Query for QUEEN OF SWORDS
So I'm sure you've noticed by now that I enjoy writing queries. Mostly. I generally start them around the time I get 1/3 into the book and revise constantly until the end. This is the current copy for QoS. It'll probably change before (if) I send it out, but I'm moderately happy with it now. It's been the single most difficult query so far (out of 8-ish) and I'm not completely sure why. I think it may be because this is a romance, which is difficult for me anyways. I mean, I actually love writing romance and I love these characters and this world and the whole book (lots of love going around), but it's more challenging than anything I've done up to this point (BREEDERS aside because I haven't finished it yet).
The upside of QoS (or, rather, one of many), is that I already have the next two books roughly plotted out. Which is kind of fantastic because, although they are linked, they each stand on their own. *GLEE*
Anywho, here's the query for your viewing pleasure. I have a few reviews I need to get up, but I haven't been reading over-much the last few months.
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Dear Ms./Mr. Agent,
As a Diviner, Ophelia knows the cards don’t lie. So when they tell her to marry the Prince of the planet Hansarda, she reluctantly packs up her life and goes. What they neglect to mention is that she’s going to be kidnapped by the Prince’s half-brother, Boone; the same man she fell into bed with during the course of a fabulous night out.
Under normal circumstances, Ophelia would have no problem killing her captor and escaping. But the cards, her forum of communication with her goddess, keep giving her readings that promise a happily-ever-after, but, at the same time, warn of a horrible price to be paid. And then there’s Boone himself. He stirs things inside Ophelia, things that go beyond their intense physical attraction.
Embroiled in the beginnings of a civil war, Boone doesn’t have time for a hellcat with a penchant for making him bleed. But he can’t stand by and let the Prince marry her and gain her family connections to the biggest gun-running business in the universe. What he didn’t expect was to admire her so much, or to have this bizarre need for her to trust him.
Boone also didn’t expect Ophelia to get pregnant from their single night together. Now he can’t let her walk away for fear the Prince will hunt her down and kill her because the child she carries is a potential rival for Hansarda’s throne.
The thing is, Ophelia has no intention of walking away. She never was much good at running and hiding, and she’s not about to start now. And, thanks to the cards, she knows how the story ends; Ophelia’s will be the hand that brings down the Prince. But the cards don’t always tell the full story, and the price for victory just might be more than she’s willing to pay.
My sci-fi romance, QUEEN OF SWORDS, is complete at XX,000 words. Sample chapters and synopsis are available upon request.
Thank you for taking the time to consider my novel.
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So, any thoughts? Am I alone in my love for the query? *tee hee*
The upside of QoS (or, rather, one of many), is that I already have the next two books roughly plotted out. Which is kind of fantastic because, although they are linked, they each stand on their own. *GLEE*
Anywho, here's the query for your viewing pleasure. I have a few reviews I need to get up, but I haven't been reading over-much the last few months.
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Dear Ms./Mr. Agent,
As a Diviner, Ophelia knows the cards don’t lie. So when they tell her to marry the Prince of the planet Hansarda, she reluctantly packs up her life and goes. What they neglect to mention is that she’s going to be kidnapped by the Prince’s half-brother, Boone; the same man she fell into bed with during the course of a fabulous night out.
Under normal circumstances, Ophelia would have no problem killing her captor and escaping. But the cards, her forum of communication with her goddess, keep giving her readings that promise a happily-ever-after, but, at the same time, warn of a horrible price to be paid. And then there’s Boone himself. He stirs things inside Ophelia, things that go beyond their intense physical attraction.
Embroiled in the beginnings of a civil war, Boone doesn’t have time for a hellcat with a penchant for making him bleed. But he can’t stand by and let the Prince marry her and gain her family connections to the biggest gun-running business in the universe. What he didn’t expect was to admire her so much, or to have this bizarre need for her to trust him.
Boone also didn’t expect Ophelia to get pregnant from their single night together. Now he can’t let her walk away for fear the Prince will hunt her down and kill her because the child she carries is a potential rival for Hansarda’s throne.
The thing is, Ophelia has no intention of walking away. She never was much good at running and hiding, and she’s not about to start now. And, thanks to the cards, she knows how the story ends; Ophelia’s will be the hand that brings down the Prince. But the cards don’t always tell the full story, and the price for victory just might be more than she’s willing to pay.
My sci-fi romance, QUEEN OF SWORDS, is complete at XX,000 words. Sample chapters and synopsis are available upon request.
Thank you for taking the time to consider my novel.
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So, any thoughts? Am I alone in my love for the query? *tee hee*