Dear Alice,

I'm procrastinating the work I need to do around the house today as well as the Cub Scout stuff for tomorrow.

Over the last couple of days I did research a few more agents. One had a website that really helped me improve my query letter. Another one actually wanted an entire synopsis of the whole book which I thought was fabulous as the entire story is so interesting. It's hard to figure out what will draw people in with one little paragraph squished into a query letter. Between the two I've improved my cold calling quite a bit.

The latest agent sounds like she could be my clone only in agent form. I'm really interested to see what she thinks of the story. She use to be at Writer's House, which up until now had been the agency that I most liked. I actually like the approach of this one even more, so I'm crossing my fingers! The only down side is that they say that they take up to 3 months to get back to you. All the others have been 3 to 8 weeks.

In other news, my computer crashed again this morning. Wouldn't even boot up. It fortunately recognized this and ran a diagnostic. It wanted to go back to a time when it hadn't crashed. I said "yes" thinking it would go back to tomorrow but no, it went back several months to before we'd taken it into the Geek Squad. My husband and I have decided we really need to get a Mac. We're tired of spending hours trying to get this one to keep running.

Not a huge update today. I'm feeling much to guilty about not doing the things I should be doing and it's stifling my creativity. Talk to you again soon! Ciao