Well, next week I go out and toss my baby novel out amongst the wolves. I even wrote a pitch for it. Letme know what you think:

THE SHOW MUST GO ON

Chip, Lin and Joe pose as independent ghost hunters. Lin and Chip are married, and they present themselves as a couple. What Chip doesn’t realize is that Lin is having an affair with Joe. The trio, with the rest of their group, manufacture evidence of ghosts for profit.

An accident on set begins a series of odd events. Chip, the die-hard skeptic, waves away the incidents as coincidence, or other easily explained phenomenon. What he can’t explain away is the growing familiarity between Lin and Joe. Turning his attention to the couple, he discovers the truth. In a hot rage, he kills Lin, disposing of the body. Joe follows soon afterwards. Chip believes he’s gotten away with murder.

He finds out though, that there are such things as ghosts. Some of them are very angry.

What do you think? Does it make a good pitch/back blurb? I’m trying to put enough in there to tantalize but not give away the whole thing. I’m not a fan of writing blurbs because I want to commit the cardinal sin of blurbs and end on a question. You know the old sales adage: ‘sell the sizzle, not the steak’ – well, I’m the kind of person that holds out the steak and says “You want it or not?”. No – I am not good at sales.

On the brighter side, I did the editing done before the end of next week, so as far as deadlines go, I’m two versus 10 to the fiftieth power. I’m on a winning streak! I think next, I’m going to edit down Alien Voices and see if that one is ready for prime time, or self-publishing. Honestly, I think it’s going to be the latter, which I am fine with. As far as horror goes, I don’t think the subject matter is going to fly among the larger publishers. It means I still have to write a pitch/back blurb, but at least I can put that off near infinitely.

Tyro is suffering from diversion of attention, so I am tossing that deadline out the window. I’ll get it done when it gets done. I really need to focus on getting projects that I’ve done out there in the weeds. Also, ont sticking to the outline has both helped – I’m getting some fresh scenes that move the story along; and they’ve hurt – When I have nothing, I’m dead in the water. I’m also distracted as of late by getting the current novel ready to be put out. I can manage all of this, but there’s going to be a lot of self-reminders to be patient.

I think that’s it for now. Wish me luck next Friday. I have a pitch to memorize.