(Still) Perfecting the (dreaded) Query Letter

I am seeking representation for A FACULTY DAUGHTER, a coming-of-age Women’s Fiction. Set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of nineteen seventy Virginia, the story is told from the young yet articulate first person POV.

Warm-hearted and bookish 14-year-old Georgie Bricker is mortified by members of the opposite sex. Unfortunately, living at The Browning School for Boys with her faculty family means she is surrounded by hordes of them. Determined to win the French award at her own school and become the first woman in her family to attend college, she meets romantic temptation personified when Truman Parker arrives for the fall term at Browning. But her resolve to concentrate on her studies becomes impossible when she’s paired with her former bully in French class: Browning faculty son Kelly McGee.

While Georgie struggles to untangle the web of attraction and jealousy between herself and the boys, she and her best friend discover their Camelot-like community rife with incongruity—from an adulterous affair, to drug use, and even a cloistered closet-full of porn magazines. Burdened by terrible secrets, tension only escalates as desegregation moves from the nightly news to Browning’s doorstep. With her once-perfect world torn apart by racism, and compounded by the disappearance of a faculty child, Georgie must decide what a woman should do in a scared girl’s situation before her relationship with Truman, her friends, and their families’ lives are forever altered.

A FACULTY DAUGHTER is complete at 89,000 words. While the story stands alone, I am currently working on a related novel. I serve as webinar host for the Women’s Fiction Writer’s Association and self-published my first novel, In Robin’s Nest, in 2016.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Kind regards,

Elizabeth Wafler