No new queries. No outstanding rejections.
In the mean time I’ve done a lot of reading of other people’s queries and have changed mine around. I rewrote the central paragraphs describing the plot, and cleaned up the first paragraph. I also added that I had been published before. In hindsight it feels like a big mistake not to add that. Lincoln and Chicago from Arcadia Press. Check it out.
I am more confident with this version as I had been with the second. From here on I am going to try and build a constant query of ten agents. Back in the saddle.
I’ll post the query so if you have an idea of what it is. I think I’m going with a more classical style.
The Worth of a Stone is a high fantasy complete at 134,636 words. It falls between character-driven fantasy in the vein of Heather Fawcett’s Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Fairies and Rebecca Thorne’s A Pirate’s Life for Tea.
Pursued after a mission gone bad, spy Dinah finds herself in an unfamiliar, inhospitable landscape. Running into the heath, she finds herself taken in by a group of oddballs. Used to the long knife of treachery, she tries to manipulate them into helping her, only to discover that they are willing to look out for her simply out of kindness. As she hides from pursuit, she discovers herself in the company of friends.
Wizard Desmond Mingle ran as far away from his title and wealth as he could, scarred by the deaths of his parents and his sneering peers. An agoraphobic, he hides from the world in his home with his two companions. Ida, his housekeeper, and Brayman, the singing ogre who carries his home. He is content in his life until Dinah comes crashing through his door and inspires him to live again.
I am a writer based in Chicago. A book I wrote has been published, Lincoln and Chicago by Arcadia Press. I have not been previously represented. I have a series of novellas on Kindle and an epic poem audio book I am putting out on YouTube. I write fiction daily.
Full manuscript is available upon request.
Thank you for your consideration,
Well, that’s what I’m going with until it gives out.
Thanks for reading,
Michael
Michael Frutig 