**** Update 01/24/12 **** A New and Improved Version of the query can be found here: http://theresamilstein2.blogspot.com/2012/01/naked-eye-query-revised-4.html ****
Dear Agent or Editor,
While running with scissors, seventh-grader, Lucienne trips and loses her eye. By age sixteen, she gets more than she bargained for with her prosthetic one.
The morning after the strangest dream of her life, Lucienne magically sees her workaholic mother lie about a conference. The real story spills out in fancy script. She must figure out the truth behind the magical eye. The journey will lead her to an estranged family member, and reveal the secrets she’s always suspected her mother of hiding about her presumed-dead dad. Lucienne must decide whom to trust when everyone she loves harbors secrets. The truth will put Lucienne in danger. She’ll need to use the same magic that created her lie-seeing eye to save her friends and herself.
Fans of Far from You by Lisa Schroeder will connect with Lucienne’s grief over her father and strained relationship with her mother, while readers of Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins will be swept up in the plot twists. The story alternates chapters between Lucienne’s past and present. These mosaic tiles culminate to reveal several betrayals and one deadly secret.
Thank you for your consideration of my 68k-word YA contemporary fantasy Naked Eye. A synopsis and complete manuscript are available upon request. This is a multiple submission.
I’m a member of SCBWI. My short story “Daisy” was included in the 100 Stories for Queensland anthology and my vampire short story “Allured” will appear in the upcoming YA Fangtales anthology. I’m a substitute teacher in the Cambridge Public Schools, which gives me ample opportunity to observe teenagers in their natural habitat. Thank you for your consideration of this manuscript.
Sincerely,
Theresa Milstein
tmilstein at gmail dot com
http://theresamilstein.blogspot.com
