[Barok]

(I don't know if i brought this up before, but if i did i can't remember where, so i'm asking it again.)

A while ago you said you were writing a book about rpg creation or something like that... I'm just wondering how it's going.
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[Bjorn]

You know there's a search function that allows you to find your own posts, right? :-)

http://forums.rpgdx.net/viewtopic.php?p=13709#13709

[Mandrake]

Yup, my how to create an RPG in allegro book has been shelved for almost a year now. The Publishing house went under, when I shopped around to try and sell it again, I got turned down quite a bit. Mostly because it wasn't written for a library that "sells". I guess DirectX and SDL are the only two big lib's now a days.

Anyway, I also have another book that was published in 2000. Not about programming though, fictional work. Didn't sell much. The publishing house that ran the print run didn't advertise the book (I had to do that out of my own pocket), AND still owes me about 500$ in royalties. Next time I plan on not sending my work to any publisher that isn't a large Publishing House with a well respected history and background.
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[Xegnma]

Hey Mandrake, mind giving us a synopsis of what your fictional book is all about...

[Mandrake]

From Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0970384041/sixgallerypress/104-6356875-0278358

and the publisher's summation:
" Angelwings & Finerthings encompasses an entire universe of ideas and images: a concentration camp whose inmates are the beautiful; the relationship between reality and dreams; the end of the world and the nature of time. A debut novel of symbolic, mystical, and mythic depths, Angelwings & Finertings seeks meaning in spite of suffering and beauty in everything, a satori expressed in poetry and prose "

And I was called a genius by an Irish zine called "Burning Bush":
" Jessup is clearly endowed with talent, and on just about every page he shows flashes of genius"

my summation would go like this:
Catherine lives in a fictitious island of the coast of England known only as "Eden". England has come underneath a dictatorship, who has been forcing beautiful people into concentration camps. Her best friend is considered ugly because he has a genetic mutation. Catherine, is of course, very beautiful, and so in danger of being captured.

The first few chapters of the book is her trying to escape the clutches of the government's secret police. She is eventually caught and forced into a death camp, where a bunch of horrible atrocities are committed. She eventually "escapes" to America, where she tries to rediscover love for the world by traveling across country with her friends before the world ends. The whole time the book manages to convey a sense of mystery by dropping hints of a sense of a larger reality, and that certain sections may or may not have actually happened.

an excerpt can be found here:
http://www.sixgallerypress.com/aw.html

The book has also won two awards, and has had chapters reprinted in three literary journals. Eckhard Gerdes (head of English dept for Macon State University, and editor of the Journal of Experimental Fiction) said that it was one of the 10 books published in the last 50 years.
Not for the weak of heart, the scenes in the concentration camp are very graphic.
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