sickSeries outlines are the bane of my existence. Basically, they're your "short pitch," your chance to try to sell your story in a format that's longer than a cover letter, but shorter than the whole manuscript. Series outlines are sort of like high school book reports: they're packed with spoilers, and they strip out most of the detail of a story. "A young girl travels to a foreign land, kills the first person she meets, and teams up with three strangers" levels of stripping out the detail.
Feed is over five hundred pages long. Deadline is on track to be just as long. I have no real idea about Blackout, but I'd be astonished if the last book in the series was somehow shorter than the first two. I managed to condense all three volumes to nine pages. My agent loves me right now.
Fear me. And now? I'm going back to bed.
(*This may or may not be the official name of the series, but since all three books are about Shaun and Georgia Mason and their exciting journalistic adventures, it's as good a name as any. My original name for the project was "a good excuse to study virology and talk about zombies a lot," so this is really a pretty big improvement, marketability-wise. I'm great at naming books. I'm terrible at naming series.)
November 25 2008, 19:14:31 UTC 8 years ago
What a bitch!
Why don't you just call them the Newsflesh books? That's what happened with Twilight. Um, not that you should emulate Twilight.
Failing that, come up with another morbid journalism pun.
November 25 2008, 19:38:59 UTC 8 years ago
Honestly, they'll probably wind up referred to as the Newsflesh books, because that's what people will remember when they go into the bookstore (which they should hopefully do in enormous flocks). But that doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be the 'official' name of the series.
Your Lilly Kane love makes me happy. My Lilly is purring madly.