Random musings
A couple of months ago, I made my way to the Goodreads website for the first time. I quickly realized that they had giveaways, where one could win books, and I thought that it would be fun to create one for “Kidnapped.” I ordered five books and created the giveaway, and started to worry that no one would enter. When peeking at other giveaways, some had hundreds of entries, some even thousands, and I looked at the screen, wide-eyed, thinking that it would be so cool if I could get that many people interested too. Today, I got the result and the addresses to send books out to the winners, and I almost fell off my chair. 1210 people had entered to win! 1210 people had looked at the cover, probably read at least some of the blurb, and deemed it interesting enough to go through the steps of entering the competition. That’s awesome! If I’d had the money, I would have sent a book to each and every one of them!
I’ll be running another giveaway during October, for “Undercover.” It will be really interesting to see if that will do as well as "Kidnapped" did, or if people will be more or less interested in it.
On a completely different matter, work on my new books is proceeding slowly. School has taken over, with statistics and calculus, and I find the former so boring that I actually look forward to going to the latter. Back home, in school way back when, I remember my math teacher standing by the board, mumbling incomprehensibly about, “As x approaches infinity, blah, blah, blah, derivative, blah, blah, will give the area under this curve, blah, blah, blah.” I barely passed, and I feared starting school here because of all the math I would have to take. To my surprise, I’m really good at it, and it’s fun! (Of course, the teacher from my younger days also failed me in physics because I wanted to discuss Einstein and the theory of relativity instead of just learning E=MC^2. I guess we didn’t think alike, LOL.)
A couple of blogs ago I promised to say something about my newest project. It’s called “Embarkment 2577” in my head, and I’m still wondering if Embarkment is a real word or not. Word (the software) says it’s not, Google says it is. I’m putting my money on Google! “Embarkment” will look sooooo good on the cover!
The book is about Alexandra who wakes up in a strange environment where everything seems just a bit off. This “just a bit” increases when she finds herself in a room with a woman looking like a cat and a hologram of a rock star. They claim that she was killed in her own time and brought to the future, but her memory of all this is completely gone. It doesn’t get any better when people tell her that she’s on a spaceship; she draws the conclusion that she’s probably hallucinating it all. Maybe, she thinks, she’s in a coma and it’s all happening in her mind.
The beginning of the story has turned out to be quite bizarre. It gets a little more serious further in, but not much, and I’m debating whether it’s too silly or not. I’ve also written it in first person, a thing I don’t usually do, and I can’t decide whether to rewrite it in third person or not. While I’m discussing these matters with myself, the poor book is gathering virtual dust in the computer. The computer itself never has time to get dusty. I’ve had it for a few years now, and I bet that it was sitting on the shelf in the store waiting for someone to pick it up for a comfortable life filled with solitaire and maybe writing a letter or two. It never knew what hit it when I came and swept it with me, demanding that it edit videos and photos, and handle word-documents with hundreds of pages… Poor thing, I’ve typed so much on its little keyboard that some of the keys have fallen off. I love it dearly, and I hope it will keep working forever!
:-)
I’ll be running another giveaway during October, for “Undercover.” It will be really interesting to see if that will do as well as "Kidnapped" did, or if people will be more or less interested in it.
On a completely different matter, work on my new books is proceeding slowly. School has taken over, with statistics and calculus, and I find the former so boring that I actually look forward to going to the latter. Back home, in school way back when, I remember my math teacher standing by the board, mumbling incomprehensibly about, “As x approaches infinity, blah, blah, blah, derivative, blah, blah, will give the area under this curve, blah, blah, blah.” I barely passed, and I feared starting school here because of all the math I would have to take. To my surprise, I’m really good at it, and it’s fun! (Of course, the teacher from my younger days also failed me in physics because I wanted to discuss Einstein and the theory of relativity instead of just learning E=MC^2. I guess we didn’t think alike, LOL.)
A couple of blogs ago I promised to say something about my newest project. It’s called “Embarkment 2577” in my head, and I’m still wondering if Embarkment is a real word or not. Word (the software) says it’s not, Google says it is. I’m putting my money on Google! “Embarkment” will look sooooo good on the cover!
The book is about Alexandra who wakes up in a strange environment where everything seems just a bit off. This “just a bit” increases when she finds herself in a room with a woman looking like a cat and a hologram of a rock star. They claim that she was killed in her own time and brought to the future, but her memory of all this is completely gone. It doesn’t get any better when people tell her that she’s on a spaceship; she draws the conclusion that she’s probably hallucinating it all. Maybe, she thinks, she’s in a coma and it’s all happening in her mind.
The beginning of the story has turned out to be quite bizarre. It gets a little more serious further in, but not much, and I’m debating whether it’s too silly or not. I’ve also written it in first person, a thing I don’t usually do, and I can’t decide whether to rewrite it in third person or not. While I’m discussing these matters with myself, the poor book is gathering virtual dust in the computer. The computer itself never has time to get dusty. I’ve had it for a few years now, and I bet that it was sitting on the shelf in the store waiting for someone to pick it up for a comfortable life filled with solitaire and maybe writing a letter or two. It never knew what hit it when I came and swept it with me, demanding that it edit videos and photos, and handle word-documents with hundreds of pages… Poor thing, I’ve typed so much on its little keyboard that some of the keys have fallen off. I love it dearly, and I hope it will keep working forever!
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Gotta say that Embarkment 2577 sounds really interesting. As for the word itself, I consider it a perfectly reasonable formation, although it seems to have petered out sometime around the start of the 20th century (according to a quick search on books.google). Embarkation appears to be the more common noun form of Embark, but I really can't see anything wrong with Embarkment.
Cheers!