Fiction Excerpts
Fiction is my first love. I'm currently querying for a YA rom-com entitled Dreaming of You. With nerdy humor and a hint of magical hijinks, it's perfect for fans of Marissa Meyer's Instant Karma and Kristy Boyce's Dungeons and Drama.
Below is my query letter. Email me for sample chapters.
Emory’s perfect senior trip has been ruined by a new ex-boyfriend, a sister tag-along, and a pair of workaholic parents. Instead of solo-travelling to Greece to work on a photography portfolio, she’s headed to Japan to play babysitter and secretary while nursing her broken heart.
So really, it’s no wonder she’s a little distracted while running through the airport. When a boy crashes into her—and he did crash into her, not the other way around—she barely spares a glance for him and his broken rolling pin.
It’s not until they’re thirteen hours apart do they realize that sometime in their two-minute interaction, they got cursed.
Now Emory spends her nights stuck in NYC is a ghost only Theo can see and interact with, and the obnoxious chef follows her to Kyoto from his own dreams.
Guided by Witchepedia, Doris Day, and too much cheese, Emory and Theo navigate foreign cities and foreign relationships, trying to get rid of each other before they become too attached.
I also wrote YA fantasy novel called Master of None. It's Kung Fu Panda meets Ranger's Apprentice in a Persian-inspired world of magic and martial arts. Below is a dust-jacket style summary.
Once in their lifetime, the Weapon Masters of Druelm choose apprentices to pass their knowledge and craft to—one each for the masters of the staff, knives, bow, and scimitar.
“You don’t belong here, neevie. Baking bread all your life doesn’t prepare you to be a warrior. You’re a mistake. A flaw.”
Anjoli Mzjark is a mixed-race baker’s daughter, eagerly awaiting her 15th birthday so she can apprentice under a traveling merchant from a neighboring kingdom. When Anjoli is unwillingly selected as the apprentice to the master of the staff, she struggles to accept her role and find her place among the other apprentices who’ve been training their whole lives for this, especially when Darian, the scimitar apprentice, seems to be doing everything in his power to get her to quit.
“You may be royalty, Cyrus. But you know nothing about being a ruler.”
Cyrus ri-Asha is crown prince of Ghislain, newly titled when his brother returns from a scouting trip in a coffin. With a grief-stricken, stone-faced father refusing to acknowledge him, and a notebook full of his brother’s suspicions, dotted with unexplainable deaths and disappearances near the country’s towering mountain border, Cyrus knows he must take action whether he’s sanctioned by the sultan or not.
When Prince Cyrus calls on the master apprentices, Anjoli and Darian must set aside their differences and follow the crown prince into uncharted territory to stop the brewing danger before it destroys them all.
- From Master of None
Query letters/pitches and more chapters are available upon request