I missed posting last week because we were away in Cambridge visiting our friends Kate & Malcolm and mainlining The Man in the High Castle. I've also found myself with a part time job, which came as a bit of a surprise, for definitions of surprise that has more to do the way the world works rather than not knowing I had applied for a job. As a result my writing time has been cut down by about half.
However, as you can tell from the title my novel has been read by an agent who said, "As promised I have now read your material. I can see the imagination and intelligence at work here, but although I was impressed I can't honestly say I loved it." And later in his helpful letter said, "I wasn't entirely drawn in by your story and characters - I wasn't thinking WOW, which is what I look for. Another agent may feel differently, of course."
All things considered this is quite good feedback, and I'm choosing to take this rejection as positively as I can, given I feel like I've just falling off my little red bicycle. So I've sent it out to an editor who has expressed an interest in reading the first ten thousand words and I've queried another agent who indicated they are interested in military science fiction.
Other than that I can report I've completed the first editing pass of Ghost Dog, which is a thing, but I still want to do an out loud read through before sending it my Beta readers. A realistic estimate being about six months time, because I also need to get down to rewriting Strike Dog.
So that's it for another week.
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