Saturday, February 18, 2012

An Honorary Gentleman

With the ePublication of FantastiCon, I was invited to write a post about the process at a blog I follow:  Mindless Diversions, a sub blog of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen.


The story of a novel

Today I joined the ranks thousands of writers and made my first full length novel available for purchase on Amazon.com.  How did I go from a simple school teacher to a self-published writer?  The story has some interesting twists and a few lessons for the novice, though I hardly consider myself an expert on writing or self publishing.

It started with National Novel Writing Month back in 2007.  I set out to write a stalker drama playing on elements of online relationships and how little we know about the people we say we know via online channels.  That year I failed to meet my goal of 50,000 words by the end of the month.  In 2008 I tried again but with a twist:  I set the entire story at a massive fantasy and science fiction convention.  My wife and I are several year veterans of Atlanta’s Dragon Con and have become friends with many who make their hobby doing the convention circuit.  On Dec 1st, 2008 I had a manuscript in hand.
You can read the rest here on the website... 

2 comments:

  1. NaNoWriMo is a great way to get motivated to write. And fanfic, particularly relating to SF cons, is a nice niche. I remember reading a lot of fen related fiction back in the 70s that culminated, at least in my mind, in the 1991 novel Fallen Angels. SF fans are an odd lot.

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  2. THe only problem with writing True Fan Fic is that you can't (generally) publish it for profit. You can write it and it's sometimes a good exercise in limited characters but I've hit a point where if I write I want to at least make it available for semi-profit.

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