Okay. Today is a pretty good day, the manuscript for the second installment of my Darkside Trilogy is completed, subject to some rigorous editing.
For those who do not know, The Darkside Trilogy tells the story of what happens in the United States of America when the country discovers that Black folks have been secretly living on the backside of the moon since before Neil Armstrong set foot there.
Volume One, Discovery, tells the story from the viewpoint of an unsuspecting earth, combining a forty year missing persons trend consisting exclusively of African Americans, an advanced aircraft shot down in the Middle East, a newly invented gravitation anomaly detector, and an asteroid inbound toward Earth's orbit originating in the asteroid belt out past Mars.
Volume Two, Conception, hot off the word processor, tells the forty year story of the young man who discovered a startling principle of physics that permits him to control the force of gravity, and the people he collects along the way toward making this secret settlement on the moon.
The thing that made me laugh when I typed the last words in the manuscript tonight was the slight despair when I started Chapter 1 and saw the long, uphill climb ahead in October.
Tonight I celebrate the first phase in the trip to publication. Now the editing begins. However, I fully expect to see it available for sale in early summer...
WmH
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