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| Ever since I saw a post on the Nanowrimo forum about not being able to get an agent or publisher to look at a series someone has been writing and an editor telling her that they want a stand alone book first, I realized that my first novel could never stand alone. I had to think about how my favorite writers managed to get their series published and it hit me. They had at least one stand alone novel proving they were worth the risk. Tonight Jack Shepard and Janna Gunter came to my head full grown. What I am curious about is would anyone read it. He is a broke blueblood. His family hasn't had any money since his great great grandfather lost it all. His family came here on the Mayflower and were involved in getting our nation its freedom. His great-grandfather went west and settled at the Arkansas Post. His grandfather worked for the Hanging judge as a marshal. His father worked for the state police and he is an overqualified detective working for his local sheriff's office but considering running in the next election. He has doctorate degrees in both criminal justice and psychology along with his license as a therapist. She is a reporter with a knack for solving cold cases. She was raised by her grandmother who was half cherokee half osage. Her mother died of breast cancer when she was still a preteen. Her mother was half Irish, her father was german. She, however, being raised by her grandmother gets the trees and the elements to speak to her and she finds clues people miss by sitting with the evidence, exhumed body or just the tree where the event happened. He has a case where it appears that either wild dogs or local coyotes are killing people. He is supposed to find them and take them out only, It doesn't seem like that kind of kill to him. There is no sign of struggle, just a body that has been ripped apart and a similar case in a neighboring county. So he asks Janna to help him figure it out. It will, of course, lead to a romance between the two of them. I know not real concise but the idea is still fleshing itself out. I was just wondering if anyone would be interested. Is it worth my effort to flesh it out? ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** "October Novel Prep Challenge Group"  Check out my Rising Stars Bookiemonster  Outasync Grace♥Leo health issues & bumfuzzled ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** |
| Hi, ember_rain. I would read this story. The only part that confused me was grandmother being half Cherokee, half Osage and the mother being half-Irish and the father being German. I kind of got the feel that it would be somewhat like a Sue Grafton novel. ~Elizabeth
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Ooooo sounds interesting. Yup. I would read.  I agree... might want to go back and check the ancestry on Janna, but other than that... lemme know when I can get an ARC.  ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** "If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." -Toni Morrison "Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it." -Lloyd Alexander "There is creative reading as well as creative writing." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "You fail only if you stop writing." Ray Bradbury |
| Janna seems like a super cool person, and I feel her skill would be something so many people would die to have. As for the romance, I'm not a big romance person in general, so that makes it more towards "eh" for me, but everything else seems really cool! ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** Think you can write for teens? Prove it! Check out "Invalid Item" Want to write something funny? Check out "Invalid Item" |
| I would definitely read. |
| Janna's mother is half Irish. She's a quarter cherokee, quarter Osage and then half irish from her father's side. Janna is 1/8th cherokee, 1/8th osage, a quarter irish and half german on her father's side. The romance in most of my novels plays a very small roll. It's there to add some depth to the characters and give a subplot that keeps things moving forward when I need a boost in the right direction. When I say romance I mean romance the way it was written before Mommy Porn took over the industry. ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** "October Novel Prep Challenge Group" Check out my Rising Stars Bookiemonster Outasync Grace♥Leo health issues & bumfuzzled ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** |
| I'm not so interested in the Back Story. That can be added to the story to create subplots. I'm more interested in the present. Janna must be a very good tracker, or detective. What does she have that puts her in touch with Jack? Why do I want to know why these people are dieing? If its pointing to woves, etc and He thinks differently? how does he convince the higher ups to let him pursue this idea? Can Janna bring forensic evidence that the dogs are only feeding off murdered vicims and destroying evidence? What conflicts do they face? A crooked police that wants to solve the crime and look good for the next election? They don't want to bring in Indians that make their investigation look weak? How about the relationship between the local law and Indian law? Can these two people solve a case and bring some communication and compromise to the two factions? Thats what I want to know as a reader. The history of these two are far less interesting than what is going on right now. How has the past developed these two? Think of Romeo and Juliet. Tina ![Merit Badge in I Love WdC
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