Obviously, chapter 1 is important... even I, an unpublished, inexperienced, but amazingly witty (at least that is what my mother tells me) writer knows this. I've spent the better part of a month thinking that the first chapter of Blood and Stone is perhaps not... engaging enough. I started writing the book without referencing any other works for the simple purpose that I wanted the book to be my words, not an imitation. However, after recently going back and reading the first chapters of a dozen other books, I am starting to think that perhaps it isn't my writing at all. Maybe it just isn't the write (heh, bad pun, sorry) time in the industry. I was told a couple months ago by a well to do agent that the wise wizard and noble lord genre isn't quite hopping anymore. I suppose I rejected his comments initially mainly out of stubbornness. However, I must accept that he does know quite a bit more about the industry than I do.
It seems to me that cross-genre is the big bit now. Maybe I should do something like that. Next, by Eric Schmitt, a swashbuckling raccoon must pilot his capitol space cruiser through the marching lines of French soldiers during the war of Jenkin's Ear to save his lost Elven love in this Romance spun off of the Arabian Nights. Actually, I take that back. I hate raccoons... it's their eyes.
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