Unpublished manuscript in two volumes. Vol I deals w/ life w/ mother who has eight kids by five different husbands. Gives boy at age nine to strangers who are alcoholics & abuse him physically/sexually he is age 15. Boy leaves "home" & lives on streets til finishing high school Vol II deals with his young adulthood til he becomes ordained Catholic Priest, works in Vatican, deals with his deep spiritual faith and integrity and is excommnicated for revealing corruption of Vatican at highest levels, laundrying of money by Vatican Bank, failure of Banco Ambosiano. Vol One is completely finished and in edited form; vol II is in rough draft. Author not interested in money but wants to get manuscript published. Can anyone help? please email me: robbi@junewedding.com While I say I'm not interested in money, I should also say, I don't have much money as well. My money has gone to health care for more than thirty years. Also, for a couple of years I sent synopsis to publishers and followed that route. That is an almost impossible route also, unless one has money....for an agent....please do not answer with: send synopsis, letter, etc...to different publishers.....or contact different publishers.....and, yes, I apologize, the word laundering is misspelled.
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If you're not interested in money then you could always consider self-publication. Other than that, you have to query your work to publishers. Write up a nice, short, professional query letter (which will include your contact info and a very brief summary of the book[s]) and send that to publishing houses, and look for literary agents as well. Send the agents your query letter and if they are interested they will take it upon themselves to sell your book to a publishing house...for a percentage :) Good luck! Sounds like a very interesting story. Laundrying in your summary should be laundering. [EDIT] :) Sorry about that; I guess I didn't fully understand your original question. Also, the only reason that I pointed out the mistake in wording was because I thought it was a nice summary and you might want to use it. I don't know of any other ways. Perhaps you can find a way to get it published as an ebook? Something worth looking into I guess. Also, you shouldn't have to pay an agent. Not up front anyway. They should only receive their percentage if they sell your work. They are seeking talent as much as any publisher and they will pay the $6 per page for professional editing. So, you don't 'hire' an agent; they pretty much accept your work and try to sell it or they get nothing.
