New Worlds, New Voices - SFF Shooting Gallery
The NWNV "Shooting Gallery" provides writers with opportunities to test market their best SFF 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 SFF novels, or novels-in-progress, for the purpose of showcasing them to literary 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 this to wo…
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Name: Gerrit Hansen Novel Title: The Power of Ancients Comparables: Throne of the Crescent Moon (Saladin Ahmed); The Poppy War (R.F. Kuang) Hook Line: Possessing power beyond far beyond his mentors, a tribal villager forsakes magic to overcome a murderous immortal by raising rival immortals long thought dead. Pitch: Maruli, a young Javan villager from the hated Jupami tribe leaves his remote jungle home to study a form of magic he hopes will help save his people from the island’s nemesis, Dahat, a member of the powerful race of Ancients that’s nearly extinct. However, the magic requires grinding up special stones that elders insist are the dead remains…
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Name: Cavis Adams Novel: Terror Undeleted Genre: Literary Fiction Comparables: "Version Control" (Dexter Palmer). "The Lathe Of Heaven" (Ursula K. Le Guin). Hook Line: Being kicked out of Tent City, New York, Miko turns to an experimental tech-firm for the chance of a lifetime--to commit his mind to the good of science and to get paid of course. If only that were the story, and not one of undead terrorists rehashing their own bloody plot. From homeless to would-be savior of the world, Miko stands to lose more than he finally has, a place in this world. Pitch: Miko finds himself habitually at his lowest, kicked out…
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Name: Sarah Pierce Title: Lucid Genre: YA SciFi Comparables: Inception meets Maze Runner meets Stranger Things Hook: Trapped inside a dream, a group of international students must discover the truth about their world before a fugitive nightmare gains control of their minds. Pitch: A high security dream has broken loose. Known only as the Siren, it causes 20 people to commit mass suicide in Berlin, and before anyone can react, panic erupts across the globe. Thousands of sleepers will no longer wake, and for those left aware, every night could be their last. The most dangerous nightmare of the 21st century is out of its cage, and it’s going t…
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Name: Cavis Adams Novel: The Resurrection Arc Genre: Literary Fiction Comparables: The revived spirit of Total Recall meets Inception for a journey of Memento. Hook Line: Finding the strength to wrest an immortalizing technology from the enslaving hands of a world techno-giant means to die trying. For Justin, what begins as an imaginative game along a cutting-edge of role-playing plunges deeper into the real world than he ever suspected, a world turned deadly with the struggle to save all he has ever believed in, starting with the very memory of himself. Pitch: Justin has it all on the outside: wealth, status, a beau…
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Name: Travis N. Travis Novel Title: HOW TO SUCCEED AT THE PEARLY GATES JOB FAIR Genre: Adult Fantasy (81,512 words) Comparables: Good Omens, Library of the Unwritten, and The Good Place Hook: A man perfectly content not dying must navigate the hell that is finding a job in the heavens while trying to save his drunk G.U.A.R.D.I.A.N. Department representative from a pre-pubescent creation god. Pitch: Religion was formally banned in the districts of heaven when a monk, a priest, and a rabbi walked into a bar and nothing funny happened. Probably for the best. Charlie Tackle is Dea…
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· Name: Kayla Hardy · Title: RED WIDOW · Genre: Adult Fantasy · Comparables: (TV/Cinematic)Marvel’s Black Panther meets Netflix’s Cursed (Books) Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone meets Melissa Caruso’s The Tethered Mage. · Hook: Set during a magical apartheid known as The Partitioning, where mages are divided into rigid social classes and sold off to the highest bidder, an African warrior princess must break the law and cross into foreign magical territory to hunt down a slave trader hellbent on stealing her tribe’s magic, even if it means she’ll be stranded behind enemy lines forever. · Pitch: …
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Name: DeQuaina Washington Title: HELLGROUND Genre: Sci-Fi Comparables: Octavia E. Butler's Dawn meets Tom Piccirilli's The Cold Spot Hook: Beaten and betrayed, facing a life sentence in state prison, a seasoned bank robber makes a desperate break for freedom and escapes only to discover that the world he knew has suffered a devastating and hellish alien invasion, and the only option left to him is to try and save the one person he still loves. Pitch: When Mint Mallard, one of the most prolific bank robbers in the world, breaks out of prison to get revenge on the man who put him there, he quickly realizes that the world he left five yea…
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STRANGE HIGHWAYS, Science Fiction- Gardner Browning Word Count: +50k, still in progress Log Line: Trekking a ghostly highway across a Void Land of hostile vagrants, mercenary Luna Briggs must save the man she loves from the death dealer he has become before he claims the power of a forgotten artificial intelligence and engineers an army of killers. Comps: Strange Highways captures the hostile journey of the Road with the techno-thrill of Robopocalypse. The Road – 2006- Cormac McCarthy. About the grueling journey of a father and his young son over a period of several months across a landscape blasted by an unspecified cataclysm that has dest…
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THE BODY ELECTRIC, Science Fiction - J. David Liss Comparables : The Strange Case of the Alchemists Daughter by Theodora Goss meets Blake Crouch’s Recursion Hook : Struggling with the accidental electrocution of his wife and son, modern scientist Lew Argent gets pulled through time in the greatest fight of all time, as he joins Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla in their struggle against Mary Shelley, the one electrical genius able to create life. At stake are the lives of the people they love and the world as we know it. Pitch : 21st Century scientist Lew Argent knows tragedy. His wife and son were electrocuted by a fallen power line. Lately, A…
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Name - Shola Adedeji Title(s) - War Gods of Africa, The Hollow Glory of a Dumb Kingdom Genre - Alternate History Comps - • the “what if?” spirit of S.M. Stirling’s Black Chamber series. • the world building of Guy Gavriel Kay’s The Lions of Al Rassan. • significantly influenced by the originality of Octavia Butler’s Kindred. Hook Line - It is the 1300’s, an untested and naive emissary from a technologically advanced nation in Africa, inadvertently finds himself the only one capable of preventing a genocidal war set into motion by a murderous Pope and his Imperial Roman allies at Constantinople. S…
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Name: Joseph Hall Novel Title: ARKFALL (90,000 words) Genre: Adult Sci-fi Comparables: The celebrity main character of EMPRESS OF FOREVER hurled into the indifferent cyberpunk world of ALTERED CARBON. Hook: A cybernetic supermodel infiltrates the corporate underworld to exact revenge on the CEO who murdered his childhood family. Pitch: In a distant future where Earth was rendered uninhabitable, mankind now lives in helio-centric megastructures that orbit around the sun. Living on Solar Ark Terra, Vino Belissi is the solar system’s hottest cybernetic supermodel. He’s got wealth, connections, status, and his name alone is associated with…
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Name: Mikaela Kemsley Novel: Gods of the Fallen Genre and Comparables: Gods of the Fallen is a young adult fantasy novel that will appeal to fans of Katy Rose Pool’s There Will Come a Darkness and Sabaa Tahir’s An Ember in the Ashes. Hook line: After being abducted and abused by a bloodthirsty theocracy, a young woman escapes into the arctic, where she awakens a newfound, dangerous magic in a tribe of outcasts to defend herself, her best friend, and her people. Pitch: Seventeen-year-old Alora has spent her life trapped within the glass walls of a seminary, studying to become a Diviner for the Church of the Element. When the abused, orphaned young wom…
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