Writing

Dante Fights the Dark Forces

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This is Dante Alighieri.  Dante was a poet.

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Dante Alighieri

 

Dante loved Beatrice, who was his muse.  She died young.

 

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Dante and Beatrice meet

 

Dante never got over her.

Dante was a chivalric knight and a lover of beauty. And as such, he was related to the original Knights Templars, who were friends and fans of the Cathars.¹  There were Nine original Knights Templars.

The Nine Knights Templars

Dante wrote the Divine Comedy.  In it are Nine Circles of Hell.  Could this mirror the Nine Muses?  If they are not properly respected and acknowledged?

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The Nine Muses

Dante was a White Guelph. The Black Guelphs did not like Dante and banished him from Florence.

The Black Guelphs were/are the Black Nobility. The Black Nobility still runs Europe.  Their power nexus is centered in the City of London, aka ‘The City.’

The City (financial) is part of a corporate triangle which also includes:

Washington D.C., US (military)
and
The Vatican (religious)

Three Corporations run the world: City of London, Washington DC and Vatican City

The corporate triangle runs the world through interlocking networks of all manner of business, communications, banking, insurance, etc. agencies.

It is called the Committee of 300.

Related:

The Nine Sisters Lodge

La Loge des Neufs Soeurs

How the Vatican built a secret property empire using Mussolini’s millions

 

1 Otto Rahn. Crusade Against the Grail: The Stuggle Between the Cathars, the Templars, and the Church of Rome (Rochester, VT : Inner Traditions, 2006)

Looking for a Literary Agent?

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I absolutely love this site and I wanted to share it with you.  You can find everything here at Agent Query – all the latest updated agent listings, to a great interactive forum, and also a list of queries that worked.  They have a HUGE database that you can easily query under many headings your work may fit under.  Start now and have fun!

If you’re just starting to look for an agent I recommend you start here.  Why?  Because you want everything you can possibly find about an agent before you submit.  You want to know exactly what they represent and what they’re looking for, as well as what their client list and what they’ve sold recently.  This will give you a good idea how you’re novel will fit with their client list and recent books.  This information is difficult to find from books alone.

Okay, this is how I’m doing my queries:

1. Match my novel with agent queried via what type of work they’re representing.  This is difficult because I don’t write under a particular genre.  My work can fit under historical fiction, thriller/suspense, with a does of paranormal romance.  So I queried under thriller/suspense because all of my work can technically can fit under that category.

2. I started with ten queries and then I’ll  branch from there.  I need to get some feed back. If none at all?  That’s feedback.

3. Perhaps you’ve done this in the past.  I have too. Mass queries.  The queries I’m sending out now are more personalized, citing books that the agent represents that are similar to mine.

4. Of course I give a brief summation paragraph of what the novel is about.

5. Then a brief paragraph about myself with relevant experience pertaining to novel and how I learned to write.  Had to mention one of my all time favorite teachers here:  Bret Anthony Johnston.  Loved his fiction class.

That’s it.  Tweaked to fit each agent.  Their needs and mine.  The most important thing is to find an agent who you feel comfortable with and who can sell your work.  So make sure you find the agent that is a good fit for YOU.  Or else the agent will do it, on the basis of what you send.

So I’m back.  Really now.  You know the blog is the first thing to go if you’re trying to: a. Earn a living b. Keep your daughter in dance shoes and c. Have a life.

But I think I can publish regularly now.  Probably not three times a week, but I’ll see how it goes.