While I struggle to get rolling again (I wonder if the Connecticut for Lieberman Party has any of that “joementum” left over?), I figured now’s as good a time as any to get y’all up to speed on the new book. What follows, then, is an edited and expanded version of the journal I’ve been keeping as I work on Revelation.
Many of you have read Between Heaven and Hell, an ebook I published through Peanut Press and later Fictionwise some years ago. Structured as a trilogy of novellas, BHH tells the story of Daniel Cho, a DC paramedic that stumbles onto evidence that immortals walk among the human race.
I’ve decided that if I’m going to write at all, this is what I should be writing. The flavor of the book is most like what I most enjoy reading and thrillers meshing high-tech and ancient conspiracies seem pretty popular right now. Time to strike while the iron is hot, so to speak.
But if I’m really going to do this up right as a Rollins-esque archeotechnothriller, I need to dig deeper. I need to strip even more away from the original story so I can see what really belongs there. I also need to break each novella into a separate book and adapt them into full size novels. So we start with book 1, Revelation. The story of how Daniels discovers the immortals and with some unlikely allies gets that truth to the world at large.
Here’s my idea. I start at the end, what I have to accomplish, then backtrack, figuring out how our characters got there. Anything is on the table, I have no loyalty at all to the original plot. Ultimately only Daniel, Susan and the revelation matter. This style of outlining should not only make it easier to diverge from the original plot, it should make it easy to spot and avoid logic holes. It’s all about asking questions. Who did what and why.
The end of the book, obviously, is the public disclosure of the revelation and the aftermath. So my first question is: what would it take to convince the general public that immortals have actually lived among us and shaped human society?
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