Rod Raglin
This blog will touch on the experiences I have as a writer (not to be mistaken for my experience as a writer, i.e. how many books I've written, etc); the pleasure and the pain, the joy and the grief, the satisfaction and the frustration, the magic and the reality - have I left anything out, oh yeah, the rejection, rejection and more rejection, the humiliation and the embarrassment, the jealousy and the resentment - that pretty much covers it, except for why I do it which perhaps I'll realize along the way. Are you totally confused? Good, let's begin.
FREE E-BOOK of The Triumvirate - Love for Power. Love of Power. The Power of Love.
FREE E-BOOK
My New Novel
The Triumvirate - Love for Power. Love of Power. The Power of Love.
Only 'til July 1, 2020, at
https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B003DS6LEU
How long do you wait?
For me, it used to be six months, but time's running out.
I don’t care how many thousands of manuscripts they receive, they’ve had 100 days. You’d think that would be long enough to at least take a look and tell me it’s crap? I’m talking about traditional publishers. You knew that, right?
I started writing The Triumvirate - Love for Power. Love of Power. The Power of Love, in response to climate change. I had this idea there were solutions. Sure, we'd need to make tough choices and sacrifices, but in the end, a better world would emerge. I’d write that story.
I was wrong.
The Triumvirate turned out to be dystopian fiction rather than the opposite. I saw the future, or at least I researched it and, as Leonard Cohen said, “it is murder”.
Redemption in The Triumvirate doesn’t come by way of technology, or by adopting a vegan lifestyle, it comes in the form of the indomitable human spirit. Believe me, I didn’t see this coming, but it’s a story about love.
Considering the protagonist is asexual, it’s not your usual love story. It’s brutal, it’s frightening, and in the end, tragic, but never the less, it’s about love.
The Triumvirate has a lot of contemporary themes, even a pandemic scene written and researched two years prior to COVID-19. It’s life imitating art - in this case, life imitating my new novel. I’m thinking timing is important.
So, I self-publish on Amazon. Again. That makes eleven novels, two plays, and a collection of short stories.
Will it sell?
You can read it free until July 1, 2020, and let me know, or better still, write an honest review.
Download your free e-book at https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B003DS6LEU
