Hi everyone. Below is a query letter for a dark comedy I have written. Any feedback on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Stephen reckons love is what what makes life worth living, then the girl he's fallen for lets him down. Enter Jacob. Jacob is a humours, intelligent and dark-triad programmer who rarely wears socks. He seeks Stephen out via his online presence and introduces the view the mating situation is a easy to manipulate set of evolutionary mechanisms. His goal: to make everyone knows it. Stephen can face his flaws, or escape them through anti-social, anti-romance deviancy. Deviancy is much more fun, even if it through a friendship? with a man who could be a sociopath.
They want to prove their philosophy to the world with a public statement. But first they have more to learn. They test out various inventions. An honest let down generator and an AI that can turn people's online presence anywhere between one to ten degrees less attractive. Stephen has to adopt a new understanding of what love is really about. Aka. jealousy, suspicion, mate poaching etc. They acquire the insight needed, then come to what they have been looking for: a (seemingly) (also irritatingly) ideal couple of TV.
Stephen must make the choice whether he wants to ruin a real person's relationship, or face unhappy reality and an unhappy Jacob. A couple of other oddballs join them. They must overcome the authorities, bad emotional intelligence and Stephen: an older no-nonsense women named Hannah. But most vicious of all: anything that could be considered half decent goodwill.
YELLOWFACE meets WHITE TIGER, SNAPSHOT (90,000 words) is a dark comedy and a look at love and romance from the side of narcissism and pathology.
Most recently I have been a editorial assistant for Sky Studios. I have a passion for art, philosophy and obscure psychological literature.
Stephen reckons love is what what makes life worth living, then the girl he's fallen for lets him down. Enter Jacob. Jacob is a humours, intelligent and dark-triad programmer who rarely wears socks. He seeks Stephen out via his online presence and introduces the view the mating situation is a easy to manipulate set of evolutionary mechanisms. His goal: to make everyone knows it. Stephen can face his flaws, or escape them through anti-social, anti-romance deviancy. Deviancy is much more fun, even if it through a friendship? with a man who could be a sociopath.
They want to prove their philosophy to the world with a public statement. But first they have more to learn. They test out various inventions. An honest let down generator and an AI that can turn people's online presence anywhere between one to ten degrees less attractive. Stephen has to adopt a new understanding of what love is really about. Aka. jealousy, suspicion, mate poaching etc. They acquire the insight needed, then come to what they have been looking for: a (seemingly) (also irritatingly) ideal couple of TV.
Stephen must make the choice whether he wants to ruin a real person's relationship, or face unhappy reality and an unhappy Jacob. A couple of other oddballs join them. They must overcome the authorities, bad emotional intelligence and Stephen: an older no-nonsense women named Hannah. But most vicious of all: anything that could be considered half decent goodwill.
YELLOWFACE meets WHITE TIGER, SNAPSHOT (90,000 words) is a dark comedy and a look at love and romance from the side of narcissism and pathology.
Most recently I have been a editorial assistant for Sky Studios. I have a passion for art, philosophy and obscure psychological literature.