Backstory...

Ok, I just put the website badge on my bookpage, so now's a good time to introduce myself and my little project.My Sci-Fi/Erotic Horror/Neo-Southern Gothic Fable Banjo Strings is the opening movement in an ongoing, real time, participatory literary experiment - The Writing Process as Performance Art. I say 'experiment' because I'm breaking damn near every publishing industry rule in the process.Backstory:I moved to LA from Chicago in 2002. In 2005 I stumbled across the world of podcasting, which appealed to my pirate radio sensibilities, so I began to produce a weekly show. The next year I took one of my ideas for a novel and that November, with foolhardy gusto, I dived into National Novel Writing Month. After the end of the month, I had 10 chapters written, and was gonna buckle down and grind out the rest of the book, but in December I discovered the existence of podcast novels, and I was a podcaster, so I downshifted to novel -in-progress.In January 2007, I released the first two chapters of the novel. As of Sept. 2nd, 20 chapters can be heard, along with parts 1 and 2 of Chapter 21 (I'm writing parts 3, 4 and 5 right now).So far, from the raw numbers, I've estimated that over 5,000 people have 'laid eyes' on my book (read an excerpt or listened to at least one chapter), and over 3000 have 'read' a third or more of the book. The interesting thing is that normally a writer NEVER gets this kind of general statistical information or feedback on a book while it's being written, and edited, and revised in real time. The experience of having an audience along for the ride in itself is a trip.Now that I'm near the end of the book, I have thought more of the tired-ass dichotomy SF writers with a little extra melanin get caught up in, but I hope my story is interesting enough to cut through. I'll pontificate on that in another post...
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