Dear Barrett,

Please send me a few sample chapters, together with a formal proposal if you’ve already devised it.  The chapters without the proposal would be fine. Believe it or not, yours is probably the first long-form work I’ll have ever read on the Evangelical movement, but I’m glad you’re aware of what books would be considered competition. It’s something, regardless of whether you submitting it with representation, publishers always want to see.

 

Best,
Paul

Paul Lucas
Janklow & Nesbit Associates
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New York, NY 10022
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-----Original Message-----
From: Barrett Brown [mailto:barriticus@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 2:27 PM
To: Paul Lucas
Subject: Query - Not Peace, But a Sword

 

Paul-

Our mutual friend Anna Bohichik tells me that you're actively seeking out non-fiction manuscripts, so I thought I'd drop you a line.

I'm a Brooklyn-based freelance writer whose work has appeared in dozens of publications including National Lampoon, The Onion A.V. Club, McSweeney's, Hustler, and American Atheist. My first book, Flock of Dodos: Behind Modern Creationism, Intelligent Design, and the Easter Bunny, was released last March by a small New York publisher called Sterling and Ross, and received praise from Alan Dershowitz, Rolling Stone, The Huffington Post, Air America Radio, and other sources. I've also worked as a copywriter for various media outlets and a couple of ad firms, and I do some blogging here and there both for pay and as a hobby/blatant bid at self-promotion.

I've been working on a second book which I'd like to eventually place with a larger publisher. The working title is Not Peace, But a Sword: Why Evangelicals Are Not Only Bad for America But Also Somewhat Irritating on a Personal Basis. As you might expect, it's a political humor treatise on the threat presented by the Evangelical movement. You're probably also aware that quite a few books have already been written on this subject. What sets this one apart, I hope, is the prose style.

Let me know if you'd like to see some sample chapters or a formal proposal.

Thanks,

Barrett Brown
512-560-2302