There you go. The second two aren't really ready for submission quite yet. Just pitch your first, completed novel, mentioning it is a stand-alone one, but with two others almost done to make a series. Don't go into detail about the second two. If ...
Listen to I.J. and Jon on this, not me. They gave active experience with agency representation. I don't. Take everything I say with a grain of salt. Unless, of course, you're allergic to salt, then take a substitute.
I think maybe it's the literary reader, as opposed to the genre reader, who expects more of a journey with the story. The murder up front might be too startling, too quick. It's like the way some folks look differently at food; some like a dining ...
I'm currently retired from mostly sales and marketing work, though I've done a lot, and will be going back into business. Education in Political Science. I'm a veteran of the Marine Corps before and during the Viet Nam era, which has a profound influence on most of what I write, whether mystery or literary. Am the founder of the short-lived International Crime Study Club of the early '80s, established for the purpose of investigating old and cold cases of murder and missing persons. And like my character, Wray Larrick, I just hate it when such a case goes unsolved in real life. Expect to live way past a hundred, unless somebody runs over me or shoots me first, which is a real possibility.
James Lee Burke, Sue Grafton, Jonathan Kellerman, Elmore Leonard, Anne Frank, Robert B. Parker, the Florida mystery novelists Randy Wayne White & Edna Buchanan/others, Pat Conroy, Wm. Styron, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, I.B. Singer, Harrison E. Salisbury, Ernest Hemingway, Ken Follett, Elie Weisel, James Michener, Nelson DeMille, et al.
Movies And TV Shows I Like:
60 Minutes(news, documentaries & investigations), some crime & police series, including Shark, Kojak, Andy Griffith, Crime Story, Seinfeld, Tonight Show, the general run, but not overly so--seen'em all a million times, could write the damn things.
I really appreciate your interest, Dan. Sorry I took so long to get back to you -- i've been chasing a deadline. If you do read my novel, Savage Days Haunted Nights. I'd very much value your impressions. Take care.
Hey Dan! Thanks for the message, I'm currently working on different projects I have a few short stories I'm toning up and will be posting soon. And yeah the Cintra thing was inspired by Ol' Blue Eyes but I put my own little spin on it! My style of writing is hardcore I'm working on a couple of mysteries as well!
Hi Dan, thanks for the welcome and for checking out my profile. I'll be adding on to it and will announce the release of my first mystery novel: Vendetta: A Deadly Win which will be published by Second Wind. Let me know when your website is up and running.