Well anyway, my novel is complete and has been off to first-readers for quite some time. I have learned that the holidays are a lousy time to expect reader-feedback. Hopefully off to an editor soon. (Hello Jennine.)
I am on to another project that
lit a fire which has been smoldering for a long time. I have hesitated on this
one because the scope is imposing and counter to every other project I have attempted
and completed. But I love the genre and read it all the time. Don’t have a log line yet, and the outline looks like the sparse
road map in and out of Death Valley. But, I’m 10-grand in and hoping to hit completion
before Christ is resurrected (again).
Within this new story the what-if
questions are enormous. Let’s just say, (and I probably shouldn’t at this
point but I will anyway), I’m combining an imagined J.K. Rowling kind intricately
detailed world with a Suzanne Collins Katniss-like senior character. Dare I say
it’s a dystopian novel for senior citizens?
I hate the term “senior citizen,”
but if you are one this story will scare granny pants off you.
In our daily cycle of news which
is proving by the hour how easily millions can be swayed by falsehoods and
shallow promises, “70Y70D” will be your road map to heaven or hell depending on
which side of the 10% senior discount you are on.
So there you have it. A futuristic novel for readers with
futures far shorter than their pasts.
Happy New Year everyone. Hope all is well, for all of you, and if it’s
not, write about it.