Still Looking For a Book Agent, But Shooting a Video For My Song, Too..

After a three month break from sending out query and book proposal letter to book agents, I am back at it again, sending out my complete book proposal the old school way, US mail with a self addressed and stamped envelope (SASE). It cost me $1.90 per mailing. Sending out query letters via SASE is 88 cents. I have a list of 60 more book agents that will sent query and book proposals to and hope for the best. If I can't get a book agent to represent me, then my next best alternative is to self-publish, and get some good press that might attract some attention to a book agent.

The song needs some cleaning up and then it will be ready to be copyrighted. Jesse spent a few 6 hour days tossing around video ideas for the song, and finally came up with a brilliant idea to shoot the video in a controlled environment, to make lighting and set building easier. Creating a shot list and pre-production will take a few weeks. We have a creative idea to turn into a "me versus brain tumor" video, to kind of mimic my book. I am very excited about the creative process of the making of the song and devising the video idea and shooting the video. I feel very lucky that Jesse and I work well together and can let the music and video process run its creative course. Patience and spending long hours is something that I have done with my book, alone, but not sharing ideas to write a song, produce the music, and record my own voice on a song. I have been very lucky to hit this amazing creative streak in my mid to late 40's.