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ALT WORTH PLAYING FOR By Katie Gergel Fiction: Debut Yesterday Katie Gergel's WORTH PLAYING FOR, a rom-com about a woman who pretends to be her identical twin sister on a reality competition show in order to save her family business, initiating a strategic showmance with a fellow contestant—her high school ex, to Wendy Wong at Bantam Dell, in a pre-empt, in a two-book deal, by Aurora Fernandez at Trident Media Group (NA). Rights also to Hannah K. Smith at Michael Joseph (UK). Rights: Sam Birmingham
ALT An editor’s guide to WORTH PLAYING FOR A 91k word adult romcom
ALT The pitch: While pretending to be her concussed identical twin on a survival competition show, twenty-six-year-old Willa must fake a romance with her rival—who happens to be her long lost love—to win viewer votes and the cash prize that will save her family’s board game café.
ALT What to expect - second chance romance - reality TV/beach setting - quarter life crisis - challenges and eliminations - complicated sister relationship - zany cast of side characters - fake dating - secrets and yearning Comps - Survivor - The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren - Love Island - Crash Landing by Annie McQuaid
ALT Excerpts: “My mom is attempting to Heimlich maneuver a meatball out of me when my sister bursts through the front door of our store and announces she’s going to be the next big reality television star.” “I feel safe now because of you. His words are heavy, tangible, as though the letters are digging their heels into my heart. I know he means safe in the game, but my mind takes me back to eight years ago when I first realized what falling in love meant to me: pure, unadulterated safety. The safety of knowing I could be wholeheartedly myself, flaws and all, and he would only find more reasons to adore me. The safety of knowing on days I didn’t particularly like myself, he would still never like anyone else more. Maybe that’s why the end hurt so badly. It was danger infiltrating a place of peace.”
ALT Digital painting by caras alexandra on instagram. A couple walking on a rainy Edinburgh street. She'd reading a book, he's holding the umbrella. There's a fluffy black cat beside them
ALT Top row: masculine blue eye, golden hilt of daggers, and a man (prince) with his hand on the hilt of his sword middle row: sails of a ship, quote: I can see the end as it begins, and the side view from a ship of the ocean bottom row: a blond woman (pirate) leaning against the rails of a ship, peals and shells, and a blond woman looking down
ALT Pitch for my book about to be on sub with the side view of the ocean in the background
ALT Reasons to love To Ruin the Sky
ALT ELECTRIC SEXUAL TENSION. Excerpt reads: There's a possessiveness in how he touches me and I wish I hated it. "How would you punish me?" I breathe out, unable to control my impulses. Fingers touch my zip as he slowly slips it down, millimetre by millimetre. My body is completely in his thrall, unable to decipher the beat of my heart from the thump of the speaker's bass.
ALT MORALLY-GREY IS THE COLOUR OF CHOICE... Two mood boards with information about the two main characters
ALT INCLUDES TOP TIER TROPES... Four book comparisons: Crescent City, Kingdom of the Wicked, Book of Azrael, Quicksilver with tropes attached
