This morning, I guess it is time to take inventory and give a progress report. Its been a while. Ive been busy doing a lot of things for other people lately, which is nice. It makes for a nice break - a pretty good excuse not to spend all day immersed in revisions. I havent been writing anything fresh, though. I plan to get back to doing that before the week;s out though. I want to return to working on Bongwater Moses. At the moment Im on Chapter 22 in my revision of the second book of The Spectre of Dammerwald - Volume One of The Wolfcat Chronicles. Im liking this revision. I spending a lot of time with it because I want to get it right, make sure everything ties in correctly with The One Pack and The Last Wolfcat volumes. Im focusing on eliminating redundancies and keeping chapters to around 2000 to 2500 words. Ill probably be done with the revision before the end of this week and Ill submit it to my publisher then. Im planning to work in Bongwater Moses exclusively until the draft is complete. Its another of my quirky stories. Ive got a bizarre idea of how to make it better so well see how that goes. I also want to get into the sequels for Fried Windows and Becoming Thuperman, but I feel Bongwater Moses needs to be written first. Sometimes writing books is like working on a major puzzle. So many of my books are connected in some way, I have to write them i a particular order to get everything right. Bongwater is pretty much a stand alone at this point, but you never know when someone will mention a connection to other characters in my alternate universe. Im reading Bloodborn by Susan Stielow. Its a novel I won at a release party event a couple of months ago. Its a paranormal book directed to the YA market, which is not something I usually read. I suppose some of the books I write could nudge into that genre at times, but...lets just say this is an unusual adventure for me. Im loving the book. It is well written, although it could have used a better editor. The editing problems are fairly minor and infrequent so dont be put off by that. It would be a shame to miss out of reading a great story because of a couple of typos. Bloodborn is about a girl whose father left home on her sixth birthday - not because he was running away from his family responsibilities but because he needed to protect his daughter. So, from the outset there is that mystery going on that draws you into the plot. The characters are well done and the descriptions are excellent, creating a very clear mental picture for the reader of the settings and scenes. Im several chapters into the book now and should be finished with it soon. Id already recommend the read. I cant believe that writing of this quality was not picked up by a major publishing house. That is a shame. It deserves to be promoted to a broader audience. It is that good of a story. We all know that the present day publishing business is a mess. There are five or six major houses that seem to be more interested in making quick buck from someones celebrity than anything else. It is unfortunate that of a new author the only way to get a book published through a major house is by winning a contest (which is like playing the Lotto) or having a good literary agent (which is as difficult as finding a publisher). Being a well recognized author of several books or being a celebrity of some sort appear to be the only sure tickets to having a book make it into bookstores. The concept good literature has been lost in the process. All things considered, its a miracle that the majors actually publish some good books. The horrible truth is that there are literally thousands of very good books ignored in the selection process. That is good news for several small publishers, though. They are capitalizing on the wealth of material out there and bringing some financial backing to some great authors. With the rise in popularity of electronic publishing and distribution the publishing industry has being systematically revolutionized as the way books are sold to readers has become more akin to how it was done a couple of hundred years ago - directly from the author to the reader. Thats the best way for the author to connect with the reader, anyway.
Posted on: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 10:45:38 +0000
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