I've got a complete beta that's made the rounds and never really attracted any attention. I think the problem is structural, but I can't be sure. 90,000 words, but very willing to send a chapter so you can decide if you want to read more.
If you saw it in a bookstore, there'd be a woman in Musketeer uniform (please oh please draw her like she's written -- tough, experienced, and a little weary), possibly a dragon in the background, and jacket copy like this:
Money in Aquitane is little bits of tin or unmarked bars of gold, useless for coin tosses. So people who can't make up their mind toss a knife in the air, and see which way it points when it comes down. One such is Captain Dorothea Blake, Lady of Blake Manor and part-time bounty hunter. Her life is equal parts making the payroll, keeping her manor repaired, and grabbing a few precious weeks with her husband every few months. It's not much, but she's content. Then disaster strikes.
She gets promoted.
Edit: Add: the setting is pseudo-Europe in the pseudo-17th century, except it's a matriarchy.
If you saw it in a bookstore, there'd be a woman in Musketeer uniform (please oh please draw her like she's written -- tough, experienced, and a little weary), possibly a dragon in the background, and jacket copy like this:
Money in Aquitane is little bits of tin or unmarked bars of gold, useless for coin tosses. So people who can't make up their mind toss a knife in the air, and see which way it points when it comes down. One such is Captain Dorothea Blake, Lady of Blake Manor and part-time bounty hunter. Her life is equal parts making the payroll, keeping her manor repaired, and grabbing a few precious weeks with her husband every few months. It's not much, but she's content. Then disaster strikes.
She gets promoted.
Edit: Add: the setting is pseudo-Europe in the pseudo-17th century, except it's a matriarchy.
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