Molly Lyons
Joëlle Delbourgo Associates, Inc.
Dear Molly Lyons:
I saw your listing at Publishers Marketplace.
I have just finished writing a book called WRITER. It ran 82,000 words.
I enclose a synopsis of the book, a catalogue raisonné, the front matter, showing the contents, a cv, and a list of the books of my stack to date. Plus an SASE for the form letter rejection slip.
I posted the book online daily, as I wrote it, at The Daily Bulletin (www.thedailybulletin.com).
I call it an immobilized hero novel, after Charles Willeford’s New Forms of Ugly: The Immobilized Hero in Modern Fiction.
I am immobilized
in Point and Shoot,
I am again’ it.
Lotta good that does anyone. I was a poet against the war, too, and you see what good that did us.
WRITER isn’t only poems, but it has a lot of poems, because the hero is a poet.
This alone might disqualify it.
Also, it’s a book
like New York Cooking Confidential,
or Inside
Risk publishing is about finding a book like WRITER. Risk is good. The ideology says so.
If you know what you’re doing.
Most people follow the formula. They are good soldiers. Why disturb sleeping dragons? You might draw back a stump.
Everything has been tried before, and most of it didn’t work.
WRITER is something new under the sun. I didn’t go to the Internet by choice, I was driven there, but, once there, I saw advantages a conventional approach lacks. I effloresced. Like a heat rash. Like jock itch. Prickly heat, if you have babies.
Jack Saunders
Garage Band Books