Dear Agent,
It’s Ever Too Late is a family memoir told fictionally with a touch of the present tense.
Dan, doleful, young, and brooding, has a family past he hopes to escape. His big chance comes in the form of, yes, a girl. Seventeen and sweet, Janie, who comes from a good family, loves him with all her heart and plans to marry him. He knows keeping secrets is a sin, especially family ones. His grandparents, career army officers, were both executed for selling military secrets to the Soviet Union. His dad sold crack to teens on street corners. His mom embezzled 5 billion from the banks she worked at. His younger sister is on Death Row in Kansas for strangling a hitchhiker who wouldn’t chip in for gas.
Dan lies awake at night trying to get up the guts to tell Janie about his family. He thinks he’ll soon have the nerve to tell all. All but one thing. Will he ever, ever be able tell Janie about the brother who submitted 17, 482 queries for his YA novel without getting even one request?
The manuscript is complete at 80,000 words. It will appeal to fans of Huckleberry Finn and The Hunger Games. I look forward to hearing from you.
Author
