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Novel in Progress
World map shaped like a broken heart
The Loneliest Planet (working title)
 
- Genre: Comic Novel
- Length: About 80,000 words
- Status: Completing third draft and will circulate to agents in 2013.
- The book combines the personal journey of Eat, Pray, Love with the sexual frustration of Portnoy's Complaint. Upshot: Planet is about what it's like to be single in your forties.
- The book is targeting fans of Sam Lipsyte and Jonathan Tropper.
- View video excerpts performed in front of a live audience.
- Contact the author at randy@randyrossmedia.com
 
 
Query Letter

Dear Agent,
 
The Loneliest Planet features Randall Burns, a never-married hypochondriac who takes a trip around the world looking to change his luck with love. Planet is a novel about relationships as seen by a man, a difficult man.

An old Life cereal commercial starred a fussy boy named Mikey who hated everything. Imagine Mikey at 48, recently laid off, and spending his days pounding away on Match.com as if it were a game of Whac-A-Mole. That's Randall Burns.

One day, Burns reads a chirpy travel book promising love and romance abroad. Soon after, he blows his severance on a $20,000 solo trip overseas. During the journey, he strikes out with women on three continents, experiences loneliness that would have broken Papillon, and ruminates about old girlfriends. Jay with the cute shiksa nose dumped him because of a pair of socks. Ricki? A pair of shoes. Why hadn't he married Jackie with the nice trust fund? Why did all his exes have masculine names?

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Platform
Total Audience numbers for 2012: 26,000
- Vistors to three Web sites (Loneliest Planet blog, Randy Ross Media, Rosstravels (around the world travel site)): 18,500.
- Connections on social Media (Facebook Fan page, Linked In, Twitter, Youtube visits, Goodreads): 6,900
- E-mail lists (Mailchimp, blog subscribers, Media Chowder journalism group): 700
 
Lecturing and Media Appearances since 2008: 23
- Taught seminar: "How to Plan a Trip Around the World."
- Profiled on Singularcity.com, Somerville News; mentioned twice in the Boston Globe, WashingtonPost.com, local cable TV shows.
 
Readings/Plublic Performances: More than 50
- Currently average about two appearances per month.
- Venues included: literary salons, public libraries, poetry slams, story slams, a smutslam, and a comedy open-mic.
- Received payment for four appearances.
- Locations: Boston, New York, and Revelstoke, Cananda.
- Winner: Boston storyslam in 2010.

Contact: randy@randyrossmedia.com
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