Dave Birchbauer's Blog: Alec's Dream - Posts Tagged "adventure"
Anti-gravity, Alec's Dream and e-books
Hello everyone (or anyone?). I'm new to goodreads and found out about you from a sci-fi forum. I'm glad I found you.
Alec's Dream is my first novel (I've got at least six more floating around inside my possibly delusional head) and am really wondering if I'm nuts in believing Alec's Dream is any good. That's why I'm here.
Alec's Dream is young adult science fiction. After I completed it I sent out about a dozen query letters to agents (getting form letter rejects) before realizing that unless I write about vampires, werewolves and forbidden love, agents will never give me a first look. After some research, I believe that's not so bad.
Reading is changing. I think e-books are the future. I bought a Nook Color to see how my novel would read and I LOVE it. I enjoy reading from the Nook better than real books. I think if the price of e-readers drop to 50 bucks, e-reading will become the future.
Right now the problem is that there are tens of thousands of e-books out here and mine is one of them. What I found was needed is a way or sorting and filtering the good ones from the bad ones... repeating what I wrote earlier... I'm glad I found goodreads.
Here's a little bit about Alec's Dream.
I've always dreamt of being able to fly. I mean real dreams, not just daydreams. I still have them. I wonder how may other people dream of flying.
Alec's Dream started with my own dream of anti-gravity. I thought of how the world would change if someone invented it. I actually thought of inventing it myself. I theorized and calculated but alas, I'm just not smart enough. The idea soon crept into my mind of writing a book about it.
Funny. I've never thought of writing a book before. I've written dozens, maybe hundreds of technical specs, designs, requirements, user docs... even a business plan but never a work of fiction. I guess the business plan did it. I remember writing the marketing section of the plan... a pretty good work of fiction. It felt good to write without needing to stick to facts or truth.
My goal was to write a book everyone can enjoy. A book about ordinary people thrust into extraordinary situations. A classic science fiction novel, but not hard core. A book that keeps science in science fiction.
For some reason, I’ve seldom seen anti-gravity highlighted as a technology in a science fiction book. Thinking about how anti-gravity would change the world makes my head spin, but writing stories about all the wonderful things it could do makes for a dull story, unless of course, you add a 30 mile long alien spaceship hiding behind the moon.
I would invite anyone reading this blog to try Alec's Dream. I'm not looking for sales and would just love to have reviews. I plan on providing free copies or samples through goodreads.
Enjoy.Alec's Dream
Alec's Dream is my first novel (I've got at least six more floating around inside my possibly delusional head) and am really wondering if I'm nuts in believing Alec's Dream is any good. That's why I'm here.
Alec's Dream is young adult science fiction. After I completed it I sent out about a dozen query letters to agents (getting form letter rejects) before realizing that unless I write about vampires, werewolves and forbidden love, agents will never give me a first look. After some research, I believe that's not so bad.
Reading is changing. I think e-books are the future. I bought a Nook Color to see how my novel would read and I LOVE it. I enjoy reading from the Nook better than real books. I think if the price of e-readers drop to 50 bucks, e-reading will become the future.
Right now the problem is that there are tens of thousands of e-books out here and mine is one of them. What I found was needed is a way or sorting and filtering the good ones from the bad ones... repeating what I wrote earlier... I'm glad I found goodreads.
Here's a little bit about Alec's Dream.
I've always dreamt of being able to fly. I mean real dreams, not just daydreams. I still have them. I wonder how may other people dream of flying.
Alec's Dream started with my own dream of anti-gravity. I thought of how the world would change if someone invented it. I actually thought of inventing it myself. I theorized and calculated but alas, I'm just not smart enough. The idea soon crept into my mind of writing a book about it.
Funny. I've never thought of writing a book before. I've written dozens, maybe hundreds of technical specs, designs, requirements, user docs... even a business plan but never a work of fiction. I guess the business plan did it. I remember writing the marketing section of the plan... a pretty good work of fiction. It felt good to write without needing to stick to facts or truth.
My goal was to write a book everyone can enjoy. A book about ordinary people thrust into extraordinary situations. A classic science fiction novel, but not hard core. A book that keeps science in science fiction.
For some reason, I’ve seldom seen anti-gravity highlighted as a technology in a science fiction book. Thinking about how anti-gravity would change the world makes my head spin, but writing stories about all the wonderful things it could do makes for a dull story, unless of course, you add a 30 mile long alien spaceship hiding behind the moon.
I would invite anyone reading this blog to try Alec's Dream. I'm not looking for sales and would just love to have reviews. I plan on providing free copies or samples through goodreads.
Enjoy.Alec's Dream
