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warn them but her penchant for thievery entangles her in darsia s tempestuous politics and she s increasingly unsure of who she can trust amarris arsenal whittles down to one weapon divine fire if she runs the empire will kill everyone she s come to care about if she fights she risks succumbing to the mezaran god destroying the people she is trying to save and losing her free will in the process lestoor s chosen is a fantasy novel that is complete at 140 000 words this novel is a stand alone work with trilogy potential thank you for your time posted by rick daley at 10 36 pm 4 comments labels fantasy jan 31 2012 query king s mark there is nothing leti loves better than hunting along the river and practicing his stone carving until now his clan s protection has allowed him to do just that but when visiting traders discover the otter print birthmarks on leti s hands they kidnap and smuggle him into a hostile city where the king s mark is the sign of a traitor and the steward doesn t tolerate traitors instead of being executed leti is sold to a rebel leader who plans to use leti s existence as a rallying point leti escapes only to find his home destroyed and his clan scattered killed or sold into slavery instigating change suddenly becomes personal aided by another marked a ruthless charismatic guttersnipe turned revolutionary leti begins to work with the insurgency little does he know that the steward is the least of his worries another enemy hides in the shadows and the rebellion is playing right into his hands king s mark complete at 90 000 words is a fast paced epic fantasy additional material is available upon request thank you for your time and consideration and thank you rick blog commentators for your feedback posted by rick daley at 3 00 pm 5 comments labels epic fantasy query coming of the dukebarr revised click here to read the original query query revision to coming of the dukebarr now called coming of the durstorung or any other evil apocalyptic sounding name dear cara a rebellious and stubborn fifteen year old has recently decided that there is no creator her beliefs if discovered are considered high treason and grounds for exile in her village desperate to protect his daughter the high priest confronts cara about her beliefs but she refuses to conform and runs away she finds shelter with an old man in the hills another non believer who was exiled from the village years ago by the time her father finds her she has become close friends with the heretic when cara is dragged away from her new friend and forced to return home an apprentice priest leolin is assigned to babysit cara and help recover her faith he follows her to school and watches closely as she completes her chores all while extolling the virtues of the creator needless to say cara isn t pleased but her anger is quickly forgotten when foretold signs of a coming apocalypse the durstorung begin to appear the village animals are slaughtered lightning from clear blue skies burn down multiple houses cara is frightened by the events and is relieved when the old man arrives in the village looking for shelter after his cottage was burned down but before she can confide in her friend the durstorung arrives the villagers flee from the devastation and shelter in nearby caves praying for redemption the durstorung is a blur no one can remember what happened or how but they all believe the creator has decided to end the world and there is nothing they can do to save it the food supplies in the cave won t last till the end of the week cara however realizes something is amiss why do people have claw marks on their arms and why were the animals slaughtered like prey she tells everyone that the durstorung might be a magical beast and tries to organize a scouting party but only the old man believes her leolin refuses to let her out of his sight and cara is furious with time running out cara must find a way to defeat the durstorung on her own to save her village from certain annihilation coming of the durstorung is a completed 53 000 word fantasy for young adult readers i have one published short story in byline magazine thank you for your time and consideration sincerely posted by rick daley at 6 40 am 4 comments labels fantasy young adult jan 17 2012 query once more around the block sorry for the delay in posting i was traveling and the hotel wifi kept dropping my connection i have another query scheduled to post tomorrow afternoon revision to coming of the dukebarr rick dear agent gail s life has not been perfect she might have avoided making a few important decisions like who to marry and where to live after her arranged marriage fails she is paralyzed with fear and spends the first three months hiding behind the pages of her harlequin romance novels encouraged by her best friend gail makes the decision to strike out on her own she gets a little unexpected help from a strange cast of characters her over the top grandmother and tony cimino the man who waits patiently for her to finally see him both over shadowed by siblings gail and tony have learned to settle for what they were told was all they could expect from life he hides landscape magazines behind the ovens of his father s pizza and sub joint on broadway she hides behind thick lenses and dreams of studying graphic art gail did not expect to love her new life and never expected the love of another to find her she cannot believe he is her chance at happiness and tries to push him away but tony a man who knows what he wants and sees it in gail is not going to give up so easily once more around the block complete at 80k words is a love story about two people who find the courage to start over i would be happy to send part of all of the complete manuscript thank you for your time and consideration respectfully first page 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 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