New Year, New Manuscript

Phew! What a crazy couple of months this has been!

To those of you who have noticed a disturbing lack of...well...anything happening on this blog, I would like to inform you that No, this was not the result of a Captain Laziness rearing his sleepy, useless head. Quite, the opposite actually. We have been writing, non-stop, every evening, every weekend. And we are proud to finally announce that...

We have a second manuscript!

Go away, Second Manuscript! I was here first!

The first manuscript (which is still going through queries, in case you were wondering) took us a good, solid two years to create and polish to a point where we weren't embarrassed to show to another person. But the second? It took us only two months. Two months.


Why the big jump? Well, basically, when we sat down and decided to start a new project, we looked back at our history and we identified everything that went wrong with writing that first manuscript that caused it to spin for two years. And then we basically decided to do the exact opposite.

The method that we came up with is something that we like to call...Agile Writing.

Like this, but with words.

Is it useful? Does it work? We have no idea! We only made this thing up two months ago!

But if this crazy thing actually goes anywhere, you can rest assured that we'll be talking about it in agonizing detail over the many weeks and months to come. And if it doesn't, well, at least we'll always have Monorail Cat.

Monorail Cat is now leaving the station. Please ensure your hopes and dreams are locked in an upright position.

So without further ado, here's the query for our new MG Super-Villain Thriller, Little Miss Evil!

   When you ride to school in a helicopter, live in a volcano, and see your dad regularly on the nightly news with the caption “EVIL GENIUS” plastered underneath his picture, it takes a lot to rattle you.

   For thirteen year-old Fiona Ng, today is definitely one of those days.

   We have your father. Deliver the NOVA in 24 hours or we will kill him.

   Was it Ruby, that psychopathic albino girl in her class? Her family has an air force that rivals most small countries. Or was it Jai, that sadistic bully who loves torturing the other kids? His family has their own battleship, but they've never been this bold before.

   All Fiona wants is a normal life—graduate middle school, go to a new high school where nobody knows her father's a cackling super-villain, and actually have a friend. A single friend. Is that too much to ask?

   Well, that's not happening. The problems are piling so high they threaten to topple over and crush her under the weight of their suck.

   Because now she has to take over her father's Evil Empire, something she's been running from her entire life. And she has to figure out how to protect her home, as the other families smell blood and are moving in to finish her off. And that NOVA the kidnappers want? It’s an incredibly powerful nuclear bomb, capable of turning the entire city into a mushroom cloud. And oh yeah, one more thing.

   Fiona has no idea where her Dad hid it.