Dipping a toe in the Big Publishing Pond

As many of my friends know, I am a writer.  Part of the reason I moved from Dublin to Kerry was in order to get the headspace to commit to writing. I read Stephen King's "On Writing" at the correct time for it to influence me in a positive way and I finished my first novella and my first two novels using it's model of 1,000 words a night.  I took weekends off for sanity and to spend some time with J.

And now that I have the confidence to embark upon my third novel, and have had some positive feedback from readers who I deemed would be objective and critical, I think I might see what the publishing world would say.

Thus I am querying.

With huge thanks from Paul Anthony Shortt (check out his blog for new of his first published novel  "Locked Within" being launched on 6th November in Hughes & Hughes, Dundrum http://paulanthonyshortt.blogspot.ie/).  Paul has waded throguh the quagmire of querying and has not only blazed a trail, but guided me through the pitfalls and provided me with enthusiasm and tools to combat the fear of this exposure.

Now, I am not of of these "auteurs" who believes in the sanctity of his work.  I want to get published.  Hell, I am crass enough to say that I want to make money writing, enough (as the dream is) to be able to write full time.  To this end, the initial text is mine, but thereafter becomes a collaboration by editors and publishing houses to polish into a retail-able gem - or at least passable cut glass. 

So my blog is born and I shall keep what readers tune in apprised and appraised of my journey, my thought, mt trials and tribulations about embarking on the wild ocean to seek the shores of publication.  I will try to keep the minutiae of my life from this and dedicate it to this journey, if only to create a record of the wrong turns I will take and the happy fortune I hope to have.

Thank you for reading

Colm