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Will try not to disappoint, aubergine.
Rman Virgil wrote:I do have enough WZ yarns for an ebook but I doubt anyone would pay for it.
What I've thought about doing, probably next year (the Great Spirit willing), is collecting them, nicely formatted with color illustrations and putting it up at my favorite ebook web site - manybooks.net. Guy behind it is really cool and has done an outstanding job of building and maintaining the site over the years.
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Lord Apocalypse wrote:With your ability to tell a story I am quite sure people would be willing to buy it, especially those who know and love warzone. Outside this community it might be a tad harder to sell but I'm still confident that it WOULD sell, perhaps even hitting best seller.
You have a great story, and a great storyline to work from. You could even self publish it as an ebook to begin with. Just pay the $ (100 last I looked a decade or so ago) for I think its a lot of 10 ISBN numbers and pick one to publish the first book under. Charge maybe $10 per copy. Easy as PIE
Bad puns aside its worth a look if you have the material for a full book. Perhaps even following the formatting used for the Man-Kzin series by Larry Niven. If you are not familiar with the series.. Its a universe created by him and told to some extent by him, at least in the first book. Each subsequent novel was a hodge podge of collective short stories by different sci-fi authors. I have read up to Man-Kzin Wars 5 as well as the Destiny's Forge novel. Great series.
That's a confidence booster, thanks, LA.
Larry Niven I grew up on. I also especially like his Sci Fi mystery stories and of course "Ringworld" - which inspired Bungie's "Halo" but the concept was originally created by Physicist Freeman Dyson in his hypothesis of the various Tech Levels necessary for Interplanetary Civilization (btw, dad of Esther Dyson of Web 2.0 fame).
Truth be told I am working on a commercial book project. A SF thriller novel that takes place in our world 20 years into the future, the working title being
"Godiva's Masquerade". The germ of the novel even has a WZ connection (though it has nothing to do with WZ itself). Back in the WZ RTS.net days I used to write and post Mini-Sagas which are stories told in 50 words or less. Pure entertaintments in a handfull of different genres that were great practice in narrative concision. Anyway, there were a series of 6 related Mini-Sagas. All revolved around a mysterious female character. Last year I was inspired to tell her full story at novel length. She is what's called an anti-heroine. I'm a guy, obviously, so telling a story from a credible female perspective is a challenge that appealed. Then I upped the ante of that challenge by her not being a heroine and trying to make a sympathetic, compelling, anti-heroine. This was purely where my muse took me. After a time it struck me that this could be a comnercially viable project. So that's where I'm at with $ & writing (besides political and cultural blogging).
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