Another project

Even though the original point of this silly blog is to chronicle a successful path to a published novel, I think I can hedge my bet a bit by throwing in another project here.

A friend of mine and I have been working on a screenplay, which is nearly finished. If that gets picked up, I say that would count toward the original goal. It would be published, in a way, only on screen. Right?

*pff pff pff* is this thing on?

I think this blog just fell in the forest with nobody to hear it.

So much for email queries

Well I've had it. No... not with attempting to get published. I won't stop until that happens. I've had it with email queries. While I've had small success with it, and though many agencies claim to accept email queries, I have found that by and large they stink.

You see, it seems that many agencies adopt the asinine policy of not responding if not interested in the query. Some of their websites actually say something to the effect of: "if you do not get a response in 2-3 weeks, we either are not interested or did not get the email."

So... what do you do? A sensible person would always assume their work is so stunningly edgy and desirable that any lack of response HAS to be due to an undelivered email. Right?

The bottom line is that an agency that accepts email queries should always respond with a yay or nay. Yeesh.

So for now it looks like I'm going to send snail mail queries. They always seem to get a response, since you always include a SASE.

In the meantime, for all two of you readers out there, if you haven't already,
here's a sample of the manuscript in question. Damn good read.