As promised yesterday, following is the first draft – rough and still malleable – of the preface to my new book (which itself is barely a work in progress, and hasn't yet got so much as a working title). But I kind of like the preface, so I'll figure out a way to work it in. Hmmm. Kind of a backwards process.
PREFACE
The end of the world, when it came, didn’t arrive with a bang ... hardly even a whimper. Without an instant of warning. The world, the solar system, the galaxy, the universe, simply ceased to exist.
It was, simply, the end.
Those who were awake would have experienced a nanosecond of blackness ... but when that briefest whisper of time passed, not one remained to bear testimony on how it felt to have the very essence of being sucked from the core.
Then nothing. Not the blackness. Not even the consciousness of nothingness. Just
Nothing.
Suddenly.
No horror. No death. No rapture. No white light at tunnel’s end.
No tunnel.
No soul wafting like smoke to heaven. No heaven.
No hell. No devil.
Just the Void – the complete, total, visceral lack of anything at all ....
And God.
Friday, April 23, 2010
Thursday, April 22, 2010
My new book
Hard to believe it's been two months since I've landed here in the Blogosphere.
But the time has been put to good use finishing, packaging and sending of my new book to the publisher.
It's called: When Did I Become the Oldest Person in the Room? ... A practical guide for writers who write about life
The book is available now on Amazon Kindle and soon will be published in paperback, to be sold on the main Amazon site and in bookstores everywhere.
Writing a book was easier than I imagined – well, actually finishing a book, that is. I've been writing a novel for more than 10 years, and it remains today as unfinished as the day I started, practically. I'll finish that Great American Novel one day, but for now, I'm focusing in the non-fiction realm with "Oldest," which basically is a teaching manual for writers.
Successfully marketing a book, is looking as though it will be much more of a challenge than actually writing one. If I plan to continue enjoying myself as an author / editor, though, I'm going to have to make the marketing gig work, and actually sell what I write. ("Please buy my book," he pleaded, shamelessly)
Oh yeah. I've also started a new non-fiction book – as yet unnamed – that will offer up lessons in real life for anyone seeking a high-quality path to their 60th birthday. Now, this is all more or less formulated in my mind, with an outline on paper, but I haven't got a clue yet how I'm going to firmly tie my ambitious foreward into the content of the book.
I'll polish up the foreward this afternoon, and post that tomorrow.
But the time has been put to good use finishing, packaging and sending of my new book to the publisher.
It's called: When Did I Become the Oldest Person in the Room? ... A practical guide for writers who write about life
The book is available now on Amazon Kindle and soon will be published in paperback, to be sold on the main Amazon site and in bookstores everywhere.
Writing a book was easier than I imagined – well, actually finishing a book, that is. I've been writing a novel for more than 10 years, and it remains today as unfinished as the day I started, practically. I'll finish that Great American Novel one day, but for now, I'm focusing in the non-fiction realm with "Oldest," which basically is a teaching manual for writers.
Successfully marketing a book, is looking as though it will be much more of a challenge than actually writing one. If I plan to continue enjoying myself as an author / editor, though, I'm going to have to make the marketing gig work, and actually sell what I write. ("Please buy my book," he pleaded, shamelessly)
Oh yeah. I've also started a new non-fiction book – as yet unnamed – that will offer up lessons in real life for anyone seeking a high-quality path to their 60th birthday. Now, this is all more or less formulated in my mind, with an outline on paper, but I haven't got a clue yet how I'm going to firmly tie my ambitious foreward into the content of the book.
I'll polish up the foreward this afternoon, and post that tomorrow.
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