Monday, April 3, 2017

I walk alone

It is nearly impossible to get me to give nay answer that goes beyond very vague when I am in the process of writing a novel. When I was younger I would have said I didn't want to jinx it, but the truth is, I just don't want feedback until after I've reached a certain point. Take off can be a tenuous thing. Too many questions tends to make me doubt myself. What if the idea isn't original enough? What if the writing is weak?

So I just don't do it.


Does that help you? Probably not. But there it is, truth in advertising.


So let's have a different twist this time around. I have a novel coming out that is different. It's a mosaic novel. Thee are ten authors total, including yours truly, Charlaine Harris, Jonathan Maberry, Kat Richardson, Mark Morris, Tim Lebbon, Christopher Golden, Seanan McGuire, Cherie Priest, and Kelley Armstrong.

Nice group, right? Well, here for our regulars at SFF7, is a giveaway.

Respond to this post.  Name your favorite pulp author, horror author, comic book writer or crime novelist and one person picked at random (who answered one of the above questions) will win an Advanced Readers Copy.

Any questions? Beuller? Beuller?






9 comments:

  1. Ooh - what is a mosaic novel? How interesting!

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  2. In this case it means a story written by ten authors, each one taking a chapter and then another ten chapters later. very much a round robin affair. but Christopher Golden rode herd on it.

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    1. aha - very cool! that *would* require extensive kitten-herding.

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  3. Um, he's sick. But I can tell you what kinds of books, or movies for that matter, really creep me out. Anything in the spiritual realm, and Frank Peretti writes some pretty good horror when I'm in the mood to never want to sleep again.

    Congrats on your new novel! Did you get to read the chapters before yours early on or did you work off a loose outline? I've never heard of this kind of writing. So many questions...

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  4. I read the previous seven chapters before I started and then did it again on the second round. You kind of had to. :)

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    1. Did you change a lot on the second round? Such a different way to write with so many minds.

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  5. Cool project! My favorite horror author is Stephen King.

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  6. Two entries means it was coin toss time. Alexia, please PM me your address on Facebook to get your copy. :)

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