My Book Idea Might Be Effed

But here’s what you can do to increase your chances

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My 46,000-word manuscript contains only one mild curse word, is bursting with uncool grammatical correctness, does not portray me as a victim, and is not littered with name droppings (except for the time I met Colonel Sanders).

In short, my book idea is totally effed.

After weeks of researching, writing, thinking, re-writing, more researching, and much more overthinking, I have pieced together query letters for fifteen prospective literary agents. All the necessary elements of a query letter are stitched up into the creature for which each agent is hunting.

Except for one smallish problem.

My genre of words is a rare, unsought after commodity in today’s world. A disheartening realization I reached after a multi-week exercise of weeding through Publishers Marketplace agent by agent, A-Z.

With heavy shoulders, visible facial disappointment, and a disgruntled attitude, I’ve decided;

I’ve come this far so I’m going to continue despite the dismal odds.

I now have a spreadsheet of about 120 potential agents categorized into 1st, 2nd and 3rd groupings. Self-proclaimed…