The Query Letter I Really Want to Send Out
CCOThere are no fucking vampires, wizards, murderous clowns, spunky, plucky, or resourceful fucking male or female main characters. No simple A-Z connect the dots fucking plot lines either. You won’t be able to classify this novel in an easily digestible and ready made marketable genre. It won’t easily morph into film and you ain’t getting a line of toys out of it neither.
My novel has broken concrete and ground up glass in open wounds. It has warts and blisters, and oozing sores, needle tracks and dead hookers. There’s murder, there’s rape, there’s drug abuse, attempted suicide, and a couple of horrific accidental deaths to boot. But none of this gets wrapped up into a nice happy little horse shit package in the end that will make the reader think, “Oh, how nice. You see everybody, things works out for the best in the end.” Nope. My shit is REAL!
Over 100 of you have had a shot at representing me and so far my original query letter has gotten nothing back but fucking crickets. So, this is it! If you fucking gatekeepers can’t or are unwilling to see the potential this novel has then fuck you! I know the readers for my novel are out there and I’ll find them my damn self!
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