Queries That Worked--Tara Tyler

Here's the query that Tara perfected at QueryCon last year. This query snatched the attention of Curiosity Quills. Pop Travel is now available.

People are dying to save time. Literally.

Private investigator J. L. Cooper always knew pop travel laser teleportation was too good to be true. Finding a video of a disintegrating traveler is the stomach turning “I told you so.”

To broadcast the video on the nosy government monitored Q-net would be a needless risk of arrest. So Cooper digs for the truth, discovering more unsolved traveler disappearances, resulting in the death of his client and a threat to his political little brother, who is in jeopardy of turning to dust anyway for disregarding Cooper’s warnings not to pop. Cooper has to do everything himself. To stop the disappearances and save his brother he must shut down the ruthless mega corp Pop Travel International (PTI). And that means convincing Hasan Rakhi, the celebrity Creator of pop travel, to publicly admit the deadly flaw. No problem. 

Staying one step ahead of PTI and the rogue FBI lackeys watching his every move through the damn web cams, Cooper has to be unpredictable. Facing his fear, he pops in to crash a party at Hasan’s well-fortified plantation compound. Yes, the laser fences are real. As long as he survives his next pop, Cooper won’t let anything distract him from getting the job done. Not the android security guards who aren’t as bright as they look, or even Southern Comfort in a purple dress, Geri Harper (an undercover Agent). And now, Hasan has a problem he needs Cooper to help him with before he will reciprocate. It’s always something, but nothing Coop can’t handle.

POP TRAVEL is a thriller complete at 85,000 words. This adventure is reminiscent of Romancing the Stone mixed with I, Robot. The first five pages follow.

Thank you for reading my submission.

Queries that worked - West of Paradise

As some of you may know, I signed a contract with WiDo in June to publish my Historical Romance. Here's the query that got me the deal:

Dear Agent;

Katherine Kennedy has it all; she’s beautiful, she’s wealthy, and she’s engaged to the perfect man. There’s just one problem. She can’t marry him. Worse yet, she can’t say why. All she knows is there is suddenly nothing she wants.

Jack McCabe has little in the way of possessions, less in the way of wealth, no where to go and no one to go anywhere with. All he has is a vague sense of discontent, a restlessness that will not abate.

Both are drawn to Cristobel Island and Louis Cade, a man who offers them the unimaginable, something neither can quite believe until they actually find themselves over 100 years in the past, 1881 to be exact.

For Jack McCabe it’s the adventure he always dreamed of – until he meets a beautiful but deadly train robber. Katherine can't believe an ignorant bounty hunter has mistaken her for a criminal – until she sees the picture, which looks exactly like her. Neither of them can imagine how the past has a way of catching up with the present.

Set in the old west, this is a tale of mistaken identity, romance, and murder.


West of Paradise will be available next year from WiDo publishing.