Letters from the Inside, Michael Swango, Pt. 1

[Ed.: Wow! ONE HUNDRED LETTERS! I find this one particularly interesting. He says he wants to write something with me and seems to want to co-author a book with me.... This is an extremely long letter and as there is no mention of tv or movies, I'm typing the whole thing, so I have to do it in two parts.]

Dear Kelly,

Once again my apologies for taking so long to follow up my last letter. You know I would prefer several short letters to reduce the inteval but a cash flow/stamp problem this week. So let me try to pick up where I left off without preamble. :-)

Forget everything else about me except this: For quite some time now I have been doing a lot of reading. Reading of all kinds, all genres. First during my years in Africa, and then, of course, here.

I feel like I'm a pretty good judge of writing: brilliant, good, mediocre, awful and of its potential commercial appeal.

Which brings us to the writings and musings and bloggings of Kelly Kreth, Esq. First, KK, you have several huge advantages over hundreds of thousands (?) of people in the nation who are surely considering trying to publish or make a living via writing. You live in New York. Even in the web-centric world of today,Gotham is still the center of the publishing universe.

Second huge advantage--While you are not a household name (probably a good thing) LOTS of people know who you are.

Third: I don't know how many hits your blog receives daily or hourly, or how many people have read your thousands of pages in the last ten years and that you have been blogging frequently and regularly.

Third-and-a-half: Ergo, my lovely, sexy, irresistable friend: you are an intelligent and smart and funny and insightful and impulsively readable writer.

Now, since I have had the privilege to read only a tiny, tiny fraction of all that you've written, I am in no position to know what would bebest to try to turn/transform into a book or series of books with the purpose of making money--that is what we're talking about, am I right?

Thanks to the miracle of the internet and the "save" function---I would guess that everything you've written online is available to read and review and edit at the push of a button I was greatly moved and impressed by your post-9/11 blogs.

Again, from the little I've read--you write brilliantly about relationships. In fact, I an always tell when you're writing about something that you are passionate about (positive or negative) because your writing is scintillating (one of my favorite words, and one I dont' use often. See also: IRIDESCENT and INCANDESCENT) This awful and complicated court case you are involved with is riveting, even with the fact that I know you cannot approach the subject directly.

Let me tell you right now: When that case is done and you can fully and completely give all the details: That is a book that must be written. And/Or a fact-based novel. And/Or a book that would probably be a good one to be made into a film.

For that, I would even consider writing a chapter (s) on the spider-like way that unsuspecting women can be drawn into the complex and sophisticated and amoral --- NOT immoral; that's too easy--web of a man with sociopathic tendencies. Obviously from a past pespective. But quite honestly, Kelly, I have a much better viewpoint and analysis now that I would have then. When you're "in it" or "doing it" as you know, you often don't realize it is happening.

But we're getting ahead of ourselves. Let me say again what I said over a year ago: These are definitely enough stories/recollections/vignette/etc. in your thousands of blog entries...just on relationships alone...to create a book that people will buy. The e-book and Kindle were made for authors like you.

I don't care if an editor or editor friend has pooh-poohed the idea or told you no way. They are wrong. Find another editor or colleague or friend FOR GOD'S SAKE Kelly: See #1: You Live and Work in New York City!

TO BE CONTINUED...