Well, maybe not of the minds, but of the writers. Tomorrow about 10 professional writers are getting together here in a big suite at a local hotel and brainstorming a ton of different stuff about this great new world of publishing online we are living in.

All of us attending have figured out the standard older ways of publishing through New York, and are making a go of that, but over the last few years so much has changed and none of us want to be left behind. Besides, there is some money to be made publishing online and outside of New York at times.

Some of those attending are farther down the road in some areas than others when it comes to web sites, online publishing, epublishing, Kindle publishing, and POD publishing. So we’re going to combine knowledge.

It should be a blast.

I hope to make some changes here over the next few weeks spurred directly from this meeting. I do plan on putting up some original fiction here, and a few books serialized. So stay tuned for fallout of what I am sure will be a really fun and educational day for this old guy.

As for the writing side of things now that the big move is over, I had a pretty good week last week. Started and wrote and finished and mailed a short story called “Sighed the Snake” to Asimov’s. (Yes, same title as the Al Wilson song. I listen to too much 60’s music.)  I also wrote a proposal and added in some sample chapters from a novel called THE SLOTS OF SATURN that I have finished, and got that package off to six editors. It’s a Poker Boy novel, for those of you who have read some of my Poker Boy short stories. I’ll put one up here on this site at some point in the next month for those who haven’t.

So far this week I’ve finished some sample chapters and have a proposal ready to mail out for a book called MARTIAN LOVERS written under a pen name I’ll tell you all after it sells. A very strange and I hope funny paranormal romance.

What’s up for next week besides the changes from this meeting tomorrow? I have a new post in the Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing coming up. This post is about Books as Events. I figured it was a good time to bash at that myth since this is the month so many people set out to write a book in a month. Stay tuned.

Cheers, Dean

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