GUTGAA - First 200 words contest!!

Deana Barnhart's GUTGAA blogfest is coming to a close - thanks so much for hosting, Deana!!  The last challenge/contest is on the first 200 words of your (my) novel.

You may have read this before - but here's the first 200 (or 189) words of my YA Magical Realism novel, THE GLASS PRINCE:

Strange images started to pop in front of my face, as if some phantom turned page after page of a photo album too close to my eyes. I shoved my head back into the chair cushion and scanned the room for this personal-space invader. I wanted to see how he managed to juggle those images in one hand, while whacking me senseless with the other. My head ached something fierce. But, I was definitely alone in the living room. I still heard Mom tinkering in the kitchen. I tried to blink the images and the pain away.

Blink one. The leather chair I curled up in turned into some gaudy four-poster bed.


Blink two. I sat in my chair again.


Blink three. I recognized the white-steel front door. Mom’s ugly dried-flower wreath hung from it.


Blink four. The door changed to a gray plank with a nail sticking out of the middle, and dipped candles on a string hung there.


I clenched my eyes shut and rubbed my temples.


“Mom,” I yelled.


“Honey?” she called back. Her voice sounded small, muffled, as if I had cotton in my ears.

 
 
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Query: Cherry? or Query: Cheery?

How do you pronounce:  Query?  I'm a query:cherry gal myself... :)  And here's my latest query for my YA Magical Realism novel - The Glass Prince.  Posted as part of Deana Barnhart's Gearing Up For and Agent Blogfest!!  You can check it out by clicking on the picture:

Check It Out HERE!

Dear Agent X -

A stranger’s uninvited kiss at Clara’s seventeenth birthday party, in front of all her friends and long-time boyfriend, kick starts her journey toward high school social suicide. Suddenly, the invitation to spend the summer in New Windsor, New York, from a grandmother she’s believed dead her entire life, goes from “‘very bad idea’” to “very ‘convenient escape’.”



So Clara hops her first plane ever from Utah to New York, fingers crossed and hopes high. Night one at granny’s house gets her the silent treatment. Nice. When Grandma does pay attention to her, it’s only to introduce her to a family heirloom— a glass prince figurine that springs the family curse on Clara with one touch. It’s the same curse that killed her father, good ol’ granny explains, and it will kill her, too, unless she can find a way to break it.


The kiss-crazy stranger himself is the one guy who can help her out.  He’s Snow White’s son, cursed by the not-really-dead evil Queen who finally got her revenge . And Clara’s family line suffers because her ancestor was the prince’s one true love who pledged her family’s legacy to helping him break his curse of immortality.  On the flip side, though, the Knight's have only a short time to help or they face an early death.

With an unexpected nemesis and maybe even her own grandmother plotting against her, Clara must decide just how far out of her sheltered comfort zone she’s willing to go to secure her future.


THE GLASS PRINCE is complete at 61,000 words and the ten pages your requested are pasted below.  Thanks for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,
ME!  (Ok - yeah, don't use this as your closer...)


So...what do you think?  Are you querying yet?  What do you find the most challenging?  Perhaps blog-hopping Deana's query contest can answer your questions or give you some ideas. 
Best of Luck!! :)