D.E.A.R. (Drop Everything and Read)

For the last few months, I've been interning at a literary agency.  It's been my favorite thing I've done, mainly because of how fun it is to see what people out there in the world think deserves representation to be published.  Among queries I've received there:

• Hairy Pawter and the Golden Spoon
• A children's recipe book. Because kids are really into baking.  I did enjoy the included illustrations:

• The Scientist Vampire
• A legitimate top 5 worst thing I've ever read in my life. It was about a scientist who becomes a vampire (don't know if you got that from the title) and then fights crime by sucking blood from criminals' pleasure points. It was so bad I couldn't even ironically enjoy it.

• My favorite, however, was a proposal for a two-part memoir.  The author was a fugitive on the run from the FBI for eight years for identity theft.  He adopted countless names and stole thousands of dollars.  The first memoir ends on a literal cliffhanger - being chased by the FBI, he falls 800 feet off a mountain. The second part is about his time in the hospital and jail, but he mentioned that if we liked what we saw, he also had a third part available about how he cleaned up his life and became a transgender priest. HOW DO YOU NOT LEAD OFF WITH THAT?!?!

See? Reading can be fun.