Post by nicoleg on May 26, 2017 11:50:18 GMT -5
Hi,
I am working on my fifth unpublished YA, but I have published several new adult romances. I have also won three RWA chapter contests and was a finalist in a fourth. I have studied craft for quite a while. I read books and articles on craft regularly, I have taken several workshops, and I also attend quite a few conferences each year. I judge several RWA chapter contests each year. I'm hoping to find someone with similar or more experience.
I mostly write contemporary YA, but I read everything. I've also dabbled in thriller/suspense, and I have an idea for a witch story that I haven't delved into yet.
Here's my query:
ROLL WITH IT is about a risk averse seventeen year old drummer torn between the safety of his stepdad's band and abandoning his certain future by joining the punk band of his dreams.
Cameron Ashe has always felt kind of odd about being the black drummer in his white stepdad's country-western band, but it's a bearable kind of odd as long as no one from school catches him doing it. Besides, it allows him to feel closer to his stepdad. He struggles with feeling like his stepdad's son although his stepdad assures him the biology and legalities aren't what creates a father-son bond. Then he gets caught on stage one night by punk rocker Naomi Ross at a dive bar in their small town. He thinks Naomi catching him there, doing that, is the worst thing that has ever happened to him. That's before she offers him a chance to be drummer in her band. Only, he can't quit his stepdad's band to take it. The only solution? Starting a double life as drummer in two bands that can’t find out about each other. If they do, he’ll get kicked out of both.
Lying isn't really Cameron's thing, but a fib or two here or there to protect people from truths they can't handle yet is probably okay. At least, this is what he tells himself until his stepdad announces a trip to Nashville to play a gig at a honky tonk. If Cameron doesn't go to Nashville, he'll ruin his stepdad's band's big break. If he does go, he'll lose his chance to break out and live a life less ordinary.
I am working on my fifth unpublished YA, but I have published several new adult romances. I have also won three RWA chapter contests and was a finalist in a fourth. I have studied craft for quite a while. I read books and articles on craft regularly, I have taken several workshops, and I also attend quite a few conferences each year. I judge several RWA chapter contests each year. I'm hoping to find someone with similar or more experience.
I mostly write contemporary YA, but I read everything. I've also dabbled in thriller/suspense, and I have an idea for a witch story that I haven't delved into yet.
Here's my query:
ROLL WITH IT is about a risk averse seventeen year old drummer torn between the safety of his stepdad's band and abandoning his certain future by joining the punk band of his dreams.
Cameron Ashe has always felt kind of odd about being the black drummer in his white stepdad's country-western band, but it's a bearable kind of odd as long as no one from school catches him doing it. Besides, it allows him to feel closer to his stepdad. He struggles with feeling like his stepdad's son although his stepdad assures him the biology and legalities aren't what creates a father-son bond. Then he gets caught on stage one night by punk rocker Naomi Ross at a dive bar in their small town. He thinks Naomi catching him there, doing that, is the worst thing that has ever happened to him. That's before she offers him a chance to be drummer in her band. Only, he can't quit his stepdad's band to take it. The only solution? Starting a double life as drummer in two bands that can’t find out about each other. If they do, he’ll get kicked out of both.
Lying isn't really Cameron's thing, but a fib or two here or there to protect people from truths they can't handle yet is probably okay. At least, this is what he tells himself until his stepdad announces a trip to Nashville to play a gig at a honky tonk. If Cameron doesn't go to Nashville, he'll ruin his stepdad's band's big break. If he does go, he'll lose his chance to break out and live a life less ordinary.
