Drudging through edits at this point in time, I initially wrote this in present tense and after reviewing decided on past. This caused a whole slew of issues. The long and short of it all, delays. Stupid, small mistakes that affect the pre-publication process. I won't have a repeat of Souls of Silica, the tense issues there were purposeful, meant to drive some thrill and tension.
Hell, you live and you learn.
As an interesting side note, I heard of this fellow years ago, and what he said made it's way into Between the Wires, which has a touch of physics hidden between the lines.
Hell, you live and you learn.
As an interesting side note, I heard of this fellow years ago, and what he said made it's way into Between the Wires, which has a touch of physics hidden between the lines.
The very original version of Between the Wires was called Darker Cross, then the name changed to 60, for reasons you'll understand when you read it. The idea of seeing '60' or 'sixty' on the title page bothered me enough to change it. I thought that 'Between the Wires' had a bit more connection with the characters.
I rewrote and rewrote sixty over roughly 8 years, and for much of that time it sat on the back burner. Occasionally surfacing when a new piece of information came to light or I felt that something had stewed long enough to make its way in. The version I am publishing lacks 2 characters about perhaps 30,000 words from the original draft, as well as a couple of sub-plots that while I enjoyed writing, were too far from the main story, and thus a distraction. It caused me to completely rewrite one character in particular, one that the story could have done without, but the substance would have suffered from if he'd been absent.
Anyway, thought it'd be nice to update everyone on the next publication. No time table set yet. I'd like to see a September release, but I can only process so many words in a day.
As a final thought: We intend to publish Between the Wires in a similar format as 'The Things I Left Behind'. People commented on the size of the book, which I'm happy about. That's why we went smaller than usual. The font, however, will be bigger. We're listening to what people like and don't, and hopefully Between the Wires is a step closer in a convenient little paper back for those doctor office waiting rooms.
I rewrote and rewrote sixty over roughly 8 years, and for much of that time it sat on the back burner. Occasionally surfacing when a new piece of information came to light or I felt that something had stewed long enough to make its way in. The version I am publishing lacks 2 characters about perhaps 30,000 words from the original draft, as well as a couple of sub-plots that while I enjoyed writing, were too far from the main story, and thus a distraction. It caused me to completely rewrite one character in particular, one that the story could have done without, but the substance would have suffered from if he'd been absent.
Anyway, thought it'd be nice to update everyone on the next publication. No time table set yet. I'd like to see a September release, but I can only process so many words in a day.
As a final thought: We intend to publish Between the Wires in a similar format as 'The Things I Left Behind'. People commented on the size of the book, which I'm happy about. That's why we went smaller than usual. The font, however, will be bigger. We're listening to what people like and don't, and hopefully Between the Wires is a step closer in a convenient little paper back for those doctor office waiting rooms.