My partner shared a Wired.com article with me today about the strong role genre fiction is playing in the e-publishing world. This doesn’t really surprise me; in Hollywood you know that there are many genre subcultures with supernormal appetites for
Rough Plans
So the novel is going through a couple of editorial steps, which will take a couple of months. Lord knows, even with all the eyeballs on it we’ll probably still miss some punctuation thing in every single chapter. Got to
Family History – the Beginning of News
This is my first time through the whole book-writing/publishing process, but in the weeks ahead you should start to see a trickle of announcements/updates both here and on the website my partner is having built to promote the book. We
Birth Announcement
Nicholas Thurkettle is pleased to announce that, on May 1st, 2013, at 1:48pm, he became the proud father of a healthy baby novel – 422 manuscript pages long and weighing in at 92,427 words. He will allow the novel to
This Finishing Kick Has Left Me Woozy in the Head
I’m drafting the last chapter of the novel now. Actually, there’s an epilogue after, but I finished that awhile back. Next Wednesday is my due date; and I am still confident that I’ll make it. I’m writing in a weirdly-unconscious
Some truth
I’ve never been good at laying on a beach. Laying on a beach is like graduate-level sitting around; and I’m not even good at basic sitting around. That said – when I finish the first draft of this novel, I