One positive thing about attending a writers conference was a few moments of inspiration. Or, it might be that I’m just catching up with others and possibly shrugging off the tidal waves of bad news about oil prices, possible recession, credit and other crunches, global warming and all the other debatable crises facing the planet.
I discovered a neat program on my Mac called i-movie so I got myself listed on one of these stock photo sites and decided to make a two minute video for my novel ‘Old Habits Die Hard’. And it works. You can send the little video to agents and editors in the hope it will grab their attention.
Except, in one case, a senior editor emailed back to say the book was too ‘high concept’ for the kind of thrillers he published. This from the editor who bought ‘The Accident Man’ by Tom Cain that uses the death or murder or conspiracy to eradicate Diana, Princess of Wales as a background to a fast moving action thriller.
Still, I persuaded him the read the first 100 pages. Watch this blog!
