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Business Plan

Oookay. So here I am in Japan waiting for my next interview at 5 pm. I’m stranded in the computer room because there really isn’t any time to go sight seeing in the amount of time I have between gigs.

So, I thought I would weigh in here. I’ve been floundering for a number of years about how to best present myself as a writer. My usual strategy has been to write something that I liked as well as I could, and then send it out. I am truly not as concerned about publishing as some, and I think that writing to publish only is not my bag.

I have had the good fortune, however, to stumble across a project that pleases me aesthetically as a writer and that I think is marketable. That would be Empty Horizon. So, suddenly, I think I have a business plan.

Here it is. I will first author Empty Horizon and then submit it everywhere. I think that it’s marketability is high. I still face the diffuculty of winning someone over with my writing, but that is not the double edged sword of trying to convince someone to warm to your style and subject matter.

If Empty Horizonproves successful, I will pitch a version of The Odyssey in which I employ the similar gimic of different POV. Finally, after this, if both of these books work out, I can pitch increasingly original stuff.

Of course, this assumes that someone eventually takes me on. If not, we’ll just be like so many people and have multiple novels circulating at the same time.

This might mean, if the first two books are successful, that I might consider making the Klarion books into period pieces, which might suit them better.

Anyway, this is currently the game plan. What do you think?

Research

I have begun the rewriting and researching process for Empty Horizon. It’s a lot easier when you’re making this stuff up all in your head.

At any rate, if you know anything about Napoleon, the Catalan culture in France, Ali Tebelin, or France, Turkey and Greece from around 1815-1850, let me know.

Also, I need to know about spinning.

I’ll post interesting information as I find it.

Catherine

Haydee Goes Off

There was that whole Thanksgiving thing, and now the Professor has to get ready to do some research in Japan on very short notice. The month long novel write is almost over and I’m going to make it, I’m pretty sure. Then I can settle down to going back over what I’ve written, doing some research to make it good, and comparing it to the actual book to make it accurate.

Besides all the business, the reason I haven’t posted any scenes here for a few days is that I haven’t really been stricken by any of them. However, this one cleverly emerged a few days ago, and even though I’m going to have to move its placement due to the book, it’s an all right scene, if skeletal, and I thought I would share it. Then, I’ve got to get right back to that grindstone.

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