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What book is everyone writing right now?

Skeptic Ginger said:
It has good reviews. I read the first story Kindle preview in The Threadbare Book of Nightmares. It's good, like the ending.

Looks like you have a lot of published stuff. That's quite an accomplishment.
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I have a lot of self published stuff, and a few published romances. I'm glad you liked the preview of Nightmares. The home made cover tended to put a lot of people off giving it a try.
 
I've just finished a 15k romance (with thriller trappings) that I'm trying to get beta readers for, with ambitions of sending it in for a novella line.
 
My latest effort HeadSpace was published yesterday, a romance set inside the head of a guy whose life is flashing before his eyes.
 
I'm currently working on a screenplay for a proposed series called The Morris Agency. I've been working on it for several years and think I've finally got the basis of the show the way I want it. Now it's just a matter of writing a pilot that introduces all the characters and starts some character arcs. I have a treatment and I'm about 12 pages into the screenplay.

It's about a private security firm that hunts and kills monsters. It was founded by the relatives of Quincy Morris.

I decided to make it more of a comedy, since that's what people tell me I'm best at, and model it after Barney Miller. In other words, most of the series will take place at their base and not in the field.
 
CptColumbo said:
I'm currently working on a screenplay for a proposed series called The Morris Agency. I've been working on it for several years and think I've finally got the basis of the show the way I want it. Now it's just a matter of writing a pilot that introduces all the characters and starts some character arcs. I have a treatment and I'm about 12 pages into the screenplay.

It's about a private security firm that hunts and kills monsters. It was founded by the relatives of Quincy Morris.

I decided to make it more of a comedy, since that's what people tell me I'm best at, and model it after Barney Miller. In other words, most of the series will take place at their base and not in the field.
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Sounds cool (and economical)
 
CptColumbo said:
I'm currently working on a screenplay for a proposed series called The Morris Agency. I've been working on it for several years and think I've finally got the basis of the show the way I want it. Now it's just a matter of writing a pilot that introduces all the characters and starts some character arcs. I have a treatment and I'm about 12 pages into the screenplay.

It's about a private security firm that hunts and kills monsters. It was founded by the relatives of Quincy Morris.

I decided to make it more of a comedy, since that's what people tell me I'm best at, and model it after Barney Miller. In other words, most of the series will take place at their base and not in the field.
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Sound interesting I always liked characters who act like Dietrich. Heavy on the Dietrich please. Heck make it Dietrich.(suitably renamed of course)
 
Hans said:
Sound interesting I always liked characters who act like Dietrich. Heavy on the Dietrich please. Heck make it Dietrich.(suitably renamed of course)
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I'm afraid you need someone for him/her to act superior to and aggravate with their knowledge.

One of my favorite scenes in Barney Miller is when a graduate student was building an atomic bomb, and everyone from a AEC investigator to the bomb squad didn't believe him. Then Dietrich came in, took one look at it and asked, "Who brought in the atomic bomb?".
 
CptColumbo said:
I'm afraid you need someone for him/her to act superior to and aggravate with their knowledge.

One of my favorite scenes in Barney Miller is when a graduate student was building an atomic bomb, and everyone from a AEC investigator to the bomb squad didn't believe him. Then Dietrich came in, took one look at it and asked, "Who brought in the atomic bomb?".
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Yeah my favourite scene, 'Where the hell did you get the atomic bomb'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib8StpzyxDE
 
My publisher is ceasing to be very soon, and a whole bunch of romance stories will revert back to being mine.

I am in the process of collecting the best of these into a paperback anthology, under my own Threadbare Hearts banner.
A second volume will include a whole bunch of my earlier novellas in the same format, so they will be available in what I hope will be a bargain priced 'Best Of' package.
 
Tomtomkent said:
My publisher is ceasing to be very soon, and a whole bunch of romance stories will revert back to being mine.

I am in the process of collecting the best of these into a paperback anthology, under my own Threadbare Hearts banner.
A second volume will include a whole bunch of my earlier novellas in the same format, so they will be available in what I hope will be a bargain priced 'Best Of' package.
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Got notification of rights reverting, and have had the fun of getting the new and improved (now with buggy text editing) Kindle Paperback tools. I think it worked out, but proof will be when I get my own copy...
 
Tomtomkent said:
Got notification of rights reverting, and have had the fun of getting the new and improved (now with buggy text editing) Kindle Paperback tools. I think it worked out, but proof will be when I get my own copy...
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Yeah the new version of Kindle and now associated paperback creation software was so 'new and advanced' that it took me three weeks to get a book ready for publishing - the older version use to take me 3-4 days. The submission software is best characterized as 'twitchy' with a Capital "T".

Yeah it tells you 'error' all the time but doesn't tell you what the problem is. I had to upload a file 23 times before it was accepted - to be looked at and in that 2nd process would then generate an 'Error' not tell you what the problem was and you had to go back to step one and upload the file again. ARRRRRGGGGHHHH.
 
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Hans said:
Yeah the new version of Kindle and now associated paperback creation software was so 'new and advanced' that it took me three weeks to get a book ready for publishing - the older version use to take me 3-4 days. The submission software is best characterized as 'twitchy' with a Capital "T".

Yeah it tells you 'error' all the time but doesn't tell you what the problem is. I had to upload a file 23 times before it was accepted - to be looked at and in that 2nd process would then generate an 'Error' not tell you what the problem was and you had to go back to step one and upload the file again. ARRRRRGGGGHHHH.
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Update

Well I thought I was finished but no another automated message that something is wrong with bleed - again - they won't tell you what exactly. I am beginning to suspect that the problem is that Word 2010 will not allow a size of 11.25 to be put in just 11.2 or 11.3 - but they refuse to tell me that.
 
Hans said:
Update

Well I thought I was finished but no another automated message that something is wrong with bleed - again - they won't tell you what exactly. I am beginning to suspect that the problem is that Word 2010 will not allow a size of 11.25 to be put in just 11.2 or 11.3 - but they refuse to tell me that.
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My cover kept being rejected because of bleed. In the end I had to take out a free trial for an expensive design software (Adobe Create) which was very powerful and solved my problems. However, at their subscription rates, I reasoned I wouldn't be using it much to justify taking out an annual sub.

About your page size: you still need to specify the margin size which should include x amount for the bleed. I presume you have photography or illustrations that appear to breach the bleed?
 
Right now I'm finishing first drafts of two new novels.

One is about Hollywood fixers, and the other is about the President of the United States being the target of demonic possession by Russian-controlled witches.
 
Vixen said:
My cover kept being rejected because of bleed. In the end I had to take out a free trial for an expensive design software (Adobe Create) which was very powerful and solved my problems. However, at their subscription rates, I reasoned I wouldn't be using it much to justify taking out an annual sub.

About your page size: you still need to specify the margin size which should include x amount for the bleed. I presume you have photography or illustrations that appear to breach the bleed?
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Yes I used Photoshop and I have the entire suite because my wife still works at a Uni and gets it for a small charge.

Yeah figured out the bleed and finally had to spent two hours on the phone to their help center in Chennai. We found out by experimenting that there is something wrong with their 'previewer' and it creates errors which don't exist but if you don't follow their numbers you can make it work - so hopefully in a few days I will finally published - moving everything around messed up all the original organization and images so have to re-align everything again for the ninth time!
 
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Hello. My name is Rupee Morlock. I am not really a clown. Nobody is allowed to write, let alone own, stories. All source and copy belong us. Everything else is fake. Fake news. I will buy back Myspace and make Myspace great, again, once I've caught my own tail and the landscape stops changing.
 
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Polaris said:
Yeah, about that....better make it May.
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So...seeing how this post was from 2013 makes me realize how unrealistic my expectations were. Haven't abandoned that project, but life certainly got in the way. In the meantime, a new book is in the works.

Basic premise is a cam model* discovers she has distant relatives in Russia, and she and her girlfriend go to visit them. Things turn out to be more than they seem, and they get caught up in a quest to discover lost treasure (I'm leaning toward the Amber Room, but not married to it as the McGuffin) by several shady groups. There is a bit of the supernatural just below the surface.

Here's the kicker - the model and her girlfriend are real people. How I got to this point is a long story. The short of it is I had an earlier idea based on a video of theirs (thriller - since abandoned) and felt I should get their permission. Turned out they are both really awesome, fun people and we became buddies. I wrote a couple pieces based on them, and the girlfriend suggested I write a full book - which made me very happy as this was the goal all along.

I've never come across a piece of fiction based on actual people, so it's a bit of a challenge, but it's fun - and being held accountable by a couple of adult entertainers is great motivation. Should it get published I intend to fairly split the proceeds with them, of course.


*Women who perform sex acts on webcam for money. Usually solo or with a partner.
 
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