Any idea when Atomik Age will be done?

[Freeq]

Well, Mr Brian? Are you even far enough that you could hazard an estimate as to when we can read the glorius sequel? Oh yeah, and any idea if this one'll be large enough to qualify as a WMD. It had damn well better. Or I'll complain some, get banned and dedicate the remainder of my life to poking you and/or your relatives. Repeatedly. In the facemobile.

Okay, I'm done now.

[Kurosen]

I've gotten about 40 pages done so far. No idea how long it will be or how long it will take me. As a point of reference, Nuklear Age took about 4 years to write.

[Freeq]

Four years, eh? I can wait that out!
>.>
God damn it, Pratchett better write more Vimes in the meantime. You've actually managed to compete with him for my favourite author and that's quite an achievement for a first novel.

[Meister]

One thing's for sure, Pratchett writes faster. Then again, he doesn't write a webcomic on side.

Dammit, but he should.

[shiney]

Seriously, yo. It would be the second greatest ever made.

[MFD]

Ooh! Ooh! Pick me!

It'll be done when it's done.

[Freeq]

What'll be don... eh, whatever. I'll hold ya to that.

[Lost in Time]

But then again, I think Nuklear Age would have been done in 3 if it wasn't his back luck with editors. But since after the sucess of his first book, the sequal should be done about a year faster. Maybe... hopefully...

[Trevor McMurder]

I was just pondering.

I know, Brian, that you mentioned a publishing agency contacted you because of sales and then turned you down because...they didn't think .... it would sell well.

But still, even though they turned you down, do you think that with the sucess of Nuklear Age under your belt you could convince a traditional publisher to go for Atomik Age?

Or do you think you will stick with iuniverse?

Or will you assemble a ragtag group of former soldiers/prisoners, don the mantle of Hannibal and throw together a plan for getting the book published that somehow involves a bus, a few wire cutters, and Mr. T, culminating in saying the magic words, "I love it when a plan comes together." ?

[Kurosen]

The plan is to use Nuklear Age's relative success as leverage to show that Atomik Age would be worth picking up by a traditional publishing house. And, by extension, get them to also pick up Nuklear Age. No idea if it'll work, but I'm giving it a shot.

[PraetorZorak]

I think partly the reason that Nuklear Age was NOT a resounding success is that your publisher didn't put it on shelves. I searched half the bookstores in the western half of my state, and never, ever saw it anywhere. I asked around. No one had it in stock. I ordered it online.

I think, especially with its wonderful, attention-grabbing cover, it would have generated many more sales. As it is, only people who follow 8-bit theater or their friends even know that the book EXISTS.

So...

[houkama]

I did see it in my local Barnes and Noble, but thats only because the manager is a 8BT fan.

[Phusion Man]

i always try to take the quick waqy out by goinjg into a bookstore but then i realize it takes more time in the end cuz all the times i check the bookstore i eventually have to use the internet. but its still awesome

[Drooling Iguana]

A publisher would also likely revise the book a bit, correcting all the typos and such. If that happened, then I'd be able to brag to people that I have a copy of the original version of Nuklear Age, which had all the typos and Han firing first.

That would be cool.

[ScarletIce]

I think that the 1st edition Nuklear Age will become a novelty item in a couple of deacades. A symbol of a new age of unconventional novels. Brian, you are a pioneer if I ever saw one. I also feel the need to say

YOUR BOOK ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I also feel it is my duty to agree with whoever said it first and suggest that you find someone to put Nuklear Age on the shelves... but the the first edition. If you get a second edition on the shelves quick and stop making the first editions you could stockpile like 1000 and in about 20 years they would be worth solid gold because the first eds always are. Then you could auction em off and make a fortune. Especially if you make the second ed soon so not too many first eds are printed...

Would you believe that I thought that up on the spot? :cool: