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Submission Synopsis
Salsa
with the Pope
by Stacy
Wallace
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Length: 108,400
Genre:
Women's/Chick Lit
Humor
Mainstream/Contemporary
Romance
Series: Thoughts of a sequel, but nothing actually written yet.
Sentence: Zany actress Samantha Wren Anderson and her crew of assorted
whackies take on Salsa, men, self-love, and neurosis in candid contemporary
Manhattan.
Blurb: So you think you've got it tough? Check out actress Samantha Wren
Anderson, with her endless level-one Salsa classes, her colonic and
gynecological visits gone awry, and a playwright boyfriend who overlooks her for
a role in his own play. But Sam is determined not to let them get the better of
her. With the help of her staid-and-true best friend Anne Marie, her new
a-sexual boyfriend Alan, and an "unknown" baseball superstar, she just might
make it after all.
Synopsis: "What have I accomplished?" So questions Samantha Wren
Anderson on her 33rd birthday. The list is short, as she's still struggling
with her acting career and a walk to the altar--please, even a date at
this point would be a novelty. But all that changes when she meets Alan.
Suddenly Samantha has a romantic boyfriend, who is--even better--a playwright.
Life seems perfect.
It does, that is, until Sam breaks a fellow classmate's foot in Salsa class
(with her favorite purple stilettos, no less), gets looked over for a great role
in a play (that Alan wrote!), has her gall bladder removed (yuck), and has to
deal with phone conversations with her mother and grandmother that border on
insanity.
And that's not the worst of it. As quickly as Sam and Alan came together, they
seem to be falling apart. Alan gets distant--is it the pressure of writing, his
father's sudden illness or something else that is causing this once-affectionate
guy to cease sex altogether? Despite the signs, Sam stands by her man and truly
believes that she and Alan will work things out. In fact, they must. Sam no
longer has her own goals, her own life. She lost herself long ago and is
essentially just an appendage of Alan. A breakup would be devastating.
But Alan sees things differently and soon ends their relationship. Harboring
hope for reconciliation, Sam begins seeing a therapist and a healer (who chants)
in an attempt to better understand herself. As time passes, she begins to
cope. She starts dating some very unusual men, learns how to deal poker, and
leaves her white-haired Japanese roommate for her own apartment in New York
City.
The ultimate challenge comes in the form of writing a one-woman show. A dream
of Sam's, she completes the play and revels in its success. Suddenly, she feels
that she is becoming the self-reliant woman she has always wanted to be. She
can run marathons, she can face her demons...and then enters Darren James.
Baseball's answer to Super Stud, this tall, dark, handsome man dances a mean
Salsa and sweeps Sam right off her feet.
Determined not to repeat the mistakes she made with Alan,
Sam keeps Darren at a distance. Through trials and tribulations, she eventually
finds a happy medium between her artistic and professional lives.
In the interim, Alan has married and divorced and gotten his play to Broadway
only to receive a notice of closing two weeks later. All is well in the end
though, for he writes a second play for Broadway and begins dating frequently,
though no woman seems to fit the bill. Sam's struggles in accepting Alan's
rejection brought up a possibility…one that Alan confirms on the last page of
the novel...he has a date, he proudly announces, with…Frank. Sam's long-held
suspicions are finally proven true.
Platform: No writing credits to speak of (wrote for my university
newspaper, have written short stories and am currently working on a memoir-style
novel). Have an extensive acting resume.
I have a friend who is a literary agent (he doesn't represent this genre); am
affiliated with a theatre company where I could set-up a place to sell; have a
hair dresser and nail salon where I could place books for purchase.
Endorsements: Dawn Columbo, Karen Kitz, Sharon Wallace (all prominent to
me, but possibly not to you).
Film: It is a very contemporary story and it is something that almost all
the women I know deal with--how to be their own person. It is funny and
heartfelt and very entertaining. It would actually make a great film.
Additional: Though I am a first time writer, I feel that I have a
wonderful book here; something that will make you laugh and maybe even think
about your own situation. It's a fast read, one that the few friends who have
read it say they can't put down.
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