Dear Dan,
Blah blah blah and thanks for getting in touch with me about your novel, which sounds interesting. Please email me the first 100 pages.
I look forward to reading and being in touch.
Best wishes,
Lady Elizabeth
Who knows. She's probably just being nice. I might respond. Might not. Whatever. If I wait long enough, maybe she'll email me back -- "Hey, Whaddup? I never heard from you and was a-wonderin' ..." That would be pretty cool. Then I'd know for sure if she really thought I had something that really interested her. I think that's my new plan. My new modus operandi: hard to get. As an unproven writer who wants to get his Great American Work of Fiction published, I can probably improve in the area of sitting back and letting the world come to me. Damn. I wish I thought of that before.
