Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Moving at a snail's pace

          So things are starting to move forward again.  My editor has sent me back chapters five through seven and we have completed the final revisions of all but chapter seven.  In a few weeks I will probably release the first five chapters as a sample before the release of the book.  This quite an exciting time for me and I hope people enjoy the story I plan to tell. 

          I also have a new project in the works.  It's completely different from the series I will be releasing unter the title of "Prey for Vengeance."  The new book is quite a bit more personal since the main character will be closely mirroring my own life in many ways.  That's where my personal experience diverges from the characters enviroment.  The main character is working on a device to provide much faster internet speed.  There is only one problem.  He accidentally hacked into God's internet.  The fallout with this causes him to stuck between God and country and his own desire to provide a ecological and cheap way to access information at the speed of light.  Ideals die quickly as reality set in however and our plucky protagonist is getting grief on all sides which challenge his sense of practicality.  I'm roughly 70 pages in now and it has been a real treat writing this story.  It probably has something to do with it being one of my teenaged power fantasies made tangible.  If I had a genre, I think this might be it.  In a world full of bitter disappointment. sometimes you just want to win out on something important.  It's all just a story about how I trumph against a world that's out to get me, but making it tangible somehow gives it a reality all its own.  Come along with me on our journey to change the world without all the variables that could screw it all up.

Chris Dodson