Well, it's happened ... another one of those inexplicable things that sometimes happens in life.
I got an e-mail about someone from my hometown who's written a book and is offering it in an electronic format. Not too significant, other than it's the perfect way to offer people the manuscript I've been working on for more than a decade.
It works like this: Send them the first two chapters for free, then if they're intrigued enough they can send the author 10 bucks to receive the rest of the book as a PDF through their e-mail.
WOW! Perfect for my triple murder mystery, since my friends and people who live where this happened in the 1920s (Meriden, Kansas) have been eager to read it, and I have no budget for printing. Nor the time or energy to keep querying publishers.
We did have a few highlights along the way. Perhaps some of that will happen again. A guy from Paramount called me, in my home, to see if the book was in a screenplay format. It wasn't. But I wrote it that way. Sent it to a guy my sister knows at William Morris Agency in Nashville. It only received lukewarm coverage (review).
Also received a personal letter from someone at Miramax saying it was an interesting story, and wished me good luck along the way.
Life has gotten in the way. A life-changing, deep despair that altered me forever got in the way. So did a divorce. So did raising two wonderful boys, working full time, driving back and forth to work an hour or more a day, and taking on a second job.
So I forwarded this info about electronic books to the daughter of my co-author. Great idea, she said. What's it gonna cost? And imagine I would hear from you again, just a day after the 6th anniversary of Mom's death, she said ...
Lila wanted the book printed before she died. Heck, she wanted it on the silverscreen. Who knows. Maybe she's sweet-talking God right now, from up there on high.
She always was hard to say no to.
Bless your heart, Lila. We might get that book done for you, after all.
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