Publishers and Agents

Thinking of writing a letter to an agent or a publisher? 

Although I'm positioning myself for self-publishing I am of course pursuing all avenues. Here's the letter I've put together (4th draft) for publishers and agents at this point.

Have any thoughts? Please let me know and I'll make the appropriate changes!

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New York, NY 10003

December 8, 2012

Re: Submissions

Dear Ms ...,

My name is Alistair Vogan. I am a Canadian fiction writer, currently based in the United Arab Emirates. I am writing to you because I would like to submit the first fifteen pages of my novel How To Lose Your Voice Without Screaming. It is, I believe, both off-beat and commercial. In fact, I'm certain it will make you laugh. As a writer and story editor, both here and in North America, I have had the pleasure of working with such creative types as the film director Bruce McCulloch, Saturday Night Live’s Adam Mackay and the cult comedy troupe The Kids In The Hall. I have also been a script consultant for a number of films produced by Lorne Michael’s Broadway Video and Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment.

How To Lose Your Voice Without Screaming explores, with both humor and sensitivity, what can happen when you repress a big, terrible secret. ...Kingsley Kuchner is a single private business owner living quietly in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1960’s. His life is an empty routine and, though his thoughts are often occupied with Martha, the spirited and exotic woman who lives next door, he is very much alone. Also, he’s haunted by a disembodied voice. Each day this voice tells him the same story. The voice begins its story, then finishes it and begins again. This has been going on for 20 years, and now the voice is growing louder...

At the suggestion of a neighbor, Kingsley meets with a psychiatrist of questionable repute who advises him to write this story out and, "however seemingly impossible," attempt to have it published. Only by doing this, Kingsley is led to believe, will he lose the voice and find true happiness, perhaps even love. Kingsley writes out the story and at the insistence of a publisher finds himself reading it on a popular prime-time broadcast. It is at this moment that he realizes there is something very very special about his cryptic little story. Within minutes of unleashing it upon the American public, the course of his life, the lives of four others and, indeed, American culture are altered irrevocably. As his life spins out of control Kingsley begins to suspect that what he has shared with the world might not be as whimsical or innocuous as he had thought. Finally, with the help of the former society darling, the disgraced Doctor Flees, Kingsley begins a journey of discovery that uncovers a series of truths that are more beautiful and terrifying, and much more dangerous, than he could have ever imagined.

I hope you find it compelling.

Yours sincerely,

Alistair Vogan

971-55-753-....

Pinecrestpictures@gmail.com


To begin to learn How To Lose Your Voice Without Screaming, see the link below:

Prologue - The Push

For more information, please contact:

The Ivan Von Noshrilgram Foundation, Sicily, Alaska

We would like to gratefully acknowledge assistance provided by:

Ms Susan Watson

Lee Ivan Vogan

Rose Street

P.S. Winn

Simona

Helena

Ben Culhane 

Kingsley Vogan 

Ken McDavitt 

Paddy 

Ocope515 

DonkeyJacket 

Safia Adam

 Sport68 

Robert Bodrog 

Bob Studholme 

Brian Borgford 

Craig Lauzon 

Patreshia Tkach

Chi Diep 

Colin Rivers 

Anum Siddiqui 

Sara Ryan 

Hannah Taha 

Shaikha Alain 

Ayesha Sayed 

Leanne Wherret 

Bruce McCullouch 

Susan Cavan 

Tanya Nguyen 

Margaret Lambert 

Peggy Vogan 

Mahmood Farra 

Barbara Vogan 

ZeBeDee 

Paul Marlow 

Alison Belsham 

Brian L 

Melyat 

Jagermeister8 

and 

Sir William Newman 

editors and story consultants at The Ivan Von Noshrilgram Foundation, Antarctica.)    

Copyright 2000 (Alistair Avery Vogan / the Von  Noshrilgram Foundation)