I have written what I consider as books, more than 300 k words, at least. So yes, I have been writing for years.
However whenever I offer something for publication I am ignored. I know, I know; the easy part of writing a book is finishing the story. Getting it published is the hard part.
I am a computer programmer in real life. I guess that makes me a technician. I must think and write like one too.
This morning I awoke with a simple solution to my dilemma - make my latest book into a web site.
So here's the idea: Keep the story the same, but use illustrations in place of too much writing, but not quite a comic, (I am not artistic enough for that).
It is science fiction of course, but each time I get technical - which is quite often - replace it with a Flash movie explanation. I have the tools to do it.
So I must publish it on the web.
Three options to view:
• Free straight from the web site with a picture in place of a video and perhaps making only the first few chapters available.
• If the reader thinks the book looks good, then pay a reasonable (small) fee and download the full book with an option to view it off-line in PDF with videos in Adobe AIR.
• Alternatively use a PDF with an open Internet connection with videos in Flash.
Perhaps I might put some security check so it cannot be copied too easily.
Now most of the book is based largely on my own experience with huge injections of imagination. It is also classical Sci-fi, and set the in twenty first century so almost everything except the Sci-fi, is in today's world and illustrating that would be fairly easy using royalty free images - (Sci-fi in videos and everyday things in pictures).
So that's the idea - take a long time; yes - so what's new?
What do you think? Is it a good idea? Will it sell?
Saturday, July 4, 2009
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