In addition, the people there know details about hidden missions that almost no one in the world will ever hear about. In their building, as you see in the book, they make sure our most honorable soldiers are shown the dignity and respect they deserve. In Delaware of all places, at Dover Air Force Base, is America’s most important funeral home. So were the victims of the attack on the USS Cole, the astronauts from the space shuttle Columbia, and the remains of well over fifty thousand soldiers and CIA operatives who fought in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, and every secret location in between. On 9/11, the victims of the Pentagon attack were brought there. The Dover scenes in the book are all based in reality: Dover is home of the mortuary for the US government’s most top-secret and high-profile cases. Dover Air Force Base is a place I never thought the government would let me into. Years ago, I went to the Middle East with the USO, then a few months back, I took another trip to entertain our troops. Just be concise and clear, and send out the best book you can. What does that mean? Don’t be a nudge (I know, because I was-and none of those agents wrote me back). Also, there’s a fine line between enthusiasm and desperation. And the sad truth is, agents want what they can’t have, and whatever they can have, they don’t want. (Don’t say, “In Chapter One, this happens then in Chapter Two, this happens then in Chapter Three…). As someone once told me, write it like you’re writing the inside flap copy for the book. Most, if not all, writers thank their agents-and that’s one way to get a list of agents who have actually sold things.īeyond that, write a short (short!) cover letter to send out to prospective agents. As a trick (which I recommend), you should pick out a few authors you like and check the Acknowledgements section of their hardback books. After that, you can find a list of agents in books like The Guide to Literary Agents.
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