Novel Podcast: A War Between States - Compilation
It’s an exciting time for me right now - I am up to my ears in things to do.
This site is doing increasingly well. Within a reasonable amount of time, I will finish a novel that I’ve been working on for 4 years, which I can hopefully sell to someone someday. Martha Stewart has called me out again for another project this week. The kids are healthy and doing well in school. I have a bunch of short stories out there on editors’ desks awaiting their approval or rejection. Money’s not too tight. It’s not supposed to rain all week.
Which brings me to the purpose of this post.
For just over 5 months I’ve been incrementally posting a novel in a podcast format. This is NOT the novel I’ve been working on for the last several years, and for that reason, I think now’s the time to tell you about A War Between States and tell you where it stands among my work.
I started it about 7 years ago, and I THINK I’ve written about two thirds of it. I worked on it diligently for a couple of years back in 2001-2003 - there are about 17 chapters written, all told. Shortly after my daughter Madeleine was born, I abandoned it, although I always meant to go back to it. Then I got an idea for another novel - the one I’m working on now - and War took a back burner.
Before I abandoned it, I’d taken about 8 of the 17 or so chapters and cleaned them up - about 100 pages worth, so that were an editor or publisher to randomly show interest in something like it, I’d have something to present to them. Those 8 chapters are what I’ve podcast for you so far.
There’s more. And it’s coming. But the next batch of chapters is in fairly rough form - probably at a second draft level - and before I give it to you, I’d like to clean it up some and make it prettier and tighter. Trouble is, all those things I listed above are occupying a significant amount of my time and energy, and I don’t want to drop any of them to make room for War. Still, I feel like it’s an imperative now - and I SHOULD have been working on editing the next few chapters all along.
So that’s where I’m at, and here’s what I’m gonna do. All week this week, I’ll be doing my best to get a few more chapters prepared for podcast, and get my readers to come read for me, and hopefully there won’t be too much of a lag between posts (God knows there’s been 2 week lags before). But I’ll be doing it while I’m also balancing everything else - and that’s no mean feat. Please bear with me, and please enjoy what there is of A War Between States.
For your convenience, and for all the newcomers to my site and to this podcast, here are direct links to each of the chapters, in order. So now you can just click and go, and maybe give a listen to the whole thing….
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