This from Jane McGonigal:
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Dear, Lucky Agent
Today I'm entering a contest run by Chuck Sambuchino, the editor of Guide to Literary Agents Editor's Blog.
"Dear, Lucky Agent" is a recurring contest. So, even though I'm submitting the first page of my kids' novel, next month Chuck will shift to another genre. So, if you're writing any kind of material--fiction, non-fiction, YA romance or adult mystery--bookmark his blog, or subscribe to the feed like I do.
Here's what I'm sending:
Entry:
Green Tara, a 42,000 word middle-grade novel
Author:
Kalynn Huffman Brower (That's me, the storygoddess.)
Logline:
Should Virginia Maderas, teen of the 24th century, jump ship in her red-hot space coupe in hopes of finding the legendary planet, Green Tara? Is a blue star hot?*
page 1:
I never thought I’d get caught.
I made it out and back and even managed to park on K-deck without attracting attention. To remain inconspicuous, I popped open the back hatch of my Galaxy Blast and slipped out. Then things went pathological. Something about my landing protocol must have set off an alert, because two sentries met me on the ramp.
I whispered to Dot, who was wrapped around my arm in our normal travel mode, “Why didn’t you warn me?”
She just gave me that I-told-you-so look, and her screen went blank.
Great. Nothing like being abandoned and left in the custody of a couple of hyper-vigilant sentries who, as it turned out, were there to escort me to lock-down. Me! I never, ever expected to be taken there. Lockdown is the place they put frightening, high-security-risk rebels. Not a teenage girl.
Now I was going to have to explain to my dad how I’d gotten off the ship without a license.
. . .
* Yes, a blue star is hot. It's the hottest kind. But you already know that astronomical fact.
"Dear, Lucky Agent" is a recurring contest. So, even though I'm submitting the first page of my kids' novel, next month Chuck will shift to another genre. So, if you're writing any kind of material--fiction, non-fiction, YA romance or adult mystery--bookmark his blog, or subscribe to the feed like I do.
Here's what I'm sending:
Entry:
Green Tara, a 42,000 word middle-grade novel
Author:
Kalynn Huffman Brower (That's me, the storygoddess.)
Logline:
Should Virginia Maderas, teen of the 24th century, jump ship in her red-hot space coupe in hopes of finding the legendary planet, Green Tara? Is a blue star hot?*
page 1:
I never thought I’d get caught.
I made it out and back and even managed to park on K-deck without attracting attention. To remain inconspicuous, I popped open the back hatch of my Galaxy Blast and slipped out. Then things went pathological. Something about my landing protocol must have set off an alert, because two sentries met me on the ramp.
I whispered to Dot, who was wrapped around my arm in our normal travel mode, “Why didn’t you warn me?”
She just gave me that I-told-you-so look, and her screen went blank.
Great. Nothing like being abandoned and left in the custody of a couple of hyper-vigilant sentries who, as it turned out, were there to escort me to lock-down. Me! I never, ever expected to be taken there. Lockdown is the place they put frightening, high-security-risk rebels. Not a teenage girl.
Now I was going to have to explain to my dad how I’d gotten off the ship without a license.
. . .
* Yes, a blue star is hot. It's the hottest kind. But you already know that astronomical fact.
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