I Am Blistered, Where’s My Ointment?

The dynamics of “The Belfast Connection” is generated through two highly unique…, two fiercely distinct and competitive stories which very quickly interweave and bend into an intense, blistering array of dramatic explosions.

Wearing the face masks of famous actors, Belfast’s infamous Hellfire Gang initiates a stunning and brutal reign of bank robberies from Boston to Honolulu. But who are these people? And what are they really after?

In all innocence, all Rachel Loed did was go shopping with a girlfriend. A Sunday afternoon lark!

But by the time Rachel arrived home she well knew that an intensely dark, hellishly foreboding shadow had come into her life.

But who is Rachel? Where did she come from? And what does she want?

Who You Talkin’ ‘Bout? Shamus! I Can Dig It!

His name: Eddie Lombardi.His occupation: shamus.His turf: the blue-collar Italian streets of Bensonhurst, in 1940's Brooklyn.

In Snow-Blind in Brooklyn, he's up against a teenage chicken thief and his skillet-wielding mother, Mafia thugs, a hit man on the run, an eccentric Harlem gang lord, and a vindictive cop. All the while conducting a forbidden love affair with a beautiful black woman and complying with the endless demands of Italian friends.

Should Have Used A Panda

It opens in 2147 with a protagonist who learns, with the aid of a device that yields limited information about the future, that he is soon to be listed on the government's known political criminal list. The second half is set in the NORAD Cheyenne Mountain Complex, one of my former places of employment.

FedEx Should Have Better Security

‘Hidden Agenda' is a thriller with two female leads. Maxine Galloway, an undercover cop and Mona Leighton, a witness in the murder trial of a mob hit man, subsequently enter the Witness Protection Program. With altered features and identities, they are both relocated to Tucson, Arizona, unbeknown to each other. The mob continues to search for them. In a chance meeting, Maxine believes she recognizes Mona, who, shocked that she can be identified, denies it.

Frank Smythe, a professional thief, meets Mona at the hotel where she works. By coincidence Maxine, in her new persona, is hired as Head of Security. Each February this hotel hosts an International Jewelry Show with hundreds of millions of dollars in fine jewels on display.Smythe becomes intimately involved with Mona while he plans the robbery of the Jewelry Show. Mona reluctantly admits to Maxine her true identity. She overcomes her fear of discovery by the desire to renew a close relationship, formed during their time spent together before the trial.

Smythe tunnels into the night vault, robs the show and using a stolen Federal Express truck and plane, flies the gems into Mexico. Maxine, helped by Mona, tracks him down at his Villa in Guaymas. Smythe is double crossed by his Chinese 'fence.' enabling Maxine to pull off her greatest coup, walking away with millions in cash which she shares with Mona.

I Want That Type Of Medical Mismanagement

Scientists have recently released studies identifying a genetic mutation that can affect ones proclivity for violence by upsetting the balance of two behavior-modifying hormones found in the body. This imbalance can result in two types of violence, depending on the combinations that exist: one is an explosive, emotionally-charged, hot-blooded form of violence; the other, cold-blooded and predatory. If someone had the ability to manipulate genetic material so as to intentionally produce this mutation, they could create an army of extremely vicious killers. Such is the premise of Cold White Fury, a medical thriller that combines real and recent scientific discoveries with the less understood realm of paranormal abilities.

The story follows a week in the life of Jennifer Bolton and her eight-year-old son, Tanner, as they unravel a deadly plot created by a secret group intent on their own warped and perverse form of selective breeding. The scientific discovery enabling this group to carry out their plans was discovered by Jennifer's husband eight years earlier, a discovery he paid for with his life. Now it is Jennifer and Tanner's lives that are at risk as they become locked in a life-and-death struggle to find key bits of information that Jennifer's husband had hidden. Through a freakish combination of coincidence and medical mismanagement, Tanner develops unusual paranormal abilities that both aid and impede their efforts.

Here It Is, Feast On The Awful!

The Griffin is the story of one man’s journey of discovery and redemption, the talking pandas he must protect, and the dark forces that pursue them. A tribe of giant pandas has been elevated to sentience and genetically-engineered to perfect the science of probabilities. As a result of the experiment, the pandas see the future unfold in their dreams. These lyrical visions have turned dark and bloody; no planet is safe, no course of action ensures survival.

Yet a slender thread of hope wends through their dreams: a man will arrive, a reluctant and destructive hero, a soldier cast aside by the Empire he once served. The pandas must see beyond this man's ragged edges and recognize the honor in his heart. They must survive long enough to unlock his true nature and start him down the hero's path once more. Worse still, they must teach this gifted, stubborn man to trust them.

We’ve created a Dickensian universe where technology has decayed and re-evolved in interesting ways: low tech often defeats high tech. In this frontier, a soldier is best served by a good blade and the cunning to use it. Here doors are sentient, ships are impetuous, and the ability to cook a truly great meal may be more important than a platoon of Shock Troops.

Friday Update

Folks- normally I wouldn't post like this but here goes- I have run across a query so terrible it could possibly take the crown from the Sharkies. I have run it by several people and everyone has started laughing by the second clause. It is coming Monday, stay tuned!

To all you industry folks- happy Sundance!

I Would Like A McHindu She-Demon With Fries Please

Logline: A British cartographer puts his maps aside to battle undead warriors and rescue his love before she is sacrificed and transformed into an ancient Hindu she-demon.

Synopsis: Swords and rifles clash in Colonial India, when military cartographer, Lieutenant Jonathan Harrows, discovers a sealed cave temple and unwittingly releases Hindu spirits called Vetalas. The Vetalas demonically possess Jonathan’s self-serving Captain Jones and transform him and his troops into undead warriors. They kidnap Jonathan’s fiancée, Barbara, in order to sacrifice her and, in the process, unleash Mara, a six-armed, ancient Hindu Demoness. Outnumbered and with no time for reinforcements, Jonathan leads a hard-boiled Sergeant Major, a lighthearted Punjabi guide, and a few dozen Peasant Rebels in order to rescue Barbara and defeat the Captain’s legion before Mara is reborn and the British Empire falls under her will.

I feel that "The Eyes of Mara" has complexity, tension and drama yet doesn’t sacrifice any of the pleasures of a fun-filled action-adventure story. I believe it to have strong international appeal with excellent franchise opportunities.

If A Monkey Is Your Best Known Hero, You've Got Problems

Many children have moved because their parents have gotten a new job. What happens if that new job is at the American Consulate in China? Marie and Kennedy are experiencing the shock of a new culture. To make matters worse, they have a new baby sister.

And then there is the Bone Demon.

On a quest to rescue their baby sister from the infamous Bone Demon, Marie and Kennedy journey through remote sections of China where legends still live. With the aid of the Monkey King, China's best known hero, the children narrowly escape being transformed into snakes, battle demons, and bargain with talking rocks. They overcome their obstacles, not with magical powers, but with the determination of ordinary children.

Bros Before Zombies

Nick of Time tells the story of Rachel Mayton, a brilliant physician researcher haunted by guilt.

Five years ago a car accident took her husband’s life and left her daughter, Megan, in a coma, though Rachel emerged unscathed. Determined to help Megan, Rachel develops a highly promising drug that may reverse comas in brain-injured people. A clinical trial has been approved with Megan as one of the patients but it’s delayed when Rachel is shot during a robbery and “dies.” During this near-death experience Rachel sees her dead husband, Doug, who relates a cryptic message Rachel doesn’t understand. Over the next few weeks, Rachel sees and hears Doug several more times, both in dreams and while awake.

Then Tim Nerad, a patient in Rachel’s clinical trial, awakens from his coma and disappears from the hospital. When Rachel finds him, his explanation for his behavior – a bizarre tale of time-traveling souls, ghostly visitations, and a future apocalypse – leaves Rachel doubting both his sanity and hers.

Yet when she is forced to flee – pursued by the law for a murder she didn’t commit and stalked by zombies who want her dead – she comes to not only trust Tim but love him. In the end Rachel realizes her only hope for survival is to puzzle out the clues provided by her dead husband’s ghost and sacrifice those she holds most dear.

Beware of Evil Clouds!

Evil works its way into the world through animals, people and even the sky. An homage to old silent horror foreign films.

Change the L to a N and you have a hit Charlie Brown!

Attn. Agent:

When Sloopy, a pretty young girl who drinks a banana smoothie most mornings, is involved in the tragic murder of her best friend, she is forced to admit her evolution and debate the worth of linear time.

Sloopy is visited by a strange man with odd powers, who attempts to explain her place in the world. She rebuffs him, and tries to return to normal life, but violence and corporate oligarchy make it difficult. She is raped and beaten, and her best friend is killed by a drug dealing doctor. She spends time in a hospital. She tries to go insane, then accidentally destroys an entire city. In the end, she must confront an all powerful cabal of the evolutionary advanced who are plotting the death of God, and decide where she stands on the issue.

Why Are There So Many Nazi's in Queries?

I'd like to submit GREENBACKS, a mainstream thriller in the John Grisham tradition. Here's the novel's premise:

Sarah Lee, a junior auditor in New York's Federal Reserve Bank, discovers that an embezzler has stolen millions by playing accounting tricks with the Susan B. Anthony dollars in the Fed's vaults. When she reports the discovery to her boss, she is warned not to meddle in affairs that are outside of her jurisdiction.

Sarah refuses to back off. With the help of her lover, a one-time computer hacker, she uncovers a plot to divert funds into the campaign war chest of a neo-Nazi Presidential candidate. Sarah is then forced to go underground, gathering evidence to document a conspiracy at the highest levels of the U.S. Treasury and the Wall Street establishment while Secret Service agents and corporate security officials make repeated attempts on her life.

This Should Be Made Just For The Cattle Scene

"Lips that touched meat would never touch hers...Tastes change.

An animal rights activist, an altruistic woman, confronts the hedonistic king of burger franchises. Her vehement protests rock the CEO's carefree world. When his significant other/company president launches a "Meat Builds Strong Bodies" campaign, she grabs the apathetic man's attention by herding cattle through his office. Her compatriots carry signs proclaiming, 'Get To Know Your Dinner.' The pampered CEO stands for everything the ardent crusader hates. But that doesn't stop them from falling in love. Their worlds collide, creating comic conflict and chaos."

Hello QLIL Fans

Hey everyone- until Empress gets the site back up and running I have created a defacto time killer right here. Please send me any query letters you can get your hands on so we can keep this going!