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I have a problem with query letters. Every one here who has tried to publish has gone through this; the modern agent doesn't want to bother with hiring a reader to pore through fifty page snippets of out work. The want, as Hannibal Lector said, to be amazed by our acumen, Convincing them with less than a page; for that is what a query letter is; half of it about your magnum opus, the rest about you. Can you really think of a less fair system? Sure we can tell them enough about the work in 125...

Heart of the Assassin     Now I felt the trigger break clean, the gentle cough of the silenced weapon, the round already halfway to its target. The man fell forward and I waited a moment before approaching. He wasn’t who I was after. Bodyguards cover my usual targets, and this guy had just accepted the wrong man’s money. As often as you see it in the movies, a gun cannot be completely silent unless you accept some serious drawbacks. The bullet has to be sub-sonic so it ...

Heart of the Assassin     Now I felt the trigger break clean, the gentle cough of the silenced weapon, the round already halfway to its target. The man fell forward and I waited a moment before approaching. He wasn’t who I was after. Bodyguards cover my usual targets, and this guy had just accepted the wrong man’s money. As often as you see it in the movies, a gun cannot be completely silent unless you accept some serious drawbacks. The bullet has to be sub-sonic so it ...

Family of Choice Aliit ori'shya taldin - Family is more than blood. Merisa sighed, kneeling upright from the weeding. The grain fields were a bronze sheet waving gently in the wind. Her old bones creaked at the labor, but she had learned not to complain when she was young. Pain meant you were still alive. The children, ba-ad most of them, worked diligently. When Ba-buir was working hard, they wanted to prove worthy. She loved them all, those of her own blood no more or less than those by ado...

Heart of the Assassin     Now I felt the trigger break clean, the gentle cough of the silenced weapon, the round already halfway to its target. The man fell forward and I waited a moment before approaching. He wasn’t who I was after. Bodyguards cover my usual targets, and this guy had just accepted the wrong man’s money. As often as you see it in the movies, a gun cannot be completely silent unless you accept some serious drawbacks. The bullet has to be sub-sonic so it ...