Jude’s Blog

Archive for September, 2008

To help celebrate the completion of my first trilogy, I’m having a special going on.  The first 10 people who buy the trilogy from lulu.com will receive a free themed T-shirt.  For more information, please visit http://www.amodernmyth.com/shirt.htm.

I was notified a few months ago that Xlibris, the online company that published Tomorrow’s Past, would be clearing the title from their catalog due to lack of sales.  I’m not surprised that they have trouble selling their books, due to the high cost they put on them.  Lulu.com does it much cheaper and much better, IMO.  I published this novel many years ago and never really thought of it again.  Back then I thought it was the best it could be, but now that my writing has matured even more, I’m at a cross roads where it is concerned.  I’m thinking that this might be an opportunity to go through it again with a fine toothed comb and make it even better.  Then I could publish it under Lee Books with the rest of my books and offer it through Lulu.com for a lower cost…or should I just dedicate my time and energy to creating new, even better books?  If I put Tomorrow’s Past on the back shelf, it will eventually fall through the cracks. I guess I could just offer it exclusively on my forum, like I do with the rest of my unpublished works.  Don’t really want to do that with a once published book though.  Maybe I should dust it off and make it the best it can be.

Having been a writer for as long as I have, I’m used to editing and re-editing my stories.  There have been several that I have totally rewritten as my writing matured with me.  I am currently in the process of editing one of my recent novellas, hopefully for publication online.  This won’t be the first time I have been published online, but it will be the first time I’ll have a novel published…well, a novella.  My others were all short stories that I only needed to do bit more polishing to get it better.  The revisions I’m currently doing are major rewrites.  Never had to do that on demand before.  It’s going well so far, and I am curious how the finished result will be, and if the publisher will expect more revisions. Some of her suggestions would be changing the entire plot, which I don’t see the need to do.  She found the story intriguing, so wouldn’t changing the plot sort of defeat the purpose? I’m hoping that after it’s all said and done, she’ll agree with how I decided to change things around.

I’ve expanded on this in another blog. To read more, visit http://www.apsense.com/user/judelb