always keep smiling,Well, I at least thought I'd get a few weeks to savor the idea. Nope. The reply was in my in-box this morning.
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I finished reading BLOOD WILL TELL. Thank you for being patient while I considered it for representation. I really love your premise. Unfortunately I don't feel it's quite right for my list. I'm regretfully going to pass.
It almost feels like a personal reply, if it hadn't been addressed to "Nelson". Who's Nelson? The writer she rejected right before me?
If I'd mailed it instead, I'd at least have had a couple of days while the envelope crossed the country to dream about the possibilities.
What has me confused is that:
I guess my query/requested materials must have gotten passed off to her.
Oh well. As I said before: Never give up. Never surrender. Now to find a couple more agents to query.
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And that you possess the writing skill that shatters the glass ceiling in which most of us can only see our reflections.
Keep with it.
Respectfully,
Dr. Bob
The good news is that your query letter is working. Now you just have to find that special someone who can see how awesome your story is.
Keep fighting the good fight.
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Or: The Downside of the Internet Age
Or: I'm Confused.
Well, I at least thought I'd get a few weeks to savor the idea. Nope. The reply was in my in-box this morning.
Even though I haven't sent in any novels for a long while I can sympathize . Really is too bad.
Well, I can also relate on a much smaller scale. I sent in a short story one evening and later found the rejection waiting for me when I checked my E-mail. That means the editor had sent it somewhere between one hour and two after I sent in the story. Which also means he didn't take long to decide.
But as I said before there's something there in your novel so keep sending it in and in and in.
Sorry to hear,
it's only a matter of time.
but when your famous you'll be able to say,
"see what you passed up... and now you want to talk to me?"
always keep smiling,
You got the gift,
W.
That will be fun. But then again, I'm willing to go it alone, too. You don't have to have an agent in this market. Perhaps you know this and have rejected this as an option, but just thought I'd mention it. I'll let you know how my process goes. I'm optimistic!
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Being a half-blood is inconvenient on a good day, especially when the half you got from your mother is werewolf. Valeriah can’t take wolf form but the full moon still fills her with manic energy. Running helps; a tired werewolf is a good werewolf. She’s found her niche, though, using her enhanced strength and instincts as a bodyguard for the members of the Council of Magical Races.When her cousin’s life is threatened, Valeriah prepares to face danger and even risk her life to save Crystal. She doesn’t anticipate finding herself in the middle of the very plot that led to the murders of her parents and brothers, a mystery she has spent eight years trying to solve. She really doesn’t expect to learn that she and Crystal are the last obstacles to a coup against the Council.
Valeriah hides Crystal in a suburb of Los Angeles while she tries to decipher the conspiracy. She has to decide who she can trust to help her protect Crystal. She wants to believe the handsome stranger who has already helped them once, even though her instincts tell her that he’s hiding something. Her only other choice is a member of the Council who has turned his back on her, then changed his mind.
What she doesn’t know is that one of them is the killer.
BLOOD WILL TELL is a 94,000-word urban fantasy novel. I have enclosed a synopsis per the instructions on your website.
Thank you for your time.
Respectfully,
Dr. Bob
Lis
Personally, I got to the point where I was done with hearing "I loved it but..." But what? What?! For me it aint happening anymore.
Could you drop the first 13 here so that I might read it without trolling through the formus for it plz?
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Valeriah launched herself over the locked gate and raced on down the dirt path. The cliff-top trail was closed at night for good reason; one misstep could end in a fatal fall to the jagged rocks and crashing waves below. That didn’t frighten her. Even on a moonless night, Valeriah could see well enough; her werewolf blood was good for that much.The words of the note that had reached her less than an hour ago repeated through her mind with each step. Just two sentences in her grandfather’s handwriting, “Come home as soon as you can. I’m dying.” How long had that message taken to reach her? How much or how little time did she have?
She veered onto a less-used trail heading away from the cliff and up the scrubby hillside. Valeriah left that path and
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BLOOD WILL TELL 1st 13:
Not bad at all, it tells something about her, within the story without a long info dump. Tells us the problem too. Two of the sentences in the first paragraph seems to be a bit long but that might be just me. I have a thing about compound sentences since two pros said not to use them, as much as possible.
I would take a closer look at the book even though I usually avoid those kinds of stories...with werewolf, vampire, etc. families. I even put down one by Patricia Briggs(rats, not sure of that spelling) even though I love her writing and her worlds. I keep following the series though by looking over each new addition.
Now that was down right intriguing.
and not playing fair.
And it sort of reminds me of a Tanya Huff book. No half werewolves but there were dragons, a whole family of them.
BTW since I spoke of her, I have read only one series and this book by her but she does seem to like to start her series with the same type of opening.