Post by Diana on May 10, 2017 14:15:50 GMT -5
Dear Query Kombat Krew,
12-year-old Princess Penelope, daughter of Cinderella, has a charmed life. Closets full of ruffly dresses (itchy), classes at the prestigious Charming Academy (boring), and her very own fairy godmother (annoying). Oh, and don’t forget about the glass slippers (fragile). Penelope would trade them all for her mother’s signature on an adventure slip to travel outside the castle walls. Too bad Cinderella refuses to sign.
Exploring secret passages and games of capture the frog are fun, but when Winter White dares Penelope to steal her mother’s glass slippers, her craving for adventure results in shattered shoes days before the annual ball. Now, Penelope’s mother must wear borrowed glass slippers to her own ball. That’s small peas to Penelope, but to a villain plotting the end to her mother’s happily ever after, it’s a perfectly twisted opportunity. The borrowed glass slippers are poisoned, casting her mother into a deathly slumber.
As strange green markings around Cinderella’s feet begin to crawl up her legs, Penelope’s guilt for her mother’s poisoning grows with them. She searches for the origin of the mysterious poison and discovers a giant’s bite shares the same symptoms. Once upon a time an antidote to giant venom existed. Lucky for Penelope, her new friend Jack has the perfect heritage to find it. Penelope sneaks out of the castle walls with Jack, her best friend Red, and her frog to venture into the hidden Beanstalk Forest in search of the antidote ingredients to wake her mother before she sleeps forever after.
PENELOPE CHARMING AND THE POISONED GLASS SLIPPERS is a 54,000 word middle grade fantasy with series potential.
Thank you for time and consideration,
Diana DeBolt Johnson
12-year-old Princess Penelope, daughter of Cinderella, has a charmed life. Closets full of ruffly dresses (itchy), classes at the prestigious Charming Academy (boring), and her very own fairy godmother (annoying). Oh, and don’t forget about the glass slippers (fragile). Penelope would trade them all for her mother’s signature on an adventure slip to travel outside the castle walls. Too bad Cinderella refuses to sign.
Exploring secret passages and games of capture the frog are fun, but when Winter White dares Penelope to steal her mother’s glass slippers, her craving for adventure results in shattered shoes days before the annual ball. Now, Penelope’s mother must wear borrowed glass slippers to her own ball. That’s small peas to Penelope, but to a villain plotting the end to her mother’s happily ever after, it’s a perfectly twisted opportunity. The borrowed glass slippers are poisoned, casting her mother into a deathly slumber.
As strange green markings around Cinderella’s feet begin to crawl up her legs, Penelope’s guilt for her mother’s poisoning grows with them. She searches for the origin of the mysterious poison and discovers a giant’s bite shares the same symptoms. Once upon a time an antidote to giant venom existed. Lucky for Penelope, her new friend Jack has the perfect heritage to find it. Penelope sneaks out of the castle walls with Jack, her best friend Red, and her frog to venture into the hidden Beanstalk Forest in search of the antidote ingredients to wake her mother before she sleeps forever after.
PENELOPE CHARMING AND THE POISONED GLASS SLIPPERS is a 54,000 word middle grade fantasy with series potential.
Thank you for time and consideration,
Diana DeBolt Johnson
