tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78114841130973386582024-03-12T21:10:15.816-07:00Connie's Other DimensionAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15000931951877586748noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811484113097338658.post-12408252760227371252015-07-26T13:48:00.001-07:002015-07-26T13:48:23.906-07:00Dream Crafters Captures First in Rosemary CompetitionAnd this happened for Dream Crafters.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15000931951877586748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811484113097338658.post-53361232194610327692015-05-21T08:43:00.000-07:002015-05-29T08:39:40.325-07:00BrainZ (Writers Voice Entry)Title: BrainZ<br />
Author: Connie MacElroy<br />
Genre: YA Paranormal Romance<br />
Wordcount: 60,000<br />
<br />
<u>Query</u><br />
<br />
Jill (16) has been disguised as a zombie since
second grade. It’s the only way she can stay with her transformed family, since
living/zombie families are not accepted. Keeping her secret while growing up in
an all-zombie community hasn’t been easy, but things get tougher when she’s
admitted into a newly formed integrated high school.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">She’s caught off guard by the temptations of real food (instead of brainchow) and living boys. Dave, the football team’s
quarterback, stuns her with athletic grace no zombie can match. And, since his
team is integrated, he doesn’t have the prejudices most of the living do…
including the school’s administration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Even the zombies on staff treat “zits” as
second-class citizens. But, if the football team is mixed, shouldn’t there be
zombie cheerleaders? Jill decides if she can form a squad, it can be a step
toward equal rights for zombies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Getting permission is tough. Finding routines
for shambling zombies is harder. Dealing with the insults and dirty tricks from
the living girls is toughest of all. It would be impossible without the help of
Dave and other sympathetic “pumpers.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and raising the chance that she’ll be torn away from her family and they will
become outcasts. And her biggest challenge is her longing to be herself, a
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jill sat on the edge
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She snatched up the
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I’m not wearing
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Her mother aimed her
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I’ll wear last
year’s nose, okay?” It was a fair compromise. If her mom wanted more
decomposition – and she would – she could do it with make-up. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I recycled it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Fine,” her mom said.
“I still have the old molds. I’ll make a replacement nose. It will be ready in
three days.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the living boys she’d been dreaming about.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Impossible.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<!--EndFragment-->Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15000931951877586748noreply@blogger.com49tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811484113097338658.post-30988604692086177522014-06-15T17:50:00.000-07:002014-06-15T18:05:04.164-07:00KNOCKED OFF BALANCE - PitcharamaTitle: KNOCKED OFF BALANCE<br />
Author: Connie MacElroy<br />
Genre: Contemporary<br />
Word count: 50,000<br />
Synopsis:<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Ever since a school shooting, security has been tight at Patrick Henry High</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">School. When SARA QUINN (16) gets into trouble for her dress-code-breaking T-shirt, transfer student JAKE BARTELL, a gangly 16-year-old with mad juggling skills, comes to her rescue, only to be punished for breaking the rules. Jake is a free spirit who has just transferred into the school, but, Sara, having lost her brother to a school shooting, is obsessed with safety. Jake is fine with sensible rules, but believes fear has driven the high school to insane levels, making school life intolerable. He has suffered his own loss (his father) and thinks the town should “just get over it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">He finds that his circus arts --juggling, parkour (a stuntman discipline with Jackie Chan-like moves), and tumbling -- is a good way to connect. Even Sara appreciates something fresh and new, especially the beauty of contact juggling. She pushes him to put together a troupe to perform at the annual school show, Illusion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Despite the obstacles thrown up by Dean of Boys FRANK BRADY and the taunts of BOBO, (17) a leader of the school's risk takers -- who hates Illusion but loves circus arts -- Sara and Jake pull together enough people to perform. Holding them together is another matter. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">He finds that his circus arts
--juggling, parkour (a stuntman discipline with Jackie Chan-like moves), and
tumbling -- is a good way to connect. Even Sara appreciates something fresh and
new, especially the beauty of contact juggling. She pushes him to put together
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up by Dean of Boys FRANK BRADY and the taunts of BOBO, (17) a leader of the
school's risk takers -- who hates Illusion but loves circus arts -- Sara and
Jake pull together enough people to perform. Holding them together is another
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Unicycles make people
laugh. They smile and clap their hands. They watch to see if you’ll fall.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That’s why I skipped
the cheese wagon and pedaled off for my first day at Patrick Henry High School.
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I needed the boost
after the crappy way the day had started. For the first time since third grade,
Mom made me pass wardrobe inspection. “It’s a new school, and they have
guidelines.”</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yeah. We’re not in
Baltimore anymore. Those Rocky Mountains? My first clue my friends were a
millions of miles away. And guidelines? Strictures. Orders. Commandments. There
had been a shooting at the school a year ago. National news. Now an inch-thick
book of rules covered everything from “Jokes and Appropriate Humor” to “Manner
of Dress.” Which is why I wore a plain red sweatshirt and jeans that had been
ironed. This was a compromise from the button-down shirt and khakis she wanted.
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So riding a unicycle
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<b>Genre:</b> YA Historical Romance</div>
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<b>Title:</b> Ingenious Daughter</div>
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<b>35-Word pitch:</b> Ben Franklin dared to say it. Jane’s a better scientist than her father. Dad fights back, curtailing research and multiplying chores. Hungry for knowledge, she’s too wily for him. It’s time to marry her off.</div>
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JANE COLDEN (17) lives on the edge of civilization--pre-Revolutionary upstate New York, where natives still roam the lands. She’s hungry for knowledge, but her fate is domesticity. If her father didn’t need her to manage the household and bring in cash through her cheese business, he’d have already married her off to local widower. Since CADWALLADER COLDEN is eager to make his name as a botanist, he insists his daughter gather specimens in her “idle time.” With so many chores, she’s reluctant at first, but comes to love the work until it threatens her safety. </div>
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BURKE (19), the nephew of a local landowner, saves her from a thief and begins to woo her. After having had a series of respectfully dull middle-aged suitors, Jane gets her first kiss from the man her father dismisses as “the landless scoundrel.” Jane, however, is more concerned by Burke’s belief that scientific work damages female minds. He makes it clear, were they ever to marry, such nonsense would be forbidden. Jane will need all her intelligence to change these two stubborn men’s minds.</div>
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curd begins to bubble. I sing three verses of “Milk and Butter,” and pull
it off the fire. I’ll trade this batch for a tempering hook, and Poppa will
never know.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cheese
fascinates me. There’s a universe to discover in texture, color, smell, and
taste. And the profits from sales save me from household work.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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April 1742. The Thornton cheese has ripened three days.</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
unfold a tea towel, set out my tools – a ladle, three knives, and two pike
probes -- and tear the cheesecloth off the tun. I sniff.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
sour smell has sweeter notes. Accents of lilac.</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kate
clatters a pile of plates. “Miss Jane. Mr. Lewis? He told me to double the
order.”</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I select the smallest knife. As I slice the cheese, Kate places a tray next to
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Have you had any breakfast?” She is forever reminding me to eat. I’m not a
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Later,” I say. Inside the cheese, a surprise. Tiny air bubbles. I pull my
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Title: </span></b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman";">HOLLYWOOD REMAKE</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Genre: </span></b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Science Fiction (Adult, but PG)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Author:</span></b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Connie MacElroy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">MAGGIE SPEER, a junior exec at a
consulting firm, must go back to the 30s and retrieve the creative journal of
MGM's Irving Thalberg. Such tests are initiation rites for entering top
management, and failure is not an option. But the timestream she enters has no
theatrical films, no Hollywood as we know it. She's stuck in the wrong
1930 and facing a Plan B assignment, entering Hitler’s inner circle and coming
back with his management secrets. Repelled by this, she pulls together
the talent and creates her own Hollywood. But, once she gets things going,
Spencer Tracy, Frank Capra, Joan Crawford, and other icons of the era have
their own ideas. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Maggie followed Henry into the meat
locker. Chilled. She could see her breath. The amber light gave everything a
buttercup look. The white tile walls had been hosed down after the accident.
Maggie checked the drains. No signs of blood. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“You ready?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">She took a deep breath and shivered. She
opened her bag and surrendered her keys and her phone. Digging into her wallet,
she removed her drivers license and credit cards. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Henry claimed the wallet. It would pass. Vintage,
with the image of an ocean liner pressed into the leather. He nodded and handed
it back. Then he slowly began to circle her, scrutinizing every aspect of her
appearance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Maggie shifted her weight and felt the
odd ways the clothes hung. They were custom-tailored and she’d worn 30s styles
all week, but it still felt like Halloween. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“That pin has to go,” Henry said. He
reached for it, and Maggie dodged away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“It’s not authentic, Maggie.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“This belonged to my great grandmother.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Henry took out his smartphone and tapped.
“I don’t have anything like it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“She lived in Germany. It will be okay.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Hmm.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His face was noncommittal. “What about your stockings. Are
they silk?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Pantyhose. But they have a faux seam in
back. They should pass.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maggie
had four pairs packed. She wasn’t going to mess with garters unless it became
absolutely necessary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Don’t let anyone see you in your
underwear.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I’m not planning to, Henry.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">He stepped back for one final review.
Then he smiled. “You’re perfect.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">1. </span>How do you remember your first kiss? </b></h4>
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At age six, I walked my heartthrob home. Suddenly, I was in a big hug. Lips touched mine. I broke loose and ran like hell. I told my older sister, and she teased me mercilessly.</div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">2. </span>What was your first favorite love song? </b></h4>
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Actually, the first song I ever bought on a record - "You'll Never Get to Heaven (if You Break My Heart)" sung by Dionne Warwick.</div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">3. </span>What’s the first thing you do when you begin writing for the day? </b></h4>
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Set a timer.</div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">4. </span>Who’s the first writer who truly inspired you to become a writer? </b></h4>
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Thanks to the encouragement of a teacher, I did Tolkienesque fantasy for my first few works, so probably JRRT should get the credit (or blame).</div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">5. </span>Did the final revision of your first book have the same first chapter it started with?</b></h4>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">No, and that's despite meticulous planning before I wrote word one. That scene lingered for a while in a later chapter before hitting the cutting room floor. But I still love it.</span><b> </b></h4>
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<b><span style="color: black;">6. </span>For your first book, which came first: major characters, plot or setting? </b></h4>
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The setting came into my brain with no warning. Soon characters started talking to me. But, when I picked up a pencil the first time, I was completely in plotting mode.</div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">7. </span>What’s the first word you want to roll off the tip of someone’s tongue when they think of your writing?</b></h4>
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Wow!</div>
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