So I wrote a Young Adult novel a little over a year ago. Well, I don’t know that you could really call it a book. Let’s call it a draft.
The book was originally to be named Speech, but as the story developed it was changed to Please Be Mind. This is a title you will only understand once you’ve read the book.
Here’s a picture of me writing it back on Maui:
When I finished, after one month of writing over a thousand words per day, I was just happy to be done. I felt accomplished, and felt like the story in itself was kind of flawed, and the characters one-dimensional. I still feel that way for the most part.
Gee. That sounds enticing, eh?
Since I saved the final iteration of my manuscript to disk, a few of my closest friends and family have been able to read it. Some gave me the reaction I expected, some “never got around” to reading it, but some, an astonishing majority, said they actually liked it. Some raved about it.
So I’m leaving the final decision up to you.
Full disclosure: I’m editing as I go (you’ll thank me for it, believe me), so I can only post two chapters each week. I’ll be posting Wednesday and Saturday mornings at 9:00am PST. Wednesday’s post will contain the introduction and first chapter.
For each chapter, I’ll be providing several ways of reading. You can read it right off the blog (like the words you’re reading now), read from a supplied PDF, an ePub file for your Kindle or Sony Reader, and an MP3 audio-recording of the day’s chapter. To subscribe to the MP3 versions as a podcast, click here to subscribe in itunes.
Basically, I’m trying to make it as easy as possible for everyone to read it as it comes, so if there’s a way you think of that would help you, let me know.
If you want to get new chapters emailed to you each day, you can always use the email signup form on the side-bar.
NOTE: The email subscription service doesn’t allow me to choose when these get sent out, so if you want to read them in the morning, you’ll have to come to the page itself.
Tell your friends, call your parents, block out a time each Wednesday and Saturday. I hope you enjoy the world-wide premiere of Please Be Mind.
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Great, I can’t wait to begin reading. What an accomplishment.
Trish
I’ll be reading it too. This is great.
This is beyond fantastic. I am really looking forward to reading this. I have been pondering for a long time the idea of posting my fiction writing on my blog and I have been held by by concerns over copyright. What would happen if someone stole my work? Would I be able to affrord to defend my copyright?
But in the end, getting it out there is what counts.