Time For An Agent
February 18, 2024
Morning Readers!
Wow! Since 2024 swept in, I’ve been busy. I’m not one for resolutions because I think admirable goals are something that should be intended every day, not just close to Christmas and not just in the fledgling weeks of a new year. I get itchy if I don’t write every day. That nagging feeling that I’ve missed something important steals my sleep, so I write and I’m able to snooze at the end of the day. Those who know me know I love sci-fi and horror and any genre of well-written book from about 1920-1990, those times when people—including writers—weren’t stuck to cellphones and had to read and experience life to write about it competently. The romantic side of me loves rom com movies, not books, because I have yet to read a romance book that didn’t make me cringe with writing that focused solely on fortuitous action rather than intelligent prose. They read cringy to me and I think so many romance books underestimate the reader’s intelligence. Slap a little soft porn on a twenty-year-old billionaire with daddy issues and a young advertising novice with body issues and BOOM, you have a book THAT SELLS. Do any of the readers actually believe this is real? Of course not. They’re intelligent enough to know it’s not but they read it because it doesn’t take effort and, really, there is little out there that plays to both their romantic ambitions and their intellectual abilities. That said, I have continued to write the sequel to Project Domain, tentatively called Project Tundra. The book is now about 65% completed. And while I have never attempted to write two books at one time, I began the new year by dipping my toes into the rom com genre. In the last six weeks in which I wrote another quarter of the sci-fi book, I also completed about a quarter of a book titled To My Future Daughter. Incredibly easy and fun to write. (Our heroine does not meet a billionaire or a cowboy or a bodybuilder, for the record. Nor does said man come to save her because she is perfectly capable of doing that herself.) Both books will be completed this year. Though I have never contacted an agent for any of my books, I’m thinking this is the year I try. With 2 contracts from Amazon, a backlist of 4 completed novels, 2 soon-to-be-completed novels, and 4 additional novels drafted but not yet edited that may one day see the light of day if I let them out of the closet, it might be time. Redeemer reached #7 in Canada again last week and my books have been added to more book clubs and more people are recognizing my writing. I admit, I haven’t enjoyed promoting my books on social media. I have a degree in marketing and worked in marketing for 15 years, but I’ve always found it easier to promote someone or something else rather than myself. I cringe when I do it. The whole Pick me! Pick me! is so reminiscent of school days when I was the Coke-bottle glasses kid that it’s super awkward for me to try, even if I am wholly convinced my books are just getting better and better and worth attention. Any way, this is the update for now. Thanks for reading my books and talking about my books and lifting me up to help me reach those goals on the top shelf. I simply couldn’t do it without you. Until next time Dear Readers, keep reading . . .
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