KEEPER is a young adult contemporary fantasy, complete at 92,000 words. She must steal back the book…before her uncle and the entire supernatural race pay the Master’s price.

With the help of her comic-book-loving, adventure-hungry best friend and an enigmatic but admittedly handsome street fighter, Lainey must leave behind her life of books and studying to prepare for the biggest test of all.

In an effort to force her hand, the Master kidnaps Lainey’s uncle and offers a trade: the spell for his life. Now that Lainey’s true heritage has been uncovered, she’s the Master’s only hope in opening the Grimoire, where a powerful spell is locked inside-a spell that would allow him to siphon away the world’s magic. But the Grimoire is missing, stolen years ago by a malevolent warlock known as the Master. There she discovers that, like her mother, she’s a Keeper: a witch with the exclusive ability to unlock and wield the Grimoire, a dangerous spell book. But even with the impossible staring her in the face, Lainey refuses to buy in to all that “hocus pocus nonsense”-until she finds a photograph linking the witch to her dead mother.Īfter the library archives and even Google come up empty, Lainey gives in and consults a psychic. When the ghost of a 200-year-old witch attacks her, sixteen-year-old bookworm Lainey Styles is determined to find a logical explanation. This great query connected her with Cate Rubino-Bradway at LKG Agency. With that in mind, I’m pleased to share today’s successful query from Kim Chance. Some people have the talent of being able to summarize their book in a few sentences, but for those who don’t I wanted to provide a resource where writers could learn what works, and what doesn’t, in a query. In fact, I’ve heard more than a few authors say writing their query took them almost as long as drafting their book! Not only the actual process of sending out the letters/emails, but formulating the query itself. If you ask any writer about the process of connecting with their agent (or publisher), the majority will say the most difficult part was querying.

Keeper by Kim Chance