It's Finished

I did it, and right before the year ended.  I've completed my novel, The Redemption of Sadie Burrell.  So you want to know when it will be published, in stores, etc.  Well, 1/3 of my part is finished.  It's with my editor.  She'll make corrections and then we shop it around!

By the way, it's no longer called The Redemption of Sadie Burrell, but The Deception of Sadie Burrell.  We won't see the redemption of her life until the sequel.  So here's my query letter.  Let me know what you think.

            Eighteen-year-old Sadie Reynolds has big dreams; she’ll leave behind the oppressive hand of Jim Crow’s South and its hardships for better opportunities up North.  Breaking her back in the cotton and tobacco fields of Lee County, S.C. isn’t her life’s goal, but her dreams end abruptly when her papa loses his land.  Now, she’s lost the only opportunity available that would keep her out of the fields:  Education.   Determined to escape the South, Sadie uses lies, adultery and bigamy to break the written-in-stone traditions of her Negro culture. 

Set in the 1930s, and spanning to the 1960s, The Deception of Sadie Burrell take readers from rural South Carolina where Sadie’s deceptions start with an inconvenient marriage to Roy Burrell to Washington, D.C. in search of her white lover, Talbot Billingsley.  Her unrealistic love for Talbot and desire to gain entrance into Washington, D.C.’s black elite social clubs rule her decisions to use whatever it takes to have it all.

Comments

[Charlie]

Somehow, it makes me think of my friends Opal and Money Huff, Inman, SC outside of Spartanburg. They never left rural South Carolina, but they now own a house in a semi-rural subdivision, located on land where Money can remember picking cotton as a young child. Her grandmother must be having a good laugh up there. (Its not a novel, just another story of rural South Carolina.)

[Bill Ables]

Sounds like a good story line. I'm looking forward to reading it!