Well, How About That?
Since I last posted about my book, I haven't gotten any more rejections. I have, however, had an agent request a partial and then a full, so how about that? I'm continuing to query, just to make sure I don't give into temptation and put all my eggs into this one basket that may or may not pan out.
I had my writing group, such as it is, hammer on my synopsis last night. Usually, it's not much of a group. It's two other guys, one of whom is writing a pretty good sci fi book, only he writes about 5 pages a month, and the other of whom has incredible insight and good comments but never actually writes a goddamn thing. But last night, they found exactly what was wrong with my synopsis, and, by extension, my query letter. I knew something wasn't right, but I couldn't quite zero in on it. They twigged it immediately, and I got up early this morning to fix it. Man, it's night and day.
Of course, now I wish I could somehow get the queries I've sent out back and replace them with the New and Improved version, but c'est la vie. Halfassed Writing Group comes through in spades!
P.S. Go Sox! Go Rox!