Ideation
While wrapping up pre-launch marketing for SIGHTSEER, which is available for preorder, is also currently on NetGalley, incidentally, and comes out May 27...
SIGHTSEER
...and finalizing the SF book of mine (again, under the Dean Vale pen name) coming out in August, I had another SF idea pop into my head the other day that I must write.
Of course, for anyone following/lurking on this blog, you know I'm not going to say much about it, but I will spill a little. It was an idea I had a few years ago, but shelved because I was neck-deep in so many other projects, and it just jumped back into my mental spotlight.
So, it's not like it's truly a brand-new idea; rather, it's one that refuses to be ignored or delayed. Sometimes story ideas do that. They can be very insistent.
What is interesting to me about this one is that I will seek a trad venue for it, if possible. I have a handful of trad-friendly book ideas I've kept on the side over the years. This one is a must for trad. Not that I couldn't sling it out there via indie as I have so much of my output.
It's just that this one lends itself to trad. It's the right channel for it. Ergo, I'll write it up, dust off my querying skills (it's been years) and will try to pitch it to the thousand or so agents out there who might consider it.
I'm willing to do this because the book idea's so high-concept it really has to have a trad debut, even if it means the obligatory several-year delay trad puts in things. What'll be galling for me is it'll be a "debut novel" for someone who's been slinging books out there steadily since 2011. I'm just willing to put up with that because it should be able to reach a wider audience, which you know I'm forever complaining about the lack thereof for my work to date.
For now, I'm doing research, mapping out characters, all of that front-end work necessary to storytelling.
That's all I'm saying about it for now. It's a novel, it'll be by Dean Vale, and it's Science Fiction. If I do it right, it should be fun, funny, and suspenseful!
Beyond that, mum's the word! I'm just pleased my brain still conjures up stories like that, and I'm at a point in my writing life where I can crank on the stories I need to, when I need to.
SIGHTSEER
...and finalizing the SF book of mine (again, under the Dean Vale pen name) coming out in August, I had another SF idea pop into my head the other day that I must write.
Of course, for anyone following/lurking on this blog, you know I'm not going to say much about it, but I will spill a little. It was an idea I had a few years ago, but shelved because I was neck-deep in so many other projects, and it just jumped back into my mental spotlight.
So, it's not like it's truly a brand-new idea; rather, it's one that refuses to be ignored or delayed. Sometimes story ideas do that. They can be very insistent.
What is interesting to me about this one is that I will seek a trad venue for it, if possible. I have a handful of trad-friendly book ideas I've kept on the side over the years. This one is a must for trad. Not that I couldn't sling it out there via indie as I have so much of my output.
It's just that this one lends itself to trad. It's the right channel for it. Ergo, I'll write it up, dust off my querying skills (it's been years) and will try to pitch it to the thousand or so agents out there who might consider it.
I'm willing to do this because the book idea's so high-concept it really has to have a trad debut, even if it means the obligatory several-year delay trad puts in things. What'll be galling for me is it'll be a "debut novel" for someone who's been slinging books out there steadily since 2011. I'm just willing to put up with that because it should be able to reach a wider audience, which you know I'm forever complaining about the lack thereof for my work to date.
For now, I'm doing research, mapping out characters, all of that front-end work necessary to storytelling.
That's all I'm saying about it for now. It's a novel, it'll be by Dean Vale, and it's Science Fiction. If I do it right, it should be fun, funny, and suspenseful!
Beyond that, mum's the word! I'm just pleased my brain still conjures up stories like that, and I'm at a point in my writing life where I can crank on the stories I need to, when I need to.
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