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I tell you what – fiction will NEVER die. You want to know why? Cuz since the dawn of man we’ve sat spellbound around campfires listening to the storytellers as they wove tales about the hunts the tribe’s warriors went on, the beasts they faced or the vicious battles they fought against neighboring tribes and the brave warriors who fought beside them.

You think for one second there wasn’t just a little embellishment goin’on? Uh-huh. (I once caught a mammoth THIS big!)

It is human to embellish, to exaggerate and twist at the truth. It is within our very essence to create the fantastical – and to also be dazzled by it.

Saying that fiction is doomed is like predicting the end of the world…again, (and again, and again, and again!)

So you are wise to discount that notion and dive in with all your exuberance and excitement. As one of your clients, I can honestly say these are some of your greatest assets. When you think something is good – it damn well is, and I’ve seen first hand how you gush about something that is later sold. And I KNOW a lot of the reason that work sold and someone else’s didn’t is because of that exuberance and enthusiasm.

The counter point is that I trust your instincts so much that if I sent you something and you said, “I didn’t love it,” that would be my cue to do a COMPLETE overhaul or to chuck the idea altogether. You are a fantastic barometer and I’m really lucky to have you in my corner.

So…bravo to you, Jim, and bravo to the storyteller – that fiction writer- in all of us.

Ten years ago — after successfully publishing four nonfiction books with their multiple problems, i.e. interviews with folks who want money, angry from folks being exposed, concerns over law suites — and turned my attention exclusively to commercial genre fiction; read that psychological thrillers inged with horror.

Right off the bat I was told by agents, including one who represented one of my nonfiction books, that fiction was next to impossible to sell. And I may have proven that point since I turned down several nonfiction projects to concentrate on fiction.

I still believe fiction is the most rewarding of all writing, and I’m still plugging away. A message like yours will keep my spirits up and the query letters flying.

Thanks

Our culture, mores, knowledge of right and wrong, comes to us, in large part, from literature. Be it the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare, or Graham Greene; what we know about acting like humans, is primarily from what someone has accounted in a novel or similar work.

We are our myths, says Northrup Frye – and where do those come from? We have ideas like hero, heroic, noble, proper burial, feast days, monogamy, faithfulness, ad infinitum, all of which come from literary sources.

No, we’re not just what we eat – we are what we read. And I hope, from a self-preservation standpoint, that the profit is more than just financial.

I prefer to think of this as healthy enthusiasm. 😉

Wish my book was in your hands. I would be honored if your read it.

I wrote a review of my Roomba; it’s at http://tinyurl.com/st7eq so feel free to check it out!

As for an on-topic post… I am looking at my bookshelves filled with both non-fiction and fiction. I’ve learned a lot from non-fiction; I’ve learned a lot about who I am from reading fiction.

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