by a confused Chad Morris
I’m trying to write a query letter—no, I’m not a masochist, why
do you ask? At this point, I’ve realized several things:
1)
Despite all my research, I have no idea how to do this.
2)
I know I’m supposed to make my book sound cool, but
after a while, it all just sounds like a whole lot of stupid.
3)
I need help.
Luckily, I think I know some people who can help—you. Would you
be so kind as to look over this draft and help me. Give me feedback in the
comments, or email me at chadcmorris@gmail.com.
Here it is:
I would like to introduce you to my completed 84,000 word,
science fiction novel for young adults—The
Invincible Jacob Fink. It is the first of a possible five-book series.
Fourteen-year-old Jacob Fink is seeing things—far from normal
things. And of course his visions come the same time his English teacher asks
a question, or when Lia finally decides to talk to him. Maybe junior high has
permanently fried his brain.
When Jacob follows his visions and ends up with a broken arm and
yesterday’s garbage dangling from his hair, he wishes they would go away. As they
show him worlds he’s never imagined, Jacob’s more confused than in Algebra
class—and he never thought he’d say that about anything. But Jacob feels absolutely,
near-paranoid, terrified after he discovers that a kid down the street, a cat
under the neighbor’s car, or even an ant in a sidewalk crack might really be
shape-shifting aliens—in his town! These creatures can transform into a beasts
that fly and spit acid, or monsters the size of a buses that swim through the soil
like water. If Jacob doesn’t intervene, they will annihilate everyone he knows
in their search for a missing creature—yeah, epically terrible stuff. With some
help from his new friend, a Polynesian girl who talks to a journal, Jacob
decides to trust his mysterious visions and try to stop the monsters, hoping to
find out why all this is happening to him along the way.
