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So Harper-Collins just picked up my manuscript, 'The Reign of Eden', and I'm in talks with Paramount pictures right now on how best to adapt it as a big-budget blockbuster by next summer...
...check today's date, turkeys...
ROE isn't even finished yet. It's sailing smooth, though. In a lot of ways it's a godsend to be writing in third-person limited exclusive (one person, one POV, that is): don't have to jump from head-to-head-to-head-to-head like I'm wont to do in TYPERS. The only challenge is making sure my scrappy hero has a plausible reason to be around when important plot points come up, but that little challenge is more than offset by the sheer amount of focus I'm able to put on the central story by only having one cranium to be bothered by...
I'd say I'm about half-way finished, but there's no real way of telling, truth be told. Technically I was half-way done when I started ('Journey of a thousand steps', and all that...) but I can't say how far along I am because, frankly, I don't know how much polish I'm gonna squirt out of the bottle of perceptivenes to use with my rag of editing righteousness...
Feel free to quote me on that last sentence...
Y'know, for some reason I keep thinking that, if ROE were ever picked up for translation into a movie, that Dewey kid from Malcom in the Middle would make a good Kairos...
...not sure why I think that, to be honest...
