Cathrine, your URL doesn't seem to function properly. Do you have a
better address?
You might try this company for publishing. They advertise for AUTHORS
WANTED in the National Geographic Magazine . I have no idea as to
their integrity or quality.
Vantage Press, Inc.
419Park Ave. South, NY, NY 10016
1-800-821-3990
www.vantagepress.com
Best regards,
D. Parkhill
At 04:47 PM 9/21/2007, you wrote:
>Hello HistArch:
>
>I hope you don't consider this off topic. Let me know if you do.
>
>Many of you know I retired a couple of years ago to branch out into
>writing popularly about archaeology. I've gotten my feet off the
>ground with the publication of my first novel. It's a historical
>novel; no archaeology involved, but at least it's a start.
>
>As I search for a publisher for my first novel about historical
>archaeology, I've set up a website as a way to reach publishers and
>agents, having found my queries returned with form letters that have
>imaginative variations of "I'm too busy with KNOWN authors" (like a
>New York Times best seller). Even invoking the name of Doug Scott,
>the forensic anthropologist who testified at the trial of Sudaam
>Hussein as a consultant on my novel doesn't seem to turn any heads.
>I guess they think I made that one up, too. Either that, or I'm not
>getting past Kristie, the clerk at the front desk, who is writing
>her own archaeological mystery.
>
>If any of you have any time to take a look, would you mind logging
>on to www.montanadawn.com<http://www.montanadawn.com/> and clicking
>on "The Executions" for me? Let me know what you think. Would YOU
>read that book? And if you know an agent or publisher who you think
>might take a look, let me know.
>
>Cathy
>
>
>Catherine H. Spude, PhD
>Montana Dawn, Enterprises
>7 Avenida Vista Grande #145
>Santa Fe, NM 87508
>505-466-1476 home
>505-913-1326 cell
>
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