Has anyone here ever landed a literary agent?

Okay Freepers, you are a magnificent resource to draw upon. I'm hoping that among you are some who have already broken the ground I now seek to tread, and maybe you can give me some advice. Perhaps even tell me if I'm doing something wrong and could change up my approach.

A lot of people have told me over the years that they wanted me to write my life story. It took ten years of on and off labor (and there came to be even more things to write about in that time) but in the end this past November I finished my autobiography. The months since then have been spent revising the manuscript, tightening things up, making it something that will hopefully stand a chance of getting published and into the marketplace.

(My life story is something that is VERY complicated. Among other things there is mental illness, childhood abuse, trying to find God, and there are numerous episodes like running for office and swindling operations and being a filmmaker... oh yeah, and Free Republic is mentioned along with two well known Freepers. It has a little something for everyone :-)

For the past few months I have been trying to persuade literary agents to represent me and my book. I've sent out dozens of queries. Most of them haven't replied back. The ones who have responded all come back with variations of the same message: "Your book isn't a good fit for us."

My query letters are as good as they probably can be and still fit on one page. I've also assembled a fifty-page nonfiction proposal: something of a business plan about my book, its contents, who its audience is projected to be, how will I promote it, etc. I'm jumping through all the hoops that an author shopping his first book around is confronted with. But so far, it's gotten me nowhere.

It might just be enough difficult a project for anyone to want to represent. I'm telling many people that it's too Christian for the secular market and it's also too secular for Christian readers. There is a lot of overlap. It's going to be hard to place in a bookstore. But that's where I want it to appear in. My father was my biggest cheerleader, he especially wanted me to write this book. I believe he would have been proud of me, if he knew that I had written an entire book that was on the shelves of Barnes and Noble.

So, I am querying YOU guys now. Have you ever gotten a literary agent? Or otherwise have understanding of what it takes to get one? I have the manuscript sitting on my desktop PC and iPad. I'm actively seeking an agent. I know where I want this journey to end,. What do I need to do to bring my book from here to there?

It is odd you are so hostile about this, when I am solely trying to help fellow Americans with data I wish somebody had told me, but whatever.

Fine, two final things.

If you are going to say you like and support Bill, then ignore me and watch the interviews I linked above with Bill. He is in a horrible spot, and could use people sharing his story. Nobody - NOBODY - is helping him. I talked with him on the phone and he had to get off because his new wife was screaming in the background because they were zapping her through the walls right then. Call me creepy, but do not ignore Bill, and tell others of his plight.

He portrays an even more extreme world than I did, basically saying almost every CIA and FBI agent has been knocked out and implanted by teams intelligence runs to do such things, and most probably have no idea. He does not dance around the bush, he is not vague. He says that is the way it is. He even says his first wife's cancer which killed her, and his son's cancer came from the radiations they were putting in his home. Nobody at the top of the IC trusts any agents below to blindly follow orders.

I made it sound like isolated cases because I know most are not ready to think the IC is that bad, but Bill thinks it is worse. And he is clear a bioweapons division was likely infecting him with a weaponized flesh eating bacteria by knocking him out in his home, entering it, and injecting him. He locked his bedroom from the inside, reinforced all points of entry, and it stopped. he is also clear about them blowing two holes through his steel shielding using an energy weapon which passed into the house without doing any damage to the home, before punching through the steel. He felt they were trying to kill him. Here is his tweet on it:

And know in the next ten years surveillance will be fully exposed based on the current trajectory, and nobody who is in it will be able to walk the streets, given how treasonous it is and the betrayal of it. All will be viewed as traitors to the nation, and never trusted as fellow citizens again.

I doubt they will ever feel safe in the nation again, or rest their head on their pillow without wondering who is outside, and where it will come from.

When the time comes, remember Bill and know what they were guilty of. Support the citizens who do whatever needs to be done to make it right.

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