Post by christinaf on Feb 3, 2019 19:27:55 GMT -5
Thank you for any input/advice! It's greatly appreciated!
Dear [Agent],
THE WITCH-CURSED WOODS is a Hansel and Gretel retelling with Dutch influence and is told in dual point of view. It is complete at 81,000 words. It’s THE HAZEL WOOD meets FOREST OF A THOUSAND LANTERNS. I have been previously agented by [redacted] until we amicably parted ways. I am willing to discuss this in more detail if requested. This project has not been previously represented or put on submission. [Add personalization also.]
No one is foolish enough to enter the woods where people disappear—unless they’re desperate.
Sixteen-year-old Grietje grew up hearing the stories about the forest next to her small village, whispers of boemannen that eat children and hellhounds that hunt in the woods. She knows the warnings to never enter and has even seen the wraith-like maras lurking around that no one else notices. But when her father falls ill, Grietje and her brother Hendrik must venture into the woods to find the Witte Wieven—magic women rumored to live there, who may hold the key to a cure.
The siblings hope to find a miracle. Instead they find the monsters. Attacked by boemannen and lured by maras, the siblings are separated in the woods, and Hendrik is taken prisoner by a powerful witch—a woman that devours souls using blood magic and controls all the dark creatures in the forest. Alone in an unfamiliar place, Grietje is forced to rely on the help of a stranger, Matthijs, who grew up in the forest, fighting the monsters with knives of human bones and doing anything to survive.
Grietje needs Matthijs' help to save her brother, and he's willing to give it—if she agrees to kill the witch by using the magic she didn't know she possesses. Magic that means she must also be a witch. Grietje must figure out if she’s destined to be as dark as the forest witch or if she can use her new ability to save her brother and find a cure, without damning her soul in the process.
Dear [Agent],
THE WITCH-CURSED WOODS is a Hansel and Gretel retelling with Dutch influence and is told in dual point of view. It is complete at 81,000 words. It’s THE HAZEL WOOD meets FOREST OF A THOUSAND LANTERNS. I have been previously agented by [redacted] until we amicably parted ways. I am willing to discuss this in more detail if requested. This project has not been previously represented or put on submission. [Add personalization also.]
No one is foolish enough to enter the woods where people disappear—unless they’re desperate.
Sixteen-year-old Grietje grew up hearing the stories about the forest next to her small village, whispers of boemannen that eat children and hellhounds that hunt in the woods. She knows the warnings to never enter and has even seen the wraith-like maras lurking around that no one else notices. But when her father falls ill, Grietje and her brother Hendrik must venture into the woods to find the Witte Wieven—magic women rumored to live there, who may hold the key to a cure.
The siblings hope to find a miracle. Instead they find the monsters. Attacked by boemannen and lured by maras, the siblings are separated in the woods, and Hendrik is taken prisoner by a powerful witch—a woman that devours souls using blood magic and controls all the dark creatures in the forest. Alone in an unfamiliar place, Grietje is forced to rely on the help of a stranger, Matthijs, who grew up in the forest, fighting the monsters with knives of human bones and doing anything to survive.
Grietje needs Matthijs' help to save her brother, and he's willing to give it—if she agrees to kill the witch by using the magic she didn't know she possesses. Magic that means she must also be a witch. Grietje must figure out if she’s destined to be as dark as the forest witch or if she can use her new ability to save her brother and find a cure, without damning her soul in the process.
