Hi Bernard

Hope you are well

Great website and I love your work

Can I please ask you views on the following?

I have just finished my debut novel. Luckily I found an agent who really likes my work and wants to get me published.

My novel is basically about a guy who is in prison. From inside the prison a con is being perpetrated of which my main character has no idea but from which he will benefit at the end of the book. In other words there is essentially 2 related stories which converge and resolve themselves at the very end. Now my main character does get some idea of the other story through over-hearing conversations and finding notes in the prison etc. However my agent insists that the novel must be in the first person throughout, But how can I have my main character ever present when he’s locked up? Also there’s only so many coincidences you can introduce without stretching credulity. I’m so depressed now as I think the agent will drop me but, anyone who has read the book thinks its great.

Any advice?

cheers Bernard

derek