This is the Query Letter I sent to several Publishers(36). It's about a book I started writing in January '88 after I returned from a trip to Peru. I never finished the book even though 5 interested Publishers wanted to see the completed novel,.... I never had the time to devote to it's completion.... I think I will try to finish it, now, since I'm out of work.
So, this is "Copywrited" published and protected:
If any publisher is interested, you may email me at Carleestudio@aol.com
Peru, The Sleeping Giant
To dare without a man? Oh, God!…. Just prior to the crash of October ’87 a girlfriend and I decided to leave the United States and brave raw, unbridled adventure in South America without any tour-guided camouflage. Back-packs were "loaded" and instructions to the travel agent were simple: We needed a plane to drop us off in Lima and pick us up, same place, two weeks later, we hoped. Got a super economy rate on the plane tickets!
From Day One landing at a strange-looking, heavily guarded military base-like airport where Special Forces were deactivating mega-bombs, incredible events with gut busting Woody Allen-type humor, simultaneously exploded with frightening circumstance! (..when the plane touched down, the silence erupted into shouts, screams! Every passenger on the plane burst into cheers and applause! Hell, I would have sworn we were at the Super Bowl game and the star quarterback had just made the winning points. Little did I know this was only the kickoff!) . This is no closet drama! It is an actual account of two unescorted women in a very Spanish, macho man’s world, and their attempt to capture a dream.
Unprecedented invitations to clandestine meetings, secretly recorded out of naïve curiosity for later translation, along with spontaneous documentation and photos of the political unrest, government installations and drug dealings evoked more realism and hilarious chance explosions of horror than the women could ever have anticipated. Black market exchanges were commonplace; terrorist groups and protests ran rampant. Dumbfounded and caught captive in a "Revolution" near the Chilean border, the women could not hire a plane, a train, a bus, nor would anyone rent them a Jeep to get out of town. Every vehicle of escape was shut down. What a queer panic and perplexity. Expect the unexpected was the only dependable attitude to deal with. Somehow, after losing her passport, and facing jail in this hostile and repugnant place, the two women bribed a pilot to help them escape into the high Sierras of Argentina. There, after being raped of their belongings, they continued to explore, in a more romantic vein, the European charisma of Cordoba.
The uncanny diversity of the personalities of Annie and Carman add more intrigue to mystery. Annie, a politically inspired California dreamer and humanitarian of the late 60’s had been involved in every facet of life she could summon artistically from slum to millionaire’s splendor in her 36 years. And, Carman, some years her senior, a glamorous bananarama from Havana, an escapee from the Castro/Communist takeover of Cuba in the 50’s, was a self-taught, arrogant, survival tactician. Initially, the dream was to venture, without embellishment, into the mysterious riddles and rhymes of the unknown culture that had captivated treasure-seekers since the beginning of time: the extraordinary improbabilities only Peru could passionately muster.
Government introductions were made for permission to visit archeologists at a dig near Machu Pichu where Extraterrestrial sitings were commonplace. To experience strange myths and fantasies of factions so unlike our own would requite the most grandiose concourse for an empirical formula. However, the unexpected, diabolical dilemma these two women dared to happen reveals more astonishing facts than blank determination. The span of subject matter is enormous, sportively exhilarating, terrifying and real. You are about to share the sum total riot of events, as the pendulum of emotions does challenge its apex from extravagant, lascivious pleasures to deplorably wretched despair as Annie and Carman discover incredible inhabitants and unparalleled customs, ironically, while ever flirting with dramatic comedy…
Remarkable, what happens in just two weeks time!
