Introduction

I should have done this from the start.

In any case, good evening and welcome. My name is Pete Russo, and I'm the author of the (as yet) unpublished finished manuscript, One Chance: The Legend of Valerian's Garden. To date, the manuscript is 95,907 words and has been rejected by three different literary agents. I promise to keep all zero of my readers updated as more roll in, as at this point there are still five agents that have not yet responded.

I'm not entirely sure if I'm legally allowed to list the ones that I've sent my query to as yet, though it's not like anyone is currently reading.

In any case (2), I kind of wish I'd started this way back in the spring of 2003 when the idea to expand Valerian's Garden into a full novel first came to me. It'd certainly be interesting to me to look at all of the ideas that never got off the ground and the beginnings of all the details that ended up filling the thing out.

For the book's main character, Angel, who started her life as window dressing for my ORIGINAL character, Eli Flair, I think I've done a pretty good job at turning her into a three dimensional personality with strengths, weaknesses, quirks, and neurosis. One of my peers originally told me that she knew when she had a good character because the character would surprise her as the author. I never thought a character that I created could surprise me.

I had a lot to learn.

What I ultimately want to do is link this blog and an as - yet - uncreated Cafepress store to my main website http://www.valeriansgarden.com to make that kind of one stop shopping for everything having to do with my various writing projects.

In any case(3!), what I hope to do with this blog is to keep all zero of my readers updated with how I'm progressing in trying to find an agent. I'm going to post some character profiles to give anyone who wants to know about them background information for why they act the way they do. I'm going to be updating the progress of my new manuscript (can it be called a manuscript if it hasn't cracked ten pages of a first draft yet?), Tales from the Bar.

Comments are open.