Copy-edit 3
Copy-edit is done.
Phew!
Guide A Guide to First Contact really is looking better. Much better. Many thanks to Stephen Cashmore who was fantastically patient with me and saw where it could be improved. The Kindle version should be up in a week or so. In the meantime, I'm going to run 'Guide' through a couple of readers.
More on that later; now I'm buzzing. I'm part way through formatting for Lulu.*
Recap time. What's Guide about? Mr. Cashmore likened it to Cormac McCarthy's The Road with the proviso that Guide tells the reader how things went bad.
Here's a synopsis:
Four decades ago, aliens made contact with humanity. All mankind’s problems sorted, right? Think again. Everything starts to go wrong. Super-powers fall out and there are massive unexplained technological failures. Then an epidemic sweeps the planet. Its symptoms are an incurable degenerative illness which turns victims into savage sub-human brutes. No-one knows where it comes from – most nations are busy just trying to survive. Even worse, the aliens blame the human authorities. The Earth is put under quarantine and for good measure, an Interdict is put into place.
It’s 2060 now. Western civilisation crumbled ages ago. A new and mysterious power controls what’s left of the world – the Mandat Culturel. It came into being when the Earth was first contacted by aliens and it controls access to advanced technology. All that remains of the once mighty United States is the Petits États, centred on New England. Outside of there, civilisation survives only in Enclaves. But the real power brokers are the confederation of Sioux Nations, headed up by Wahchinksapa; a former intelligence officer. He jockeys to keep his people from the control of the Mandat Culturel.
Into this mix comes Triste. Triste is a bounty hunter and has all the latest ordnance. His contracts take him to the ruined cities. Big ones are best so he spends a lot of time in FUA One; the former urban area of New York. His contracts are dangerous but they pay well; besides, when the cities were abandoned a lot of loot was left behind....
Without realising it, he is sucked into the agendas of Star Beings. These creatures are older than humanity. They are aloof and unsympathetic to human affairs; and they have a plan.
Hey. That's enough for now. I gotta format.
Find Stephen here: www.cashmoreeditorial.com/
*Comparing Lulu with CreateSpace
Interestingly Firedance books had CreateSpace hard copy samples and I have to say they're... hmmmm - let's be diplomatic... not that good. Given the farrago to set up a book in CreateSpace, Amazon's offering just isn't an attractive proposition.
Phew!
Guide A Guide to First Contact really is looking better. Much better. Many thanks to Stephen Cashmore who was fantastically patient with me and saw where it could be improved. The Kindle version should be up in a week or so. In the meantime, I'm going to run 'Guide' through a couple of readers.
More on that later; now I'm buzzing. I'm part way through formatting for Lulu.*
Recap time. What's Guide about? Mr. Cashmore likened it to Cormac McCarthy's The Road with the proviso that Guide tells the reader how things went bad.
Here's a synopsis:
Four decades ago, aliens made contact with humanity. All mankind’s problems sorted, right? Think again. Everything starts to go wrong. Super-powers fall out and there are massive unexplained technological failures. Then an epidemic sweeps the planet. Its symptoms are an incurable degenerative illness which turns victims into savage sub-human brutes. No-one knows where it comes from – most nations are busy just trying to survive. Even worse, the aliens blame the human authorities. The Earth is put under quarantine and for good measure, an Interdict is put into place.
It’s 2060 now. Western civilisation crumbled ages ago. A new and mysterious power controls what’s left of the world – the Mandat Culturel. It came into being when the Earth was first contacted by aliens and it controls access to advanced technology. All that remains of the once mighty United States is the Petits États, centred on New England. Outside of there, civilisation survives only in Enclaves. But the real power brokers are the confederation of Sioux Nations, headed up by Wahchinksapa; a former intelligence officer. He jockeys to keep his people from the control of the Mandat Culturel.
Into this mix comes Triste. Triste is a bounty hunter and has all the latest ordnance. His contracts take him to the ruined cities. Big ones are best so he spends a lot of time in FUA One; the former urban area of New York. His contracts are dangerous but they pay well; besides, when the cities were abandoned a lot of loot was left behind....
Without realising it, he is sucked into the agendas of Star Beings. These creatures are older than humanity. They are aloof and unsympathetic to human affairs; and they have a plan.
Hey. That's enough for now. I gotta format.
Find Stephen here: www.cashmoreeditorial.com/
*Comparing Lulu with CreateSpace
Interestingly Firedance books had CreateSpace hard copy samples and I have to say they're... hmmmm - let's be diplomatic... not that good. Given the farrago to set up a book in CreateSpace, Amazon's offering just isn't an attractive proposition.
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