Title: Storm Front
Genre: mystery
A serial killer has made the worlds most popular social networking sites his personal hunting ground and is now coming after Bainbridge Island homicide detective Sarah Lake and her past.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Logline #30
Title: Riding the Dam
Genre: MG humor, coming-of-age
The year is 1952 in San Angelo, Texas and ten-year-old Allan spends most days looking for adventure—adventures like riding down a 128 foot dam on his best friend, Raymond’s handlebars, riding on a bucking bronco, and winning the best Concho River storytelling contest.
San Angelo has its share of quirky characters like John the rodeo rider with the glass eye, Mr. Franklin who has the gift of taming wasps, and Aunt Hope who teaches Allan to catch, kill, and fry up chickens and wrangle snakes. In other words, it’s a young boy’s paradise…until Allan’s mother becomes ill and his world is changed forever.
Genre: MG humor, coming-of-age
The year is 1952 in San Angelo, Texas and ten-year-old Allan spends most days looking for adventure—adventures like riding down a 128 foot dam on his best friend, Raymond’s handlebars, riding on a bucking bronco, and winning the best Concho River storytelling contest.
San Angelo has its share of quirky characters like John the rodeo rider with the glass eye, Mr. Franklin who has the gift of taming wasps, and Aunt Hope who teaches Allan to catch, kill, and fry up chickens and wrangle snakes. In other words, it’s a young boy’s paradise…until Allan’s mother becomes ill and his world is changed forever.
Logline #29
Title: BABY DOE
Genre: Mystery
One wintery night in the woods, a man wrenches a baby from the arms of a teenage girl, thereby opening the door for murder, rape, and incest. Bucky Ontario, clever and daring, learns the shocking truth and goes up against a town determined to stop him at any price.
Genre: Mystery
One wintery night in the woods, a man wrenches a baby from the arms of a teenage girl, thereby opening the door for murder, rape, and incest. Bucky Ontario, clever and daring, learns the shocking truth and goes up against a town determined to stop him at any price.
Logline #28
TITLE: Gladys Gatsby Takes the Cake
GENRE: Humorous MG
http://misssnarksfirstvictim.blogspot.com/2011/10/logline-critique-round-3-4.html
Gladys Gatsby has dreamed of becoming a restaurant critic for the New
York Times—she just didn’t expect to be assigned her first review at
age 11. Now, if she wants to meet her deadline and hang on to her
dream job, she’ll have to defy her fast-food-loving parents, cook her
way into the heart of her sixth-grade archenemy, and battle
Manhattan’s meanest maitre d’.
GENRE: Humorous MG
http://misssnarksfirstvictim.blogspot.com/2011/10/logline-critique-round-3-4.html
Gladys Gatsby has dreamed of becoming a restaurant critic for the New
York Times—she just didn’t expect to be assigned her first review at
age 11. Now, if she wants to meet her deadline and hang on to her
dream job, she’ll have to defy her fast-food-loving parents, cook her
way into the heart of her sixth-grade archenemy, and battle
Manhattan’s meanest maitre d’.
Logline #27
Title: Polaris
Genre: YA sci-fi
After seventeen year-old Geneva Reid is found floating in the middle of the ocean, missing for ten years without having aged a day, she struggles to understand the events leading up to her disappearance and the reasons why she is in danger now.
Genre: YA sci-fi
After seventeen year-old Geneva Reid is found floating in the middle of the ocean, missing for ten years without having aged a day, she struggles to understand the events leading up to her disappearance and the reasons why she is in danger now.
Logline #26
Title: Terra Incognita
Genre: Fantasy
http://misssnarksfirstvictim.blogspot.com/2011/10/logline-critique-round-3-8.html
When Haylee Wells is attacked by a pale creature and transported to a future she barely recognizes – where these creatures reign and humans are their prey – she must realize the growing power within herself. If she fails to do so, she faces consequences much worse than never returning home – she risks becoming a slave to the “Pale Ones.”
Genre: Fantasy
http://misssnarksfirstvictim.blogspot.com/2011/10/logline-critique-round-3-8.html
When Haylee Wells is attacked by a pale creature and transported to a future she barely recognizes – where these creatures reign and humans are their prey – she must realize the growing power within herself. If she fails to do so, she faces consequences much worse than never returning home – she risks becoming a slave to the “Pale Ones.”
Logline #25
Title: Saving Andromeda
Genre: YA mystery
Eighteen year-old Emma hunts for the truth behind her birth mother’s murder confession. A famous bio-dad, simmering family feuds and a hostile crew of new relatives trip up her investigation, which kicks into high gear when Emma realizes Andromeda gave a false confession. Her hunt to discover who Andromeda was really protecting leads to a killer determined to let the truth die with Emma.
Genre: YA mystery
Eighteen year-old Emma hunts for the truth behind her birth mother’s murder confession. A famous bio-dad, simmering family feuds and a hostile crew of new relatives trip up her investigation, which kicks into high gear when Emma realizes Andromeda gave a false confession. Her hunt to discover who Andromeda was really protecting leads to a killer determined to let the truth die with Emma.
Logline #24
Title: Ripple Effect
Genre: YA Time Travel Dystopian
http://misssnarksfirstvictim.blogspot.com/2011/10/logline-critique-round-3-2.html
When the time machines seventeen-year-old Kali Addison’s dad invented are destroyed, she discovers the power to travel through time is within her. With a heavy handed government wanting to reproduce Kali for their own use and those who wiped out her dads work wanting her dead, she hardly has time to figure out who she really is. If one of them catch her before she does, it’s times up—for everyone.
Genre: YA Time Travel Dystopian
http://misssnarksfirstvictim.blogspot.com/2011/10/logline-critique-round-3-2.html
When the time machines seventeen-year-old Kali Addison’s dad invented are destroyed, she discovers the power to travel through time is within her. With a heavy handed government wanting to reproduce Kali for their own use and those who wiped out her dads work wanting her dead, she hardly has time to figure out who she really is. If one of them catch her before she does, it’s times up—for everyone.
Logline #23
TITLE: Dream Weaver
GENRE: YA Sci-Fi
#39 http://misssnarksfirstvictim.blogspot.com/2011/10/logline-critique-round-3-39.html
Megan has her first dream at seventeen, but she doesn't realize her dreams are special, they become reality. Confused and frightened by this new power, she teams up with mysterious new guy Mason who's been sent to help her learn the truth: there's a group of people who will stop at nothing to harness the power of her dreams.
GENRE: YA Sci-Fi
#39 http://misssnarksfirstvictim.blogspot.com/2011/10/logline-critique-round-3-39.html
Megan has her first dream at seventeen, but she doesn't realize her dreams are special, they become reality. Confused and frightened by this new power, she teams up with mysterious new guy Mason who's been sent to help her learn the truth: there's a group of people who will stop at nothing to harness the power of her dreams.
Logline #22
Title: SOPHIE
Genre: YA Historical Fantasy
Previous post: #38
Revised logline: Sophie accidentally travels backward in time to 1895 Paris, and must find a way home or risk changing the future when she is mistaken for a missing girl, and falls for the Jewish activist meant for the girl’s sister.
Genre: YA Historical Fantasy
Previous post: #38
Revised logline: Sophie accidentally travels backward in time to 1895 Paris, and must find a way home or risk changing the future when she is mistaken for a missing girl, and falls for the Jewish activist meant for the girl’s sister.
Logline #21
Title: SO YOU DON'T WANT TO BE AN EVIL SORCERESS
Genre: YA Fantasy
Mysty dreams of dating high school basketball star Eric Gallante; instead, she accidentally turns him into a frog. Her kiss could make his amphibious problem permanent so she has to find someone with a pure heart – who he hopefully won’t like too much – to kiss him before she is lured into fairy tale land and punished for her crime.
Genre: YA Fantasy
Mysty dreams of dating high school basketball star Eric Gallante; instead, she accidentally turns him into a frog. Her kiss could make his amphibious problem permanent so she has to find someone with a pure heart – who he hopefully won’t like too much – to kiss him before she is lured into fairy tale land and punished for her crime.
Logline #20
Title: Into Nevermore
Genre: MG Fantasy Adventure
On Firma, Earth’s unusual sister-planet, Felix witnesses his puckish mentor being dragged into the Nevermore Woods by cloaked figures. Everyone thinks the kidnapping is a prank, but Felix knows better and must brave the forest and its sinister creatures in order to save him.
Genre: MG Fantasy Adventure
On Firma, Earth’s unusual sister-planet, Felix witnesses his puckish mentor being dragged into the Nevermore Woods by cloaked figures. Everyone thinks the kidnapping is a prank, but Felix knows better and must brave the forest and its sinister creatures in order to save him.
Logline #18
Title: Bloodlines - The Hourglass Bridge
Genre: YA Historical Fantasy
#17 http://misssnarksfirstvictim.blogspot.com/2011/10/logline-critique-round-3-17.html
When an ancient ritual drags Diamond into a hidden, magical civilization in the 16th century, she quickly realizes there's more to worry about than how much school she's missing. Her ancestors hold the powers which protect their city and an immortal witch threatens to destroy them for it, forcing Diamond to fight for her bloodline's survival or risk being eradicated from history itself.
Genre: YA Historical Fantasy
#17 http://misssnarksfirstvictim.blogspot.com/2011/10/logline-critique-round-3-17.html
When an ancient ritual drags Diamond into a hidden, magical civilization in the 16th century, she quickly realizes there's more to worry about than how much school she's missing. Her ancestors hold the powers which protect their city and an immortal witch threatens to destroy them for it, forcing Diamond to fight for her bloodline's survival or risk being eradicated from history itself.
Logline #19
TITLE: SWIM
GENRE: YA Urban Fantasy
http://misssnarksfirstvictim.blogspot.com/2011/10/logline-critique-round-3-11.html
Even though it's against Mer rules, seventeen-year-old Meredith thinks she can keep her relationship with the human boy she saved a secret. She trusts herself to keep it all in control...until she falls in love with him, her secret is found out, and a mysterious death has the Mer suspecting she is a Siren, a caller of men. Suddenly, Meredith's friendships, love, and ultimate freedom all depend on her finding answers, even if they are not the ones she wanted.
GENRE: YA Urban Fantasy
http://misssnarksfirstvictim.blogspot.com/2011/10/logline-critique-round-3-11.html
Even though it's against Mer rules, seventeen-year-old Meredith thinks she can keep her relationship with the human boy she saved a secret. She trusts herself to keep it all in control...until she falls in love with him, her secret is found out, and a mysterious death has the Mer suspecting she is a Siren, a caller of men. Suddenly, Meredith's friendships, love, and ultimate freedom all depend on her finding answers, even if they are not the ones she wanted.
Logline #17
Title: The Rowaness of Shalott
Genre: YA Fantasy
http://misssnarksfirstvictim.blogspot.com/2011/10/logline-critique-round-3-5.html
After spending her life loveless and nameless, an immortal girl falls in love with the young knight Lancelot, who names her Guinevere and awakens her dormant ability to feel touch. But their forbidden romance threatens to expose the secluded existence of her irresistible female race, and the addictive sensation of touch weakens the bond to Guinevere’s rowan tree—the force keeping her alive.
Genre: YA Fantasy
http://misssnarksfirstvictim.blogspot.com/2011/10/logline-critique-round-3-5.html
After spending her life loveless and nameless, an immortal girl falls in love with the young knight Lancelot, who names her Guinevere and awakens her dormant ability to feel touch. But their forbidden romance threatens to expose the secluded existence of her irresistible female race, and the addictive sensation of touch weakens the bond to Guinevere’s rowan tree—the force keeping her alive.
Logline #16
Title: The Saint and the Smith
Genre: Historical Fiction with strong elements of fantasy
Merewyn's powers swirl out of control every time Warin, the cynical blacksmith, comes near. To keep from killing the man she can't help but love and protect him from King Henry III who wants his head, she must risk the noose and master her sometimes saintly, oftentimes devilish abilities.
Genre: Historical Fiction with strong elements of fantasy
Merewyn's powers swirl out of control every time Warin, the cynical blacksmith, comes near. To keep from killing the man she can't help but love and protect him from King Henry III who wants his head, she must risk the noose and master her sometimes saintly, oftentimes devilish abilities.
Logline #15
Title: The Paradox Cure
Genre: MG Science Fiction
http://lindamclaren.blogspot.com/2011/10/logline-3-paradox-cure.html
Bioengineering genius Amanda Shine has a trash-talkingpipistrellus bat, a bonobo ape with personal-space issues, and a snow leopard on wheels. Good thing, because Amanda will need all their help to rescue her missing mother and save Earth’s dying animals—going extinct thanks to widespread amateur genetic engineering. Problem is, both her mom and the potential cure for extinction are nine billion miles away on planet Paradox. She’ll have to suck up to smarmy real estate mogul H.C. Chafey to make the trans-universal hike. And Chafey has plans of his own for Amanda’s stratospheric I.Q.
Genre: MG Science Fiction
http://lindamclaren.blogspot.com/2011/10/logline-3-paradox-cure.html
Bioengineering genius Amanda Shine has a trash-talkingpipistrellus bat, a bonobo ape with personal-space issues, and a snow leopard on wheels. Good thing, because Amanda will need all their help to rescue her missing mother and save Earth’s dying animals—going extinct thanks to widespread amateur genetic engineering. Problem is, both her mom and the potential cure for extinction are nine billion miles away on planet Paradox. She’ll have to suck up to smarmy real estate mogul H.C. Chafey to make the trans-universal hike. And Chafey has plans of his own for Amanda’s stratospheric I.Q.
Logline #14
Title: Smoke and Wait
Genre: Urban Fantasy
http://misssnarksfirstvictim.blogspot.com/2011/10/logline-critique-round-3-21.html
Special Agent Alexandra MacPherson’s forte is arresting sociopaths who
blow things up, not decapitating monsters that replicate through their
victims. But she will, and accept help from a man she barely knows and
doesn’t trust, if it means solving an ugly case. With any luck, Alex
won't die in the process, or come back if she does.
Genre: Urban Fantasy
http://misssnarksfirstvictim.blogspot.com/2011/10/logline-critique-round-3-21.html
Special Agent Alexandra MacPherson’s forte is arresting sociopaths who
blow things up, not decapitating monsters that replicate through their
victims. But she will, and accept help from a man she barely knows and
doesn’t trust, if it means solving an ugly case. With any luck, Alex
won't die in the process, or come back if she does.
Logline #13
Title: FanGirl
Genre: YA
Ms. Snark Post #3
In FANGIRL Ruby Miller is cast as an iconic zombie hunter in the television adaptation of her favorite graphic novel. Between navigating hot actors and script lines the eighteen year-old learns that trusting her instincts in a world of agents and paparazzi is as terrifying as coming face to face with a reanimated corpse
Genre: YA
Ms. Snark Post #3
In FANGIRL Ruby Miller is cast as an iconic zombie hunter in the television adaptation of her favorite graphic novel. Between navigating hot actors and script lines the eighteen year-old learns that trusting her instincts in a world of agents and paparazzi is as terrifying as coming face to face with a reanimated corpse
Logline #12
Title: Master of the Miracles
Genre: Literary/Historical Fiction
When Ora's attempts at conception fail she starts to think that God wants more from her than prayer. She begins to have stigmatic visions of a 2nd Century woman named Bruriah. In a quest to learn more, Ora studies Talmud with a Yeshiva student who she should not be speaking to - let alone meeting in private. When she becomes pregnant with twins that were not conceived with her husband, Ora is confronted with the same choice Bruriah faced 2000 years before.
Genre: Literary/Historical Fiction
When Ora's attempts at conception fail she starts to think that God wants more from her than prayer. She begins to have stigmatic visions of a 2nd Century woman named Bruriah. In a quest to learn more, Ora studies Talmud with a Yeshiva student who she should not be speaking to - let alone meeting in private. When she becomes pregnant with twins that were not conceived with her husband, Ora is confronted with the same choice Bruriah faced 2000 years before.
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