Okay, it was supposed to launch on May 15th. it was supposed to launch yesterday. But at last, Vampire Road has launched. Kind of.
The biggest similarity between my vampire novel and the vampire movie Priest is the concept of a religious order that has trained specifically to fight vampires.
People are watching the movie Priest as I write this, but they aren't reading my vampire novel because it's still in my hard drive.
Fogel and I have been debating how e-books will affect freelance editors. I'm guessing that people who want to indie e-publish will be swamping freelancers in-boxes with edit requests.
I can't wait to see Priest, because I'm pretty sure that the movie's high-tech take on vampire fighting is very different from my post-apocalyptic novel where gunpowder is so scarce that people carry swords and cross bows as supplementary weapons.
I like writing because it's a solitary task. I'm the complete dictator of an entire world when I sit in front of my keyboard. I decide who lives and who dies, who get's laid and who joins the priesthood.
I'm not actually suggesting anything shady is going on here, because I don't want to be sued, but it does make me wonder when the needs of a newspaper's advertisers can be at odds with the content.
Life is full of surprises, like discovering that someone you were communicating with was having a totally different conversation.
My novel is about redemption, about accepting fate and even a little romance, but mostly it's about war.
One of Fogel's main complaints, and the subject of her guest post yesterday, is that I don't have a clear picture in my own head of my characters.