Well, thanks for the interest everybody, however I’m not going to be in a position to share/sell anything for quite some time.
It’s the first draft I’m aiming to have finished in the next couple of months. Assuming I get that done I’m taking a break from it to go back and knock a short story I have in to shape for submission. The plan is then to come back to this monster and to start the process of editing. It is ridiculously long and I need to knock the guts out of it and lose, by my own reckoning, at least 100k words, probably more. Once that’s done and I’ve prettied it up it will go to my wife for her to pass her judgement on it, and based on her thoughts it will get at least one more edit before I’m ready to show it to anybody else. And by that point, assuming I haven’t completely despaired and put a match to my laptop, I’m going to start the long and no doubt arduous process of trying to find an agent/publish. I realise that’s likely to end in sorrow and heartache, but by that point I fully expect to have spent eighteen months to two years on this thing and I want to give the little fella (as he’ll hopefully be by then) every chance.
So to summarise, going to be some time before anybody has a chance to look at this, but rest assured I will let you all know when/if that happens.
I’m looking at this whole thing as a training exercise, teaching myself how to write and becoming disciplined enough that I try and write something every day, or at least write more days than I do not write. So I may or may not get a passable piece of work at the end of this.
The next one though, that’s gonna knock your socks off.