I have just completed the editing and rewrite for The Blues Muse. Though I am still very unsure about the title! I’m still thinking about that.
I love it. I think I feel better about this one than any I’ve written up until now.
I’m sure that will wear off.
I now have to think what to do with it. I might publish it on Amazon or hawk it round to publishers.
What do you think I should do?
Good Afternoon Opher, Hawk it around to publishers and good luck with it. My friend has just gone she came at 11am and my head feels like exploding. We have sorted the War with Syria her partner is a long distance lorry driver so she has certain views. David is down and has work to do so I will go off now but be back later for a little. Good luck with the book and those publishers.
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Cheers Anna.
You are more than welcome.
Send it to literary agents and net yourself a deal. Not easy but a great challenge.
That means investing a lot of time and effort on sorting a pitch! Frustrating!
Thanks for the advice. I’ll do what you say! Cheers Justin.
What about Helter Skelter Publishing? I believe they specialise in music and related books.
Cheers Andrew – I’ll look them up! They sound like they’ve got the name for it!
Certainly worth a try. They used to have a fantastic shop in London, but due to overriding operating costs they were forced on-line. They are the music book distribution guru.
Tomorrow I will spend some time on it.
I do not mean to interrupt between you and Andrew, David is going back on to work, just wanted to say signing off, see you in the morning – “Sleep Warm”
Night Anna – take care!
Interesting title, Opher … what’s the focus of the book?
Hi Dave. I think it’s my most commercial yet. I’ll sort the blurb for you to read. See what you think.
Blues Muse blurb
I was in conversation with a good friend who, like me, is a Rock Music fanatic. We have both been everywhere, seen everyone and have had our lives hugely affected by music. However it is not who you have seen but what you failed to catch that you focus on.
I said to him that it would be brilliant if we had a time machine and were able to go back and see all the major events in Rock history; Robert Johnson play in the tavern in Greenwood, Elmore James in Chicago, Elvis Presley in the small theatres, The Beatles in Hamburg, Stones in Richmond, Doors in the Whiskey, Roy Harper at St Pancras Town Hall…………….. and a thousand more.
Then I realised that I could. I knew it all, had seen much of it first hand, and had the imagination to fill in the gaps. All I needed was a character who worked his way through it, was witness to it, part of it and lived it; someone to tell the story and paint the picture.
I invented my ‘man with no name’ and made a novel out of the History of Rock Music.
This is that novel. It starts in Tutwiler Mississippi in 1903 and finishes in Kingston upon Hull in 1980. On this journey you will breathe the air, taste the sweat and join all the major performers as they created the music that rocked the world and changed history.
There you go. What do you think?
A passionate and inviting blurb to a fabulous idea … really hope you can convince an agent/publisher to go with it!
Cheers Dave. That’s very encouraging. We’ll see. Having completed the book I feel excited about it. I think it works and I’m getting really positive responses from everyone who has read it. It seems to capture people’s imagination as well as working as a book. I’ll try it round a few places.