A Cautionary Tale
So, to bring you up-to-date, I finished an 87,000 word novel, UFR, last October. A sysnopsis can be see on my website, www.gearybuxton.net. Shortly after that my world spun into confusion and disorder. Two weeks ago, I finally got around to looking at SF book publisher guidelines, and discovered that DAW wants you to send the completed manuscript. So I did. That was a week ago. I expect to get a SAS card any day indicating they got it. They say on their website it takes at least 3 months before they respond. I really don’t expect them to buy it. But I can dream, can’t I?
Anyway, in an effort to avoid doing any actual work yesterday, I started working on an outline for a sequel to UFR. The dream, of course, is that a publisher likes UFR and wants to know if there’s sequel. I’d love to be able to say, "Yes! Would you like me to email you the current 10 page outline?"
A cautionary tale. Considering now difficult it’s been coming up with an outline for The Year, I should take note how easily the outline for the UFR Sequel is rolling out.
