Okay, it was supposed to launch on May 15th. it was supposed to launch yesterday. But at last, Vampire Road has launched. Kind of.
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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.