Query and stuff.

So, Saturday I finished editing My Best Novel. I took out the four page smutfest and finished numbering the chapters. I also decided that "Thieves of the Odic Force" sounds too... George Lucas. So I renamed it The Odic Touch. Then, that night, I wrote a quick query, which I edited and finally emailed to a literary agency last night. This particular agency doesn't ask for excerpts until AFTER they read the query. I sure hope I made it sound interesting enough. Here's what I said:

"The Odic Touch, a dark thriller with a New Age twist, is approximately 158,000 words and features the concept of psychic vampires in the society of the Southern American states circa the year 2000. Our protagonist in the novel is a man whom, after losing his wife, discovers a gift he possesses which he thinks of as vampirism; or, as one man with the gift called it, the Odic touch. Soon after, a series of related murders occur, leaving our protagonist as the lead suspect. He must then go to great lengths to prove his innocence; if, in fact, he is innocent."

I probably should have gone into greater detail about the story and the characters... but I wanted to get them interested, and for that, I didn't want to say too much. Sometimes less is more. I'm going to look at the other agencies in my Favorite Places to see if any of them accept simultaneous submissions. I must check the one I submitted to already first. I don't want to screw up.

My sister will be home soon, and then I will know whether or not we're going to the writers' meeting. I really want to. I can take the first chapter of my novel and see if they think it's print-worthy...

That's all I've got for now. More later.