[stylist] query

Tue Nov 16 00:56:34 UTC 2010

Thanks Donna!  I appreciate your kind words.  Best, Judith
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> Judith,
> I like this a lot. It gets to the heart of the book and presents it in the 
> light of the market need, showing your personal and expert status. Good 
> work, and good luck.
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> On 11/15/2010 4:59 PM, Judith Bron wrote:
>> OK, this is the last stop on my packet presentation for the publisher I'm 
>> interested in.  How does it sound to you?  It is exactly one page and 
>> captures the book, I think.  You be the judge.  Thanks, Judith
>>
>> Judith Bron 72 North Cole Avenue  Spring Valley, NY  10977
>>
>> Phone: 845-426-3177 email: jbron at optonline.net
>>
>> Query- The Letter Genre- Young adult Fiction Word Count- 99,779
>>
>> A near death experience awakens sixteen year old Jennifer Rabinowitz to 
>> the voids in her life.  On her seventeenth birthday her foster mother, at 
>> the request of a mysterious messenger, gives her the one thing left by 
>> her parents, a book with an inserted paper written in a foreign language. 
>> The book and paper become fixtures in Jennifer's backpack and sole 
>> connection to the only people who ever loved her.  Her almost deadly 
>> accident, near death experience, the strange packet left by her parents 
>> and the bigoted attitudes of her classmates start her on a journey to 
>> fill the gap that a lack of familiarity with her religion has left in her 
>> life.
>>
>> The untimely death of her mother spurs a religious crisis for teenage 
>> Pessi, whose family has fallen on hard times.  Throughout the novel her 
>> personal turmoil, conflict with inferiority and seeing her value as a 
>> worthwhile person are identity crises most teenagers can identify with.
>>
>>     Chavy, an attractive, but a bit overweight teen, is a strong 
>> character with the ability to help her fellow students.  She maintains 
>> strength through crises.  She has that unique ability to bring humor to 
>> the most serious situation.  Chavy plays a pivotal role in the lives of 
>> these two characters.
>>
>> Set mainly in the fictional Jewish community of Jenna, New York this 
>> story follows the growing friendship between the three girls while 
>> Jennifer explores the unfamiliar territory of Observant Judaism.  A dark 
>> secret from her family's past pursues Jennifer.
>>
>> The Letter contains danger, fear and teenage self doubt.  It describes 
>> the struggles, conflicts and eventual reconciliation of teenage girls 
>> with an understanding of who they are in a world filled with pain, danger 
>> and truth.
>>
>> About the Author:  I'm a Cum Laude graduate from SUNY Buffalo with a BS 
>> in Social Work.  I have been published in 15 publications both on and off 
>> line.  My select PR projects have netted excellent results.
>>
>> Growing up in Buffalo, New York, I often wondered why books about Jewish 
>> teens weren't available in book stores or public libraries.  The reason 
>> didn't become obvious until after I married and assumed the Jewish 
>> lifestyle depicted in The Letter.
>>
>> Books about Jewish teens have always been written for a niche audience 
>> and never for the mainstream young adult community.  With no reference to 
>> a community totally foreign to them many teens grow up to harbor 
>> misunderstandings and even hatred for Jewish people.  The Letter bridges 
>> the two worlds.
>>
>> The Letter describes the lifestyle of observant Jews and the life of a 
>> teenage character living in the mainstream world. It is sensitive to the 
>> fact that the mainstream audience would find the observant Jewish 
>> lifestyle incomprehensible unless it was described relative to mainstream 
>> customs.
>>
>> To fulfill requirements for my social work degree I chose to do part of 
>> my internship working with teens.  I helped them work out problems with 
>> identity, peer pressure, quandaries about trust, inter-personal 
>> relationships and problems communicating with parents and other authority 
>> figures.  One age group, two cultures, similar conflicts.
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