Rea Frey

Hey there!

I'm looking for comps for my dystopian novel, I think it's YA with crossover potential.

Nineteen-year-old Adrienne accidentally portals herself to an alternative Earth, where all of the people are different but the buildings are the same.

She becomes a fugitive and finds the people chasing her split the population in two, sent half to this new Earth, and erased everyone's memories of the other halves.

She must decide if she will speak out and try to reunite everyone, putting her and her family in danger, or

if she will accept their bribes and stay silent, but then she'll have to forget all about the cute boy that's helped her on this new planet.

There's also themes of grief, coming of age, romance, and memory.

Some comps that come to mind are the Ugly series by Scott Westerfeld, The Giver, Lois Lowry, Fits the Best, but it's too big and too old, or the TV show Stranger Things, minus the monsters and set in the future.

Would love to hear any more ideas and current comps that you have.

Thank you all so much at the podcast.

You're the best.

I'm seeking comps for a memoir titled How to Love a Hellhound that follows my journey from isolated widowed mom to avid dog musher.

After a scary encounter with a naked man while running, I decide to make my daughter's dream of having a dog come true, a big dog who could also run with me.

But I adopted the world's worst dog, and the story that follows is a comedy of errors.

I don't find any success with the hound until accidentally discovering a group of dog mushers in Atlanta, Georgia, of all places.

They convinced me to train the hound as a sled dog by strapping her first to my body and then to a bike.

We take a deep dive into the quirky sport of dryland mushing and rescue a manic coonhound to add to the team after I fool myself about how well it's all going.

If I've done it right, the story will convey how the quirky sport saved me and my dogs while at least half convincing you to give it a try yourself.

Chris McDougall's Running with Sherman I feel like is a great comp in terms of topic and tone, but maybe too old and too big.

Rick Bragg's The Speckled Beauty and Marcus Zusak's Three Wild Dogs and the Truth could also work, but maybe too big.