HELP ME GET PUBLISHED

I’ve spent the last four years working on my book “In The Arms of Nightmares” and it’s been a long, hard road through Hell, considering a great deal of agents only want YA right now because everything is getting turned into movies, apparently. I’m hoping I can find some people with like minded taste who want to help see my Serial killing creation Arthur, make into some pages and into some excited hands.
So far, it’s been nothing but roadblocks or emails saying, “Well, the writing is good, and the story is original, but I don’t know if I can sell it in today’s market”. What, exactly is today’s market? I’m not a fifteen year old anymore and when I was, I wasn’t reading about dragons or steampunk. I was reading Stephen King and Edgar Allan Poe.

Anyhow, here’s my new query:

Behind the black and white snapshots of VE-Day celebrations and after the roar of the swinging trumpets dies down, a madman hunts his prey. Arthur Reilly hears jazz when he kills. Bebop is his sound of murder.

He sees souls exit bodies and can speak to them. Louie Armstrong, the sparkling voice of God. Miles Davis is the blue-toned growl of the devil. After being visited by a murderous angel, Arthur is set on a path of destruction with one goal in mind: get out of town and go where passion birthed music and murder, the one place that will set his soul free: New Orleans, The City of the Dead.

Until then, his life is a mess. His drinking is out of hand. Chloe, the dead French girl, continues to haunt him. Arthur’s mind is an abstract gallery of death and music—but where deviance reigns, his genius is awakened. However, as head chef at the best restaurant in town, it’s hard to keep out of the bright lights of high society—and it’s even harder to kill unnoticed.

IN THE ARMS OF NIGHTMARES is complete at 85,465 words.

kidcarre@gmail.com

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