I've been living with these characters for a long time. If i go back to the absolute beginning, I met Elisha Grey and Kiara Ptolmai in 1990. Then, my life took a turn and the manuscript of what became the seminal volume (I had no idea at the time) of Casebook sat in a file drawer.
Underemployment came crawling into my life, and the need for social media -- which I hadn't previously used -- in 2011. At that time, I discovered that e-books existed, and did some research.
In order to publish that first volume of Casebook, I needed to retype the entire manuscript because it was on a floppy disk (and my computer doesn't have a floppy disk drive).
By the time I was finished revising and editing it, I realized there were more stories -- so a second volume of three stories was in order. For other writers, here's a suggestion: if you've got a manuscript lingering in a file drawer, take it out, look at it again, and see if it's worth publishing. That means you'll read the entire work again, and if it was in that drawer for a while, you might need to retype it.
As Casebook has evolved, more recurring characters -- some of them significant -- have insisted on being added to the plots of different stories. All the characters, including the protagonist and his narrator, have developed relationships with each other that have produced changes in their lives. As I get ready to upload The Casebook Of Elisha Grey VII and anticipate work on the final volume (which is already sketched out), I realize that I have had a relationship with all of these characters for six years. It's a close one, a meaningful one, and it makes the broaching of Casebook VIII bittersweet.
I hope they dwell in readers' minds at least for a while, and I also hope they will be brought to life in visual media.
The detective mysteries may take place in Atlantis, however, they deal with issues that are still present today. Sometimes, science fiction is a genre that opens people's minds to current issues without the sociopolitical stigma attached to them in our own time. I hope this is the case with the series.
The photo with this post relates to tenth generation Lemurian and shaman Kamay Pellay's relating his journeys to the Baikal to a young girl as a bedtime story at her request. I won't tell you who she is, as that would be a spoiler.
Photo: Lake Baikal, Oikhon Island, by Pavel Minaev
Underemployment came crawling into my life, and the need for social media -- which I hadn't previously used -- in 2011. At that time, I discovered that e-books existed, and did some research.
In order to publish that first volume of Casebook, I needed to retype the entire manuscript because it was on a floppy disk (and my computer doesn't have a floppy disk drive).
By the time I was finished revising and editing it, I realized there were more stories -- so a second volume of three stories was in order. For other writers, here's a suggestion: if you've got a manuscript lingering in a file drawer, take it out, look at it again, and see if it's worth publishing. That means you'll read the entire work again, and if it was in that drawer for a while, you might need to retype it.
As Casebook has evolved, more recurring characters -- some of them significant -- have insisted on being added to the plots of different stories. All the characters, including the protagonist and his narrator, have developed relationships with each other that have produced changes in their lives. As I get ready to upload The Casebook Of Elisha Grey VII and anticipate work on the final volume (which is already sketched out), I realize that I have had a relationship with all of these characters for six years. It's a close one, a meaningful one, and it makes the broaching of Casebook VIII bittersweet.
I hope they dwell in readers' minds at least for a while, and I also hope they will be brought to life in visual media.
The detective mysteries may take place in Atlantis, however, they deal with issues that are still present today. Sometimes, science fiction is a genre that opens people's minds to current issues without the sociopolitical stigma attached to them in our own time. I hope this is the case with the series.
The photo with this post relates to tenth generation Lemurian and shaman Kamay Pellay's relating his journeys to the Baikal to a young girl as a bedtime story at her request. I won't tell you who she is, as that would be a spoiler.
Photo: Lake Baikal, Oikhon Island, by Pavel Minaev