Dear agent,
I hear that you are looking for paranormal romances set during the French Revolution. You’d like to see the idea trending. Me too. I don’t have a work of that description handy, but I can send you my spec-fic novel set on Alpha Centauri in a matriarchal society of warrior apes. I’ll just change the frocks and chop off a few heads and Bob’s your uncle.
Research? No problem. I remember all the important bits from school: all the romantic nobles were guillotined while nasty old women catcalled beneath the scaffold while knitting woollen bonnets (or socks maybe); and Marie Antoinette told the revolting plebs to eat cake. Saw the film too. Come to think of it, the Alpha Centauri apes would fit in quite neatly for the executions scenes.
Romance is easy. It’s France, isn’t it? Ooh la la and all that. The girl who stabbed the…
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