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rank 5341
word count 27255
date submitted 08.09.2010
date updated 03.01.2011
genres: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Thriller...
classification: universal
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JOHN PATE - Tears of Sadness

Daniel Escurel Occeno - Pen Name: Enrique Gubat

John Pate, secret agent, was reactivated to protect the American president; dangers more than ten years after the new millennium were incomprehensible, four chapters completed.

 

Calvin Woodrow was just elected president. The threats on his life went beyond terrorists or other country’s retribution of past dealings of another president. The wealthiest unknown families lost control of their Communist world because all the countries wanted economic development. Families banded together to form a covert world government above the governments and laws of the only supper power left with the countries developing super economies.
Back after the Cold War the military families spearheaded a campaign to overrun countries that won the war, in the United States it was stopped by the White Tiger named John Pate.
More than a decade later the White Tiger reactivated to fight the same danger of world domination, but malicious families had to start by toppling the only super power left in the world. You could only control the world by controlling the leader of the world, or at least respected as the leader because a world government did not exist.
Calvin Woodrow was abducted. John Pate had 48 hours to find the president before the vice-president could be told. Was world domination the reason for the seizure or was it just survival of another man that money could buy, living longer.

 
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Daniel Escurel Occeno wrote 485 days ago

To John Pate - Tears of Sadness.
I always try to offer encouragement to an artist trying to write novels, poetry or short stories. I too found the introduction to your book simplistic but then you are the writer and all I will do is to wish you good luck in your writing labours and I am BACKING you.

Frank James (The Contractor)



A retired college professor of English Literature gave me some advice at a writer’s conference. She was already successful as a novelist. She told me how she got her first novel published. She had retired from college-level teaching and thought it would be so easy to get published because of her background. She sent her best and spent years getting rejection letters. One day she came up with a strategy to read a novel she enjoyed but was beneath her writing skills, she read it anyway five times in a row and started writing her own trashy romance right away after the fifth reading. She sent it and was published and paid. I told her I already knew that technique of learning the style what a book publisher wanted, but I wanted to develop my own style of writing and find a publisher that liked my style. After 14 years I finally finished a completed novel and started on four chapters of another. Before, it was mostly notes of pages and pages of not one completed chapter. I decided to write simple intentionally and just tell my story. An editor speaking at another conference brought up that it is not your great prose that will get you published and paid, but content. And a published writer brought up how valuable research was especially in fiction writing to make the story believable. I still prefer to write simple. Thank you for backing my book.

Frank James wrote 487 days ago

To John Pate - Tears of Sadness.
I always try to offer encouragement to an artist trying to write novels, poetry or short stories. I too found the introduction to your book simplistic but then you are the writer and all I will do is to wish you good luck in your writing labours and I am BACKING you.

Frank James (The Contractor)

Daniel Escurel Occeno wrote 494 days ago

I found the opening very simplistic, cliched and frankly outdated...perhaps I just don't understand the genre and the subtler aspects of your writing have eluded me completely...I'm happy to back you for the effort!
Stewart




Back when I was in high school I looked up novels of James Bond or similar type of action thrillers of secret agents and I found it simplistic or easy to read. It encouraged me more to be a writer someday because there is a market for my abilities as a writer. I have been trying to decide to get fancier in my writing or just write what was natural. I have decided to just write and let the story take me to THE END.

I even looked up a list of college level words to force myself to add to my sentences to write more brilliant, but I decided to just write. My readers, I am after, are people that do not really like to read or have a short attention span when they read novels so I decided to write and if it is simple then maybe non-readers will read it because it is simple.

Thank you for taking the time. I finished four chapters and have other writing projects but hopefully I can complete the novel before 2011, the New Year.

I was told editors only needed the first three chapters to make an offer with a contract, but I will try to make my personal deadline.

Vanessa Darnleigh wrote 495 days ago

I found the opening very simplistic, cliched and frankly outdated...perhaps I just don't understand the genre and the subtler aspects of your writing have eluded me completely...I'm happy to back you for the effort!
Stewart

Jim Darcy wrote 511 days ago

Interesting story with an engaging main character in John. You need to work on your pitch a bit, it doesn't quite flow at the moment, especially the last sentence.

Andrew Burans wrote 511 days ago

You have written a very interesting and unique storyline, which I do like, and created a most memorable main character in John. The dialogue is realistic and well written and the pace of your story flows well. All of this along with your descriptive writing makes your action thriller a pleasure to read. Backed.

Andrew Burans
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Dear Daniel
I have started to read your writing and must say that it is compelling. Already you have established your animated characters in my head, ( they are not leaving soon) and i feel strongly to back your book now. I feel sure you
feel like me that it is your baby and you so want to see it succeed. I do wish you all the best in rising and also
getting this book of your published. ( I wish I had half the talent some of you have on this site)

Please take a moment to look, COMMENT which is important to me, and BACK my book. if not that is OK
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The VERY best of luck to you
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The Letter

SusieGulick wrote 521 days ago

Dear Daniel, I love the intrigue in your pitch of John Pate finding the President within 48 hours. :) Wish the rest of your story was done so I could see what happens. :) Your pitch was totally concise & drew me in to see if John would succeed. :) Paragraphs & dialogue are tight, providing a smooth read. :) I've now backed both of your books :) - could you please take a moment to back my memoirs book? :) Thanks so very much. :) Love, Susie :)

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