Dart's View of Life, the Universe & Coffee
After a highly rated independent book publisher held onto my mystery/crime novel for over six months, they finally admitted they are backed up with books and have no intention of considering any new ones for at least a year. Ya think they could have told me that six months ago? They even charged me $25 […]
After publishing my humor book in 2022 I worked on a 71,000 word mystery/crime novel, finishing it late last year. I started sending it to agents. When that didn’t work I sent it to smaller independent legit book publishers. Not vanity presses. They are traditional publishers but not associated with one of the giant guys. […]
I write better in a coffee shop. Owl and Otter Espresso Lake Placid, Florida Mudslide Coffee Punta Gorda, Florida Serenity Coffee Shop Okeechobee, Florida Florida Farmhouse Coffee Arcadia, Fl I do have a dedicated office in my home, desktop computer, laptops, wide screens, nice keyboards, and yes, I can make French Press coffee […]
My 71,000 word mystery/crime novel has been making the rounds of book agents and Indie publishers. It has been rejected by four agents and one Indie publisher. I will review it to see if after not looking at it for a couple of months things look different. Maybe I can improve it. I may consider […]
Happy to report that my 70,000 word crime novel, Deadly Profit, is finished. In fact, I finished it seven or eight times. And then edited it several times and finished it again! Forty-three chapters, over seventy scenes. It is about a young, tech savvy former CIA Black Ops agent working as a private investigator under […]
Writing experts tout the importance of writing a synopsis for your novel. A synopsis consists of taking your entire 60K to 100K or more novel and boiling it down to 500 to 2,000 words. A short summary of what happens in your book. I have just finished my fourth draft of my crime novel, Deadly […]
I am experiencing something that is new to me. I have written dozens of short stories, blog posts, humor, even poetry. Finally making substantial progress on a crime novel, with over 40,000 words on paper. At about the 30,000 word point, something changed. Instead of me sitting down and thinking about the next scene in […]
I think I’ve talked before about how much of the fiction world in America today seems totally Nihilist. I read short fiction every day,and every day I shake my head at the negative stories. Stories about abuse, death, betrayer, despair, you name it. It’s one thing to just stop reading them, but I also write […]