un/Fair by Steven Harper
Publication Date: September 6, 2016
Publisher: Month9Books
It's difficult enough to live
in the neighborhood "freakazoid" house. It's even more difficult when you're autistic
and neither your family nor best friend really understands you. So when Ryan November wakes up on his eleventh
birthday with the unexpected ability to see the future, he braces himself for trouble. But even his newfound power doesn't
anticipate that the fair folk--undines, salamanders, gnomes, and sylphs--want
him dead, dead, dead. Ryan races to
defend himself and his family against unrelenting danger from the fairy realm
so he can uncover the truth about his family history--and himself. Except as Ryan's power grows, the more
enticing the fairy realm becomes, forcing him to choose between order and
chaos, power and family. And for an
autistic boy, such choices are never cut and dry.
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Guest Post:
What is your writing process? For instance do you do an
outline first? Do you do the chapters first?
All my books--every single
one--start with a long walk. Plotlines
come to me on my feet, nowhere else.
Once I get a basic idea for a book, I head outside then talk to myself
on a walk in the woods for a couple hours.
When I come back, I sit down and write a careful outline, often thirty
or forty single-spaced pages. The outline contains every detail of every
storyline. A total stranger could read
that outline and write the novel in my place!
Once that's done, I let it sit for a while. Then I come back and revise it for holes and
new ideas and stuff. When I'm satisfied
the outline will work, I condense it down to eight pages for my agent and get
to work on the actual prose. All this
takes a couple-three months.
Once I get going on the
prose, I can whip right along because I know exactly what's going to
happen. I never have to stop to figure
out plot points. That work is already
done! I can finish a novel in a few
months this way.
As a result, I have a
reputation for speed. But it's all
fake! I actually take quite a long time
to write a novel, about a year from idea to finished manuscript. Since no one knows I'm working on a novel
until I've already gotten all the details worked out, it looks like I'm
pounding things out at warp!
I'm heavily dependent on the
outline process. It gives me
security. I have written two novels by the seat of my pants. Under deadline pressure, I wrote my third
steampunk novel The Dragon Men on an
"outline" the length of a paragraph, and I wrote The Havoc Machine, my fourth steampunk book, with a three-page
outline. I came out of both novels with
a wild-eyed look and shaking hands, however, and I prefer to avoid it!
Steven Harper/Piziks is the
author of multiple fantasy and science fiction novels written for adults,
notably the Clockwork Empire and Silent Empire series for Roc as Steven Harper
and movie novelizations and tie ins for Pocket Books as Steven Piziks
(IDENTITY, THE EXORCIST: THE BEGINNING, GHOST WHISPERER: THE PLAUGE ROOM). He’s also the father of an autistic son.
Giveaway Information: Contest ends September 23, 2016
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One (1) winner will receive a scrabble tile book cover charm (US ONLY)
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Five (5) winners will receive a digital copy of un/FAIR by Steven Harper
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