Drawing on letters and newspaper articles, former writing instructor and political advocate Moran re-creates her personal history and the events leading up to Sept. 11, 1976, when Croatian freedom fighters launched a terrorist attack in New York City that killed her husband. In this moving memoir, the author recalls the panic gripping her as Walter Cronkite delivered the report of a Chicago-bound flight that had been hijacked by Zvonko and Julie Busic, a Croatian man and his American wife. The lockers at Grand Central subway station had also been bombed, and Moran’s husband, Brian, a member of the NYPD bomb squad, perished when the explosive suddenly detonated. The author provides details of
Wrong. What lie ahead was more trouble than writing the book in the first place. I looked up the criteria for agent submissions. Query letter and Proposal. A query letter. Just a letter highlighting your book and credentials. Right? Not quite. It is anything but “just,” as it must be concise and amusing and attention grabbing, all in the first sentence. I swear I wrote that letter twenty times before I thought it would catch the eye of an agent. You get a minute, probably more like 30 seconds, so your words better make an impression. Now for the proposal. What is it anyway? For non-fiction books, it is the reason your book is saleable and marketable. It requires all of the following: One sen
