And another one cleaned up and shifted from old treeware into e-bookery. This is a mystery novel, set on a wheelworld, and it features M. Gil Sivart, my homage to John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee. Thirteen years since the original publication, and enough to get me a membership in the Mystery Writers of America. The usual kind of stuff -- murder, mayhem, martial arts and a good-looking redhead ...
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
New Lamps for Old - Part III
And another one cleaned up and shifted from old treeware into e-bookery. This is a mystery novel, set on a wheelworld, and it features M. Gil Sivart, my homage to John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee. Thirteen years since the original publication, and enough to get me a membership in the Mystery Writers of America. The usual kind of stuff -- murder, mayhem, martial arts and a good-looking redhead ...
Nice! Thanks for this. I've been wanting so many of your books in a e-format for years now. Ever since I had got my first pocket pc. Any idea when the rights to the Matador series or the Stellar Ranger books might revert back to you? How has your foray into audio books gone? I quite enjoyed Musashi flex in that format. Let's see any more questions..... why is the sky blue?... on second thought forget that. :-)
ReplyDeleteWell best to you on future endeavors.
Long as the book company makes an effort to keep a book in print, the clock keeps resetting. If I sell another Matador novel -- and my editor has indicated to me that she's not opposed to the notion -- then there might be life in the old book in that series.
ReplyDeleteStellar Rangers were work-for-hire -- I wrote 'em, but I never owned 'em, they were Bill Fawcett's idea, and I assume he still owns the copyright.
Why a battleship, may I ask?
ReplyDeleteIt's been maybe a year since I read this, but I just don't see the relationship.
Not a battleship. See any big guns on it anywhere? Gil makes tiny ship models, and I wanted to use a sllhouette of a vessel done in a negative color.
ReplyDeleteAnd the silhouette, by the by, isn't of any ship that exists as such, but a composite of three vessels that I cut and pasted into one. If anythng, it looks more like an oil tanker than any kind of warship.
Oh, right...his model-making affinity. Thanks for clearing that up; makes perfect sense now.
ReplyDeleteI guess it just reminded me of the board game, Battleship -- more specifically, the aircraft carrier piece.
I'm rereading my dead tree copy of The Digital Effect and that's what made me do a search and find your blog.
ReplyDeleteI know this is an old entry, but if you see this comment here's a question: Did you ever write any other books using Gil or in that setting?
I really enjoy this book and would love to read any others with Gil.
Rob
Gil was a one-off, never got around to any more books with him.
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