Need Your Help (revised to include previews)

[Maddolis]

I'd personally stay away from zombies, warewolfs, vampires and a lot of other monsters and that, at least to begin with.
I mean there's something like 20 good books out there containing such monsters and magic (like lord of the rings), the rest are pretty lame and won't get good sales.

If there needs to be violence or action (I'm all for it), maybe something in the genre of a murder-mystery or whatever. Can't give you too many ideas because I haven't read a novel for quite some time, but start off with real-world stuff.