An editor’s guide to WORTH PLAYING FOR
A 91k word adult romcom
The pitch
While pretending to be her concussed identical twin on a survival competition show, twenty-six-year-old Willa must fake a romance with her rival—who happens to be her long lost love—to win viewer votes and the cash prize that will save her family’s board game café.
What to expect
- second chance romance
- reality TV/beach setting
- quarter life crisis
- challenges and eliminations
- complicated sister relationship
- zany cast of side characters
- fake dating
- secrets and yearning
Comps
- Survivor
- The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
- Love Island
- Crash Landing by Annie McQuaid
Excerpts:
“My mom is attempting to Heimlich maneuver a meatball out of me when my sister bursts through the front door of our store and announces she’s going to be the next big reality television star.”
“I feel safe now because of you.
His words are heavy, tangible, as though the letters are digging their heels into my heart. I know he means safe in the game, but my mind takes me back to eight years ago when I first realized what falling in love meant to me: pure, unadulterated safety. The safety of knowing I could be wholeheartedly myself, flaws and all, and he would only find more reasons to adore me. The safety of knowing on days I didn’t particularly like myself, he would still never like anyone else more.
Maybe that’s why the end hurt so badly. It was danger infiltrating a place of peace.”
Allow me to reintroduce you to WORTH PLAYING FOR (fka as RIVAL ISLE), my adult romcom complete and headed for editors’ inboxes very soon.
#editors, if you’re ready for the adventure of a lifetime, feel free to interact or reach out to Aurora Fernandez at Trident Media Group 🏝️🧡