Digital Experiment
I have an experiment bubbling. Later this summer, in June or July, I am going to write a novella to publish digitally. Tons of my reading material focuses on the changing publishing industry, which, contrary to doomsayers, will not vanish nor become marginalized. It's got a lot of momentum. It's got a lot of supporters.
Right now, I'm about halfway into my seventh finished novel, and have my readthrough and fixit revisions on my sixth coming up. My fifth is submitted to a publisher, and I hope to have at least five more submissions by the end of the year. If not more.
So, I'm going full throttle into the business. It's fun. But because the digital segments of the industry have a visceral impact, at the same time as both Borders and Barnes and Noble suffer through mismanagement, de/recession problems, and tons of readers flood onto the stage, well, it's time to join the party.
Unlike my friend Kalzarius, I'm not going to ditch the industry. He's Canadian, and according to what he's shown me, their industry sucks; it's a damn smart choice in his situation. But I can't sit idly by while tons of writers want more to read. So I suggested a collaboration, inspired partly by Metatropolis: two novellas in the same setting.
Sometime in the last few months, he broached the idea of playing with a secondary fantasy world - with humans, elves, orcs (or goblins) and Weirder Creatures on the same planet. It just happens to look a lot like ours right now, giving a nice big excuse to play with some urban fantasy.
I have a general idea of what I want to do with the novella - and I have the odd feeling I could do a lot more than that later. For now, it's just an experimental, crazy project to learn digital publishing, work in a genre I love to read, and get set for the next stage.
It's going to be a while, though; I'm only halfway through my current book for traditional publishers, and that takes priority. It might pay sometime... maybe...
Right now, I'm about halfway into my seventh finished novel, and have my readthrough and fixit revisions on my sixth coming up. My fifth is submitted to a publisher, and I hope to have at least five more submissions by the end of the year. If not more.
So, I'm going full throttle into the business. It's fun. But because the digital segments of the industry have a visceral impact, at the same time as both Borders and Barnes and Noble suffer through mismanagement, de/recession problems, and tons of readers flood onto the stage, well, it's time to join the party.
Unlike my friend Kalzarius, I'm not going to ditch the industry. He's Canadian, and according to what he's shown me, their industry sucks; it's a damn smart choice in his situation. But I can't sit idly by while tons of writers want more to read. So I suggested a collaboration, inspired partly by Metatropolis: two novellas in the same setting.
Sometime in the last few months, he broached the idea of playing with a secondary fantasy world - with humans, elves, orcs (or goblins) and Weirder Creatures on the same planet. It just happens to look a lot like ours right now, giving a nice big excuse to play with some urban fantasy.
I have a general idea of what I want to do with the novella - and I have the odd feeling I could do a lot more than that later. For now, it's just an experimental, crazy project to learn digital publishing, work in a genre I love to read, and get set for the next stage.
It's going to be a while, though; I'm only halfway through my current book for traditional publishers, and that takes priority. It might pay sometime... maybe...