SOULLESS BY GAIL CARRIGER RECAP PROFESSIONAL

The query letter tells you plainly it is romantic steam punk – the blurb lets me know that from the content. The Jane Austen mention means you think it is of real quality and a good strong closer. It hints at adventure more lightheartedly than the query. It’s more factual, less PR.įrom the tone of your blurb I get more of a flavour of the style and setting, fewer details of the plot. Here, I’ll stick my neck out (no pun intended)!įrom the query letter I see more details of the storyline. I’ll be really interested to see tomorrow’s post. Ooh, intriguing.Thanks for sharing this – what a great insight. Give me your thoughts and I’ll talk more about this tomorrow. What do you like from Gail’s pitch that didn’t make it into mine and maybe should have? Vice Versa? In looking at both in retrospect, I think each have different strengths. What’s different about these two pitches? Instead of my doing all the work, I’m going to let you folks take first shot at it. If the author Jane Austen were to have written a vampire novel during her lifetime, SOULLESS would have been it. No simpering miss, Alexia is delighted to try to find out the particulars but she just may get more than she bargained for. Which means that this is no society vampire and since no vampires can be made without the proper paperwork, this vampire is a rogue. Vampires know to avoid her like the plague. Not to mention, every vampire knows that she’s soulless and therefore contact with her will negate all supernatural ability. No vampire worth his salt would ever jeopardize his rank in society by attacking her so vulgarly in a public place. When avowed spinster Miss Alexia Tarabotti is attacked by a vampire at a private ball, she’s simply appalled. Now I thought I would share the pitch blurb I created when I contacted editors about the project. I understand you are very busy, and am grateful for your time and attention. I can be reached by email at XXXXX or phone at XXXX if you would like to see the manuscript.

SOULLESS BY GAIL CARRIGER RECAP PROFESSIONAL

My previous professional sales include various shorts stories and two mid-grade readers through Harcourt Education.

In such a situation, what’s a young lady to do but grab her parasol and find out what’s really going on? Of course Lord Maccon might object, but Alexia doesn’t give a fig for the opinion of a werewolf, or does she? Unfortunately, when unregistered vampires start to mysteriously appear in London, everyone thinks she’s to blame, including the Queen’s official investigator, Lord Maccon. This affliction could be considered a good thing, for in England those with too much soul can be turned into vampires, werewolves, or ghosts. It is a romantic romp through the streets of Victorian London, from high society to the steam punk laboratories of Frankenstein-like scientists.Īlexia Tarabotti was born without a soul. XXXX editor is interested in publishing my 81,000 word paranormal novel, SOULLESS, and I am seeking representation. So here’s her letter in the original form. She ended up scrapping that novel altogether but she kept my letter and decided I was the first agent she would contact with this editor interest.

I hadn’t offered rep but I had given her a revision letter.

She contacted me specifically because several years prior, I had looked at an earlier novel from her. She already had an editor interested in the novel, which rather give her letter a leg up. Gail had a unique situation when she sent me her email. What’s playing on the iPod right now? POEMS, PRAYERS, & PROMISES by John Denverįor this entry, I thought I would do a different spin on annotating the query letter. STATUS: Only 341 emails in the inbox and counting…

Soulless by gail carriger recap