By: Tessa,
on 6/29/2015
Wolf Truly, on his way to commit suicide on a mountain peak, meets a mother, daughter, and grandmother who carry their own emotional secrets. When they get lost and stranded, all bets are off. A fast-paced, page-turning mystery set in a remote and beautiful wilderness, The Mountain Story is an unusual and ferociously addictive read. [...]
“Whatever big events have recently occurred, sure enough, I’ll see projects that are trying to capture that lightning in a book.”
-Agent Nathan Bransford on the trends he sees in queries.
Bransford wrote last year about a wave of chick lit with heavy protagonists. Sure enough, fast forward one year and that is exactly what we are seeing on the bookshelves.
From the article:
In this brave new ‘chick lit’ world, women realize that weight loss and dieting isn’t the way to happiness. If these new heroines lose weight in the books, they do so incidentally, as a result of finding genuine happiness and fulfillment in more substantial areas of their lives.
The ultimate fantasy for most women today is simply accepting themselves, whatever their body weight.
