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And thus a ridiculous idea was born. Here are the rules:
- All queries must be 140 characters or less. Including punctuation and spaces between words. Just like on Twitter!
- One query per person.
- Queries must be left in the comments field of this post. Don't spam my Twitter feed!
- Contest is open from now until midnight EST on Thursday night.
- Top five queries will be posted on the blog.
- Grand prize is a query and first chapter critique.
Go!
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351 comments:
1 – 200 of 351 Newer› Newest»Cops. Lesbian Cops. Lesbian Cops with Guns. Blood Sucking Lesbian Alien Cops with Guns, and a girl named Bunny. Sci-Fi, complete at 100k.
Being a Dark Servant has never been easy. Rak, sent to a kingdom of sun-worshippers on a secret mission, learns how hard it can really be.
Two teenage sisters in Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn find out why a minute is a long time when it comes to kissing--with the same boy.
If that vampire mage doesn't leave Ana's blood alone, she'll slug him. Or pull his clothes off. A healer's life isn't usually this fraught.
Library stalking me. Book stolen. Causing Armageddon. Library wants me to fix. Ack! YA Fantasy 63k
A gunslinger must steal a necklace from the Bone Queen, a story-figure who turns visitors into lanterns and walls - or be haunted to death.
3 children in imperial Londonium must navigate their way through bombs, terrorists & miracles without losing their friendship-or themselves.
Humor, sarcasm, and tequila--everything a girl needs when having an affair with the boss and being framed for sabotage by his crazy wife.
Super powers suck when they force you to work for angels. When angels hold your wife hostage. When your best hope is trickster-god Monkey.
I'll throw my name in the pot, I suppose. Here's my pitch:
A backwater world descends into choas; a corporation seeks to spread it; and the threat of an alien invasion shakes the human Empire.
That was hard to come up with...
Sounds fun!
Here's my tag line:
In order to find her mother’s killer, Lucky lives an isolated existence, reluctantly working for an organization of moral assassins.
Things get hairy for a college student when she has rebound sex with a werewolf and becomes the first alpha female in... well, ever.
Gentyl and a senile sorcerer must solve a murder. She prayed for a knight to save her from the killer and got a poetry-spouting flying jar.
Sexy urban fantasy: pregnant San Francisco witch fights to save her baby from a conspiracy of those who claim to love her most.
6 Underworld Gods charged with keeping Chaos Gods from enslaving humanity find love and danger in 6 unlikely women. ParaRom 6 book series.
Wrong answers on an exam warp the course of history to match the student’s response, moving the world further from reality with each answer.
Victorian-era woman raises polar bear cub. Pissed Bear-queen wants stolen son and heir back. War and motherhood, plus a polar bear army.
Harriet the (part) harpy has huge wings. An organization that captures monsters finds her and she must beg help from her estranged family.
The ingredients are: A horny virgin, a handsome cowboy, and a wild thunderstorm. Throw in a cabin in the woods and stir well.
Coming Unmoored--the story of a 30something woman who chucks life with a multimillionaire to start over in a decrepit, 550 ft floating home.
Snatch features football star prick, his closeted sycophant gay lover, mother-daughter drama, rape, suicide, advance directives, & secrets.
A photographer uncovers who murdered her husband and faked the death of her son with the help of a country star and small town sheriff.
Jill packed her Piggly-Wiggly bags and left town to get away from Ken. Back to bury grandma, she ends up in danger only Ken can thwart.
Tess has to face the memory that her magic powers killed her lover. Those powers are the only way Tess can defeat her lover's ghost. 60k.
Riley thought getting abducted by her almost-ex was bad. That was before an ex-con decided to take revenge and made her his target.
Man with pink feather duster not needed. Treasure involved, ostrich farmer and cross-dressing alligator rancher as plantation neighbors.
Philips, a cosmic law enforcement agent, is stuck on Earth working a case he shouldn’t be on with a man who shouldn’t be there fighting a foe he doesn’t realize he knows.
There is a dark side to Jo’s new magical powers. But she needs them to save the Prince, no matter what it costs her. Even if it’s her soul.
A contemporary ghost-buster travels through time to save the life of her target, a WWII fighter pilot.
World’s a mess, so why’s a crow stalking her? Happy b-day. Dreams of adventure turn real, and deadly. From orde to Guardian in a day. Sucky.
Spontaneous combustion, a wayward shape shifter, and a murder attempt. What’s a girl to do? A YA fantasy complete at 57,000 words.
LABYRINTH - (David Bowie and Muppets) + Fey mythology x The dirty streets of Ireland = THROUGH BENDED GRASS, a 90k contemporary Fantasy.
A legacy leads to either doom or salvation when an inherited pack of rogue shifters start dying. He must learn trust or forever be alone.
Woman kidnapped, experimented on by underground military and changed into a soldier with blood that kills vampires. Mission, Kill Rogues.
Ever been made love to by a Frenchman? George did, and even brought his wife. Join the Bakers on a sex-filled romp through Paris...Texas.
Because, oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God! Oprah is going to love it! (Whatever it is...)
High school dating is hard enough, but when your first date includes breaking and entering, there’s not much upside.
What if a ghost came into your bedroom every night and made perfect love to you? What if a hunky paranormal expert wanted to be your real love?
For Jakob Wheeler, the only thing worse than finding out your kin eat human flesh is finding out you do, too. Nature vs. nurture writ large.
Harold Waterman didn't want to be dead. Good job he's got a demon to help and Uncle Fred keeping his body warm. Dead Line: complete @ 100K.
When a friend is murdered, a sex worker tries to help another while keeping her own life intact. A sleek, pop culture-infused novel about compromising goals.
A literary agent snaps and kills an obsessive cat-lover. Now she must use her knowledge of mystery novels-and Twitter-to cover up the crime.
One girl, one boy, seven brothers by seven fathers, and one mother of a mystery.
Dracula meets Cinderella. With sex. And a rich bitch who thinks she’s God's Holy Vampire Slayer.
Alice O'Mara
Three young men lived slow and lazy, but a nuclear war made things hard and fast and full of space pirates and the Man. Completely fake! Ha!
From real stories of Internet boyfriends, jobs, friends, and query letters, it's relentless rejection for 16,000 words. Snappy slaps fly until the ultimate denial.
Cyrus never expected to have the fate of a world in his hands…until a magical book arrives via FedEx to send him home. YA 100k words.
Borderline psychotic & a crossdresser save life of geeky reporter & solve why the heck someone wants a man who writes cat obituaries dead.
Shift Happens-An anthropologist finds cave paintings, secret cures & a hot boyfriend when he teams w the spirit world to defeat a drug lord.
Erin Alridge thought life sucked BEFORE she woke up in an apocalyptic Atlantis. Too bad she can't get home - and a mysterious pack alpha is tempting her not to.
She inherits a mystical castle, a deadly spell, evil inhabitant, issues of trust. Will he protect her or make the deal of the century?
Rose’s daughter Daisy vanished in 1994. Now she’s back. Or is she? Rose fights her fears, accepting the girl… until a second Daisy shows up.
What has three legs, two faces, and desperately wants to be on Colony Ship Querent, despite a dying crew and a plague of interstellar mold?
When is a kiss more than a kiss? When does a kiss become a betrayal? Jared must discover this answer before it is too late.
Being in the wrong place, at the wrong time transforms a naive vengeance demon from the hunter to the hunted.
An artist down on her luck accepts a job she had sworn never to take, in a world that she’s only read about at the checkout stand.
Vamps, werewolves & witches vying for control of The Pact. Alliances are broken and formed. With a soupcon of reincarnation for spice.
With Lady Emma’s husband dead, she has two days to lose her virginity, proving their marriage valid. Or face being sold again by her father.
Solomon didn't think suppressing memories of his dead anathema lover would leave the terrorists poised to attack. So he forgot everything.
When a merman accidentally steals part of a girl’s soul, he introduces her to a world where alchemists, spells and curses exist.
THE CONCRETE JUNGLE BOOK graphic novel retells Kipling in urban jungle w/ urban animals, more: http://tinyurl.com/9pwxqc
After happy humanity, Courtney finds being dead is a bust, but her best friend-now-bodyguard, sharp teeth and unruly clan of vampires help.
A teenage werwolf learns what she's capable of when hunters come after her Pack and her family discovers she's not exactly straight.
A deaf dragon and his weasel hearing guide help a plague-stricken village. Remedy, the high fantasy cousin of E.R., will be complete at 90k.
(Not that I'd query anyone for real with a half-finished book. Eheh.)
Magic welding Earth chick meets Techno wiz Fae Prince. Trite? Too steamy to notice with chases and sex in two worlds. Erotic Fantasy 35K
Demons and Senators and murders, oh my!
A demon beauty with the ability to kill with sex must work with her soul-mate to save the day.
Faith family and friends: nacre for the grains of sand in my life, evolving into a pearl. Times when I have heard, seen and felt God.
Normal guy. Abnormal life. Girlfriend turns out to be demon. Baby sister turns out to be demon hunter. Family life gets hard. Urban Fantasy
Sapph is forced back into ghosthunting to help a friend clear out a haunted house. What she discovers is that her past won’t die. Literally.
Lena takes a job on a spaceship to escape her con artist past, except they picked her to uncover a mutiny she finds she sympathizes with.
For power, demons steal warmth from humans. One picks Lorin. Frantic, she asks faeries for help. Too bad the faeries agree with the demon.
When a troubled teen steals a book that contains the secrets for reincarnating the dead, all hell breaks loose. Sometimes literally.
Ink Wench
When theater folk in a flying boat kidnap Leeny Holland, she must survive giant squid, hurricanes, sabotage, and true love to get back home.
Insanity runs in Enid's family and its finally caught up with her. For her family's sake, she searches for a cure she's not sure she wants.
FRIENDS WITH DEATH: Mary Kate has 2 problems: an almost dying boyfriend and a guy who calls himself Death who visits her in her dorm room.
PLACEMENT: A bright but angry teenage boy stuck in two systems—special education and social services—and his quest to rise out of them. 63K.
The only thing Bobby ever got from his murdering father was musical talent. He rejects Mozart for metal, and an obsessed teacher intervenes.
Eliminating my target would be a helluva lot easier without these damn sex scenes replaying in my brain. And they aren’t even mine. 100k.
Life doesn't stop after size fourteen, everyday moments just get a little bigger.
“Let there be light!” Followed by mankind, floods, parted seas, prophets, and a man who turns water into wine. Ending to come. ~800K words.
Peevish NY literary agent finds time to stop complaining about nothing and discovers amazing new talent as well as blog contest on same day.
Harold falls through a wormhole and wakes at The Venus Hotel. Bag handlers hunt guests. Valets drive like Nascar. And someone stole his dog.
Gee, I wish that Blogger numbered comments. It would make life SO MUCH EASIER!
Alas.
Good start, gang!
Gifted composer delves into the occult. Plans to prove existence of God by invoking Satan before a packed new-years-eve audience. Bad idea.
Divorce isn't easy, but for Tracy it's a piece of cake compared to her ex's mistress showing up - a baby on her hip and suitcase in hand.
Vampire assisted suicide, a stripper and a big boss who gives coupons for sexual acts. A black and white story or hidden shades of grey?
In a decade of boinking chicks, Bo had run into spouses, stolen wallets and STDs. This was the first time he’d woken to find his navel gone.
A teenage birthday cake addict finds love doesn’t always come in conventional packages after kissing her friend’s brother on a dare.
ARROW FISH: Antihero’s missing past & Mayan prophecy unravel; rival fates bid power or love & a choice roots covert groups’ feud. UF 10k+…
kensanadarnell -
Wouldn't vampire assisted suicide be counter-productive, being as you'd be eternally undead?
:-)
Nice line, though!
C-
A wizard suffers a crisis of faith and must now save his son and his country without witchcraft. His enemies have no such scruples.
Three meddling aunts, a surly arbiter, a sassy sprite, and a suave sorcerer can sure mess up the life of a CPA. THE FAIRY GODMOTHER LIST
clindsay-
Thank you. Yes it could be, if the vampire isn't forgiving enough to grant the death you desire. :)
Tomboy in a dystopic steampunk America that never won its independence meets son of a control-freak Marquis who’s building a clockwork army.
Her dreams reveal that the new boy at school is her own dark creation from a past life. And he wants to destroy his creator. Typical teen.
Bound by his ancestor to restore the family power stone, Bryown learns the witch sent to guard him was ordered to steal their crystal wand.
Annie’s eyes were glazed over, donuts staring into nothing forever, sprawling on the chair, falling down dead, her baby nowhere in sight.
The faith of mankind is tested as a teenage kidnapping victim unwittingly takes the lead role in the battle between two races of Angels.
Escape guards, survive assassins, skirt killer gnomes and vicious fearies, easy. All before the shapeshift steals her humanity, maybe not.
An obsessive compulsive personal shopper is trapped in a genie's
bottle with only seven days to make a choice... will it be love or
freedom?
Erotic vampire keeps woman from killing herself, but to truly save her, he must end her life and make her his own.
An innocent man is targeted with a false sexual harassment complaint by an amoral young woman and her uber-feminist mentor.
WORD THIEF: Crazy writer friends seek authentic voices/lives. Layered plot with real stolen emails.
Ya-Yas meet Sex in the City gang. 83K
A modern Witch accidentally brings King Arthur back to save the world. Oops.
(Although I really like the Lesbian cops with guns one...I'd vote for that!)
Crimes revolve around inkblots. Is the culprit Tiffany’s brother Matthew, the inkblot webmaster, or Darlene, sexy crime reporter?
Boy meets steam girl, goes to her planet and is made into a gear person and saved from cancer. War breaks out. Boy hides with native humans.
What a hoot! Here we go...
Tranny with a tail loses job & dog, curses drug dealers with cannabis allergies, but gets the girl—& his dog back—by following strangers.
Bored small town suburban housewife gets involved in an internet affair. The affair leads her on a journey into the BDSM realm. Bondage, whips and leather oh my.
Dear Ms. Lindsay: Detective Marlin Henderson is mad. His long time partner was murdered. Now the hunt is on. Will the cop become the killer?
A musician struggling with schizophrenia, Pence feels out of tune until he meets Madison. Will his feelings keep him from singing the blues?
Superheroes won’t rescue Frances’ abducted dad, the infamous Demon Doctor, so she forms her own squad of superpowered teens to help. YA
A supernatural thriller: Widower fights for son’s life, in danger from local mourners with a black magic alternative to therapy.
Lily attends a school for the paranormal. She tries to fit in while others strive to stand out. Supernatural cat fights, telepath best friend, and hot werewolf, oh my.
True identity can be deceiving in high school, especially when all you see is black-on-black vs. a Varsity letterman’s jacket.
When a curse prevents Isemay from morphing into her sacred animal spirit, she must discover how to break it before she dies in three months.
(Your black and white cat looks like mine - cute!)
Wow, maybe you should have made the deadline Wednesday night!
Two magical cats. One full food dish. When Stinkyboy and Buddy duke it out for dinner, more than just the fur is going to fly.
Genius Bubba Einstein invents superweapon, drawing Earth into galactic war. Bubba, a biker chick and a pizza delivery girl must save world.
And yes, this is a real story, still working on it though!
Two years in exile leave Kat with a dead boy’s eyes and short two months of memory. She’ll get her memories and her eyes back or die trying.
Aliens put it in her, so she's keeping it. Semi-symbiotic story of stolen spaceships, small towns and perhaps proof that W. Bush is Elvis.
Zee-
I knew it!
LONE HUNTRESS
Lisa Huntress is a legendary bounty hunter in the distant future, whose armored visage and legendary “gunhand” strike terror into the hearts of the pirates and hostile aliens she fights.
Librarians Don't Get Married
Every Good Girl wants to be a Bad Girl. They want to be desired, lusted after. To own their sexuality--to be confident and assertive and to savor life. But Good Girls don't do that sort of thing--after all, what might the neighbors think?
SWM, 17, seeks dead bro’s SF w/kid. Will travel. Finds dead bro’s GM. No games/drugs. High UST w/SWF, 17, poss LTR. Must like abusive dad.
Reality TV producer-turned-vampire creates hit show: The Hills meets True Blood. Consequences ensue, as a gossip-fed demon lurks beneath LA.
In a high school biology glass aquarium, a secretive frog mutates into the Homecoming Queen!
WIP
Haste yee back ;-)
3 wives dead--the authorities are suspicious. But they're not the only ones watching. So is the person or thing that is killing the women he loved.
William loves the most dangerous woman in Henry II’s court⎯his foster sister⎯but must force her to wed another man to keep his family safe.
damn! that went 6 characters over. Okay. . .
Revenge planned for a decade will be sweet. But she has only take 3 days to bring down the company that trashed her life.
Giant bugs meets Freaky Friday, and an epic tale of loss. Channeled all 139K. It was a long séance. We'll be rich! Friend me?
She’s the captain of alien recon force. He’s a human musician/nurse. Earthly terrorism. Intergalactic intrigue. Sparks fly. Spaceships fly.
Mom’s a faery, Dad’s an elf, and their six children never knew. My young adult urban fantasy, Violent Purple, is complete at 67,000 words.
What would YOU do if you realized all the kids on your baseball team were vampires? Explains the night practices! Little League Sucks, YA.
As a shape shifter and teen assassin, Lela thinks she knows about lies. Until a terrorist called the Scarlet Fox tells her one big truth.
Half-vampire heiress teams up with hunter to stop a war she started while investigating her father's death in the vampire-run underworld.
The 57 cats took her to the edge.The cheesy rants pushed her over.Now she's running for her life-suspected of a murder anyone would commit
Become a pawn in an intergalactic stand-off. Find out who killed the president. Detective skills optional. Sense of humour mandatory.
Great contest! So many excellent entries I don't know how you're going to choose The Winners! :)
A kick-ass spy, Kate alters her appearance with her thoughts. It’s hard to take down her terrorist school, and much harder to resist love.
Deb -
Was that an homage to TWILIGHT's vampire baseball by any chance?
:-)
Heh
C-
12-year-old Xandri yearns to find her missing mother, but learns own role in protecting her mother’s secret.
YA 72k
www.bethbeck.com
Chris wants a normal life. His uncle wants to use his power to steal. VANISHING ACT tells how he gets free and finds a real family. YA 83K
Follow the journey of tart-tongued Callie as this "Taming of the Shrew meets Shane" historical romance unfolds into a sexy romp across the southwestern desert of 1866.
HEY! Shana stole my story. She's a plagiarist! I knew I shoulda sent myself copies last week when I go the idea.
Colleen -
Golly, whatever do you mean? *cue snicker*
Deb
P.S. Did I mention the children glitter and can't go out in sunlight because it makes them too beautiful?
@deb:
well, that should make it easy for the truancy officer...
In a dystopian world, getting chucked in prison is worth it when a Good girl meets a Bad boy and runs away with him. CONTROL ISSUES follow.
Life at 16 is difficult enough for a dark mage. Crush on half-mortal 10x her age can't help. Then to destroy an empire or her family? Blast!
A dying girl, coerced into acting as grim reaper for a second chance at life, falls in love with the man she was sent to kill.
The daughter of a faith-healing evangelist pulls back the tent flap on her itinerant childhood, revealing all. CAN I GET A WITNESS?
Sixty years apart, a Jewish shopkeeper and his estranged sister must unravel their family's magical legacy before his kidnapped son can be used to change history. UF.
Corpse-eating monkeys battle vampire bunnies for control of pet store chain. Monkey-bunny love threatens galaxy, forges unlikely alliances.
A time machine, two bags of Fritos and a rubber band. Though Detective John Laramie has seen a lot of strange things, his new partner comes with an odd caseload.
Zombie convinces 1940s detective to find out who killed him; gumshoe discovers that dead men do, occasionally, wear Plaid.
Strong a mage as Blackwell is, he's not prepared for the demon bird, the burning woman, or the seductive double-agent who steals his heart.
In gas-lit New Yorke, a winged boy and a blind girl seek the evil making their friends ill--and worse, obedient. YA steampunk, 60K words.
Word Veri: ablextar. Hmm, the name of my villain? ;)
Yeah, wouldn't it be cool if I got better results from this than from my real query letter? Anyway, the entry, complete at 140 exactly:
Mind powers, the FBI, historians & a rock. A daring nighttime raid on some bad guys. A telekinetic battle in a cave! Sci-fi complete at 84k.
Oh hell, that first one is cracking me up. =)
Demons, detectives, and a forensic scientist who’s fallen from Hell. Hell wants her back. Let the demon hunt begin.
Traveling to days in her past is fun - until her present starts changing, and the road not taken isn't all it's cracked up to be.
What's stronger--magic or love? "Bewitched" meets "Love Potion #9": a magic spell is a disastrous 30th-birthday gift. Urban fantasy 100K.
A tiny blemish in Pennsylvania births the world's worst hero, then kills his parents. Can Jo7zhn beat his vanity to save a fresh dystopia?
Marcy is new in Hong Kong and needs friends. Desperately. But can she stand the compulsive liar crazy Auntie Claude picks for her? YA 57K.
Vampire brother, boyfriend and hotel: Delia's not joking when she says life sucks. Unfortunately someone else wants to end it. YA UF. 80k.
Opening gates to Hell is just a day job for a nice guy looking to settle down with the right girl and have good teriyaki once in a while.
1950s adventure. Honey Smith and Dirk Miles find underground race on tropical island, but must escape before hoteliers kill them.
Vampires. With Spaceships. In high school. And they sing. Will the heroine's heart remain broken until the heat death of the universe?
What if you had the chance to see your future? Would you take it even if it was a horrible one and there’s nothing you could do about it?
It’s Vampire purity vs. Halfbreed bloodlust in a sexy smackdown that’ll leave you thirsting for more.
No. We CAN’T all just get along…
C is stalked by the living embodiment of fate, a long-limbed urbanite who can remember the future but not the past. It's complicated...
In 1960s English suburbia, "happily married" Edward tragically falls in love for the first time-with the teenaged boy next door. 70K words
'The Wire' with mermaids.
Cap’n Bacab: a pirate with a cause. His crew of mestizos and maroons want theirs back and change history as they attack the Silver Fleet.
Ben Grange and his friends are caught up in the growing discord leading to a civil war. No one realized that Ben is the key to peace.
15 year-old Jeremy Caldwell thinks every problem can be solved using Google, until he learns mom's CIA and he's got to finish her mission.
After discovering that magic is real, a girl must decide whether saving her teacher is worth losing the chance to have magic of her own.
When Francis was sixteen she lost twenty-four hours. Ten years later she discovers what happened that day, and her world is changed forever.
A manga-crazy girl living with Asperger's and the mother who's willing to risk all for her, even her own sanity. Two sides of same story.
Fluffy family drama + wizards as MCs + guns + cultist kidnappers = 51k of YA fantasy win.
THE VERY WATERY OCEAN & OTHER UNNECESSARY TALES.
Gay erotic urban fantasy. Gypsy prince turned erotic aerialist hunted for energy creating powers, hot bounty hunter is his conduit. Series.
THE CAIN LETTERS is a 74,000-word thriller about vampire hunter Alexandra Glade, forced to protect Cain, brother of Abel, to save humanity.
Doesn't Karen, a successful London editor, have it all? But she's ageing, losing interest in life. A derelict house in Wales becomes the catalyst for her reinvention.
Wendy’s mind should be on her brother’s homecoming from Nam, but she loses focus with an invitation to the Christmas Dance. Soon everything falls apart.
His step-dad’s unconscious and electricity is sparking from Joe’s fingers. Too bad the only one offering help is the man who’s responsible.
Life’s tough for a teen in love. Add a morphing boyfriend and a Dad who captures shapeshifters for a living, life’s about to get even tougher.
1870 San Francisco Chinese bride. Tong boss brothel. Caucasian hero rescue. Relate, communicate, love. Beat baddie. Happily ever after.
16yo Addy's scientist dad never tutored her in paranormal powers. But she's getting a crash course in telekinesis despite what she believes.
An emotionally fragile psychic isn’t much of a challenge for the demon sent to seduce her, but he hasn't counted on the one thing keeping her sane - her guardian angel.
Psychic Geraldine Tomazewski makes a living telling people how and when they will die. Her reading of Miller Sanchez suggests he won’t. 85k.
Never name your daughter Mabel, and never welch on a promise made to a stalker.
The sword she receives at a Renaissance Festival transports twelve year old Mikayla to a Dream World where good and evil fight every night.
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