Mar 16 2011
P. Mac got published in the New York Times
This article on the response to the Japanese earthquake will put a damper on my plan to have more readers than my tech guy by the end of the year. (He was already ahead by at least a bajillion). He’s also reportedly the best contributor on Hacker News, which he assures me is less interesting than it sounds.
Money quote: “If you like making money and doing important things, you should probably reach out to [P. Mac] and recruit him now. He will go through the mental shift soon where he realizes what he’s worth, and then he’ll cost a lot. For now, maybe you could get him at $200,000 a year.” Oh God, I went into the wrong profession.
Wow! That’s great! Also B.Mac I’ve been looking for a publisher to send my novel to once I’m done writing it. I don’t want to be googling publishers for hours on in once I do finish. Oh and just for the record,
Length- 90,000 to 100,000 words.
Target Audience- 13-18 yrs old.
Genre- I would say Adventure. i don’t feel the entire story fits into one specific genre. It’s 10% sci-fi, 30% survivalist and wilderness, 20% action, 5% martial arts, and 35% comedy (Due to Dunimas’s superior metal retardation, lol, just kidding). Dang-that’s a lot.
In your submission, I would recommend picking 1-2 genres that feel most fitting. There may be elements of more genres (like the way Batman has included elements of action, detective/crime, sci-fi, and occasionally even some romance and fantasy), but picking a focus gives the editor an idea of which shelf it’d be most likely sold on. I think adventure (or sci-fi adventure or superpowered adventure) covers most of the bases.
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How much of a wilderness survival story is this? (In the chapters I’ve seen, at least, the wilderness doesn’t seem to play much of a role. Unless he spends most of the book trekking across the Eurasian wasteland or something).
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I think 90-100,000 words sounds on-target for a YA story. Maybe a bit longer than ideal, but I doubt an editor would say no on that basis if the story were otherwise publishable.
I would like to see your blog explode more in popularity. Your insights in the superhero genre is solid and accurate. Keep up the high quality posts!
Alright B.Mac, its a long one but I’ll be as brief as possible (abap)
That portal Dunimas stepped through was to a Gargan moon that orbited Earth. The Gargans used it to get to Earth after they destroyed their home planet. Haden’s Grandfather stumbles across it when he is only 14 and spends much of his life building a rocket to get there. He builds it a decade later, slaughters all the animals he can find and goes back to Earth to bring nearly some of every animal on Earth. The moon has lush forests and oceans and is twice as big as Earth, and has a slightly stronger gravity but it doesn’t reach outside of the atmosphere so Earth’s magnetic pull allows it to orbit. So Haden’s Grandfather begins the Armorgeddon cult and passes it down to Haden who is finally ready to take his conquest. If you read chapter 11 Haden tells us that he took 20% of every nationality on Earth and moved them to the planet under his brother, Pheonos, rule. To make a long story short Dunimas gets there and breaks into the castle. He expects to fight Haden but fights his son, Exsusia. He loses (like usual) and is under Banishment. It’s like a scavenger hunt basically. He has to find 7 keys sealed within their respectful guardians. Dunimas then leaves (or should I say, blasted out) and notices a crowd. They found Arre and were about to burn her at a stake because they thought she was helping Haden. Dunimas rescues her and is chased by an angry mob into a Gargan forest (Those trees are MASSIVE by the way) and gets lost. He knows he must use his powers sparingly, so he decides to survive there-in the WILDERNESS for the YEAR. That’s a large portion of the story btw and I can’t wait to start writing it!.