originalsam_backup | Trace: Draft Two Index Post

This is the Second Draft index post for Trace. (I've succumbed. There's no other title for it. Trace, irrelevant as it is, it shall be.)

Trace

Colin Byrne is a pickpocket, an artist, and an occasional consultant for the police. He's also an ex-felon, an initiate into the unspoken, unseen magic that only prisoners know: how to disappear, how to tell fortunes, how to steal souls. Now NYPD detective Joseph Wright, the man who put him in prison and saved him when he got out, wants him to return to Railburg State Correctional Facility to help investigate a case.

Some things at Railburg haven't changed. His protégé Noel is still the best ink artist in the prison, and their mentor Gutierrez still talks to God. The gangs are still the ones with all the power. But some things are different -- there's a young Blood named Laney who sees demons, and another prisoner Colin helped put away is slowly poisoning Railburg's food. With mysterious forces aiming to incite a riot and the Aryan Brotherhood constantly harassing Laney, Colin has bigger problems than the one he went to Railburg to solve.

Until Joseph arrives at Railburg, posing as a guard, and Colin discovers Joseph might now be just as dangerous as anything else in the prison...

Because of the variety of length, chapters have been posted in sets of three per post.

Chapters 1, 2, & 3 | Chapters 4, 5, & 6 | Chapters 7, 8, & 9 | Chapters 10, 11, & 12
Chapters 13, 14, & 15 | Chapters 16, 17, & 18 | Chapters 19, 20, & 21 | Chapters 22, 23, 24, & 25

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One minor teeny tiny typo: you have 29 instead of 19. :)

D'oh! Good catch.

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At first when I read the Chapter One, I thought how clever it was to have written a tiny chapter and adopted the form of the novel to the net. I think there's some steam there. Long or short I enjoyed what I read. Are you published to the kindle? Do you know about Smash books? I think it's called that. Just a minute and I'll check it out. It's Smash Words, a site where lots of authors have published on the net, and are available through Amazon and five other sources I think. I'm asking this because it would be nice to have reviewers and a site that would blurb on smash words product. I think it's a need. Time is always an issue, but perhaps you'll catch my drift...any thoughts on this?

Some of the chapters are quite short, it's true. :)

I do have an account on Smashwords, but I've found it to be rather a morass of people who comment on your book so that you'll read theirs. I get much more attention here from loyal readers, and publishing through Lulu earns a more significant revenue stream.

I'm going to look up LuLu which I don't know anything about. On Smashwords that may be true but there are zillions of books too. I came from a background in Poetry so I'm used to the involuted construct. As it was, I think I was one of the few poets who actually kept up with other people's work, out of a genuine interest, which meant wading through many mags, journals, and literary pubs. At the time I had access to the best collection, assemblage, of such pubs through the Library of Congress. The me and the void construct is still a strange new world. I'm not sure yet, but I think Tweeting may prove to be helpful.

Lulu.com is a self-publishing site for hardcopy publishing -- you upload your ms and cover and such, and you can put your book up for sale. It's not really a networking tool, per se, but it works well as a distribution tool for me. I'm an avid reader, but the issues that apply to selfpub in general apply to Smashwords -- there's just no gatekeeping, so it's possible to waste a lot of time on bad books.

Are you looking to use Twitter to publicise or network? It can be useful for both, though I've found it pretty constricting.

PooPoo on the gatekeepers. This is a democracy. All the best poets were self published and actually able to earn a living that way. We're just returning to the cobble stoned streets of medieval whatever. I've been a gate keeper. I used to write notes like "we can't do them all"...do your own publishing..." Now the serious business of the evening. I'm about to start an article on The Living Wage, a Catholic idea. Sounds very nice, doesn't it?

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