Looking for an Literary agent or publisher.

Writer's Guild
Registration number: 006573.

To any Literary agent or publisher looking for a new writer,

Rejection is a familiar word to me. Yet, it is not a word that applies to my writing but to the fact that my manuscripts are either “not for us” or “not a story genre for us” or “we could not sell this to our publishers.”

I am not going to waste your time with a diatribe of resentments or a lengthy autobiography. Suffice to say, however, that even though I have been confined to a wheel chair for some time, I did the “leg work” and enrolled in a creative writing course and I learned not only to write a story, but to being able to bring the characters and locations to life. When I finished the course I went through the story again and this time, I believed I had it right and again contacted agents and sent them the required chapters, and again I was rejected.

Yet, perseverance is the mother of success, so not only did I carry on contacting new agents, but found a new editor who liked my stories and writing and considered me as good, if not better than Stephen Booth.

Now, let’s cut to the chase – The first story I have for your consideration, which may fit with your budget, genre, or might even stop you for a minute to read it, is called Blood Moon. It is a contemporary horror story about a Detective from Norfolk who is trying to connect an unexplained murder of a schoolteacher, with a spate of local farmer’s cattle, sheep and horses, which have been slaughtered in their fields. During the investigation, the Detective has help from a zoologist and they realise that the mutilations and the murder were caused by a werewolf.

The next story I have, Never Say Die, is a thriller based in North Devon, where an ex-government agent, who now runs his own security consultancy, finds his past catching up with him and while he is on a long weekend break with his wife and child, he finds he has not only got to watch his back and stay alive, but still keep his past from his family.

My third story is called The Wheal Eliza Murder. The journalists have reviewed the manuscript, even though it was never published. Here is what one of them said:
“Now on the 150th anniversary of her [Anna Marie Burgess] death a book has been written about her case. It is the result of 8 years of painstaking research by Clive Woollands of Oxford, who combed through reams of documents on her inquest and [her murderer’s] trial in the North Devon Journal and Taunton Courier of the day… The book is currently at the publisher and Clive is waiting for their decision.”
This time the rejection came in the form of an excuse for “not having the funds to publish” the book!

I am currently working on a sequel to Blood Moon, called The Cursed Kiss and another horror story called Hell’s Angel.

Why an I placing this on a blog, well simply because a blog is the thing everyone seems to be doing and after literally sending letters to nearly every single agent that deals with fiction, in The Writer's and Artist's handbook from 2003 and The Writer's Handbook since 2005, I am fed up, not fed up with writing, but fed up with sending 3 chapters to agents with a stamped address envelope and getting enough rejection letters to wallpaper the bathroom.
So I am placing my introduction letter on a blog for all to see and hopefully someone out there will want to see what I have.

I look forward to hearing from anyone.