New York Write to Pitch - June 2025

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:

Anna Mia a lost luneathian time traveler must retrieve her yin and yang personalities trapped in the recyclers of time in order to proceed with her mission on Terra. Entering a trance she must do the luneathian dance, as she learns to transmute her mind raising her vibration before entering the mechanical haze to save Bernadette the bumbles who has lost her way to the heshes meshes Eeshees alore.

SECOND ASSIGNMENT:

The antagonist force in this story was originally a group of hooahimins who were unhappy with free will, they could not accept human consciousness as the arts flourished. For all souls who took on a skin suit were here to learn and expand their minds on the largest living library in our galaxy. Leading them to summon an evil spirit from the well of consciousness, with the help of lower vibrating forces, which had already destroyed other planets for their resources. Creating a force known as vatiahquen this seven headed serpent was able to unleash spirits which would bind the hooahmin skin suit through their desires, aware of what this would do they created the hive, here in the mechanical hive it was much easier to control these beings which in turn would lead to the distortion of soul consciousness. However this was not enough for vatiahqueen for they wanted endless control and ultimate power over the universe. Which led them to destroy all star portals which would trap consciousness, they went on to further install soul recyclers to force enslavement upon Terra. As the centuries went on ignorance was bliss as the masses willfully engaged in the deceit, completely unaware of their true nature.

THIRD ASSIGNMENT:

Codex Catachiva which consist of five tablets.

Tablet one Myrtusme

Tablet two Salah El Din

Tablet three McCooniea

Tablet four Cosmotine

Tablet five Lady Juncus Hymallius

FOURTH ASSIGNMENT:

The novels which are most comparable to my series in my opinion would be the dune Series and the Harry Potter Series. The reason I believe these both are similar to my novel is due to the complexity of world building and the depth shown in each tablet. My book series leans towards the genre science fiction fantasy.

FIFTH ASSIGNMENT:

Ancient transmuterous must enter a trance in order to rewrite her minds fears as her genetic sequence has been lost before she can enter Bernadette’s mechanical hive to retrieve her lost soul sister.

SIXTH ASSIGNMENT:

Conflict 1 Divine Feminine the first book which consists of five tablets in the interworking of the divine demons which have been conjured by the illusionary self. Here one must learn to soften their heart or be torn apart.

Conflict 2 Divine Masculine

In the sequel book they must rework the transmission of pain acquired under the masculine driven mind. Here Myrtle must save her cousin the queen who had trapped herself under the warden.

Conflict 3

Leaving the mind they are ready to enter the rhyme knows as Bernadette’s mechanical maze where substances and distortions have driven most insane. Here they are confronted with the desires of individuality

Conflict 4

Trauma of losing a motherly figure, in both books the main loss which is the catalyst driving force for Myrtle’s awakening which also what causes her cousin the queen to seek inner peace.

FINAL ASSIGNMENT:

The setting for this series is on a gridded flat  earth of the internal mind which starts off with one singular world at its purest form, once consciousness is infiltrated the flying kettle rises where it hovers for a period as the world is split into two, introducing good and evil. After the second world is fully distorted the kettle rises again as the gridded earth changes adding a third dynamic. Each world becomes more complex as consciousness dwindles to the confusions. The only constant in the luneathian tree which has direct access to pure consciousness, the tree stands in the center of the gridded system.

Tablet one begins in the land of Myrtusme, Myrtle the turtle in a daze completely unaware of her ways goes on to rationing her supplies until she must forage for her life, coming across a not so ordinary shroom would lead to her boom. Crossing an ancient bridge that had been long forgotten now guides her way to the luneathian tree which rekindles her way.

Tablet two takes places in the realm of Salah El Din where Myrtle must convince her cousin to come with her on a great journey indeed one that will alter her ways indefinitely turning away from the material world around.

Tablet three takes the two who have locked arms by surprise for they a greeted by the McCoonie brothers wearing a disguise as they sip on some tea and tell them of their powers and what will soon come to be.

Tablet four has those two in a not so ordinary daze as they are greeted by an ancient Madame who will transmute their pain in due haste for they must get ready for their task at hand.

Tablet five would have them ready to hunker down for a winter storm we’ll that’s until they were warned of what was to come had them shivering and ready to run.

Appendix Dragon Queens would being the tale again as they’d learned they’d been trapped and must go back through the data that had breezed through. (This begins the sequence for the sequel) once they go through the divine masculine as they did the divine feminine in the first book they can proceed onward.

Ultimately Anna Mia wakes up in the simulatorium where she is debriefed making peace with her past lives, as she begins her true journey into Bernadette’s mechanical hive as she must save her sisters soul which is trapped in a daze.

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Assignment 1- Story Statement: 

In the quiet of her apartment, a woman coped with trauma by disappearing from her own life until one day she realized merely existing wasn’t enough. So she left everything behind, traveled the world, and began to face her grief and embrace life fully.

Assignment 2-Antagonist:

The antagonist is not one individual; rather, it’s the system itself that doesn’t know how to respond to women who have been assaulted and instead chooses to silence them. The NYPD decided that she was lying about being raped before the investigation even began. Police reports were falsified, a proper investigation was never undertaken, and evidence disappeared.

The District Attorney’s office was more concerned about a black eye to their offices than about preventing the rapist from assaulting other women, and so chose to do nothing. But worst of all, the woman’s husband and parents reacted poorly. Without properly understanding how it is best to respond, they instead allowed their own religious beliefs, their fears, and feelings of inadequacy over not protecting her to dissolve into blame, withdrawal, silence around the subject, and eventually abandonment through divorce and disownment.

Assignment 3- Conjuring your breakout title:

Running and Falling

You’re Never Lost If You Don’t Know Where You’re Going

Living Outside of Google 

Assignment 4- Comprables

Running & Falling is a memoir about embracing life, living life fully and figuring out who you are. It’s a journey of strength. Similar memoirs in style or theme would be: 

Wild by Cheryl Strayed & Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Both memoirs deal with themes of travel as a path of self discovery and processing grieff after traumatic events.
 

A Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

This is another memoir about dealing with grief and loss. Stylistically the spare style in the description of grief is similar. 

Assignment 5- Core Wound and the Primary Conflict: 

After surviving multiple sexual assaults, the loss of her father through both disownment and death, and the collapse of her marriage, a woman retreats into isolation, working obsessively from her New York apartment to feel safe from a world that has only hurt her. But over the next decade, she chooses risk over numbness: launching a company, traveling across continents, and ultimately discovering not just love, but herself and her voice.

Assignment 6- Other Matters of Conflict: 

Internal Conflict: 

The protagonist, Lisa, feels incredibly betrayed by the entire world after she is sexually assaulted in two different circumstances where she is not believed and is told by those that should love her the most that her best recourse is to remain silent. Because of this, she feels that she is unsafe anywhere and with anyone, not just physically but also emotionally. 

A scene that triggers the antagonist 

She is lying on a bed in the hospital, fully exposed in a hospital gown and her feet in the stirrups as the nurse performs a rape kit and she overhears the nurse speaking with the police officer who explains that they are not planning to investigate as the lead detective decided upon seeing her that she was lying and she wasn’t assaulted at all but instead was trying to cover up an affair. Exposed in every way, she crumples inwardly, understanding in that moment that she will never be seen or heard.  

Secondary Conflict:

While trying to establish a life for herself and move on, she hopes to find love but what she realizes is that the man she is in love with and wants to start a family with is not feeling the same in turn. 

A scene that triggers the protagonist:

She knows she’s always anticipating rejection, because of everything she’s already been through, but instinctively, she feels her boyfriend pulling away. One day, he invites her to go sailing with him. He’d been studying sailing for the past few months and needed the practice. She reluctantly accepts, nervous about the cold weather and how inexperienced both he and the crew are.

Once on the boat, she quickly notices the chemistry between him and another sailor. Watching the way he interacts with this woman brings up a kind of jealousy and insecurity she isn’t used to feeling. In that moment, she knows she needs to end things, not because she believes he’s cheated, but because of how little she likes herself, and the insecure person she’s becoming.

Assignment 7: Setting

The book begins in the cold, worn offices of the District Attorney of New York City. While New York is home to the protagonist and where she has hidden away for safety, it also becomes a cold barren place that she feels she must leave in order to save herself. 

After leaving New York City, she travels to the sunny beaches of California and then over the course of the next three years she travels through several countries, with vivid descriptions of each place she passes through, including the beaches of Montezuma, Costa Rica; the mountains and strawberry fields of Chiang Mai, Thailand; the rice paddies of Sa Pa, Vietnam; the bustling city of Buenos Aires; the varied terrain of Patagonia, Chile; the bubbling sulfur pools in Rotorua, New Zealand; and the cobblestone streets of Valencia, Spain, and Split, Croatia. It also explores the olive trees and Mediterranean Sea of Monaco, the Italian and French Riviera, as well as the diverse cities of London, Paris, Barcelona, Madrid, Auckland, and Kuala Lumpur.

While she recognizes that traveling to new places doesn’t extinguish her problems or change her need to process her grief and trauma, it serves as an illustration of how she is able to fully see and relate to a place, finally living in her present, not her past or her stresses about the future. In fact, each place has such a strong impact on her that she forms a unique relationship with each which is written in the form of love letters to place, intimate reflections on what each place offered, held, or healed.

Assignment 1: Story Statement

A young woman must stop a serial killer’s rampage by uncovering the truth behind her cult upbringing.

Assignment 2: Antagonistic Forces

Bill Gunder seeks revenge on the parents’ children who grew up in The Light of the Soul cult. He wants to continue the ritualistic cleansing ceremony he learned as a child, but his deranged mind has confused cleansing souls with killing people in car washes. He’s already murdered three former cult members in car washes across the United States, earning himself the name “The Car Wash Killer.” Now, he is in Oak Grove, CA, looking for Jackie Tate, a young woman whose father was a former cult member.

Assignment 3: Working Titles

The Cleansing

We Don’t Talk About the Cult

The Car Wash Killer

Assignment 4: Comparables

Lisa Jewell’s two book series, THE FAMILY UPSTAIRS and THE FAMILY REMAINS, are comparable in genre, style, structure, and characterization, and also on topic, demonstrating a market interest in thrillers based on cults. Like the protagonist in my book, the main character in THE FAMILY UPSTAIRS must uncover secrets surrounding her upbringing in a cult while dealing with an unruly spouse. My book has been written to support a series similarly to Lisa’s work here.

Adrian McKinty’s THE ISLAND, is the story of a family trapped in a cult on an island near Australia. His book contains similar life-in-a-cult themes as mine along with an action-packed, gritty pace common to thrillers such as ours.

Assignment 5: Core Wound and Primary Conflict – Hook (logline)

A young woman didn’t know she’d been raised in a cult, but when a deranged cult member seeks revenge on her father later in life, she is forced to revisit her childhood.

“You can take the girl out of the cult, but you can’t take the cult out of her killer.”

Assignment 6: Conflicts

The Protagonist’s Inner Conflict:

Having spent her first nine years living in a communal cult based on serving others. Now a young woman, Jackie strongly desires to help everyone she meets. She takes her helpfulness to the extreme, often becoming self-sacrificial. The rest of the world does not reciprocate, leaving Jackie increasingly conflicted internally with why she donates her time to others when she receives little to no payback.

A Hypothetical Inner Conflict Scene:

Jackie’s best friend comes to her immediately after her father’s funeral. Jackie has always helped her best friend. Most recently, Jackie began helping her friend with her wedding, but when Jackie’s father died, her friend barely helped with the funeral. Now, standing in the bitter cold rain of northern California, her friend asks Jackie to continue helping with the wedding. Bereaved and disillusioned, Jackie internally wants to say yes to her friend’s request because that is what she’s always done, but she’s conflicted.

The Protagonist’s Interpersonal Conflict:

Jackie’s father is fighting cancer for the second time. They won the battle the first time with her self-sacrificial help, but this time, his secretive past weighs on her as she seeks answers to her cult upbringing. To stop a serial killer, she must know details about the cult he raised her in, but he is not forthcoming with information, creating conflict during a very stressful time.

A Hypothetical Interpersonal Conflict Scene:

Despite his weakened condition from cancer treatment, Jackie confronts her father with pointed questions about her cult upbringing after finding documents implicating him in nefarious cult ceremonies from year’s past.

Assignment 7: Setting

Primary Setting

Oak Grove sits nestled in the evergreens of Northern California. A quiet and small town; nothing significant ever happens here except the occasional subdivision of new homes to support the slowly growing downtown. A young woman, Jackie, and her fiancée move into one of these newly built, sterile subdivisions, planning to have a long marriage. The cookie-cutter houses hug the cul-de-sacs and host two spindly trees in their lawns from Wilson’s Garden Supplies and Plants, across the street from one of more than eight car washes dotting the city. Oak Grove has a promising future, if it can keep the people entering those car washes from being killed.

Secondary Setting

Rows upon rows of white, ten-by-fifty-foot trailer homes hang onto the high desert hills in central Oregon. Some trailers have an orange stripe, while others have green. Most have a cactus on their doorstep, but not all the homes have fallen in line. Some let their cactus sleep in the heat on their gravel lawn. Flakes of rust blow from the wind-battered chain-link fence surrounding the compound. Three home-kit, log cabins oversee the homes on the northern end, their windows angled toward the long rows of adequate living. Six miles away, the people in the nearby small town of McAdams, Oregon, sleep soundly. They never come out here. They’d rather pretend that the cult doesn’t exist.