Rhys, Yeah. Just a bit :) I won't wait up, that's gonna take a while. Lani, Um. Let's wait until you read it, before we use "decent books to read" on the same line were you mention me? Jury's still out on that. I mean, my mom, partner and son have all said they liked it, but... I would expect that to be sort of required. Probably right there in the job description, innit.
Thank you all! Mark, these are the descriptions from the iBooks blurb: *Stowaway*: *Nan Renard is the senior machinist on a cargo ship, and is the Ship Aentity’s best friend — and a stowaway. What happens when the ship is taken by pirates?* *What You Don’t Know…:** A survey ship 300 years into deep space, barely FTL. The Surveyor, the sole human occupant on the ship, spends the majority of her time in stasis. Occasionally she’ll be brought out of stasis to verify interesting things discovered by the ship’s autonomous systems — the ship’s autonomous systems that are slowly going crazy.* *Inflection Point: **Three new cadets are inbound to the academy, but their pod is sabotaged by terrorists and they end up in unexplored space. The scion is unconscious, the ‘mat brat is immobilized, and the waiver boy’s implants fail, leaving him blind. The blind, the maimed and the dying… and the local fauna is troublesome.* The word count distribution is about 50k words, Stowaway and Inflection Point are just over 20k each, the rest are in from What You Don't Know... commentary: These are the first three things that I've put out for public critique. Horrors, but, you gotta start somewhere. The impetus for this was recent comments by Charles Stross about genre publishing and *self-*publishing. http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/12/cmap-short-stories-what-are-th.html#more My takeaway from that piece is that iBooks, Nook and Kindle were going to bring back the golden age of the shorter fiction piece (Novellas, primarily). These will be used by people like me, for advertising-of-capability, and further to build up a clique of readers who will pay $3 for a 50k-word "taster" (or series of tasters), before they would consider dropping $8-10 or so on a 100k word ePub novel (or more, for an actual print version) by some unknown. rip On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 10:56 PM, Mark Chaloner <[email protected]> wrote: > So you got something published at last hey? What's the synopsis? > > Mark > >
