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Tomorrow will be the release day for AMID THE CROWD OF STARS. So for this penultimate post, I thought I’d show you the initial proposal for the novel, which was then entitled COLOR THE SEA and which was fantasy set in an alternate history of 1952, *not* science fiction. I have about 7,000 words of draft of the novel still on my computer, though I doubt that it will ever see the light of day. I sent that draft and the proposal to Sheila at DAW; before she could respond, I called her and said that I’d reconsidered and would be sending her a different proposal, since I’d decided that a science fictional setting would work much better for the novel.

 

Sheila ultimately agreed with that assessment, and so AMID THE CROWD OF STARS (then tentatively titled THE SLEEPING WOLF, which both Sheila and I thought was too much a ‘fantasy’ title) was born, now awaiting its book birthday on Tuesday the 9^th.

 

But for grins, I’m going to give you the 2,500 word fantasy proposal so you can glimpse the book that never was (though not the 7,000 words of draft manuscript I also wrote which will remain private). If you’d like to read it, you may download it here -- but, of course, I own the copyright to this. Who knows, maybe one day I’ll decide I want to actually write an altered version of it.

 

BTW, I noticed on both Amazon and B&N that there’s now a link for the audiobook of AMID (by Dreamscape Media), though it won’t be available until April 6, 2021. On B&N, at least, there’s an option for an MP3 file of the audiobook or for a CD package of the book. That’s neat; it’ll be interesting to hear someone reading the book; hope she has fun with the Irish/Scottish/Japanese/French scattered terms in there! Wonder how she is with accents.