Hi All,
Well, agents keep asking for full manuscripts instead of the normal partial. Would anyone be willing to give the entire thing a quick skim? It's a fun, fast read--fantasy aimed at the young adult audience. I've included my query below (the plot part), which agents seem to dig.
Any takers? I'd gladly return the favor!! Thanks!
Jonathan has issues. First, his nightmares about a beautiful woman hunting a little girl in the wilderness are about to drive him mad; they make him scream out at night like a little boy even though he’s eighteen. But even worse, the trees have begun to whisper to him a strange language, warning him of some impending doom. It doesn’t help matters that the village smith Cadman at first mocks Jonathan for his dreams, but then tells him that they must find the little girl, for she’s real and very powerful. And the world needs her, for the land is being slowly killed by a deadly winter that buries men and women. Jonathan and Cadman begin a relentless search in the northern wild for the little girl, aided by a feisty widow (think Ripley in Aliens meets Chaucer's Wife of Bath) and another trader who has a mysterious reason for helping them. Yet time is short, and if the winter is against him, so are other strange creatures that prey upon the frozen bodies left over. Among them, a race that looks intoxicatingly beautiful yet can move through sand and snow as serpents, for they are spirits of the earth come to exact their vengeance.
Well, agents keep asking for full manuscripts instead of the normal partial. Would anyone be willing to give the entire thing a quick skim? It's a fun, fast read--fantasy aimed at the young adult audience. I've included my query below (the plot part), which agents seem to dig.
Any takers? I'd gladly return the favor!! Thanks!
Jonathan has issues. First, his nightmares about a beautiful woman hunting a little girl in the wilderness are about to drive him mad; they make him scream out at night like a little boy even though he’s eighteen. But even worse, the trees have begun to whisper to him a strange language, warning him of some impending doom. It doesn’t help matters that the village smith Cadman at first mocks Jonathan for his dreams, but then tells him that they must find the little girl, for she’s real and very powerful. And the world needs her, for the land is being slowly killed by a deadly winter that buries men and women. Jonathan and Cadman begin a relentless search in the northern wild for the little girl, aided by a feisty widow (think Ripley in Aliens meets Chaucer's Wife of Bath) and another trader who has a mysterious reason for helping them. Yet time is short, and if the winter is against him, so are other strange creatures that prey upon the frozen bodies left over. Among them, a race that looks intoxicatingly beautiful yet can move through sand and snow as serpents, for they are spirits of the earth come to exact their vengeance.
