I am ready to get published: About my book, The Art of Revenge

After years of work on my book as a side project, I am ready to get a publisher for my fiction book, The Art of Revenge.  Yeah, it’s been years since I started!  During these years, I wrote a dissertation on the reality of near-death experiences, I got a PhD from University of Western Ontario, I went to several conferences, I have worked as a research assistant on a cool project on after-death communication, and I taught as a college professor at Fanshawe College.  It’s been great, but I am really anxious to get my novel published now that it has gone through a professional developmental edit.  It is really ready to go.

What is the novel about?  It can probably be classified as a romance novel, with a juice revenge plot.  My main character, Georgia confirms that her husband is cheating on her.  She vows to take revenge on both her husband, Maurice, and his mistress, Rose.  She comes up with a unique way to take revenge: She will wreak havoc in the life of Rose without Rose even knowing the identity of the mysterious woman who is ruining her life.  Moreover, Rose is incapable of proving that this mysterious woman even exists.  Everyone around Rose thinks that she is sabotaging her own life. Ultimately, the plan is that when the revenge on Rose is completed, Georgia will pack up and exit the marriage.  To accomplish her goal, she recruits two people: her P.I. friend, Olivia, and her biker acquaintance, Skinny Tyler, who also struggle with their own life challenges.

I wrote this book to ask some serious questions about revenge taking. Firstly, people assume that revenge is about lashing out at other people.  For this reason, my main character is a smart, savvy and calculating woman who thinks through everything before she acts. She does not lash out in the heat of the moment, but she still engages in revenge taking.  Secondly, in western societies, people often stereotypically think that forgiveness is the solution to revenge.  As a narrator, I enter the story in several places to ask hard questions about this seemingly simple solution: How do you go from anger to forgiveness?  Should you always forgive such a betrayal as Georgia is going through? Finally, my last set of questions has to do with the possible solution for revenge: Is there a real solution for the desire for revenge?  Should a person stay away from revenge?  Should the person go through with it?  Basically, my book is an exploration of the revenge theme with serious reflective questions and food for thought.

Now that I am done with the story, it is time to get a good publisher.  Honestly, I wish the right publisher would just magically appear right now because I don’t like looking for one.  I am a writer, not an agent.  Still, I know that it will work out somehow very soon because people started asking for the date it will be in print.  Hence, I already have potential readers for my juicy revenge story.  This means that I know for certain that this stage of the adventure will somehow work out easily and effortlessly.

M. J. Mandoki