That’s Outta’ The Way

Synopsis is finished. Managed to keep it to nine pages, even with the double spacing. It’s amazing how much you lose by squeezing into such a little area.

I sent it off to agent (See link to the bottom left, Sternig & Byrne? That’s him) to let him take a pass at it and see if there’s anything about it that needs changing. Potentially he might be able to just take the synopsis itself and shop that around first to see who bites with the promise “And this time, it’s SHORT!” At least that way he can build up some interest over the next few weeks while I nurse this book into something cleaner and a little bit shorter. And relatively free of typos, I hope.

That’s always been my big thing, typos. About 10% of the time my brain will assume I typed something, but my fingers never got the message. This is especially bad with definite and indefinite articles such as “a” or “the”. Tricksy little things they are…

Tomorrow:

More Neil-O goodness! The new issue of GameAxis is out, and they’ve given me permission to post my Neil-O interview here since it’s a free publication anyway. Neil-O fans take note, I only asked geeky gamer questions, so if you ever wanted to know how Neil Gaiman reacts to the video game industry, now is your opportunity to learn…