Proposal
Back in the winter of 2014, a vivid dream woke me. It was as if an outline plan for a bestselling novel had arrived in my brain fully formed. I leapt out of bed and ran downstairs then I sat at this very desk with a notepad and furiously scribbled down the plan before it slipped away as dreams are wont to do. Then I went back to bed and slept till nine. Later that week I created a formal proposal and posted it off to two well-known publishers that I have chosen not to name in this blogpost. CHAPTER ONE Readers are introduced to property developer and reality TV show host Ronald Plump. He is narcissistic and spends several minutes each morning admiring his appearance and preening his thinning hair. He gives himself pep talks, often saying, "You can be anything you want to be Ron!" CHAPTER TWO We meet his family - two grown up and rather disappointing sons who live in fear of their father and a younger son called Earl he has had with his third wife a Slovakian model called Ure...