Desperately Seeking Representation

[Nils Ljungberg]

To those who can help,

I have completed three novels, the last of which will knock the socks off of those who actually take the time to read it.

I have had a hell of a time getting any agent to put his/her fingertips on it. I am tired of being an unknown--my work is much better than my obscure/unknown status.

Please, any agents/editors/published writers out there, could you help by recommending my work? I'll give you a synopsis of my most current work, a psychodrama called Smiling Faces:

Smiling Faces is a psychodrama about a thirtysomething woman who has struggled with her weight and self-image her entire life. That is, until she signs up for the Brookside Enlightenment Weekend Seminar, a radical self-help program that professes “transformation” and fulfilling your “possibility” in life. Struck by their automatic cheerfulness and smiling faces, Heather goes to any length she can to achieve self-acceptance, doing whatever the seminar leader convinces her to do.

Along the way, many people, whose lives were very unfulfilled to start with, drop out of the seminar and give up. Graduating from the Brookside Curriculum turns out to be only for those suited for the demands of achieving transformation or “becoming their possibilities.”

In a fierce struggle to find herself and feel worthy of being someone, Heather accomplishes her assigned tasks, even at the risk of other people’s lives. And in the end, her desire to be a seminar leader herself comes true, and she becomes the next prophet for this fascinating-yet-bizarre “way of seeing life.”

Smiling Faces is fast-paced, and from the very moment that I sat behind the keyboard to write it, I saw a visual equivalent, a movie in the making.

Any leads are greatly appreciated.

A struggling writer,

Nils Ljungberg

[Don Ray]

Don't submit this to anyone.

[Gioacchino (Jack) Giampapa]

Nils:

I am very new to this site, (although I have been lurking for some time), and based on the facts that I am unable to create even one constructive sentence or spell CAT without being spotted the C and the T I hesitate to offer advice of writing. I did however, in a past life, have many contacts with people whose yellow streak of jealousy was exceeded only by their yellow streak of ignorance. During the years I prowled the streets of Miami fighting crime and/or evil we had a two word name for these miscreants, we called them... Don Ray.

Good luck in your writing endeavors and I'm sitting on the top of a mountain in Colorado in case anyone wants to come looking. If someone sitting in one of those really hot Southwestern states wants to e-mail me I'd be more than happy to discuss the way the world turns.

BTW Nils - I like your first name... beats the heck out of mine.

I'll trade you your writing for mine, I'll be getting the better end of the deal.

Jack G.

[Don Ray]

Jack,
Very ignorant.
Good luck getting published.

[Gioacchino (Jack) Giampapa]

Mr. Ray:

Yor have finally said something with a modicum of merit. I am ignorant, dummer than a box of rocks. So dumb that if I was locked in a Safeway overnight I'd probably starve to death. As a matter of fact I'll give you a chance to prove just how dumb and ignorant I am. A challange, the throwing down of the gauntlet as it were. You state that you have been a writer for many years but due to the unfairness of the system, inability of editors to recognize raw, unfetted talent, or your manuscripts keep getting lost in the mail, you have been unable to get published. Well here's your chance buckaroo, your opportunity to show the world, at least the world of Writer's Net, what you can do.
I am the first to admit that I have no writing talent, none what-so-ever, but I will challenge you to a compitition of sorts, a duel of keyboards rather than swords. Let one of the good people on the sight pick a subject, (something interesting I would hope, any subject, and a maximum word count and we shall see who relies on luck to eventually get published and who relies on skill.
Since I readily admit that I am a no talent hack and do not require a publishing contract for my income I have nothing to lose. What about you?
With fingers poised over a freshly dusted keyboard I anxiously await your response.

Gioacchino (Jack) Giampapa