The Waiting Game

As I wait for the editor to begin working with me on “Tormenta”, my mind is reeling with ideas and plans. Of course, we have no idea how well the book will be received, much less how well it might sell.

My publisher has stated that he can foresee fifty thousand sales in Texas alone. That’s not going to get me on the N.Y. Times list, but who cares at this point? “It’s your first solo work, Scott,” he said. “Don’t sweat it.”

Okay…so, I try and not sweat the details that I have no power over nor the ability to foretell. Still, my brain won’t shut it off. We (Feathermaye and I) had been planning to release the second book, “A Week In Agony…Texas” six months after “Tormenta’s” release in November. Now, I’m moving that up to four months, planning to release three in 2011, and four in 2012, provided the world does not, in fact, come to a cataclysmic end.

Just how we will manage to work the promotional aspects of putting out a book while maintaining the day job still rattles around in my head like a “BB in a boxcar”, as my mother would say. All I know is that we chose to begin working regionally, so that I can have the evenings and days off to go work book signings, readings and the like.

I love the idea of readings. A natural ham, I’ve always enjoyed being in front of people with my mouth running, hopefully spouting something intelligent. There will be days coming, I’m quite sure, that will involve precise timing, leaving the day job and rushing to the next Barne’s and Nobel, or the Hastings book store on 61st street in Galveston. Those are not too hard to imagine. It’s the trips up to Dallas/Fort Worth, Austin and San Antonio that have me on pins and needles. Again, I’m getting ahead of myself, but such is the waiting game. It leaves me to speculate.

Just to update those of you who have been following this blog faithfully. I apologize for the lack of new entries for “Generations In Agony…Texas”. There is another tale that I have to rewrite: “Beyond Blue”, which is the next tale involving ‘Spoons’. This tale was first released as “Into the Blue,” which some of you actually bought and read and is, thankfully, no longer available from our former publisher. They left an awful taste in our mouths and we are quite ready to put that all behind us.

More updates will follow as I get new information.

Thanks for reading!

SBH