Many things to be grateful about in a difficult world. I am grateful for my research in the past three weeks on literary agents. I have queried around 15 agents so far. I can’t imagine how many queries they get but I do believe in the cosmic system of right time, right place. The literary agent who will represent my work will have to go through a journey with me with my works. A 700-page literary historical novel about WW II’s Bataan is very timely, but the added contemporary touch of most recent sociopolitical events will make it controversial. War after all is a recurring human event, and most of us don’t connect them with each other. As if unrelated events. Human ecology is much about threads of time.
I do miss the characters. Three years of writing and editing, truly every day in the early morning, was so fulfilling. Walking to the coffee shop while it’s dark outside and listening to my playlist so I would be in that world but the time I sat down to write their stories. Something I had not done before. What dreams are made of.
I didn’t know I could write about Bataan. It has been a terrifying legacy of my family. For years, I collected books about war and Bataan. But writing about it was different act of commitment. Suddenly I felt the urgency to write it now. It finally called me. Asked me to sit down and listen. I understood Bataan better when I finally dove into the narrative. As it turned out, Bataan was not a singular event. The ripples began decades before. In my novel, I mentioned a theory about WWII—that Japan started it, not Germany. That’s one aspect of the novel I would like to explore more in Book 2. For now, the mission is to get Bataan New Jersey represented and published. For today and the gift this manuscript has brought me, I am grateful. 🙏🙏🙏
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