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t of ann patchett s tom lake and the shattering trauma and hard fought recovery of kristin hannah s the women anna is forty three a social worker in toronto and a woman who has been quietly disappearing for a decade ten years ago her young daughter drowned and anna was responsible she has survived the intervening years the only way she knows how by working by numbing herself with tranquilizers and never ever stopping long enough to feel when burnout finally brings her to her knees she escapes to crete hoping that sun and distance will put her back together what she finds instead is color a married american career officer magnetic complicated wholly unexpected who pulls her into an affair that is immediate sensual and sparkled with joy for the first time since her daughter s death anna laughs she swims at night she wakes up wanting the day she falls in love with the passionate totality of a woman who has had nothing to lose for a very long time and the greek light makes everything even her own reflection look beautiful then he shatters it a hit and run accident a moment of cowardice and he flees the scene anna is left staring at a man who when it mattered most ran the affair doesn t end cleanly he returns to the us for annual leave she is left in the wreckage but a different kind of wreckage than before because this time she is coming awake what follows is not a love story it is a pilgrimage anna moves through europe alone not as a woman chasing romance or adventure but as a woman whose anesthesia is wearing off and who must now face everything she spent a decade refusing to feel she meets three people who lead her toward a twelve step program and toi an ashram in the united states where she begins the slow work of rebuilding a self she can live inside when her lover eventually finds her in toronto he comes with everything she once wanted devotion a promise of marriage as soon as his divorce is final a future but anna is no longer the woman he met on a greek island she has forged her own life on her own terms out of her own wreckage the novel s final question is not whether she still loves him she does it is whether the woman she has fought to become can say yes without losing herself again all the colors explores grief addiction desire and the difference between being saved and saving yourself it is a novel about the kind of love affair that cracks you open and the harder quieter love of learning to hold yourself together notes this is good writing i can t speak for all agents but in general this is what an agent wants to see if they request a brief synopsis below i ve taken the liberty of trimming the query from 480 words to 280 a length most agents prefer not saying agents will auto reject a longer query but if they can clear 100 250 word queries from their in box in the time it takes to clear 50 500 word queries guess which pile goes on the back burner if i ve removed the wrong words put them back and remove other ones ten years ago anna s young daughter drowned and anna was responsible she survived the intervening years by working numbing herself with tranquilizers and never stopping long enough to feel when burnout finally brings her to her knees she escapes to crete hoping distance will put her back together what she finds instead is color an american naval officer who pulls her into an affair that is immediate sensual and sparkled with joy for the first time since her daughter s death anna wakes up wanting the day she falls in love with the passionate totality of a woman who s had nothing to lose for a long time then he shatters it a hit and run accident and he flees the scene anna is left staring at a man who when it mattered most ran the affair doesn t end cleanly he returns to the us for annual leave she is left in the wreckage what follows is a pilgrimage anna moves through europe alone not chasing romance or adventure but facing everything she spent a decade refusing to feel when her lover eventually finds her he comes with everything she once wanted devotion a promise of marriage a future but anna is not the woman he met on a greek island she has forged her own life on her own terms and she won t say yes if it means losing herself again all the colors complete at word count words explores grief addiction desire and the difference between being saved and saving yourself it will appeal to readers drawn to the passionate love affair at the heart of ann patchett s tom lake and the trauma and hard fought recovery of kristin hannah s the wome n i left out the fact that the officer is married as at least in the query i think anna would be less devastated by the end of the affair if it was unlikely to go anywhere in the book you have more room to convince us her lover really does plan to leave his wife no really would he lie to her never posted by evil editor at 10 16 am no comments friday april 03 2026 face lift 1561 no guess the plot no one submitted a fake plot i don t even know if anyone comes here anymore rowan s spinning compass i m seeking representation for rowan s spinning compass a ya fantasy suspense blend complete at 87 000 words this novel combines the time bound curses of little thieves the identity shattering discoveries of the hazel wood and the magical corruption of spin the dawn my novel is a standalone with series potential by day 16 year old beauregard is a child star wishing the tabloids would stop publishing humiliating clickbait lies that ruins her attempts at friendship wait beauregard is a girl i m sure someone somewhere was so sure they were gonna have a son that they chose beauregard as their child s name and stuck with it after the disappointment figuring it might start a trend but have you considered that every time a reader comes to the name beauregard in your novel they ll have to remind themselves that it s a teenaged girl and not an 1863 colonel in the rebel army who talks like foghorn leghorn but in her dreams she lives in a peaceful town with her mother free from fame and safe from her cruel power hungry father change her name to ivanka then everything changes for the better when her father is murdered beauregard convinces her mother that it s time to vanish and find a safe place to belong if your cruel husband father gets murdered and you immediately leave town they re not gonna waste time looking for other suspects then she s kidnapped by a man with a spinning compass tattoo now that sounds like a character named beauregard though i suspect you re gonna tell us his name s rowan when you said everything changes for the better i didn t expect her to become a murder suspect and get kidnapped in the next two sentences i just learned that what i refer to as a compass is sometimes referred to as a spinning compass i was thinking you meant that the tattoo itself was actually spinning which would be kind of cool and not impossible if this is a magical world not to digress but you know those magic eye pictures that hide a 3d picture that you can see if you look at it long enough why can t they make tattoos that do that maybe they can make them but no one ever orders them because they don t want people staring at their tattoos for minutes on end and saying hold still dammit i still don t see it wait aughhh i almost had it stop twitching this man is convinced claims he s taking her home to her birth mother and when beauregard s escape plan fails she s thrown into a magical world that feels strangely familiar i wouldn t say her escape plan failed exactly if she s no longer being held captive by the man with the compass tattoo the man with the compass tattoo sounds like a good title for a book a world where sirens own spas surely your list of what s magical about this world could lead off with something more fantastical than sirens owning spas not to digress again but how does beauregard know who owns the spas in this world is being owned by a siren such a big selling point that there are signs outside the spas that say siren owned out of curiosity is there a reason so many sirens are drawn to careers in spa ownership and extinct animals roam free having been saved by a poltergeist sabre tooth ed tiger still she refuses to look into it into what the tattoo the world how can she not look into the world she s now in she needs to return home to her mother live the life she s always dreamed of and even make a friend or two then she attracts the attention of a covenless witch who mistakenly believes beauregard cursed her heart set on revenge the witch offers to help and beauregard reluctantly accepts instead of freedom the witch administers a magical parasite that triggers hallucinations of one s fears if beauregard doesn t find the cure within three days her worst fear the fearsome monster known as the paparazzi will come to life and kill her what begins as a pursuit search to survive descends into a dark discovery where she confronts the truth her parents kidnapped her as a baby to exploit her subconscious muse magic for musical stardom i bought into the extinct animals and the poltergeist and the witch and the magical parasite i even accepted sirens who own spas but i draw the line when it comes to kidnapping a baby to exploit her subconscious muse magic for musical stardom who would commit a crime knowing they have to spend the next sixteen years raising a kid before they get the loot raising the kid will probably cost more than the kid will make even if she wins the voice plus you might get murdered before your child cashes in and she should trust the man who captured her the man who knows where she truly belongs bio notes i was wrong to predict you would tell us the guy s name is rowan in my defense i figured a guy whose name is in the book s title warranted at least one mention of his name in the plot summary what a letdown to get all intrigued by this compass that s gonna play a crucial role in the book only to find out it s just a picture of a compass on some guy s arm or wherever is there a better explanation in the book for how she ends up in this magical world than she s thrown into it and how does she find information about her past in this world does she still feel the need to get home to her mother after discovering that her mother kidnapped her as a baby or would she rather find her birth mother who probably never kidnapped a baby reduce the number of sentences that start with then from three to one or zero why does the magical world with its witches and dinosaurs and sirens feel familiar rowan may have good intentions but kidnapping beauregard has doomed her to never being left alone by the tabloids and paparazzi once she s found s he ll be followed everywhere she ll be accused of staging the kidnapping for publicity the only peace she ll ever get is when she s in rehab after her drug overdose this feels like two different books we start with a ya teen whose goal is to leave her life of fame and fortune for a peaceful everyday life with a friend or two i m expecting the father to be the villain insisting that she ride the fame train to her ultimate destruction until she s saved by a kind man with a tattoo instead the father dies and the villain turns out to be an evil witch who wants revenge for something beauregard had nothing to do with i m not sure the audience for one book is the same as that for the other even if it is beauri needs to actively do something to reach her goal things can t just happen to her how she handles the discovery about her past seems more important ya wise than how she goes about finding a cure for a witch s potion while trying not to get eaten by a tyrannosaurus posted by evil editor at 3 26 pm 1 comment sunday march 29 2026 face lift 1560 guess the plot the skyward sea 1 when the sea is accidentally lifted into the sky it s up to one guy to put things right but first he ll have to contend with land sharks and mutant sea creatures also zombies 2 atlantis and lgbtqa mermen maids in a hamlet esque plot with a dash of macbeth and a sprinkle of apollo 13 3 global warming happened and sea levels rose and everyone s feet got wet the icebergs melted and the water rose to our waists everything we thought would happen has happened but now it s up to our necks and somehow it keeps getting worse it s not just climate change it s glub glub glub 4 apparently the earth has sprung a leak and nobody knows where all the water is coming from now it s up to mario the plumber to find and fix the problem before we all become extras in a remake of the worst kevin costner film original version dear agent i am seeking representation for the skyward sea a high fantasy complete at 115 000 words a young artist cheats the blood pact protecting his island accidentally lifts the sea into the sky and crosses a mutant infested seafloor to reverse the catastrophe only to choose between saving his home and reclaiming the family stolen from him this paragraph isn t needed as it s all repeated below it will appeal to readers of blood over bright haven by m l wang robert jackson bennett s the tainted cup and the spear cuts through water by simon jimenez i saw that you re interested and topic and thought it might be a fit for you this paragraph could be tacked onto the first sentence or placed after the plot summary orran rast doesn t want to inherit his late mother s blood pact he d rather be scamming tourists with inkmancy the ancestral magic tattoos he s supposed to hide from the eternal order but his bloodline is the only thing keeping his uncle s zombies away from his order controlled island home when orran cheats the pact he triggers a magical cataclysm that lifts the sea into the sky leaving behind twisted sea creatures that now hunt in the open air i see two problems here 1 the sea cannot be lifted into the sky 2 the only sea creature that can hunt in the open air is aquaman orran crosses the exposed seabed to bargain with his sorcerous uncle keltzus in hopes of reversing the catastrophe with land sharks and flying squid ahead of him and the eternal order s inquisitors on his tail orran will need more than trickery to survive he ll need to break the inkmancer s taboo against using blood to fuel magic the decision to walk hundreds of miles through muck and seaweed and rotting fish with a trillion tons of water floating above him that could surrender to gravity at any moment just to get to his uncle who has zombie bodyguards seems ill advised but when orran uncovers the massacre that scarred his family he ll need to make a choice he can save his island or sacrifice it to resurrect the mother he lost i recently read a book in which a guy resurrected his mother and let s just say your guy should save his island i am a toronto based writer with 3 000 published news stories as a professional journalist my fiction blends the snappy prose of my reporting career with the world and character building i love in everything from star wars and the mcu to buffy the 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