Anyway, here is my pitch for your perusal. I'm anxious to hear everyone's feedback. :)
Title: A SCARRED MIND
Genre: Adult Thriller
Word count: 79000
Pitch: Closeted
psychic Jake uses his gift for things like spoiling reality shows for his wife.
Once he’s foreseen a brutal murder, he must expose his secret to stop a killer,
even if it ruins him.
First 250 words:
Tears
left tracks through her flawless makeup as the woman cowered against the wall
in a dingy, dark room. Hands bound behind her, her voice hiccupped as she
sobbed. “Please. Don’t do this. Please.”
The
light of a bare bulb gleamed off the blade of a chef’s knife as the man
advanced toward her. She collapsed into ear-splitting screams, barely able to
catch her breath as she attempted to scurry away. The knife ripped into her
upper chest and then hacked into the left side of her neck.
“Sir? Are you okay?”
The teller’s voice brought
Jake sharply back to the reality of the bank. She paused, half of the bills
still in hand, the other half neatly stacked in front of her.
“Oh shit,” he blurted and
gripped the edge of the counter. The color drained from his face and nausea
tickled the insides of his mouth. Don’t
puke, he thought. That won’t save
her.
He
looked up at the teller, the woman he’d seen stabbed to death, and opened his
mouth in an attempt to explain but the words caught in his throat. What was he
supposed to say? Definitely not “I’m sorry for my profanity, ma’am. I just had
a vision in which you were viciously murdered by a scarred dude with a kitchen
knife.”
He
must’ve seemed like a nut, standing there, gaping at her.
She
stared back at him with a tight-lipped I’m
waiting expression. Why would anyone want to kill her in such a horrific
manner?
