Today I finished the first really rough draft of the “Cuba” portion of Pax Orionis. It is currently one heck of a mess… part dry laying out of facts (this city gets hit with this, that city loses so many, things happen at this time, blah, blah, blah) and part Some Guy Describing What Happened. A whole lot of editing is needed, but it currently stands at over 9,000 words. Not much… but at 300 words per novel-page, that’s about 30 pages. And that’s at least ten percent of a good-sized novel right there. So… maybe this might be doable after all.
Since I have no delusions about finding a publisher for this, what I’ll probably do when it’s all edited is just post the thing in PDF form free for the downloading. And put the tip jar next to it. And put a link to an Amazon Kindle version next to that, at the cheapest price that Amazon allows (fifty cents, I think?). And see how it goes from there.