Is It Done Yet?

They say August Wilson used to change his plays even as they were being rehearsed.  I think authors face that dilemma every day.  Is the piece I'm working on finished?  Or should I write more?

I recently finished a novel entitled The Reward of the Fool.  It's published.  It's out there in the world.  So I began writing another book.  I called it The Ruleless Manifesto.  50 pages into it, I realized that I was writing more of The Reward of the Fool.  So now the dilemma: Do I leave The Reward of the Fool as it is?  Or do I change it, perhaps angering folks who had already bought the old version?

Well, I decided to change it.  I've incorporated the new stuff into the old, and I think I have a much better final product.  I've given it to a few writer friends of mine to get their reactions, but I'm already sure it's going to press.  I just hope the early buyers don't hate me.

Fiction Marketing: A New Beginning

Four of us started a new fiction marketing group today.  Sam Greenlee, author of The Spook Who Sat by the Door; Paris Smith, author of Shafi Doldi; Mike Cook, author of Drums of the Night Gods; and yours truly, Larry Redmond a.k.a. Obi, author of The Reward of the Fool.

After discussing the plight of the "reading world," we've decided that all is not lost, that we can in fact get people to read books the way they did back in the day.  All we need to do is reach out.  So reach out we will.  In the coming days, we will be creating new Facebook, Twitter and E-bay accounts with the specific purpose of selling quality fiction.  We haven't formulated a plan yet.  That will be done in coming meetings.  But we've started researching foreign and domestic outlets that we might be able to tap.  We'll see how it goes