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thehefnerHey, it just occurred to me. I actually have a newly-edited and revised (thanks to Mom and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
little_dinosaur) entire book of THE HEFNER MONOLOGUES pretty much ready to go. What the hell am I waiting for, Chinese New Year? I should start sending this in to literary agents and publishers!
I wrote to Jill, the agent who read my novel a couple years back, and she's asking for a description and a cover letter. Well, I need to think up a description anyway, since the marketing form for the show will be due within a couple weeks. But still, I utterly blow at such things. Like, how the hell do I try to sell this?
"How do you make a name for yourself when someone else already has? That's the question that I, John Hefner (writer, actor, hopeless romantic, and estranged second cousin of a certain worldwide icon) ponder throughout the autobiographical stories in THE HEFNER MONOLOGUES. This painfully funny collection of tragicomic stories of my college years recounts my love affair with a uniquely dangerous girl, my misadventures in traffic court, how I summoned up the courage to go full-frontal naked in a play, and my desperate search for closure, all while struggling to find my identity in a world where "Hef" is a household name. Born out of my experience as an oral storyteller, my writing style has been likened to a frenetic David Sedaris with a shot of Denis Leary." Ugh. Something like that.
Anyone have any ideas as to how to best sell THE HEFNER MONOLOGUES book/show?
What should my cover letter include?
The sooner I do this, the better. It usually takes at *least* six months for them to read it and respond, so better to get the wheels turning there while I have tons of other stuff to work on in the meantime. Also, having the published book could seriously help get attention to my shows, so there's that.
little_dinosaur) entire book of THE HEFNER MONOLOGUES pretty much ready to go. What the hell am I waiting for, Chinese New Year? I should start sending this in to literary agents and publishers!I wrote to Jill, the agent who read my novel a couple years back, and she's asking for a description and a cover letter. Well, I need to think up a description anyway, since the marketing form for the show will be due within a couple weeks. But still, I utterly blow at such things. Like, how the hell do I try to sell this?
"How do you make a name for yourself when someone else already has? That's the question that I, John Hefner (writer, actor, hopeless romantic, and estranged second cousin of a certain worldwide icon) ponder throughout the autobiographical stories in THE HEFNER MONOLOGUES. This painfully funny collection of tragicomic stories of my college years recounts my love affair with a uniquely dangerous girl, my misadventures in traffic court, how I summoned up the courage to go full-frontal naked in a play, and my desperate search for closure, all while struggling to find my identity in a world where "Hef" is a household name. Born out of my experience as an oral storyteller, my writing style has been likened to a frenetic David Sedaris with a shot of Denis Leary." Ugh. Something like that.
Anyone have any ideas as to how to best sell THE HEFNER MONOLOGUES book/show?
What should my cover letter include?
The sooner I do this, the better. It usually takes at *least* six months for them to read it and respond, so better to get the wheels turning there while I have tons of other stuff to work on in the meantime. Also, having the published book could seriously help get attention to my shows, so there's that.
