Title: ELEMENTAL FIRE
Genre: YA Fantasy
Word Count: 70,000
Query:
First Page:
Genre: YA Fantasy
Word Count: 70,000
Query:
Fourteen-year-old
Brook wishes she could merge the two halves of her life: the fearless
girl who flies across the countryside on the back of a runaway horse and
the timid misfit who flails at communicating with her friends and
father after her mother’s death.
Her
father’s repeated disappearances don’t help either. Brook hides in his
workshop as he walks through a solid rock wall momentarily turned into a
blinding doorway to another world. She follows and must confront all
her insecurities to prevent the theft of five ancient talismans by a
madman responsible for the bizarre blizzard that killed her mother.
Only
by cooperating with two boys who fight their own desires to snatch the
talismans, trusting them with the secret of her new ability to track
hidden people by their Heartfires and harnessing the mind-healing power
of the Fire talisman can she prevent the destruction of her path home.
ELEMENTAL
FIRE is a YA Fantasy, complete at 70,000 words. It functions as a
standalone book, but is intended to be the first of a five book
Elemental series similar to Piers Anthony’s Incarnations of Immortality with touches of The Last Airbender.
I have a degree in Physics and train endurance horses—both of which play a role in this manuscript.
First Page:
I
peered into the stone-walled room Dad used as his home laboratory. I’d
never gone inside without Dad around, but I needed to punch holes in my
stirrup leathers. I got my first horse three months ago, and my
inherited saddle was made for someone much bigger. Even when Vienna
behaved, my skinny butt slid all over.
Contraptions
Dad built for the university physics lab littered steel workbenches.
Shivering, I avoided bony metal arms bolted to magnifying glasses, laser
tubes and LED displays. No idea what the latest project did, but Dad’s
gadgets hadn’t topped our discussions for several months.
I
dug through drawers filled with soldering irons, resistors and meters.
Nothing looked capable of poking holes through leather, so I made sure
nothing looked out of place and returned to the garage part of the old
apple shed. Buried under unfinished projects, I found a large nail and
hammer. Wouldn’t be pretty, but it’d get the job done.
As I raised the hammer, the lab door opened. A thin man wearing a ridiculous Futurama tee rushed through. Dad’s head above robot Bender’s body. I would have laughed, but maybe it was the perfect uniform.
“Dad? Where’d you come from? I was just in there.”
Brown eyes gawked from behind thick lenses. His mouth opened and closed.
“Brook, stay out of my shop. My equipment’s expensive.” He stabbed a finger in my face with each word. “Just. Stay. Out.”
Seriously? He appears in a locked room, and I’m the one in trouble?
I would like to see the first three chapters of this!
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I don't think she'd mind me letting you know...
Heehee, already tracked her down! Thanks!
DeleteYou're one step ahead of me. Yay you:)
DeleteI like the pace of your writing. I'd like to see you work on some of the "facts" - dad coming out of an empty room rather than a locked room, the explanation (perhaps) of why it matters that a person is firmly seated in a saddle, etc. These aren't necessarily deal breakers, they're just things that need to be tidied up.
ReplyDeleteRemember, this is a world and experience you're creating so it's important to tie up those ends that are left hanging so the reader doesn't wonder - and wander - through your pages.
Good work, overall!