My latest query letter!

As submitted to Query Shark. Whatta great site!

Dear Query Shark,

When Eve’s boyfriend came out of the bloodsucker closet, she decided they could make it work. Her friends were what shook her: vampire hunters, targets of Faerie malevolence, and ghosts.   

Some days it just doesn’t pay to have an open mind.

            Eve is a 20-something English major trying to work her way through college when the supernatural world falls into her lap. Armed with years of supposedly fictional supernatural reading, she tries to find out who turned her boyfriend Jake into a vampire and why. It doesn’t help when her friends reveal they are in hiding after killing Vampires. Or that one is being pursued by a psychotic Faerie who was once a close friend abducted and replaced by the Fae. She lies to save the unknowing and seemingly innocent Faerie clone left in his place, knowing her friends will turn on her if it’s found out.

            Jake’s brother’s murder blows the lid off her lies and destroys what remains of her friendships. Now Eve has to find the answers while trying to hold a group together who hate her guts. Jake has gone AWOL with a batty mentor to find his brother’s killer. She’s on her own.

Too bad her immortal soul isn’t the only one that rides on the answers. If she doesn’t find the real killer, fend off the Fae, and get the group working together, she’s damned to limbo along with Jake's brother and anyone else who get's in the killer's way.

None of her books explained how to get out of being dead.

            NEVERWORLD, 62,000 words, is a supernatural mystery novel. I am currently working on the sequel, and have plans for a third concluding novel.  I have included (whatever the agent asks for) below. Thank you for your time and consideration.

(contact info redacted)

Youtube dreamin'

Here I am again, blogging when I should be working on my book, my flash fiction, or even my budget. I should at least be working on a script for my review segment.

I’ve already picked out some spectacularly bad movies that others don’t seem to have done to death. The Nightmare on elm street series, even numbered flicks. Seed of Chucky. The Car. There are literally dozens of movies in my personal collection that need a good lambasting. But without the ability to rip DVD or screen capture, it might as well be a power point presentation.

I’ve purchased a great webcam in anticipation of future work. My computer is so crummy it can’t support it properly. I can’t wait to get my tax refund. Mind you, I won’t blow the whole wad on computer stuff. I’m gonna save a bit. But the bulk is going towards a new computer and decent editing software.

Now all I need is a script…

Flash Fiction

Getting an idea is a thing of beauty. Trying to have an idea is a gut-busting shit storm.

Oakland University, my Alma Matter, has a flash fiction contest yearly. Flash fiction is a story less than 1000 words long. Usually it's got a twist ending. By definition it's just a quick jolt of writing.

I'm in the process of trying to have an idea for the contest. First, I though to do a POV from a child as a teacher tries to kill pod people in her classroom. It felt muddled and I couldn't get the kid's voice right. So, I tried a different tactic; a POV from a pod-person style child in the classroom, trying to complete their experiment on the hapless teacher. Mr. Spock meet Little Gray Men. But I'm still having trouble with it. The twist feels predictable. 

Not to mention it was basically a reversed POV from a great Stephen King short story.

So I'm back to square one. Trying to have an idea. 

What a bitch.

Nerdgasm

My boyfriend gave me some early birthday presents: Futurama volume 7, and lego figures of Harley Quinn and The Wicked Witch of the West. I am in dork heaven.

Still watching season 3 of Star Trek. I want to get all the way thru TOS and the movies with just the original cast. It's getting harder; episodes like 'That Which Survives' make it hard. Spock is by far my favorite; no matter how zany things get, he's like 'I got this.'

I still miss Picard. Can't wait to tackle that! Netflicks rocks.