I've been writing since I was a young girl, scaring the begeezus out of my teachers with my horror stories. Horror is still one of my favorite genres, but right now I'm finishing up my novel Quantum Earth. I'm very excited about it and feel confident I'll get a lot of rejection slips. Then one lucky publisher will see how wonderful it is and want to publish it.
I've also written a three act play called Angel in the House and a novella (very hard to place) called Native Vengeance. I think my next project will be some nonfiction narrative since it's in such high demand.
Here's my query for Native Vengeance
What would happen if a woman came to visit a town that didn’t exist?
Meg is enticed to a small, New Mexico ghost town, made to feel at home, but slowly realizes everything isn’t as it seems as the townspeople cunningly keep her and another “guest”; a man named Josh held hostage to await a fate that has continued for centuries. They will eventually come into direct confrontation with the forces of evil. How can they escape the terrible destiny that awaits them when they are being watched closely by the people of this town in the main town hall at a “re-creation” of a disaster that happened over two hundred years ago?
The true terror of this novella builds with excruciating tension as the reader foresees the horror to come. The wrenching suspense lies in whether Meg and Josh will realize what’s happening in time to save their own lives.
This story leaves one with a true sense of horror embedded in the seeming ordinariness of the world we think we know. The result is terrifying.
This is my fourth effort as an author. I’ve written a nutrition course for the Humboldt College, also a three act play named Angel in the House, and a novel named Quantum Earth. This novella contains about 17,000 words.
I hope you find Native Vengeance (working title) intriguing enough to consider by your firm. I look very much forward to hearing from you.
Here's my query for Quantum Earth
Natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, and hurricanes are on a sharp rise. Whether this is due to the Greenhouse effect, Native prophesies from the Hopis, or predictions from the Mayans that the end of the world will happen in the year 2012, Drs. Mel “Hawk” Hawkins and Shauna Troy, along with their handpicked team of researchers are out to find the answers.
Going on the assumption that there is a metaphysical link to all of this, they plan to interview the dead who didn’t survive disasters through their very own trance channeler, Noah Meade. An entity known only as “Jackson” comes through Noah when he is in trance to find out if the negativity of human thought creates what happens. Do we create our own realities?
A mysterious rich investor comes through with financial support for their endeavors. But who is he and what does he really want?
Shauna and Hawk step into a world in which they will eventually come into direct confrontation with the forces of evil. As their investigation progresses they begin to understand that what they are dealing with has been in the stars for centuries. Hawk has a theory of how to stop the oncoming cataclysm. The true terror of this novel builds with excruciating tension as the reader fears for the possible reality that the world is truly coming to an end for humans on this planet we call Earth.
The wrenching suspense lies in whether Hawk and Shauna, along with their research team will be able to figure out whether there is any way to save us all.
This story leaves the reader with a true sense of mounting terror embedded in a supposedly ordinary world that we believed would be there for us forever. The result is horrifying.
This is my third effort as an author. My previous works are an unpublished novella named Native Vengeance, and an also unpublished or performed play called Angel in the House.
So far I am near the end of writing this book and am at 50,000 Words now.
I hope you find Quantum Earth (working title) intriguing enough to consider publishing by your firm I look very much to hearing from you.
So far I must have sent out 50 queries to agents and publishers for my novella and gotten a dozen very kind sounding rejections. Most of these were submitted through email. I've only queried a couple people about my novel since it's not finished. It should be done within the month, editing and all. Then I'll put it out there. Anyone interested in reading these please let me know. I'd love the feedback.
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til next time...
