Sometime back in 1999, I caught the idea for Makaila. I wouldn't lay pen to paper until the winter, January 2000. To quote the Grateful Dead: What a long, strange trip it's been. Looking back, I can't image a time when the series, eight books, did not exist.
Harper Lee expressed regret on the occasion of the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird. She hoped the book would be panned by the critics so she could go home. We know that didn't happen. I do know how she felt. I've spent so much time with Makaila, I don't want the critics loose on it.
A time comes for all things to fledge. Coming soon, a classic tale of science fiction:
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I reach back a bit, almost a Heinlienian style.
I would consider it an honor.
A bit dated is an understatement. Oddly, as a kid, I missed Heinlien's misogyny but then, he wrote during the 50's and 60's against a completely different yardstick.
I recently read a short sci-fi on Gather, forget the name and author. I didn't get far, maybe two pages. The story had to do with a shuttle leaving earth and the occupants mixing drinks. Two pages of making cocktails. I recall a lot of 60's sci-fi like that. Mixing drinks and smoking cigarettes, like in the James Bond movies of that era. Heinlein was big on what's for dinner.
Now I feel old having typed: of that era.
Soup was for dinner and I grocked it.
Of course, unlike Valentine Michael Smith, I didn't do my thinking at the bottom of a swimming pool.
Congrats on your success !
With all due respect to Erica Jong, who said that merely completing a manuscript is cause for celebration, there's something to be said for public acclaim. Then again, we have Kurt Vonnegut, who credited much of his success to not caring what people thought.
Later in life, I learned that was called 'meditation.'
This is the produce of that direction.
It is said, you don't feel your true writer's voice until you hit a million words. Belly up to the keyboard and get cracking. There's no better way to learn writing than to write, reflect, copy-edit and proofread.
Copy-editing and proofreading the works of others helped my writing a great deal.
I like the cover Karl..............
I like the name. Just waiting for the finished product.
In my story, Makaila, that's literally true.
That would be Grok, which is actually in the dictionary now. Heinlein had a certain charm to his writing.
I was hoping to hit this Christmas shopping, but ran into a reworking difficulty. I won't bore you with the details. Before the end of the year.
"If someone doesn't have it, they don't get it."
Applies to many things.
You have piked my curiosity and inspired me.
Great post, i am off to look at more....thank you.
As things go, the title has changed. Literally, back to the drawing board. I'm going to stick with the design, though.
And The Dead's "What a long strange trip it's been describes my life.