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Thanks so very much to everyone lately for so much help with feedback, or just for talking to me or leaving me a nice note. It is so appreciated. <3
I have ONE MORE query letter (sometimes I call them cover letters when speaking offhand, but I should call them query letters). This is for the third of my "in a finished state" novels. Of course, I'm going to go through and edit them some more (both the novel and the query letters), which can't hurt, but if anyone has any feedback for this one, it would be much appreciated.
Within every story we tell, there are hidden a thousand more untold.
The Reddest Flower (120,000 words) is the biography of the panther Bagheera, the tale never told in The Jungle Book. It follows Bagheera from the moment of his birth in the cages of the king to the day of his death in the strange company of the Magar, the lord of the marsh crocodiles, who is neither his enemy nor his friend.
Raised among men, Bagheera befriends a young palace scribe, but when that scribe is killed, it is only too easy to blame the panther. To avoid death at the hands of his keepers, he escapes his cage and makes his way to the jungle. There, Bagheera encounters the charismatic tiger Shere Khan, who loathes humankind yet has an untigerlike compassion for other animals. Shere Khan takes pity on the weak, inexperienced Bagheera and teaches him to survive, but Bagheera ends their friendship when he saves the man-cub Mowgli from the tiger. He finds sanctuary for himself and the man-cub with the wolves.
Mowgli becomes, not only a friend, but his family. Bagheera wants nothing more than to protect him, yet the man-cub cannot live with the wolves forever, and nowhere in the wilds is safe from the tiger. Mowgli grows, as all men do. As he leaves childhood behind, he is forced to leave the threatened wolf pack to live among his own kind. When Shere Khan attacks the human villages in a bid to protect the jungle, Bagheera is torn between worlds. He embarks on a quest to find a way man and his own people might live together. Although the story ends in his death, his quest is a successful one, if not in the way he had expected. "I have had a happy life," he tells the great marsh crocodile at the last.
A literary fantasy for adults, The Reddest Flower is a fable about love, loss, and hope. Inspired in part by Hesse's Siddhartha and Mehta's A River Sutra, it is an animal adventure with a touch of mysticism that owes a debt to Richard Adams as well as Rudyard Kipling.
I have ONE MORE query letter (sometimes I call them cover letters when speaking offhand, but I should call them query letters). This is for the third of my "in a finished state" novels. Of course, I'm going to go through and edit them some more (both the novel and the query letters), which can't hurt, but if anyone has any feedback for this one, it would be much appreciated.
Within every story we tell, there are hidden a thousand more untold.
The Reddest Flower (120,000 words) is the biography of the panther Bagheera, the tale never told in The Jungle Book. It follows Bagheera from the moment of his birth in the cages of the king to the day of his death in the strange company of the Magar, the lord of the marsh crocodiles, who is neither his enemy nor his friend.
Raised among men, Bagheera befriends a young palace scribe, but when that scribe is killed, it is only too easy to blame the panther. To avoid death at the hands of his keepers, he escapes his cage and makes his way to the jungle. There, Bagheera encounters the charismatic tiger Shere Khan, who loathes humankind yet has an untigerlike compassion for other animals. Shere Khan takes pity on the weak, inexperienced Bagheera and teaches him to survive, but Bagheera ends their friendship when he saves the man-cub Mowgli from the tiger. He finds sanctuary for himself and the man-cub with the wolves.
Mowgli becomes, not only a friend, but his family. Bagheera wants nothing more than to protect him, yet the man-cub cannot live with the wolves forever, and nowhere in the wilds is safe from the tiger. Mowgli grows, as all men do. As he leaves childhood behind, he is forced to leave the threatened wolf pack to live among his own kind. When Shere Khan attacks the human villages in a bid to protect the jungle, Bagheera is torn between worlds. He embarks on a quest to find a way man and his own people might live together. Although the story ends in his death, his quest is a successful one, if not in the way he had expected. "I have had a happy life," he tells the great marsh crocodile at the last.
A literary fantasy for adults, The Reddest Flower is a fable about love, loss, and hope. Inspired in part by Hesse's Siddhartha and Mehta's A River Sutra, it is an animal adventure with a touch of mysticism that owes a debt to Richard Adams as well as Rudyard Kipling.