in the night with lily s life in danger amelia must face her fears and enter the monsters world to rescue her cousin but with each step into their world amelia discovers a tangled past that connects her to their world and the one they call amelie posted by rick daley at 7 37 am 9 comments labels fantasy young adult older posts home subscribe to comments atom submit queries here submit queries here query and writing resources agentquery com genre descriptions 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