My review of The Rejection Letter by Johnny Ray

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My review of The Rejection Letter by Johnny Ray

As an author, we’ve all dealt with the dreaded form-style rejection letter. We dread them, we hate them, and they can bring tears to our eyes…

Johnny Ray‘s latest thriller brings the idea of what-if to the forefront. What if an author doesn’t care for that depressing little letter and decides to take things into her own hands?

For those of you that haven’t met Johnny Ray, here’s a bit of insight on this fabulous author:

Johnny has a passion, a thirst, for life and adventure that he loves to share with his readers. He has written many novels under various pen names and ghostwritten for others.

He is a graduate of Auburn University with post-graduate work at the Birmingham School of Law, The University of Alabama, The University of Tennessee, UCLA, New York University, Wil-Var Institute and The American College. He has received the following certifications: Certified International Property Specialist, Certified Residential Specialist, Certified Managerial Accountant, Certified Life Underwriter and Chartered Financial Consultant.

He lives in St Petersburg, Florida where he works full-time as a writer. He belongs to the Florida Writer Association, the Romantic Writers of America, the Mystery Writers Association, and can be found attending various national conventions as well as supporting several local writing groups. His novel THE SALSA CONNECTION won the Royal Palm Literary award for best thriller. Johnny Ray has several popular blogs he maintains and is the most popular writer on twitter with over 50,000 followers

THE REJECTION LETTER:

To someone else, the letter might have seemed a simple piece of correspondence—but when Amy reads the rejection letter from the latest agent to whom she had sent her unpublished novel, it is perceived as a declaration of war.

Amy is an aspiring author with a bad case of bipolar disorder, and her anger is compounded by the fact that this agent had flirted heavily with her at a recent writers’ convention; faced with this double rejection, it’s clear that hell hath no fury like this woman scorned. She embarks on a plan to get revenge by destroying the agent’s business… however, as it turns out, agents all over soon have bigger things to worry about than Amy’s anger. A serial killer starts targeting literary agents and viciously murdering them, and the FBI believes that Amy’s vitriolic attacks on this particular agent may have inspired the terrifying killing spree. Amy’s life turns upside down as she works with the FBI to find the killer – and learns a little about life, love, and finding her own sanity in the process.

This romantic thriller is written for the millions of frustrated wannabe authors who are also passionate readers. It explores the world of the literary agent and of the large publishing houses, as well as the inner story of one young woman and her fight to overcome her bipolar disorder.

Pick up your copy at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/The-Rejection-Letter-ebook/dp/B0069S80AE/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1338846095&sr=1-1

My Review:

The dreaded rejection letter…I can’t tell you how many of my author friends that have been brought to tears by a simple note, often only form written and lacking a signature. This memo, after months and sometimes years of writing a novel is discouraging, heart wrenching, and has made aspiring authors throw up their hands and resign from the entire ordeal of pouring their soul out on paper.

Johnny Ray’s The Rejection Letter opens an entirely new perspective to how one simple memorandum can send an author over the edge of sanity.

Amy has gone about writing in the wrong way. Using her link with Edward, an agent whom she had an affair with, she thinks she has the publishing deal wrapped up with a pretty little bow.

Edward doesn’t see her writing in the same light as she does, and sends out his standard rejection letter.

Shall I tell you hell hath no fury like a woman (or aspiring author) scorned?

Amy decides she wants revenge, and wants to destroy Edward’s company. Conniving, bi-polar to the point of her mind dashing from one feeling to another, she radiates with an intense amount of rage. Unthinking, her mere attitude, her emotional instability, opens a doorway for a serial killer who has his or her own plans.

Intensely graphic and a no-holds-bar novel that drops the reader into a genre that makes them hang on to their pillow, searching the dark corners of their room, I found The Rejection Letter a fast-paced tale abounding with chilling thrills and graphically described murder scenes, and a roller-coaster ride into the mind of a troubled woman.

4 1/2 stars!