Anita:
Thanks for the suggestions. Yours are very helpful and I will certainly check them out
Others have had good thoughts, but believe me, having done lots of reading and taken the workshops and sent out the queries to agents, I've been around the block more than a few times now. I've published more than a little in non-fiction and know how to do it. Breaking into fiction is a whole different game. While I appreciate the suggestions, what I need is the advice of those who have been there (in fiction), not those who are thinking about it.
I have already published one historical novel, so I have a game plan. For those who didn't read my first query that carefully and reply by the seat of the pants, or who are thinking of replying in the future, maybe you might want to take another look.
Yes, I've tried querying agents, not with this novel, but with a couple of others, enough to know that they aren't going to pay you much attention until you have a publishing record AS AN AUTHOR OF FICTION. Doesn't matter that you have published over 200 CRM reports. That doesn't mean you can write dialogue or a good story. I KNOW how to submit a query, how to contact agents, how to find them, etc.
What I'm looking for is a small, regional publisher so I can get that publishing record, so that EVENTUALLY, I can find an agent for some of my other manuscripts. The small, regional publishers are MUCH more likely to respond directly to authors (that's how I got the first novel published).
And yes, I must admit, that, in addition to soliciting information about agents who others in my position might have used or small publishers, my original posting was a not-very-subtle attempt to draw this manuscript to the attention of a few folks out there, in the VERY off chance that one of them MIGHT be a small publisher who MIGHT be interested in a high quality, well-researched manuscript by an archaeologist who just have at least a potential 1000 readers at SHA, not to mention the folks who like mysteries and don't know shit about archaeology.
It's called marketing.
Cathy
Catherine H. Spude, PhD
Montana Dawn, Enterprises
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Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 6:10 PM
Subject: Re: an archaeological mystery
Don't forget this great book: *Digging Holes in Popular Culture: Archaeology
and Science Fiction (Bournemouth University School of Conservation Sciences,
Occasional Paper) (Paperback) *
edited by Miles Russell, with a preface by Douglas Adams. (I have an
appendix in it).
Or, my annotated bibliography on archaeology and fiction (only $9.95 - yes,
a shameless plug):
*Archaeology in Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography*
Looking for something interesting to read? Have you always wanted to be an
archaeologist and go out on excavations? Now, you can do both!
*Archaeology in Fiction* lets you wander through bookstores finding
archaeological mysteries and novels. As an annotated bibliography, this
ebook (in PDF format) gives not only the book title and author, but also a
short paragraph explaining why this book is archaeological in nature.
Want to read about ancient Egypt? Try Pauline Gedge's *Child of the Morning*.
Or, if your taste runs to mysteries, check out Rita Mae Brown's *Murder at
Monticello* or Aaron Elkins' *Twenty Blue Devils*. This book has these and
many more.The ebook (in PDF format) costs only $9.95. To order,
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