You are all the most encouraging human beings I have ever met. I made a post a few days ago discussing how discouraged I had become that I hadn’t found an agent for my book. You all made me feel a lot better about the situation and now I’m back at the keyboard.
Thank you. You guys are amazing and I fucking love you.
So look - I’m incredibly put out. I’ve been working tirelessly on my query letter. Having professionals look at it, editing it, etc. And I really really love my book (I mean obviously, who doesn’t think their own work is the shit - but I really thought, you know?) but no one is interested in representing me.
I’m depressed as fuck. This was my dream. And basically everything I’m hearing from the self-publishing world is that if I go that route, I’m basically doing it just for me and my book will never take off.
I hate this. I want to fucking kill myself. I don’t know what to do.
[agent]
I hope you are well and enjoying this transition into summer. I have an exciting new project for your list over at [agency].
Alvi Daine does not want revenge. He needs it.
Words like ‘honor’ and ‘justice’ no longer hold weight for Alvi after the genocide of his clan. Now he is the last survivor of a once thriving society wiped out by the greed of an ever-expanding imperialist enterprise. But revenge comes at a cost. Alvi must decide if exacting his vengeance is worth risking the complete and total ethnic cleansing of the Westling people. For someone whose life has been nonstop savagery since the war ended, and not all of it for survival, the choice might appear obvious on its face. But with Alvi’s ever-worsening insanity driving him past the edge of madness, all lines between justice and barbarity become so blurred that now all he can see is red.
Dune meets Mad Max in FURY THE LAST RAIDER; an emotional, high-stakes, adult fantasy set in ‘the Fury’ - a desolate wasteland filled with desert pirates and fire-breathing monsters. Complete at 78,000 words, this gritty, suspenseful atmosphere will appeal to readers of The Shadow Of The Gods series, Fourth Wing, and The Poppy War. This multiple-perspective, non-reliable narrative novel is also tailored towards readers with high attention deficits as the story’s character dynamics drive its pace from start to finish.
Thank you for taking the time to read my work. I am happy to send you a full manuscript upon request.
Until then,
[my name]