In Search of Today’s Literary Zeitgeist … and an Agent

By Kathy Watson

After reading the wish lists of 353 literary agents, I’m considering writing a novel about an emotionally damaged dragon girl who steals an ultra-secret spacecraft with time-travel capabilities and then beams to a distant galaxy 5,000 years in the future to find a giant lizard shaman who can excise her demons, and while there, falls in love with the shaman’s shape-shifting daughter, who is secretly plotting the overthrow of her planet’s evil kingdom. It ends happily.

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