Genre

When you submit a query letter to potential agents they require a few basic items. Simple things, like the title of your work, the word count, and maybe most importantly - Genre.

I understand why lumping your work in with millions of others supposedly just like it is important. Agents need to be able to sell your manuscript to a publisher. In order to do this they need to say "hey everybody likes this book or that one, so guess what, they'll love this".

My life has consisted of little else since I began the first draft of BLOODLETTING two years ago. I've lived and breathed through my characters. I could probably recite the entire manuscript by memory. Still, I'd be hard-pressed to attempt to assign it to a genre.

It should be easy. I mean I know what my story is about. After all, I wrote it. But as a writer it's hard to take a story that you want more than anything to be appreciated by all, and admit that it will only appeal to a few.

Welcome

Okay. Here goes nothing...

I've been told that as an aspiring novelist, I must build a platform. I must prove, beyond any reasonable doubt, that not only is what I have to say written well, but that people, other than those bound by love or friendship to do so, will actually want to read it.

Never one to shy away from a challenge, I have created this blog, where I will entertain the masses (or at the very least, the aforementioned friends and relatives who are obligated to cherish every word I type).

That being said, this blog will be dedicated to my journey to publication. A journey I am certain will end with my first novel, BLOODLETTING, in print.