Site Notes | White Dwarf Status
I’ve gotten this question a few times so I’ll break my habit of not ever updating and post it here:
So the demise of Rudius left me on my own. My OCD would have it no other way. This means White Dwarf will get published, with one caveat… I’ll have to do it myself. I have some money saved up for just such a purpose. I will be using an on-demand publishing service called Create Space.
I don’t really expect to recoup the money I sink into publishing it (probably about 4k) and the book will be priced cheap. I don’t have the time or inclination to do any sort of marketing other than maybe buying ads on facebook (I tried just advertising this site on it for two days and was quite shocked by the amount of traffic I received… just for a stupid blog!).
Anyway. I’m shooting for Spring 2010. If I just submitted what I have now, I could probably have it out by the end of the month, but I’m doing a significant cleanup. If you divide the 42 chapters into 3 equal parts, nearly half the story is in part 1. I’m going to significantly fill out the last two parts. Right now, it’s about 83000 words. I’m guessing it will end up being between 100000 and 120000.
I had already completed significant work on the first 14 chapters in the past month… all of which I lost a week ago due to a hard drive issue. The only thing I managed to salvage was the rewritten first chapter which I’d emailed to someone.
I’ve re-completed that work (it was still fresh enough in my head) and will continue revising everything until I’m satisfied (or at least someone I trust tells me I should be satisfied)…
I’ll leave the original story as-is on the site and the new stuff will only be available in print.
If I can help out somehow, I have some significant downtime from December through February.
i’ll totally take you up on that if you’re up to reading the whole damn thing.
Starting a week from today, sir, I am available.
You don’t know me but I will buy a copy. I love your writing and am excited to hear about this.
I would also be willing to help though I don’t know what I could.
thank you sir!
great news. I’ve just used Createspace for a couple of books and they’ve worked out well. Let me know if I can help read or something.
awesome. i’m going to have technical questions…
sounds great. just hit me up on facebook or email or whatever if you have any questions or if you want anything read. since i read the whole thing, i always thought white dwarf was a natural for print.
Glad to hear this, I’ll definitely queue up to purchase one.
If you need any proof reading let me know. I’m just a silly chemistry nut, but I enjoy a book or two.
Fantastic news! Yours and Philalawyers were the two books I was most waiting for off of Rudius after discovering your blog there when White Dwarf was still a work in progress. I’ve bought Happy Hour is for Amateurs and will count myself a proud owner of White Dwarf when it comes out.
I’d buy this in a heartbeat, any risk of it making it as far as the UK?
absolutely. even if i have to ship it by hand.
You’ve got yourself a deal Sir.