Salability

Every writer knows the feeling of having a manuscript out to a publisher. That nerve-wracking feeling that you're on trial. That somebody has your brain open, somewhere, and is reading it.

Take that to the power of three.

That's right, I've brought three different, very varied, exceptionally niche-worthy manuscripts to the point 0f being polished enough to send out... and they're all out.

To say I'm on pins and needles is an understatement. I'm writhing in torment and agony.

What kind of novels? An epic science fiction action novel, at roughly 250,000 words.

A not-so-epic fantasy novel.

A tragically urban pop culture/horror/gothic novel. (that one should blow your mind)

These three have everything in common, and nothing. They're united in feel, in a uniqueness of perspective. They have nothing in common in setting or even in timeline.

My pride is dwarfed only by my fear.

Nonfiction

I just bit off the biggest bite yet. I started writing something that was neither fiction, nor entirely fun. Something without parallel in my writing career.

Something new.

Something awesome.

I started writing a book that wasn't fiction. A book that wasn't fantasy, or science fiction. A book that draws out truth and wisdom and tries to show it to the whole world.

This may require a pseudonym...

This is scary. Writing fiction means making up your own rules. Don't like the ending? Write a new one. Writing nonfiction means having to figure out the way it is, and telling it that way.

Scary.

Later, an update on just how many manuscripts I've written and am currently trying to get published....