It’s DONE! …And so am I.
Book one of the Energematrice6 cycle, working title “Brightstar” is done and off to my beta readers!
A friend told me he thought it would be a euphoric feeling–finishing writing a book. Not for me. I’m not sure how most people feel, but for me it was mostly just a relief.
I swear, it takes a really peculiar variety of mental dysfunction to do it at all.
So what’s it about?
The whole time I was writing the book, I told people it’s like C.S. Lewis’s ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’ for a post-Star Wars generation. I did capture some essence of that, I think, but now that it’s done, I sort of think it reads more like “Homer’s Odyssey in Space.” I suppose technically the genre is probably “Young Adult Space Opera” or some such, but genre is a tool for publishers and bookstores, not so much for writers. I certainly never set out to write a particular genre (and somehow trying to pin the work to a particular category feels wrong). I just knew what I wanted to write.
I suppose a sneak peak is in order. Here’s what I’m proposing for the cover summary:
Nate, an autistic boy from our world, is thrust into a different universe–one whose very foundations are built on mysterious forces. There, he has no memory of his past and his autism is refocused and transformed into a near superpower. Caught up in a mission he barely understands from his shattered memories, Nate and his new friends wander the stars while dark forces attempt to destroy everything around them.
…And now I’m done.
So do I self-publish? Find a publisher? No fair. This feels like the beginning of the process instead of the end.
Just done.
(Yeah I thought I’d be a bit more euphoric too. Ah well. It’s still DONE.)
