Congrats, Richard. I'll check them out when I get paid this week. And thanks for that link. There's a few little interesting things in there. Most daunting, though, is his warning against jumping straight into a novel/series. I'm 130,000 words into my first novel in a series, haha, so I think it's too late to back out.
But I'm looking forward to grabbing your shorter stuff. Short version SF is like a trip down memory lane. Can't wait! Sent from my iPhone > On 9 Feb 2015, at 10:39 am, Richard Williamson <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
