Pitch 16: Bound

Name: Janet Wrenn
Title: BOUND
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Word Count: 68,000


Pitch: Finn is seducing Janelle. The problem—he’s a fictional character. A book, a storm and longing to find a man who doesn’t exist alter her reality. She must break a curse before it breaks her.


Excerpt:

Janelle vowed she would make the girls pay for this. Nothing short of indentured servitude would suffice. Revenge tactics barraged her mind with each jabbing elbow and purse smacked into her abdomen. 

She scanned the lobby of the movie theater, which resembled a screaming fan-girl convention, looking for any sign of them. Her annoyance grew as she mulled over how she even let herself get roped into this.


Bound, your typical book turned big-screen movie, blew up out of nowhere. Janelle had never even heard of the book until the promos for the movie came out. She wasn’t much of an avid reader like her friends Dara and Cecily; being a marine biologist, her free time was spent with her dolphins. But every now and then she craved human companionship and would get coerced into movie nights with the girls. 


She merged in with the rest of the hormone-surged women as chatter about the book and movie clogged the air. There was not one conversation that didn’t correspond to some character in the story. 


Grateful that at least one of them had towering Amazonian height, she easily caught sight of Cecily, whom she affectionately referred to as “Go-Go Gadget Legs” because she was just that, all legs. Dara was on the shorter side, like Janelle, and for that she was also thankful. It was nice to be able to look into someone’s eyes when having a conversation with them. Compared to Cecily they were like hobbits. Once she had a visual on the girls she had to all but army-crawl to where they were in line.