On my Book

Didn't mean to offend nobody

So, this is the second blog of the day, and probably the second of many more tonight, and it seems that I still have no life. Just joshing, my life consists of drinking Shasta soda, watching Lost, and being a writing hermit who fears the sun. Yep, life is wonderful in my dark chamber of secrets. 

What I want to talk about in this post is my book, which was published this year, and about writing in general. Now, in the first post I wrote on here, I kind of just rambled because I had no one to ramble on to. And I also criticized GRRM's A Game of Thrones. Most people who comment on here are probably going to bash me for calling AGoT boring, and telling me my writing is probably nothing more than the scum of the earth, and a piece of shit that I decided to publish with the little money I can gather in a short month. 

Well, I'm not going to stop you, because you're probably right, for the most part. The thing is, I wrote that book a year ago, and personally, it could be a lot better, edited better, and again, better as a whole. If I could, I would rewrite the damned thing and call it a day. But, at the same time, I'm happy with what it is, and I'm happy that I published a book, seeing it is the biggest aspiration of my childhood to write and distribute a book that came from the butt-crack of my imagination. So, yes, call me whatever you like, criticize my boo-I could use it! Because in the end, it's what I need. All writers need to be rejected at some point or another, or they won't be very good writers because all your crap will just be a bunch of batshit that makes no sense, and only they think it's Mona Lisa. 

Going on from that, let me just tell you a little about my book. For one thing, I started writing my first book The Maze Games, in May of 2012, and finished it around late September of the same year. I was young and naive, I thought that when I published it, it would be a breakout hit, I was looking forward to being the next Veronica Roth or Suzanne Collins. I was looking forward to all these interviews and talk-shows about me and my book, and boy, I though that I was the shit, and boy was I wrong! Now that the book is out, I'm writing the sequel and two other books that will be published, and personally I feel like these are way better than The Maze Games, and shouldn't they be? I mean, I'm sure a lot of our favorite authors weren't much better than I at my age. I'm sure that they were just typing, or long-handing day after day, without caring about editing or the story making since, we just want to get the story down and have someone read it. I digress though, so let me continue.  

Along with finishing it in September, I published it at the start of October. Despite all my research of both Formal and Self-Publishing, I still wanted my book to be out by December, I was ready to see it in my hands, to feel the glossy paperback cover, and to know that it was mine, and to see it stand on the shelf of all my favorite authors, and know that I'm with them now. Of course, it wasn't until about 6 months later--just about how much time I took to write it--that I got to see it in my hands. We'd been waiting for weeks after my publisher emailed me saying that the book was coming, of course it was nearly the end of the school year before it got here, and my mother had laid them out on the floor where I walked in. I can tell you that I probably looked like one of those Anime Girl's when they do their superpower move or what ever, and flipped the F out. 

And so, I posted on Facebook-not twitter, I detest twitter with a fury-and was filled with glee. You couldn't pry my book out of my hands if you tried, and I would have slept with it if I was just that crazy. So, then we planned a book signing, we had to reschedule because the books wouldn't make it until one day before the signing, but now its next week, so yeah. That's the extent of my writing career as of now, and I suppose I'm good with that, shouldn't every writer be?

You can purchase my book The Maze Games here at Amazon.com right now!