one more draft…

and they very well would have been the death of me if not for my wife, who finally told me to stop tweaking and start sending. even so, i had the selfish gall to give her a bit of an attitude about this being the only chance i really had with each of these agents, so the letter has to be perfect, researched, fine-tuned, etc., and various agents have various preferences for queries and how hard it is to get everything summarized and effective and clear and…

i know, i know, talk about childish. i don’t deserve her.

thank you, mary, more than i can say.