I wrote a new book available from:
http://stores.lulu.com/murtaghchris
can download for free, then buy it if you think it's worth it.
this is an edit of the letter I'm going to use to send to agents:
A collection of three morality tales, that attempt to capture the absurdities and tortures of the modern office experience, Liam Murrihy, a bitter, romantic young worker with few transferable skills and frustrated high ambitions, is trapped in three warped versions of everyday Birmingham.
In the first story, Liam fresh from graduating from university, and a brief spell as a squatter, goes to work for a bank. He finds that he's ill-suited to the work of a bank clerk and struggles to meet the stats targets expected of him, in desperation he turns to the morally dubious advice of a mysterious figure H. Harry Kuddy. The second story is a modern reworking of Dante's Inferno, Liam dies after a drunken fall down a bus staircase and spends the afterlife experiencing tortures shaped from his experiences of office life, he travels between these experiences on Birmingham's famous number eleven bus route. In the third story the office environment has been further industrialised with jobs reduced to mind numbing simplicity, to escape the tedium of their lives the workers turn to desperate measures, first to drugs and then to sinister new technology.
hope you like, I thought about putting up some kind of a sample piece of writing can do if people want, or a seperate topic saying I wrote a book, but I didn't want to take the piss. I'm not doing this to promote myself, the only way to make money from books it to get a good agent, and get published. I just thought some of you may be interested and may be good enough to give me some feedback.
Cheers
