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jowey · 12-14-2007, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by The_Heretic

I'm still looking for a publisher, so you wouldn't have bought my work yet... unless someone somewhere owes me some money.

From what I saw at FYE [for your entertainment] there's a fairly broad range of novels, but Oprah's Book Club bullshit is artificially skewing the market toward self help and "true life" [even James Fry variety thereof] stories. Then there's that one 19 year old who was caught plaigerizing books, so instead of losing the first book she puts out that give her an even bigger book deal. This when it was plain and clear she wrote next to nothing of the previous she claimed as her own.

Might try selling your story to the movies - their problem is that they repeat the same themes with added eye candy.

I forgot the book that I was reading but I thought it might be fun to write a book about someone stranded on a planet, who had this bio-engineered "egg/seed". This thing germinated when he bled on it, took his DNA and burrowed into the ground returning months later as a space ship. It had spent the time consuming minerals and growing. When it returned it compatible with him, providing direct mind link and regeneration capabilities.

Thought that some cute plots could come out of the "discovery", being stranded (Robinson Crusoe) and their adventures.....

I probably thought of it after reading some of Alan Dean Fosters books and a book called the "Halcyon Drift" with the Hooded Swan - think that was it......
......when I tried writing about it I could come up with some interesting situations but......

Then I saw the show "Farscape" with "Pilot/Moya", thought shucks. In mine it would be more like a relationship between Flinx and Pip his minidragon because of the bond.....