I'm resurrecting this blog as in the interim - apart from living and working in China for the last 5 years - which you can read about via the link to my China blog on the side bar - I have been writing a novel.
The novel is ready for submission to agents and/or publishers so this seems a good place to start posting stuff before I create a website and another dedicated blog.
This is the query letter I am sending out with the submissions.
Happy to have any comments on this.
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Meditations on Murder
Charlie
wants to murder someone. Anybody will do. He wants to be a killer like the men
with chiseled looks and sexy five o’clock shadows in the movies. But he’s just
a pasty-faced, floppy-haired, rich office clone for the company his family
owns.
When
his psychopathic rage flares to life because his ex-girlfriend, Linda, has run
off with his ex-best friend, Charlie creates a kill list on his iPhone. His
first target is the puppy sleeping peacefully on his bed and the second is a
more challenging victim that will test his resolve and his lust for blood. But
then his iPhone bleeps – a ghost changes the list. Now Linda and his ex-best
friend are on it. The daemon, a 12th century Scottish woman adds Linda’s
parents and her solicitors.
Nye,
the spirit, appears on his doorstep wearing his Bob Marley t-shirt – the
cheek. She has crossed the barrier
from the beyond to save a blood relative who is in grave danger. Nye haunts Charlie, cooking him
breakfast, influencing his decisions about how to kill, and shaping his
murderous quest for the sake of her family bloodline.
While
on his mission to take lives, Charlie crosses paths with Roger le Ferrier, a
serial killer stalking Nye’s relative, Annie. In an attempt to protect the girl
he’s falling for, Charlie has no choice but to forget his own kill list. But
then it’s too late – Charlie, too powerless to help, witnesses the girl’s
brutal death at the hands of le Ferrier.
The
next morning, Charlie finds the murdered girl cooking breakfast in his home.
Another
ghost? Or has he lost his sanity
this time?
MEDITATIONS
ON MURDER is complete at 74,525 words and is an Adult urban fantasy.
Thank
you for your time and consideration.
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