The Real World Genres - MS Shooting Gallery
"Real World Genres Shooting Gallery" provides writers with opportunities to test market their best novels and hopefully score a contract. Agents and TV/Film reps will check in and review work during 2022. AAC will edit beforehand as needed. For Algonkian alums only.
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Exposition and End Game This select forum thread is dedicated exclusively to Algonkian alums who wish to post sell sheets of their completed commercial or literary novels, or novels-in-progress, for the purpose of showcasing them to agents and TV/Film reps. We will inform these professionals of new high-concept projects and invite them to stop by regularly during 2021. If they wish to request something immediately, or at a future date, they will either contact you directly, make a post, or else contact us. It is also possible they might wish to video conference with you. The scenarios are various, but all is casual. There is no set schedule. This is how we want …
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Coryn Hayman Title: A Place for Wrath Genre: Historical Fiction Comparables: This novel will appeal to those with an interest in historical fiction and strong female protagonists navigating harsh military institutions and surviving the trials of war. A Place for Wrath is comparable to novels such as Kate Quinn’s, “The Huntress” (2019), and Kaia Alderson’s “Sisters in Arms” (2021). “A Place for Wrath” is complete at 101,000 words. Hook: Knowing that animal resistance is the only way to escape a humiliating death, a female Soviet sniper in World War II seeks redemption through battlefield triumph, killing the brother of a German colonel who purs…
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Comps: Unorthodox by Deborah Feldman and What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo Chinese Laundry by Adrienne Lo, upmarket women's fiction based closely on personal experiences. Raised in a dysfunctional household that stifled self-expression, a young woman must challenge the expectation to “chi ku” or “eat bitterness” in order to find her voice and overcome intergenerational trauma. When her mother failed to retrieve her as a young child from a non-custodial visit from Hong Kong to her father's home in Canada, Amanda was told she had been abandoned and required to present her young stepmother Julie as her birth mother. Under the tight control of her unstable st…
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Pamela Meyer DEATH IN MINIATURE Historical Mystery Kate Belli’s Gilded Gotham Mysteries meets Bones in DEATH IN MINIATURE, a 98,000-word mystery set in 1906 Boston. DEATH IN MINIATURE is inspired by the world’s ‘mother of forensics,’ Frances Glessner Lee, and her true-to-life crime-scene miniatures. 1906 Boston. A married heiress, fascinated with solving mysteries and making crime-scene miniatures to foster her investigative process, defies convention and risks family censure to live a secret double life as an unmarried pathologist. Back when suffragettes began to rumble, a farmer hangs dead in his barn. Frances Harvester Warden teams up with Boston …
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In a satire, God tells the real story of Jesus...75K complete...It's Good Omens meets Passion of the Christ, comps: Christopher Moore, Tom Robbins, Carl Hiaason
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Title: to Love or Not to Love - Forbidden Love in Two Acts Author: Yun Butler Genre: Memoir Comparable: Son of the Revolution – Heng and Shapiro Red Azalea – Min Hook Line: Forbidden loves amid the tumult of Maoist China and its aftermath. Pitch: My family and I are living on the beautiful Peking University campus in the mid-1950s. Our future seems bright. But when China is rocked by a succession of societal upheavals that culminate in the death and destruction of the Cultural Revolution, everything crumbles. Early on, father is caught in a political trap and is largely absent fro…
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Marilee Dahlman Fortune’s Riot, thriller (90k words) Comparables: Wanda M. Morris’s All Her Little Secrets meets Linda Fairstein’s Alexandra Cooper novels. Hook Line: In a world gripped with increasing violence between the top 1% and those who got left behind, a young NY prosecutor battles to discover who killed her boss and protect others from the same financial catastrophe that destroyed her own family. Pitch: Allie Walker moved from Iowa to New York for one reason: to bring down corrupt millionaires. Her family lost everything when a Ponzi scheme orchestrated by a woman named Theodora Blaine unraveled. Now Allie, drowning in debt, plans to wield he…
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Name: Eliza Mimski Genre: Women’s Fiction with humor and romance Comps: A sexually-active Miss Havisham meets Catherina Ingelman-Sundberg’s little old lady books meets Mick Kelly from the Heart is a Lonely Hunter…. Hookline: When a young woman accompanies her sexually active great-grandmother to an erotic love resort for elderly women and young men, the young woman desperately looks for love in this unlikeliest of places. She struggles to discover her sexuality in spite of the sexual messages her great-gram gives her. Pitch: In the South American resort called Ciudad de las Pumas Antiguas, or City of the Ancient Cougars, elderly women an…
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HOOK LINE One young princess stood at the crossroads of the founding of three nations: France, England, and Belgium. Her story, and the story of the knight she loved, has never been told – until now. PITCH The Girl of Many Crowns is a 110,000-word historical fiction with international appeal. Based on the true story of a rebellious princess and a brave knight who defy the king and overcome treachery, murder, and Vikings, to build a life--and a new country--together. Princess Judith, daughter of King Charles of France, is raised in a protected and nurturing environment. Her father arranges her marriage at the tender age of 12 to elderly A…
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Brian C. Lockey DRAINING THE SWAMPS OF BABYLON Upmarket Fiction Comparables: The Odyssey meets ’70’s counterculture and Southern Rock in my 97,000-word upmarket novel, reminiscent of Roddy Doyle (The Commitments), Dana Spiotta (Stone Arabia), and Nick Hornby (High Fidelity; Juliet, Naked). Hook Line: A former Rock ’n’ Roll singer makes an improbable journey home to help his aging father and reconnect with the love of his life—but before he can resurrect his music career, he must revisit the Devil’s crossroads that beset his youth. Pitch: Having grown up amid the chaotic 1970’s Florida music scene, Whitman Whitaker was once …
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Name: Rose Eggert Title: A WOMAN IN THE RIVER or RECKLESS RIVER Genre: Literary Fiction, Commercial Fiction Comps: The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali meets White Teeth by Zadie Smith and The Shipping News by Annie Proulx Hook line: After the accidental drowning of her youngest child, Joline Delaney refuses to speak for years, until an old flame turned homeless vet blows a hole in the hydro dam, releasing the baby’s bones and Joline’s tongue. Pitch: The story begins in 1973. It is the time of the ERA, a Women’s March on Washington, and troops are standing down from the first televised war. Yet, Joline Delaney is stuck in a trailer with 4 h…
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Author: Michelle Henrie Title: The Darcy Diaries: My Deplorable Love Life Genre: Women's fiction with romance and humor Comps: Austenland meets Would Like to Meet and The Austen Escape in THE DARCY DIARIES: MY DEPLORABLE LOVE LIFE, complete at 94,000-words. Hook Line: A hopeless romantic searches for a Regency hero in 21st century Connecticut. Pitch: Caroline Beckworth’s boring lawyer fiancé jilts her. She makes one rule: NO MORE LAWYERS. She meets William D. Fitzgerald IV, her wealthy late aunt’s young brooding lawyer. Caroline inherits the aunt’s fortune, but there’s a catch—to keep it, Caroline must be engaged within three months of the f…
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Comparables: World Gone By meets Who They Was in this 90,000 plot-driven and character-rich debut novel set in modern day New York. Hook: A gun-runner for an urban gang sets out to uncover the mystery of his best friend’s death and triggers a chain of events that jeopardizes everyone in his orbit, including him. Short Pitch: Marlon Brown is a gun-runner for the Bloods, whose best friend has been gunned down outside of the gang's established territory. Though the whisper stream comes alive with speculation about who did the deed and why, conjecture isn't enough for Marlon. He has to know. But asking questions breaks every rule of the street, and in doing so…
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Emily blames her father for her mom’s death, but when he’s mauled by a bear in the remote Canadian wilderness, she must forgive the past and connect with her despised stepsister, Skylar, or they’ll never survive. 16-year-old Emily usually looks forward to a week at Loon Lake for her yearly father-daughter fly-in fishing trip – but not this year. She’s stuck in the remote Canadian wilderness with her 19-year-old diva stepsister, Skylar, and with the father she blames for her mom’s death. A bear breaks into the cabin and mauls their dad to the brink of death. Emily and Skylar wound the bear and escape, but their entire food supply is decimated. They find a …
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CATWALK QUEENS Shelley Schenk/Cedric Godefroy Upmarket Women’s Fiction 85,000 words Comp: DEVIL WEARS PRADA meets THE SCARLET LETTER Hook: A bullied and anxious American waitress restarts her life in Paris and finds shocking success on the fashion catwalks, but a torrid love affair with her photographer gives her friend, the queen of Parisian catwalk cancel culture, the ammunition to bring her to ruin. Pitch: Six foot tall Erin Donnelly has been bullied her whole life. She’s known in her working class Boston neighborhood as the hideous giraffe and she believes it. She tries to restart her life in Paris and is a smash…
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Sails of Blood is a 90,000 word novel of historical fiction which begins after pirate Anne Bonny disappears from history. By Carol Busby Infamous Caribbean pirate Anne Bonny thrust her sword into the captain of the British patrol ship. Then she wiped the blade clean on her pants. Shaking her fiery red hair, Anne knows that she hasn’t lost her touch since becoming a wife and mother. But she is tired of smuggling and wants to retire. Before she can, however, evil baronet Jonathan Woolrich recognizes her. He threatens to expose her past and have her returned to Jamaica to be hanged along with her crew of smugglers. Woolrich wants her to take one more trip brin…
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Without a Map is a 77,000 word commercial novel. It is complete. Who are you when the person you are no longer fits the life you have? For fans of Steven Rowley’s Guncle and Maria Semple’s Where’d You Go Bernadette comes the story of Richard Harfeld, a Hollywood director who thinks he has it all until his wife dies in a sudden accident. A crazy girlfriend and a failed film combine to make Richard reevaluate everything he believes about himself as he struggles to raise his son. Working through their grief the two lost souls make a trip to dad’s birthplace to connect with family, only to discover that he has nothing in common with his rural roots. Back in L.A. Ric…
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COMP: Outlander meets The Mystery of Mrs. Christie. An outsider who disappeared and is reimagined. HOOK LINE; Anne Bonny escaped a hanging, built a life and left her past behind. Or so she thought. Pirate, smuggler, wife, mother and fugitive . . . Anne Bonny always sailed against the tide. SHORT PITCH: Anne Bonny, sentenced to be hanged as a pirate, escapes when her father carries her off Jamaica and marries her to a con-man named Joseph Burleigh. They build a new life on a plantation in Virginia. There Anne, always a rebel and an abolitionist, tries to adjust to a new culture: the restricted life of women in the 18th century. When hard times hit,…
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Author Norah Vawter Title ANNA’S ENDLESSLY COLLAPSING STAR Genre Upmarket Women’s Fiction Comps The Queen’s Gambit meets astronomy. Complete at 80,000 words, ANNA’S ENDLESSLY COLLAPSING STAR is upmarket women’s fiction in the tradition of Little Fires Everywhere and Val Brelinsky’s The Girl Who Slept with God. Hook Line Anna thought this remote observatory in the Chilean desert was her escape, but it's actually her prison: to be free, she’s got to go home, stop pretending away her traumatic childhood, and stop hating her mom for saving her life. Pitch An astronomer in a remote observatory in the Chilean desert…
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Author: Jennifer Locke DARK CISTERN is a thriller just like ICE HUNT by James Rollins only it’s inspired by Alice in Wonderland and set in Rio de Janeiro. Hook Line: The 25-year rains are bearing down on the city of Rio de Janeiro, when martial arts trainee, Olivia, witnesses a kidnapping. Haunted by her past failure to save the ones she loves, her rush to save the boy plunges her down the rabbit hole, and into a desperate war, where every turn puts her more squarely in the cross-hairs of a woman who will stop at nothing to help mother nature win, when the rain starts pouring down. Short Pitch: When troubled martial arts student, Olivia, is the on…
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Hannibal Lecter meets Nurse Ratched in my debut novel, PATIENT X, of which bestselling suspense author Jenny Milchman says, “The turns of phrase just glow!” This 67,000-word suspense novel falls in the tradition of Alex Michaelides' The Silent Patient and Mark Griffin’s When Darkness Calls. When Chicago therapist Hannah Weiss is attacked by a patient at the mental hospital where she works, she’s saved by an unlikely hero, the inscrutable patient Zander Grayson. At the director’s urging, Hannah becomes Zander’s therapist in the hope that she can succeed where other therapists have not, unlocking the truth behind his conviction of involuntary manslaughter before he’s t…
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'GETTING RID OF DAVION,' Book 1 of a series, (Inspired by True Events), Suspense/ Psychological Thriller, by Tiffany Washington Comps: Samantha Downing's 'HE STARTED IT' meets TV's, Tyler Perry's 'THE HAVES AND THE HAVE NOTS' in the form of TV's, 'DEXTER' Hook Line: Following the discovery of his murderous, psychopathic, identical twin brother’s elaborate escape from a psychiatric-maximum-security-institution, over-seas, Davion Jones is forced to contend with the inner turmoil of keeping his brother’s identity, top secret, from everybody he loves. And keeping this truth from his loved ones, well let’s just say—bad idea! Pitch: In fictional Manasota, Flo…
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Author: Sheree R. Richnow Title: The Dear John Letters Genre: Women’s Fiction/Light Rom-Com Comps: Delicious, by Ruth Reichl; True to Me, by Kay Bratt; Pretty Things, by Janelle Brown; When we believed in Mermaids, by Barbara O’Neal HOOK LINE Writing the perfect Dear John Letters for other people is an easy task for a middle-aged established author — that is, until it comes to ending her own destructive relationship. PITCH Out of a personal need to call it quits with her boyfriend; and worsened by the floundering sales of her recently released book, novelist, Zara Haze needs a new distraction. Recognizing her own avo…
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