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For reasons known only in Holland, I received almost 1,500 hits from the Dutch over the last several days. Ah, but why? What website or publication sparked this North Sea surge? Good or bad? Positive or lurid? (I enjoyed the acting of the late Rutger Hauer, but was modest in my praise.) If anyone in Holland is late to the party and writes English, please leave a message explaining the interest.
Working on Book 2 of my Hallow Mass trilogy. Since August 8, I have written 32,519 words coming out to 109 pages. Keep in mind that Truman Capote's novella Breakfast at Tiffany's rolled in at 108 pages. (That's the 1993 Vintage Books edition.) Comparisons? We both follow female protagonists and my current efforts are one page longer. That's about it.
Yet, out of my 32k worth of repetition and word bilge, there skulks a story about teaching, power, and the price of blind arrogance, all adorned in a dark urban fantasy hoodie. When will this tale see print? Right now, I'm thinking next March. First in line is my long short story on transgenic beasts and corruption as a young baseball player hopes to slide to safety in the face of an environmental experiment gone haywire.
"Eat Out" will be my first work published using Draft 2 Digital, a software program that formats your ebooks, then places same in markets such as Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Apple Books. Similar to Smashwords, but the formatting process is reputed to be friendlier.
Should sales be brisk, I'll certainly include an edition in Dutch.
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2 comments:
Perhaps the spike in Dutch interest
stems from appreciation of your song
“U.N. Me,” which includes the line
“Took a tour with some Dutch.”
Or not.
But I do love that song!
“U.N. Me.”
Lyrics by John P. McCann
You and me
We'll have a bag of fun
Down by the East Riverside
The United Nations there
Drives away a fellow's cares
One hundred-eighty three countries meet
Down by the East Riverside
New York, off 42nd Street
See foreign states
With a grudge
Down by the East Riverside
United Nations tries to fix
Wars, famine, and oil slicks
Boutros Boutros-Ghali-gee
Down by the East Riverside
Leads the General Assembly
The gift shop will take traveler's checks
Down by the East Riverside
German tourists were not rare
Buying T-shirts and flatware
Ate pastries from Liberia
Down by the East Riverside
At the U.N. cafeteria
Took a tour with some Dutch
Down by the East Riverside
We had a guide from Japan
Who had a decent pension plan
Some costly artwork from Brazil
Down by the East Riverside
On which my soda I did spill
You and me, we had a bag of fun
Down by the East Riverside
Saw flags on shiny poles
From lands with lofty goals
We'll beat our swords into liverwurst
Down by the East Riverside
But no one wants to be the first
But then, I guess it could be worse
Wakko: We could still sing one more verse
You and me!
When you get the reply (from Holland) as to their interest in your Cancer story, please post! Perhaps there's a specialist there? I'm curious.
Draft2Digital....I'm gonna check that out. While I can't publish my current project, I do have one in the works which I will be able to publish so this new (digital) frontier will be of interest.
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