Copyright: Mike10613
This site was updated on 15/11/2009 20:24
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Copyright: Mike10613
This site was updated on 15/11/2009 20:24
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This is the page where I express my views. I have written a novel Captain Jack: A ship's log and so that is what I have been doing for most of this year. I finished the last few pages this weekend and edited the first chapter and hope I got all the mistakes. It may need a little re-writing. The next step is to do the same with the first three chapters and then ask my proof reader to re-check them. Then I can buy a top level domain for the novel so I can support it with a website if and when it gets published. I shall publish it myself if all else fails! There are sites that do POD: Publish On Demand. They basically print the books as they are ordered - this is more expensive than mass producing them but it is an option and Amazon.com have a associate company that appears to do that. I'll try traditional methods first however and so a literary agent will be first. I will but the domain and webspace before that. I don't want anyone snapping up my domain name before I even have a chance to make it infamous! My novel is about a guy who buys a trawler and tries to escape the recession and actually makes it! He sails off into the sunset with someone who actually knows a little about sailing. But first, he converts his "ship" into a reproduction pirate ship! It's in the genre of classic British comedy and I intend to do a website for the novel if it's published. If there any literary agents reading this and want a novel of 190,000 words or thereabouts that has adventure, comedy and mystery and just about everything else and would make an excellent movie. My email address is at the bottom of the page! It will also be linked to a website and a forum so people can discuss the novel and become "pirates" themselves!
The title of the novel is Captain Jack: A Ship's log. It is written like a ship's log and the story starts on the 1st of January 2009 and ends on the 31 August 2009! So obviously I'm still proof reading and editing it. I mix fact with my fiction to make it more believable. My readers are on every continent and have read from chapter one and given me feedback. The Americans in particular like it and my friend in China would like to translate it to Chinese if it gets published or should I say when it gets published. I'll publish it in PDF e-Book if I have to! lol It should be of interest to movie makers as well as publishers. I have a knowledge of psychology and I've made every character someone somewhere can relate to. I think everyone will relate to that desire to escape the dreariness of the recession of 2009! Sail off into the sunset and spend the summer sailing around the Mediterranean enjoying sun, sea and adventure! So I need a good literary agent to find me a publisher for my first printed work! I obviously have loads of stuff on the Internet and have had non-fiction published but this will be my first work of fiction. 
So now you know what I have been doing while the server had a problem! I hope everyone likes the new style I'm trying to put into this site slowly page by page. There are still server problems if you're trying to get a site online with TalkTalk. I'm doing an upload today just to see if the server will let me connect. I may put tips on getting a book published on this page in the future and so come back if you're a writer. I am proof reading my novel and it is difficult to proof read your own work. The next stage is to write a synopsis to send to the literary agent and publishers. Then if someone is interested I'll send them the first 3 chapters to read. The main thing to remember with publishing a book is it needs to be sold. The cover is very important. The old saying, "Don't judge a book by it's cover" no longer applies; that is precisely how many readers judge a book! I am also going to do a website to support the novel and that will be online before the literary agent even reads the synopsis. So the publishing of a book has changed and e-Books are making a big impact on the industry as is POD; Publish On Demand. |
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