... I could always feign being "born again" and write a crummy evangelical "non-fiction" book. I stopped by Barnes & Noble today to pick up a last minute Christmas gift that led me into the depths of the religion section, a section that's about 3 times as large as that devoted to science and nature. I almost cried out in terror when I heard a woman say she was picking up Joel Osteen's You Best Life Now and had to suppress my own rage when I came across Creflo Dollar's cheesy grin on the cover of his latest hardcover bit of holy money-grubbing. Imagine my disgust as I rounded a corner and ran smack into a wall of Ann Coulter's latest diatribe, right next to Glenn Beck's recent screed, as well. I guess what a relative who works as a writer once told me is true; everyone she's ever known that wanted to get something published, no matter how good or bad their book was, was able to eventually do so. That at least gives me hope, so I won't be going on a month-long bender fueled by alcohol & drugs in order to create a good backstory for my tale of true conversion. I'm still planning on getting the 1st draft of my own book on evolution finished by the time I turn 25 on February 26th, 2008, though, and if Blake is still up to the challenge there might be something of a writing race starting in January.
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Whoa. Brian, your birthday is one day after mine, and I will also be turning 25 this year. Weird!
I'm game.
I have (among other things) a book in draft form which I need to finalize in the next couple weeks. Following the inspiration of the OpenLab folks, I figured I'd just use the Power of the Internet to self-publish that one, since I've had it on my hard drive for too long to wait another year or more — finding a publisher daft enough to print it, then waiting until the wheels turn and the paint peels. . .
But when one book is done, what better to do than start another?
Good luck with your book! I try to keep in mind that, while McDonald's is the most popular restaurant in the world, there is still plenty of demand for better restaurants than that one. I suspect much the same is true of the book market.