I am posting my query letter for World of Mirrors. If any of the 5 people reading this blog would like to comment, I am willing to listen to just about any feedback. Here it is.
Dear Agent du Jour ,
I am seeking representation for my suspense novel, World of Mirrors, complete at 102,000 words. I am enclosing a synopsis and a sample chapter. Another book in the series, featuring cybersleuth Emma Lee Davis is nearing completion, and a subsequent one is in outline form.
My premise of a small band of characters who solve computer crimes is unique in contemporary crime fiction. The computer crime inevitably morphs into a more serious crime, and the characters are drawn into the roll of amateur sleuths. I love putting a humorous, literary spin on technology, and writing about geeks and hackers and their offbeat lifestyles, colorful slang and strange camaraderie without burdening the narrative with techno-talk.
World of Mirrors is set on an East German island in the Baltic the summer after the Berlin Wall comes down. Emma, the cybersleuth, and Peter, a failed spy, have joined forces to go after an amiable sociopath who has fled the U.S. with his company’s ahead-of-the curve computer software and his sex-spy girlfriend. The crumbling old Baltic resort towns and a classic sailboat serve as backdrops when an international cast of miscreants vies for the digital jewels in this dark but comic caper. Emma and Peter, under-cover as a squabbling married couple, mix it up with ex-Stasis, the KGB, and the “Marquis de Sade on steroids,” as they rip a swath through the island’s nude beaches and seaman’s bars in their effort to retrieve the stolen software. The story climaxes with a cat and mouse chase through the shipping lanes of the fog-shrouded Baltic.
Author’s Bio:
A graduate of Rice University with a degree in English Literature, I’ve always worked in Information Technology. My writing life includes memberships in Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America, where I serve on both local boards. I am also a founding member of the New England Crime Bake Mystery Conference. A chapter of World of Mirrors was published in the winter edition of The New England Writer’s Network Journal. I’ve studied writing under Bill Holinger at Harvard, Joyce Carol Oates and Robert McKee.
I look forward from hearing from you soon.
What turns everyone off? East Europe? Hackers? A software heist? Beats me. Someone? Anyone? Hello out there?
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