Excerpt from novel: To Be Heard“What do you want to do with...

Excerpt from novel: To Be Heard

“What do you want to do with this book?” He asked me point blank.

I stared down the end of the barrel and went into stricken confusion. I had never thought about what I wanted to do with the book. I assumed I would write it, get it into someone’s hands that could spread it over the world, and then write another book in the meantime. I probably could have said this and it would have sufficed as an answer, but as so many times in school when I was unprepared I answered, “I don’t know.”

Then the very professional agent went into his very professional spiel about the elements that he would have to deal with and subsequently what I would have to deal with. He took my manuscript, told me if he had time he would go over it, and then he abruptly stood up to shake my hand farewell. But before I shook his hand, my mouth vomited out these words, “I just want to be heard!”