Whew! Okay, a couple of publishers are interested in Sleeping Dogs, but they're having a problem with part of the book coming from Max’s (the dog’s) POV (point of view). I’ve had a lot of people say the same thing before they read the book, but almost all of them have ended up saying it’s their favorite part of the book once they’ve finished.

 But reality must be observed on the road to having a book  published. So, here is how it really works.

And I haven't even sold the first one!

Okay, sorry for the distraction, but it isn’t everyday I get an agent. There’s an old saying that goes, “Nothing breeds success, like success.” Now I don’t want to jump the gun, I mean the novel hasn’t been sold yet of course, but getting an agent is a big step in the right direction. And it has me stoked. I’ve been hammering out pages like crazy on the sequel to SLEEPING DOGS, and it’s moving fast! 

The best news ever!!! (or at least pretty dog-gone close!) (pun intended).

I went to the 2008 Pike’s Peak Writer’s Conference in Colorado Springs, last weekend, and pitched to an agent. Even better, I went to a class she gave on Christian Writing before I pitched to her. She was awesome! The class was fantastic, informative, and I can’t tell you how great it was to see a Christian agent speak so unabashedly about Jesus Christ.

Ok, I’ve finally found something more horrible than having to write query letters. WRITING A SYNOPSIS! ARRRRrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhh!I’ve gotten to speak to several authors who started out writing in the last century (you know, the one we just left, the 20th century), writers like, Judith Guest (Ordinary People) and Robert Crais (Hostage, and the Elvis Cole mysteries) and Rupert Holmes (Escape- The Pina Colada Song, Novel-Where the Truth Lies), and Dan Simmons (Children of the Night) and Rebecca Hill (Blue Rise), and they all say they never had to write a synopsis, and they can’t imagine having to condense a three or five hundred page book into one or two pages.I nominate them for future Editors and Agents.

Now that sounds like a good idea for a story. Continuing on with the idea that everyday headlines can lead to new story ideas, how about this; Before he can be yanked from Afghanistan, his unit is ambushed. Prince Harry sees most of his fellow soldiers fall to enemy fire, and goes berserk, almost single handedly wiping out the attacking Taliban contingent. He is then hailed as the Warrior Prince, ready to lead England back to its rightful place in world power.

Sooooo many possibilities. The Fourth Reich? With Sir Harry having clad himself as a Nazi soldier, that gives me the idea for a new, dangerous, England rising up in the image of WWII Germany. Zoiks!