Rating "Wrecking Civilization Before Lunch"
I'm not planning to rate myself at the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award competition. But if I did, it would be by paraphrasing the great fictional director James McCretin:
"Gleet! Terrific! Oh it's gleet! No problem! We'll sort it out on the floor! Sort it out on the floor! No problem. This book is basically pro-humanity and anti-bad things and it rips aside the hypocritical facade of our society's gin and tonic and leaves a lot of sacred cows rolling around in agony. Have a drink, have a drink."
That man was brilliant.
NOTE: I rated myself at the competition. Or rather James McCretin did. How's that for following up on my noble intentions!
"Gleet! Terrific! Oh it's gleet! No problem! We'll sort it out on the floor! Sort it out on the floor! No problem. This book is basically pro-humanity and anti-bad things and it rips aside the hypocritical facade of our society's gin and tonic and leaves a lot of sacred cows rolling around in agony. Have a drink, have a drink."
That man was brilliant.
NOTE: I rated myself at the competition. Or rather James McCretin did. How's that for following up on my noble intentions!
posted by JohnR at
4:15 PM
2 Comments:
Hi John! I remembered your novel from the contest and looked you up recently. I thought what I read of your book was really great, and wondered if you'd had it published yet. Maybe you should consider trying to find a publisher for it again.
I just sold a novel that I entered in the contest a few years ago, and my novel never even made it past the first round.
So, there's somewhere for your story. Definitely. (My publisher is this place: http://museituppublishing.com)
Lum, good to hear from you and congratulations on getting your novel sold.
I appreciate your kind words about my novel. It seems like a long time ago now. No, I haven't gotten it published yet. I supposedly still have an open invitation from Amazon to publish it through their former BookSurge program, which is now a part of CreateSpace, so who knows if that's still a possibility. I would rather have it published by a traditional publishing house though and I have so far gotten nowhere with agents. I have admittedly not been trying very hard this last year though.
I am considering sprucing it up with more Sci-Fi and sending it to Tor or Daw, who accept non-agented stuff.
But I'm also getting tired of agonizing over it, so Amazon might be the better way to go. If its still a possibility.
So, as you can tell, probably more waffling for 2011.
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