Gray Collar Crimes is a contemporary crime thriller set in the world of identity theft, bank fraud, and high finance money laundering. How does an inexperienced mortgage broker pull off the biggest white collar crime in the history of American finance and walk away? The answer is really quite simple…by accident!

Sandy … I agree that getting published can be harder than writing the book. But if you’re already working on a query letter, it sounds like you know the drill about getting an agent first. There are so many helpful resources out there–from websites to books–that it’s hard to single out just a few, but I’ll give it a shot. Some great books for writers include Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird, Stephen King’s On Writing, Ann Rittenberg’s Your First Novel, Noah Lukeman’s The First Five Pages and Betsy Lerner’s The Forest for the Trees. For inside info on how to write a great query letter, check out queryshark.blogspot.com, to find out who’s making publishing deals, visit publishersmarketplace.com, for practical insights from a writer, visit author Jennifer Weiner’s website, and be sure to bookmark a site called Preditors and Editors (http://anotherealm.com/prededitors/) so you can verify that you’re dealing with reputable people. This is just the tip of the iceberg, but I hope it helps!

I’ve written a book…yay! Any advice on how to get it published? For some reason, for me, writing the synopsis, query letter and figuring out who to send it to, seems harder than writing the book!