So I finally got an agent to talk to me. That doesn’t mean he’ll represent me, but he knows, at least a little of, who I am. This didn’t come about through a web search and cold call. He agreed to talk to me because we have a mutual friend. This friend I have never met. He contacted me after reading a blog post. We subsequently talked by phone. He emails me often. He’s a real booster. Turns out he’s a writer too. Those of us who write need one another. My friend doesn’t know my pseudonym. In fact, most friends to whom I’ve revealed it have forgotten. They grow weary of waiting until I break through. Until they can say “I knew him when.” Of what does breaking through consist? Twenty of my short stories have been published. My fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Write Well Award (Silver Pen Writers Association), and the Best of the Web Award. I won the Danse Macabre 2009 prix d’écriture de Noël in Fiction, and
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