I still don't know what i was thinking when i wrote this... call it my background in sales making me want to sell myself over the book, who knows... BTW I got 2 full requests, and several partials from this, so as bad as it is, I hooked people on the sheer novelty...
Thank you for the opportunity to query you about a submission. My name is Jason Temple, and I have been a writer, on and off since grade 10. My background and education is actually in computer sciences (something else I found out early on I have a flare for) but I continued to study English as a Minor throughout my University education. I have always known that when I finally had some time, or something burning in me, that I would have a book written and published.
In the past I have had 2 pieces of work published in a creative writing text that was used in the Windsor/Essex region schools to help teach. One was a Poem and the other was a short story. Both were entered into the same writing contest.
My book is currently titled simply “Tangled”, as it sits now is approx 55000 words; it is a Romance/Fiction novel.
I have never considered myself a romance writer, and truly never felt that would be what I would write, however this story took a hold of me and gave me no choice in the matter. From the day after I had the dream that started this whole thing I have been writing on a daily basis, editing, changing, but mostly ploughing through this book.
My book revolves around 3 good friends, Steve, Kate, and Amaya, who are all in their late teens and still in high school. These three have always been good friends, but discover that they all have feelings for one another at a party being thrown by Kate. The entire book happens either at this party or in flashbacks to the past. There is also a side story meshed in here as well, of Kevin and Ashley, which is one of revenge.
The story is mostly told through one on one interaction between the characters and focuses mostly on their emotional states through the discovery. I use a very spare descriptive style, leaving it to the reader to fill in a lot of the “details” and only supplying the truly necessary, something akin to Chuck Palahniuk.
My target audience are young adults and older teens, in fact the same target audience that reads or watches, Gossip Girl and or Degrassi Junior High. I see this book as a gateway into more stories about these and other characters, almost a sweet valley high for our generation, but more mature and real. I don’t shy away from things that kids in this generation have experienced; underage drinking, smoking, gender confusion. In fact these things will likely make up the basis of most of what I have to write with these characters.
I look forward to hearing back from you.
