So, I wrote a novel.

[byronius]

Just released on Amazon & Kindle.

It's hard-history World War One espionage/adventure with political undertones, sort of like Neal Stephenson.



The cover blurb reads: A famous surgeon leaves Paris to join his conscripted childhood friend in the German trenches of the Great War. Their technical skills embroil them in espionage and make them famous, which proves to be more dangerous than useful. Hated by the Kaiser, hunted by Churchill and finally captured by Patton, they find themselves in the center of the most brutal conflict anyone had ever seen, trying to survive the unsurvivable.

As a note to DU -- the main character's name is Abbot Hoffman. Coincidence, I'm sure.

[spanone]

1. congatulations! not an easy feat.

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hope it does well

[B2G]

2. Nice!! nt

[KamaAina]

3. Nice post, Faulkner!

[ismnotwasm]

4. Cyberpunk???

[byronius]

12. More like his 'Baroque Cycle'. Super-hard history with a fictional narrative.

[JDPriestly]

5. Sounds interesting. Recently read, Paris, 1919, Six Months That Changed the World.

I highly recommend that book to DUers.

Good book tip. Thanks.

[raven mad]

6. That is no coincidence, is it.................

LOL!!!

[Omaha Steve]

7. Guns of August type stuff?

[byronius]

9. I read that book ten times, and I'll probably read it another ten.

Best WWI history ever, period. She's such a goddess.

[erronis]

8. JHChrist - if you can match Neal Stephenson to any degree

You are wonderful.

Snow Crash is one of the best SF books I have read - still have chills when thinking about it. Good luck with this and I'll get back with my personal review.

Oh, and a plug for the new Chinese SF novel: The Three Body Problem.

[yodermon]

18. I'm convinced Cheney has a dead man switch

connected from his pacemaker to a Nuke somewhere. That's what snow crash did for me

[captainarizona]

10. good luck

Good luck try and promote it if you can. I have written a screenplay about the undocumented children and their plight most people don't know 75% of undocumented here in america are women and children. I am looking for screenwriter agent or manager but so far no luck. If any of you would like to read my screenplay. hope hope! Its at my website: thealamoisavenged.com Don't let the name fool you it is ironical thanks.

[certainot]

11. 774 pages! holy cow!

i recently wrote a screenplay of about 110 pages and am now using it as an outline for a novel but am barely at 200 pages just with basic conversion. while i know page count doesn't mean squat literature-wise, i guess publishers like longer stuff (to charge more) and from first timers getting to 300 or more pages is probably mandatory.

well done

[Dont call me Shirley]

13. Well done, bryonius!

[WinkyDink]

14. You have my congratulations and envy! KUDOS!

[DemoTex]

15. Very accurately called WW.

Because there was no WW1, until WW2. On Amazon yet?

[sulphurdunn]

16. Congratulations

[niyad]

17. congrats!! will get my library to order a copy!