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 2021. AAC will edit beforehand as needed. This particular SG 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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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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Name: J. David Liss Title: The Judged Genre: Mystery Comparables: A Time to Scatter Stones, the latest in Lawrence Block’s Matthew Scudder Series (2019), and Boulevard, by Stephen Jay Schwartz (2009) Hook Line: Sex-addicted NYPD detective Jimmy Lombardi is outed in the courtroom where his wife is a judge. Soon after, she is accused of murdering one of his affair partners. Now, he’s got to clear her name and find the real killer at a time when his wife doesn’t trust him and his fellow police won’t work with him. Pitch: Jimmy Lombardi is the smartest detective in Brooklyn.…
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Name: Andrew Cowen Novel Title: I, Olympias (alternate title "Raising Alexander") Genre: Historical Women’s Fiction Comp: The Other Boleyn Girl set in Ancient Greece Hook Line: Alexander the Great famously conquered the endless plains of Persia. Compared to the noxious misogynists his mother Olympias battled back in Macedon, Alexander had it easy. Word Count: 97,000 Pitch: This book is the untold story of Alexander the Great’s mother, Olympias, an orphaned princess in 4th century BC Greece who married the ambitious and brilliant Philip of Macedon. In addition to her raising their remarkable and rambunctious son, Alex…
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