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I am seeking a literary agent. I am following an industry established procedure for this called the query process. Using a website called Query Tracker to which nearly 2,000 agents from around the world use, I am sending queries out each weekend. I am keeping it manageable for my schedule, querying two agents at a time. Each query needs to be tailored to the agent in question. They all have submission guidelines which vary slightly. Some only accept queries on specific genr

I am a novelist. Ever since winning a short story competition in high school, I have longed to write those words. With one novel complete and a second at about seventy percent complete, I am a novelist. I’m not yet a published novelist, but that will come with time as I explore the world of literary agents and publishing contracts. After many failed starts over the years, how did I become a novelist? For me, as I suspect with most, it was about engineering my environments

It’s New Year’s Eve. My writing journey is progressing nicely as I have now begun to query literary agents seeking representation. A necessary step toward the hopeful publication of my first novel, A Criminal Act of Heroism. At the same time, I am progressing quickly on my second novel (Dreaming of The Walker), having just hit the halfway mark in the drafting of a planned sixteen chapter plus prologue and epilogue work. Earlier today, on a whim, I decided to dust off a short

A few months ago, I set up my website and made two initial blog posts. Since blogging was new to me and not incorporated into my normal routines, I didn’t get into it with the gusto and fervor that blogging requires. As we approach the end of 2025, I’ve decided to make a blogging commitment for 2026—an early resolution, if you will. Through 2026, I’m going to make two posts monthly, one near the middle of the month and one toward the end. I’m going to comment on my writing jo