I’ve decided that this blog can’t just be my band blog, I think it has to be a writing blog as well. There’s no point my having separate blogs for band and writing, so it’s all getting mashed into one. With the writing, I’ve just had my first two requests for a full manuscript. This is a bit of a red letter day, as to date I’ve done over 150 submissions. One thing I did do just before the latest bunch, was change my Query letter. Then a few weeks after I get my first requests for the full manuscript. Is this concidence, or have I now hit the right tone with my Query letter? Let’s hope it’s the latter and I’ll now get more requests. The next few months will show which is correct. Strange thing about the two requests, one was from an agency, but the other was a publisher. I entered a twitter competition called PitMad, where you tweet a one liner about your novel, people involved in the book industry sort through the tweets and if they ‘like’ you, then you send a query. I got one for my tweet “A woman who can predict the future, a psychotic ex soldier. She sees him coming but only in fragments, and flees for her life.” So I sent off a query, then lo and behold a few days letter a request for the full manuscript. What came as a surprise was that they are a publisher, as I have only been querying agents to date, because I believed that you can’t query publishers direct. Actually this is still true, because on looking at the publisher’s website, they won’t accept direct submissions, so it is only through an agent, or a referral. So I guess the twitter competition did me a favour in circumventing the whole agency process.