“Dare” edited, changes ahead
Done!
After filing the Ph.D., the first writing-related thing I did was sitting down with “Dare” again. I edited what felt like a hundred typos, smoothed over some phrasing and regrouped the story into bigger archs (there are no essential changes from the blog version, though. All the velvet jackets are still in place!).
I’ve now emailed the edited version – split into four parts – to hanibal, who will hopefully find the time to upload the story to var[title] on Sunday.
While she’s updating and reducing the layout to just one format (either frame or no frame, we have a virtual coin toss coming up later tonight), she’ll also be taking down my two remaining novel-sized works, “Campus” and “Jungle Fever” (“Jungle Fever” is still archived on Passion&Perfection until their next update). I promised to let you know in advance when that moment came, and the moment has arrived.
Many of you have asked me over the years when/if I want to publish any of my novel work. There were even two offers by publishing companies – one of them still pinned to my writing board to motivate me throughout the past few years of non-fiction sleuthing – and I always said the same thing: “Once I’m through with the Ph.D.”.
Now that the Ph.D. is (almost – exam and defense still coming up) done, I finally have the time to focus on publishing.
As stated before, I have no idea whether it will work out and whether my style of writing is even adaptable to a selling market – I like things long, thorough, more on the subtle side and with a more complex plot than the market in this genre generally allows. But I won’t know it until I try it, so this is the next step: trying.
To do that, I have to take said novels offline for now.
All three of them – “Campus”, “Jungle Fever” and “Small Steps” – will be available again eventually: either as published books or, if that doesn’t work out, once more online on var[title]. It might take a while, but it will happen – if we made it through seven years of “Campus”, we’ll also make it through this.
Thank you for all your encouragement and well wishes on this exciting new path. I wouldn’t be here without you.
Bravo! *applause*
I’m confident you’ll succeed, you’re such a great writer!!
Anik, that is so awesome! You should succeed. I really like your style of writing and others surely do as well!
Oops. Sorry that was me!
Anik! I can’t wait to read Dare again!! As a matter of fact I was recently going through the E + M videos again and wishing that I could reread Dare again on Friday evenings, of course wearing a velvet jacket. This is wonderful! Best wishes!
Great news! I’m glad I just re-read Campus again before you took it down
…I would totally buy it in book form. Seriously, it is so well done, well constructed, well written…Go for it!!
i am sure you will succeed. you have already your fans i am one of them and sure i will buy all your books
best wishes
Best wishes, Anik! And I love your writing and would happily by book versions of any of it.
Hope the editing goes well!
o m g that’s one, two, three dreams in the process of coming true ….. and that’s not even counting the ph.d! i totally look forward to clicking the purchase button on amazon one day — three times!
anik, i can’t wait for the day when i will walk into a bookstore, preferably a big one, like hugendubel in munich, walk to the information counter, put on a toothy grin and ask if they have anything by anik lachev. i will buy at least 3 copies of campus as i have some friends who resist to read online and i have been raving about your stories to them for some time now. resistance will be futile when they have your book in their hands
i remember the first time i found a book written by a friend in a bookstore, feeling just this little bit of pride, although i had nothing to do with the writing process. i wonder how it will feel to hold a printed version of campus in my hands – campus was THE fanfic story that literally changed my life as it made me stumble over this blog and meet wonderful people.
yes, that is the second benefit of all anik’s lovely creations, of course — meeting such wonderful people. i’m pretty grateful about that as well
I agree about meeting such wonderful people!
I am happy to hear about the edits, it’s a great idea that you get published, and I am totally in agreement with the statement about meeting wonderful people through this blog.
I think I am in the mood for some Lemon Cheesecake today, been a few months since I last read that.
Wow! That’s so exciting! I can’t wait to see your books in the stores! Good luck with the publishing, editing, etc., and I’m also looking forward to reread Dare in the “new format”! And yes, it’s so true about meeting those wonderful people through your blog.
I just notice that you have 499,489 hits on your blog. The half million mark will be exciting!
A “veritable avalanche of contacts”? That’s wonderful!! Many good wishes on your writing projects. Hope to see your work in the bookstores and everywhere else.
@ Hello everybody!!
It is a holiday in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Sao Paulo has become, just today, 457 years old.
It is a very sunny and warm day. I spent 2.5 hours walking by foot nearby, in order to have sun, to “delete” that “white office” color of my skin. Sun tanning is a work in progress..
I know any of you has come to Sao Paulo, the city I was born , where I have lived 44 out of my 49 years. I spent the very begining of my childhood in the countryside.
Sampa (yes, Sao Paulo has a nickname!) is a very busy place to live. Here, 11 million citizens have more than 70 malls, more than 100 plays running and so on…It is necessary lots of places to entertain soooooo many people.
That is why I’m at home, in front of my laptop, installing a boring software requested , better saying, demanded, by Brazilian government , to drive me crazy.
If there is one thing I can’t stand is: installing softwares. I dont know how to do it, I don’t like to do it. Period.
But, of course, I am not posting to say that I am in Sampa, instaling software, bla, bla, bla…
Anik, I am very happy to know that you are giving a very important step in your career. Published work is a gift, isn’t it? You deserve it!! And only you are able to know how much you deserve it, for sure.
As Nondramafly said, I also hope that very soon I can order your novels via Amazon….now it will becore much easier to conclude “Campus”….I was this > < close to finish reading it!
And, in regards to meeting very nice people, I ensure you that I have living a wonderful and remarkable experience in my life, thanks to your blog.
Time to go.
Ah, everybody, just now you know that I suspect the software inatallation seems to have failed. I have been looking at the same screen for , at least, 50 minutes…
God help me!
bye bye, turma!!
Beijinho beijinho, tchau tchau.
Selma
I am not so sure God helps with software installations, just a suspicion of mine that I have. I normally break my Windows about once a year and it is a terrible bore to install software, especially on a sunny day when one should be outside playing. Or even on a rainy day, actually.
Hopefully Anik is able to organise and we’ll have the return of Friday Nights here.
i can’t find the storys
could somebody pleas give me the link
we have a little delay in uploading “Dare”, I’m sorry about that – hanibal has no time before mid-February, but it should be up within the next ten days.
My novel-length stories (Campus, Jungle Fever, Small Steps) are currently offline, as explained above.
I hope to find time for a new story soon, news will be posted on this blog first.