Am I In Heaven or What?

Hurrah! I finally got an agent interested in a mystery I wrote a couple of years ago. You won't believe how many incarnations this story has gone through. First, it
was written from the viewpoint of a female P.I. When no one wanted it, I made her paraplegic. No dice. Then I changed her into an old nursing professor. Still no bites. Agents and readers kept saying it sounds old-fashioned. No wonder. That's exactly how I pictured my protagonist.

Then I "got it," and changed it to a historical (or is it an historical?) novel set in the 1930s.That fixed it. Sort of. The agent liked the premise and wanted me to tighten the writing and throw out all back story and descriptions and stick to narrative and dialogue and no inner musings. I did that and now she wants to see the whole manuscript. THE WHOLE MANUSCRIPT!

Things can't get sweeter than that.

Now I just have to go through the other 300 pages and tighten it up. That'll only hurt for a little while and then I'll send it off to postofficeville and wait. And pray!

Send me some angels, will you?

I may need them.

Keep reading and writing...

Carolyn