My Favorite Subject: Me!
You have somehow, miraculously found your way to my little vanity site, so I guess you deserve to learn a bit about me.
I'm Jenny Rostrom. Spell check does not like my last name. I am, unfortunately, 15 years old.
I'm unpublished, as of yet, mostly because 1) Most of my old work is stuck on a dead computer's hard drive and 2) I haven't finished anything that I think is promising and therefore haven't submitted anything to anybody. I'm sorry, that makes it sound like I am really conceited and I think that any publisher would snatch up my work in a heartbeat. Well, I like to think so, but I have no way of knowing if that's true yet.
Unexperienced as I am, that does not mean that I am scammer-bait. I thouroughly check publishers before even adding them to my mental list of places to ship queries, and I keep myself educated on the red flags and warning signs of the business.
I'm Jenny Rostrom. Spell check does not like my last name. I am, unfortunately, 15 years old.
I'm unpublished, as of yet, mostly because 1) Most of my old work is stuck on a dead computer's hard drive and 2) I haven't finished anything that I think is promising and therefore haven't submitted anything to anybody. I'm sorry, that makes it sound like I am really conceited and I think that any publisher would snatch up my work in a heartbeat. Well, I like to think so, but I have no way of knowing if that's true yet.
Unexperienced as I am, that does not mean that I am scammer-bait. I thouroughly check publishers before even adding them to my mental list of places to ship queries, and I keep myself educated on the red flags and warning signs of the business.
Current Project(s)
"Current" is relative. Sure, they're technically my "current" projects,
but I am also "currently" in a slump the likes of which has never before been seen.
Thank you.
but I am also "currently" in a slump the likes of which has never before been seen.
Thank you.
1.
I'm currently working on a piece that I'm pretty excited about, because I like my characters and it seems to be going pretty well. When finished, I'm estimating that it'll be somewhere between 35,000 and 50,000 words--the length of a long novella or a short novel, depending. The synopsis essentially reads as follows.
It's called At The Edge Of Oblivion, and is a fantasy about a young woman named Lauriel. One stormy night, she and her mother find a man (more appropriately, he finds them). He is injured, and they nurse him back to health. His origins are murky, but once he's lucid, he tells them that his name is Gabriel. He and Lauriel quickly fall in love, but as he eventually reveals his origins and identity as the prince of Pegalasia, a city that floats on a cloud, sensible Lauriel becomes convinced that he is mad. However, when he is magically spirited away, Lauriel undertakes a great journey to find him.
She faces several obstacles on the way.
- A dark, huge, and decidedly creepy forest
- Dry, grassless lands where her horse, Lapin, has no sustenance
- Flocks of troublemaking seagulls
- Lack of provisions
- An ocean
- Being forced to leave her horse and many of her supplies behind, risking the chance of death against the chance that she will reach her destination in time
- A magical bridge made out of unsupported tiles, thousands of feet in the air (Whooooo)
Meanwhile, Gabriel's world--a civilization of contemptuous, sadistic, and sorcerous sky-people who hate human beings, esteeming them as nothing more than irritating animals, and torture them for sport--is plotting against him. As he does not believe in their vicious practices, his father, the king of Pegalasia (which actually exists), is drugging Gabriel so that he can be easily bidden to marry Yolanda, who is by far the most ruthless of all his people. This way, she can inherit the crown and rule the city-nation in a way that the civilians like. Gabriel knowingly submits to his drugging, using his gratuitous drug use to escape from Pegalasia, which he can't leave, and to forget about the better world where he found Lauriel.
When Lauriel finally gets to Pegalasia, she is turned into a statue by Yolanda. Gabriel, released temporarily from his narcotic-induced stupor, finds Lauriel. After changing her back to normal he warns her to keep out of the city, knowing that she doesn't remember what happened to her. Lauriel doesn't understand why he wants her to stay away. Determined to save him, she ignores his council and enters the city.
Almost immediately, Lauriel is discovered and beaten and brought before the king. After a short interrogation, the decision is made to execute her, but Gabriel steps in just in time to change her fate to a less bloody one; she is sentenced to lifelong imprisonment. Gabriel takes care of her and explains what is being done to him.
Also, the way it's going at the moment, it looks like Gabriel's father may turn out to be an unexpected ally. Hmm?
Honestly, I would love to be able to tell you everything that happens from that point to the ending (which is almost certain to be relatively happy), but I hate outlines. I hate planning. I have just about as much of an idea of how the story is going to end as you do. I'll just have to see where my characters lead me.
2.
When Lauriel finally gets to Pegalasia, she is turned into a statue by Yolanda. Gabriel, released temporarily from his narcotic-induced stupor, finds Lauriel. After changing her back to normal he warns her to keep out of the city, knowing that she doesn't remember what happened to her. Lauriel doesn't understand why he wants her to stay away. Determined to save him, she ignores his council and enters the city.
Almost immediately, Lauriel is discovered and beaten and brought before the king. After a short interrogation, the decision is made to execute her, but Gabriel steps in just in time to change her fate to a less bloody one; she is sentenced to lifelong imprisonment. Gabriel takes care of her and explains what is being done to him.
Also, the way it's going at the moment, it looks like Gabriel's father may turn out to be an unexpected ally. Hmm?
Honestly, I would love to be able to tell you everything that happens from that point to the ending (which is almost certain to be relatively happy), but I hate outlines. I hate planning. I have just about as much of an idea of how the story is going to end as you do. I'll just have to see where my characters lead me.
2.
Contact Information
Again unfortunately, I am a minor. This means that I will not be putting my phone number or address on this site on fear of being mauled by some creep, or, more likely, my mother. However, if you happen to think that I am so awesome that you just have to talk to me, or you, through some sort of insane psycho-luck on my part, want to give me fabulous amounts of money in exchange for some of my writing, I will provide my email address here with which you can contact me.
You can email me at ketchikanjenny@hotmail.com (no, I don't live in Ketchikan. Nice try.) I love email, but if I start recieving mysterious spam or flamemail, the consequences will be dire. (The definition of "dire" here is "characterized by immature counter-attack spam and flaming, followed by address blocking." Dire, indeed. So, type away! I'd love to hear from you.
You can email me at ketchikanjenny@hotmail.com (no, I don't live in Ketchikan. Nice try.) I love email, but if I start recieving mysterious spam or flamemail, the consequences will be dire. (The definition of "dire" here is "characterized by immature counter-attack spam and flaming, followed by address blocking." Dire, indeed. So, type away! I'd love to hear from you.
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