Agents

I have been reading some great posts lately on finding good literary agents. This has got to be one of the hardest and most illusive creatures to acquire in life. All are so different and sometimes so contradictory to each other one does not know how to start the search.
You can begin with the blogs and web search for possible names, scratch and rewrite of the synopsis and query. Continue with the mail outs (both e and snail)and wait.

Caring for Your Text

I was going through the files on my computer and basically reorganizing when I realized I was missing so many manuscripts. For a few minutes I freaked and then had to go and find the handwritten and some previously printed manuscripts. Thank God I had printed somethings out. Now I have to put them into this laptop. I guess after the changes in laptops and the move from the desktop things were lost. I'm going to pay more attention.

Moving files from one area to another is pretty much like the move we recently made from one city to another. Many things were lost and now I have to forget them because they were not as easy to find. Thank God for computers.

Excerpt From The Perfect Solution

A Circle of Reasoning--Chapter II Conversations

Pressing the buttons that would activate the intercom system on the telephone and the programmed number that would dial her sister, Catrine pulled the blankets up to her neck and pressed her back into the pillows. Swiping at her nose and closing her eyes against the pain in her head, she waited for the answer.

"Yes?" asked the cheerful voice on the other end of the phone line.

"Hey," Catrine croaked. "Whatcha doin'?" She coughed to clear the phlegm from her throat. "I thought that you would have been here by now. You could have called."

"Me, call!" Phae bellowed angrily. "I have been waiting for you to call and apologize."

Brushing her nose with a fresh Kleenex and clearing her throat again, Catrine pushed herself into a semi-sitting position and adjusted the straps to her gown.

"What do you mean 'apologize'? What do I have to apologize for? Brhin didn't tell that silly little thing I told him about Roadkill this morning did he? I was only kidding it was a joke."

"Brhin didn't tell me anything. I want you to apologize for having me drive twenty minutes across town to get your kid from that stupid, death trap of a...."

"I hate it when you call The P. S. Center by that name." Catrine broke into the tirade. "Brhin loves it there. The center is very pretty and well equipped."

"That's all it is. You know how I feel about it, and you know how Frank feels. It is not a good place. You can't just go by the name, The Perfect Solution, ha!" Phae's words sped out of her mouth in a tirade of irritation. Once she started on listing the faults of the center she was hard to stop. "None of the teachers have a clue as to why they are there. The place is run in total chaos. You of all people, the owner of your own security firm should be worried about the way that center handles its business. They are so darn careless.What I want to know is how could you have me drive all the way across town to the center and then have Brhin not be there? I had to rush all the way back to this end of town so that I could get my girls from school. I was barely on time for the Girl Scout meeting and now dinner will be late. You know…"

"What!" Catrine screeched and sat ramrod straight in the bed. The roughness in her throat caused her voice to rasp. "What are you saying? What do you mean he wasn't there? Where is Brhin, then?"

"Isn't he there with you?"

"No! Oh, my God! What are you saying?" Fear knotted Catrine's stomach and made her nauseas. "I wouldn't have asked you to get him if he was not going to be there. Are you playing a joke on me? I am not well Phae. My head is killing me and I don't find this in the least bit funny. Put Brhin on the phone."
"Oh, my God, Are you serious, Cat?" The anxiety in Phalene's voice was clearly heard through the phone line. "I thought that you had gotten someone else to get Brhin. He's not here."

Catrine looked at the small double heart picture frame that held a picture of Brhin in one heart and a picture of herself and Brhin in the other and her own heart skipped a beat. Dragging nerveless fingers through her already mused hair, Catrine swung her legs over the edge of the bed and stood up slowly. Her head felt as if it was about to burst and the pain behind her eyes made her want to lie back down.
"Who the hell else would I get?"

REVIEWS & TRAILER -A CIRCLE OF REASONING (name has been changed)

Taking Care is no Joke. The Perfect Solution...A page turner. A book every parent that has a child in daycare or considering putting a child in daycare should read. Nancy Y. Wade's debut book looks into how each parent should be reminded that we are our child's first teachers.

A. Wilson Child Protective Services

The truest statements. As owner of The Learn & Play Day care center, I recommend the Perfect Solution by Nancy Y. Wade. It has sparked my concerns as both a parent and a center owner. My concerns for the safety of the young lives in my hands were to such an extent that I implemented new security measures into the center.

M. Swopes (Beaumont, Texas USA) Owner/Director Learn and Play Child Development Center

A Concerned Care Giver-Reading the book "The Perfect Solution" was definitely an "eye opener." Being a caregiver for many years as well as a Director of a daycare, I would highly recommend this book as a required reader for a training class in Child Development. Using it to create make believe situations to train potential caregivers to see what could be done to stop things like that from happening. I don't think the general public realizes the impending dangers that lurk around day cares from desperate people who are not allowed to see their child(ren) or people who are desperate to have their own child(ren) such as in the book. This book is definitely a "Wake Up Call" to parents and caregivers who have to rely on any Child Care Center. Donna Guilbeau (Beaumont, Texas USA)

I totally enjoyed this serious but tasteful book. Nancy Wade wrote her book based on her 20 plus years in child care and most parents will appreciate her candid insight concerning their children well being in even the best established day care centers. From the very first word until the last; I found myself reading the book and mentally visualizing what was going on just like I was at a movie. She carefully described every setting and explained how all the characters would have a role in the final outcome. The book was very well written and easily read. I believe this was purposefully done. A lot of authors love throwing out big words and confuse their audience. Nancy must have realized that most people like to read but hate having to pull out a dictionary to understand what is going on. In conclusion; the author wrote a great book and one that should be on the best sellers list. Ernest Johnson (Maryland)

I really loved the book. I didn't know it was so easy to get a child out of a daycare center. Very Interesting A Customer

The Perfect Solution,

Ms.Wade,Your book help my interest from page 2 and I couldn't put the book down until I read the very last page. Loved the characters and it makes you think about some day cares and questions that opens the mind about day cares. All pay more attention when children talk. Keep writing more books and let me know when your next book is publish. E.Jones (Texas)

Informative and entertaining. I recommend The Perfect Solution highly. It should be a movie! That way more people could see how negligent some centers are. Nancy wrote a great book. I love that way the conversations flowed throughout the book. The people seemed so real as if you could meet them down the street. As a person who has walked into centers to get children for others, I believe some of the security measures should be instituted into center lives. More people should by the book and write their reviews so that the word could spread. A Customer

I Never Knew. I was so amazed to find out that some people and some centers could be so careless with young lives. I really liked the story. It was very entertaining while telling so much. I will never take the safety in daycare centers for granted again. I recommend the book highly. Wish I could buy enough to share with the world. Jake (Kansas, USA)

An Informative and touching story. The Perfect Solution should be a movie. It reads so true. As a mother, and a daycare worker. I can see the book from all sides. Children are such helpless individuals and we as workers sometimes take their presence for granted. Tired by the end of the day we sometimes just want to hand them off so we can leave. I shall forever be more watchful. It put a fear in me. I hope more people read the book and write their reviews. It should be all over the world. M.E. (Virginia, USA)

The Purpose for Beads on a String America's Racially Intertwined Biographical History Book

     As a homeschooling parent it came across the mind of my youngest daughter to ask about a history book that talked about all the races within its bounded pages. She is a born optimist and hates the way we as adults seem to enjoy racial profiling. I as the mother wanted to give her what she wanted and I could find none. So we decided to write our own. I guess you ask why did I choose to use Wikipedia, huh? We chose to use Wikipedia as our resource because it was established by the people. People with interest in America's history, proud of their own heritage and who believed enough in themselves to gather and write about the people, organizations, and all fractions of society that helped to make America the great nation it has become and if anyone has a problem with it, they can go in and change history.

     What better way, or so it seemed to us to celebrate America and it's freedoms than with a system established by the people with or without its faults and illusions. We believe in America and whenever We had doubt about the information we did go and check the information out at other sources and found Wikipedia to be pretty much correct on more information than not and the biggest factor was that it was so easy to use. And hey, I just wanted to see a history book that put everyone's contribution together and not separated by race.
     America has had great contributors within every century working hard together and yet each race would like to pull out their certain pages and categorize them into their own history book. And we truly believe if someone has a problem with our choice they would have to deal with it or well, get over it. Our main focus is to try and eliminate the division of a great nation by a single line, the hyphenation. Download the preview