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Attn: Visiting
Literary Agents
Thank
you for stopping by. I am
a published writer in search of a literary agent. I’ve had dozens of
travel and boating articles published in
national magazines in the US and abroad since 1985,
and my first book, Ready for Sea!
(Sheridan House) was released in 2002.
I
have now completed a new non-fiction work, The Best Positive Thinking Book,
which I'd like to see
published. I also have a few other books in the works. Most exciting to me
personally is a new adventure novel, Dead Reckoning,
which is about 90% complete. In addition, I have illustrated drafts of a
two-part travelogue (à la Paul
Theroux), with the working title Roads Less Traveled, and
I have more writing projects planned. The time has come to align myself
with a reliable, resourceful agent to find publishers for these books.
The
work I have ready for immediate publication,
The Best Positive Thinking
Book, represents a fresh approach to a subject with which I have
considerable experience. For 20 years I have studied and practiced what
are popularly known as positive thinking techniques, often with remarkable
success. I’ve read most of the other books written on the subject and
find they invariably dilute the simple, essential techniques of this
practice with chapters-full of religious or psychological dogma and
endless case histories. It becomes a chore for the reader to find the
actual techniques, obscured as they are by so much padding. What the genre
is lacking, and what I have written, is a concise, straightforward
presentation of the techniques for developing and applying the art and
science of positive thinking.
The
result is necessarily a small book. Rather than fatten it with fluff, I chose to
augment the page count and soften the presentation by inserting framed,
inspirational quotes throughout the book, from Sophocles and Jesus to
Henry Ford and Yoda. The layout is reader-friendly and results in a
165-page book that is easy to read and easy to absorb.
There is both a market and a need for such a book.
My action novel, Dead
Reckoning, might be described as a classic Western transmuted into
a present-day Caribbean sailing adventure, where the hero rides a cruising
sailboat instead of a trusty steed and the bad guys are Columbian drug
smugglers rather than Mexican banditos. Still, in the end the beautiful
girl has to be saved and the hero must struggle against seemingly
insurmountable odds. I haven't reinvented the wheel, but I've surely given
it a new spin. The characters are lively, the setting is exotic, and the
story is fast-paced, fun and, well, classic.
The raw material for my
travelogue
can be viewed by clicking Roads Less Traveled,
Please
let me know whether you would be interested in reviewing a summary of any
or all of my books' contents, or the entire texts, with the idea of representing them. I
can be reached most readily via email
, but also receive phone messages via (305) 767-4045. Thank you for your
consideration.
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