Well, it’s official. The novel I will be releasing before the end of the month is titled “Tintian and the Mysterious Meteor”.
This one is an homage to “Tintin and the Shooting Star”, another of my favourites from Herge’s series. Mine, of course, has significantly more science fiction (and, to be completely frank, significantly more science). I’m really happy with how the story turned out… at its core it’s a race story between two starships trying to reach a mysterious object happily joyriding through the solar system. But they’re racing each other and the clock, since before long the object will be beyond the reach of human exploration. Plus, the sneaky Venus Bank that’s funding the competitors will stop at nothing to capture it themselves… does plucky reporter Leigh Tintian, her best friend Agnes Millesabord, her robot companion SN0-EE, and the crew of the Prosperous have the guts, intelligence, and luck to reach their destination first?
Only one way to find out!
Anyway, now that it’s official, time to start doing all the secondary work that comes along with this stuff. Primarily, I’m going to see if I can track down some cover art (I have a lead on a cover artist that might be willing to do a custom cover, which is always preferable, so we’ll see how that goes!), write the jacket blurb, and get ready to covert everything into HTML (I have a friend who does that sort of work for a living, and I’m really curious if he can give me some feedback).
Oh! Oh! And I sent off one of my audio stories to a different friend (I am blessed with an embarrassment of riches when it comes to the quality of humans in my life) to see if he can give useful feedback for how to write better scripts. I figure since I’m doing it anyway, might as well do it better!
Okay, that’s it for today. My editor has had the novel now for almost a week, so she should be getting it back to me soon (she does good, fast work, and is going on vacation for the end of the month so I suspect I’ll have it back well before then). Hope everyone is having as good a day (or better!) as I am!