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nce to meet but their union is tested again after things seem to have taken a normal course an attack by her ex boy friend leaves tessa in a coma until one day she wakes up but has no recollection of who she was nor any of the people around her from a normal and happy existence tessa s life turned upside down her inability to remember anything from her past her frustrations and struggle to find herself again takes a toll on her relationship with alex for a period of time she opts to battle by herself the internal turmoil and demons that feasted at her soul and heart eventually time and love prevail and the two lovers find themselves once again in each other s arms they accept the fact that tessa s memory was lost forever or so they thought familiar surroundings a smell an image and all that was lost came back to her in a moment in a blink of an eye she remembers who she is and how she got there in a moment she got back what she longed for her previous life and memories but also a lot more there is still one more secret she needs to tell alex before they can be free to live and love one another writing about romania and romanian people only makes sense because of my background i was born and raised in romania but moved to the us about six years ago and have lived ever since in arizona thank you for considering this query concerning my romance novel finding tessa i would love to send you my manuscript and look forward to hearing from you sincerely my name my contact info posted by rick daley at 7 59 pm 6 comments labels romance query joshua and the fantastic forest dear mr brown your interest in middle grade fantasy fiction and willingness to work with new authors is what drew me to contacting you about representing my recently completed work my manuscript joshua and the fantastic forest is a 51 680 word contemporary middle grade adventure fantasy twelve year old joshua cooper enjoys nature treks but he s about to find out how a walk in the woods can change his life forever or end it as the new kid in town on summer break he is desperate for adventure and he finds it in the nearby forest but not with other kids or even humans for that matter he encounters fantastic talking animals accidentally created from the dna of their ancestors long before dinosaurs roamed the earth he shares his magical world with two unlikely friends a bully and an old man and they vow to protect the secret of the amazing animals always but when an evil fox creates an army to rule the forest and destroy the world joshua must find a way with his new friends to raise their own army and defend themselves in the battle of their lives when joshua victoriously leads the animals in bloody war against the evil animal hoard he is struck down near death and it is up to his friends to figure out how to bring him back to life i am the author of a self published memoir xxxxxx and a freelance writer please find enclosed a sample chapter i would love the opportunity to share the entire manuscript of joshua and the fantastic forest with you thank you for your time and consideration posted by rick daley at 7 39 am 6 comments labels adventure fantasy middle grade mar 10 2010 query standing asleep dear query slushpile homecoming queen mandy doesn t like her home town assigned homework topics or her lip gloss smeared when her english teacher gives her the assignment to write a paper on the missing youth in holden mandy laughs through her candy apple red lips until she finds herself in the middle of intrigue and mystery mandy figures her english assignment will be easy until she starts interviewing locals for her paper most of them believe in the stories of alien abductions mandy chases clues from the town drunk to the mayor to old mines as she gets closer to the truth she finds she and her family are more involved than she could guess for one all the missing youth are boys and second they are the same age then her underwear model boyfriend goes missing and mandy decides there is more to her paper than she realizes what she discovers next brings many of holden s prominent citizens together to rescue the boys before they disappear for good will she solve the mystery in time and will she get an a on her english paper standing asleep is 40000 ya sci fi thank you for your time and consideration sincerely he looked around careful not to move his head he was here again closer to his escape away from the monsters that brought him here why was he here he looked slowly to his left and saw the newest victim younger than most the monsters had taken and he was slim built tall and dressed in white like himself and all the others he closed his eyes he didn t know how long it had been since he was taken from his home years most likely everyday he worked on his escape and every time he escaped he was caught each time the monsters made him sleep again mandy had only been inside the jail once when she was ten years old the jail had seemed huge and scary then but today when mandy pulled up to the jail it didn t feel as impressive mandy smiled she was much more mature now a guard showed her into a room just like the ones she saw in the movies plexiglas windows an old chair and phone mandy got her supplies out and nervously arranged her pencils into a straight line she glanced up when she heard the lock open on her side of the plexiglas an older woman shuffled to an empty chair and sat what am i doing here quickly mandy shoved her stuff back in her pack she reached for the recorder and her hand froze steve was sitting in front of her he looked awful which was an improvement mandy couldn t take her eyes off his weathered and stubble lined face his mouth opened in what mandy could only believe was a smile it revealed broken and missing teeth he picked up his phone and waited for mandy to do the same hey missy he croaked when she put the receiver to her ear mandy held her breath as if she d be afflicted by his bad breath it s mandy she corrected without thinking i know who you are he said whaddya want i uh need to do an interview for a class while he cackled she looked at his clothes he wore a tattered red sweater which hung limply over a dirty t shirt that read this earth is mine didn t prisoners have to wear black and white stripes or something maybe you want to hear my story if possible his eyes sparkled sure steve that d be great she said with crafted nonchalance it was exactly what she wanted posted by rick daley at 9 16 pm 9 comments labels science fiction young adult mar 9 2010 query only human dear do your worst commenters rachel daniels grandfather is dead and everything she knew about herself died with him she had lived her entire life with one overriding goal to be like him now she is six weeks into her last semester of college and her carefully planned life is falling apart when rachel discovers twenty eight journals her grandfather had been secretly writing for seventy years she knows he left them for her as rachel delves into the journals she is disillusioned by accounts of her grandfather s misjudgments and selfishness worst of all while rachel thought lyle was proud of her for striving for mainstream success she finds that he wondered if she would ever listen to her own instincts instead of his opinions rachel disconnects as she struggles through the semester thriving on apathy and anger she alienates her family acts recklessly and contemplates dropping out of college altogether every journal reveals more of the real lyle who despite instances of extraordinary kindness or courage falls far short of the perfect person she thought she knew in the midst of her grief her philosophy professor poses a question that consumes her what is truth to answer it she must journey from mistake to reflection to acceptance to see that her grandfather is teaching her his last lesson through the pages of his life only human is an 88 000 word work of literary fiction that reflects a section of 20 to 40 something adult culture cynical and blunt yet inspired and unafraid to question interpersonal relationships and the human condition rachel s unapologetic and biting observations are interwoven with slices of lyle s life that range from laugh out loud funny to heart wrenching thank you for your time and consideration best regards as of yet unpublished posted by rick daley at 4 08 pm 9 comments labels literary fiction query makin love young adult for seventeen year old annie winters finding the perfect guy is simple science if only she could keep from falling for an incompatible subject maintaining her harvard bound image while being the daughter of two famous folk singers in a band called smokin grass both a name and an act they practice daily is complicated enough without kyle williams butting in on her efforts to win the national science fair her potential blue ribbon project involves a complex scientific formula ninth month s worth of data and a compatibility test guaranteed to score her the right man or so she thought until kyle an incompatible subject locks them in an office and lures annie into a few hours of impulsive fun her emotions spun out of control while in the arms of an incredibly hot guy but that doesn t mean her test is invalid as if she would give in to his half british charm and fall instantly in love even if his kissing score is double that of all the compatible subjects and even if she can t stop obsessing over all things kyle annie may be the girl who pushed and shoved her way to number one in her class but lying about the test results cheating on her project are two things she could never do no matter what is at stake the problem is being honest with herself is more difficult than anything she s had to learn in school makin love is a 54 000 word young adult novel when i m not writing i am a gymnastics program director for the ymca and have recently published a short story in international gymnast magazine for the april 2010 issue thank you for taking the time to consider my novel posted by rick daley at 7 32 am 10 comments labels young adult mar 6 2010 iron thirst urban fantasy i ve changed the story a bit since the last time i was here so i had to start over with my query thanks in advance for your comments and advice you can search for the original query but since this is more of a fresh start i m not adding the links to the top like i do with most revisions rick the why i picked you paragraph atlanta vampires are a gentler breed than most but that is not true for the out of towners that are flocking to the downtown hotels for this year s annual dragoncon the vamps use this opportunity to take off their disguises while blending in with the costumed humans but there are rules and adam bristow forensics biologist by trade and vampire slayer by design is there to enforce them and to keep the vampires existence secret meanwhile straight laced felicity johnson is looking forward to an escape from the norm and dragoncon the convention that celebrates everything science fiction and fantasy is the perfect prescription throw in a scrumptious attorney named blake and she s landed in her own gothic paradise however felicity gets an overdose of adventure when she stumbles upon one friend s mangled body immediately after her best friend vanishes felicity is introduced into the dark world of vampires when the leader of bristow s team and her new crush blake offers to help felicity find her missing best friend leading her down a road that could leave her either dead or with the ultimate makeover one that cannot be undone without a stake to the heart iron thirst is a 90 000 word urban fantasy told through the eyes of both felicity and bristow inviting the reader into the dark world of the vampire while felicity slowly discovers that things are not as they seem thank you for your time and consideration posted by rick daley at 9 48 pm 9 comments labels urban fantasy absorption second revision click here to read the original query click here to read the first revision dear agent x at first brett johnson is convinced that the hive mind is a malignant entity intent on devouring humanity enraptured by the strange beauty he discovers he must determine if war is unnecessary or if he s been tricked and seduced himself major johnson is sent to deliver an ultimatum the planet oceania must abandon the nanotechnology that links individual brains into a supermind or prepare for war to demonstrate that the federalist worlds are not merely driven by fear and ignorance he reluctantly agrees to learn to use the technology himself without completely joining the overmind during negotiations he rashly seduces a beautiful woman hoping to distract her from the hive mind he believes may destroy her with her help he learns more about oceania than his superiors could have imagined but begins to question what he s been told is the hive mind truly an entity seeking to absorb humanity or a collaborative tool enabling people to perform superhuman feats of intellect he can only find out by becoming part of the supermind if he was right all along and no individual can ever leave he will never know what he s lost and those who hear his report may not understand until it s too late if his doubts are correct it may well be too late to convince his superiors and the home world of the woman he comes to love may be wracked by a devastating and unnecessary war absorption is an 80 000 word science fiction novel i received my masters of library science from the state university of new york at albany grateful regards david weisman posted by rick daley at 7 45 pm 4 comments labels science fiction mar 5 2010 query the ice king revision 2 click here to read the original query click here to read the first revision dear agent joshua a child king sits in the comfort of his room by a fire consumed with thoughts about the peculiar weather he looks out his window checking on the village below and sees something small flying towards him a fairy the oracles have sent princess madasine to mount moore to bring him to them the ice king s daughter has been taken from her tower room by a fire dragon the ice king has frozen all of the realms hoping that the cold will reach the realm of fire where she is being held captive if the princess is not rescued soon she will surely die the oracles send joshua on a quest to the ice king hoping he can rescue the princess and set things right in the other realms before it is too late the power inside of him has awakened and princess madasine is given the task of teaching him how to contain and use it or end his life during his quest joshua discovers his true identity and is forced to face his destiny a destiny only he is capable of changing the ice king is a 75 000 word completed young adult novel this novel is a magical adventure full of mystical creatures powerful immortals and a world of endless possibilities thank you for taking the time to read my query i hope to hear from you soon sincerely angel...
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