Serendipity

Just when I thought I had exhausted all the small independent publishers who accept unagented novels, a new one is mentioned today on DorothyL. Google it. Looks promising. They're not looking for mysteries, but World of Mirrors, as psychological suspense, might be up their alley. I tailor the query and the synopsis and print out the first 30 pages. If nothing transpires, I can still send the book to McMillian which I had been holding off on for some reason.

I'm reading World of Mirrors to my writing group who are now rather keen on it, rather than the first time I read it aeons ago. Of course it has been tweaked and buffed and polished and shorted and all those things which happen when you do about a gazillion rewrites. The main thing about World of Mirrors is that it is fun. I wish I knew how to convey that to a publisher. How often do you get an exciting fun read with all kinds of crazy stuff that makes sense in the end? I don't have this in the query to this particular publisher, but these are some of the things I like about the book.

World of Mirrors is more than your standard suspense novel.
Boogie with The West Sea Pirates, a cool East German Rock Band
Welcome aboard Painted Cow, a classic Baltic Sea sailboat
Jump over a bonfire at the Nordic Midsummer Festival
Befriend a former “Wall Dog” who won’t stay dead
When was the last time you went skinny-dipping with the KGB?

Moi? I've never been skinning dipping with the KGB? Have you? Wouldn't you like to?

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