These were the first words on my rejection letter from Peter & Shooter Publishers a little over a year ago. As some of may know, I have taken an interest in writing in my retirement, but I have learned that this can be an expensive hobby. Before embarking on the gigantic time-sink of writing a novel, I decided to ask my editor for his opinion. He then forwarded my outline to someone he knows in the publishing business. It actually did not take very long for my rejection letter to come in the mail on January 4, 2020..
What was it about you ask? In fact I saved my outline, as you never know what the future will bring. What follows is a short summary of my outline:
-A popular President was gliding along to his re-election to a second term. The opposing political party was not adverse to trying anything. In fact one of their higher-ups was overheard saying, “Nothing is off the table. We will do anything to defeat this President. Nothing is too low. Nothing is too dishonest. The end, getting rid of this guy, justifies the means . . . justifies anything!”
-The fact that he was gaining popularity doing in the so-called battleground states, and despite the fact that his rallies were drawing exorbitant peaceful crowds, didn’t stop his enemies from nominating a milk-toast candidate who campaigned very little.
-They were growing desperate, and so basically they stole the election using a combination of unlawful methods in the battleground states.
-The liberals were in charge in these ill-gotten battleground states, and so the local challenges went nowhere. The Supreme Court then ducked the issue entirely.
-On the day of the electoral vote, there was a planned huge rally in the Capitol in support of the President. The crowd was infiltrated with Antifa and far leftists masquerading as the President’s supporters. When the unruly crowd broke through the obvious weak security (the mayor of Washington D.C. had refused additional Federal Security assistance), the press was quick to jump on the bandwagon and blame the President for everything.
-Because the opposition was worried that the present President might run again in four years, they again tried to use impeachment and then Article 25 to get the President out of office despite the fact that he only had two weeks left in office.
Although I thought that my story was interesting, Peter and Shooter Publishing said that it was too far out and unbelievable, and so “Sorry, Charlie.”