Squiggle #5 or You Think So?

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Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 28, 2013 at 8:36pm

Good luck!

What type of publishing have you in mind -- a real paper book with a commercial publisher, or self-published (vanity publishing) or some sort of digital online version?

There's beena  couple of attempts here in IUOMA to write collaborative books, but I don't think they've come to anything. I belonged to one of the Groups, and wrote a chapter, but then...nothing.

Regards, Val

Comment by Cassandra Gallagher on March 28, 2013 at 2:24pm

I'm not truly certain where it is taking us. Adam is the most delightful nerd so within a few exchanges the story went sci-fi almost instantly. He is only making mail art for the project and feels he isn't great at it (he's wrong) and I leave more of the story writing to him because he's a far better writer. Indeed, it is all about collaboration! Wherever it ends up doesn't matter because it is much more so about the journey, but I wouldn't mind trying to publish it!

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 28, 2013 at 2:17pm

Interesting!

I used to be a (self-published) fiction writer, but it got too expensive to print and post out books, so I turned to Art instead, thinking that it would be cheaper, and it was until Mail Art came along and I started spending a fortune (for me) in stamps.

Anyway, I once wrote a book called 'The Shopping List' with a young lady in the UK. It had two main characters, a him (me) and a her (Jessica). We wrote alternate sections, and it turned out (although I say it myself) pretty good.  At the time, Jessica was finishing off her Fine Arts degree, and she did most of the art work and graphics, while I pulled it all together editorially.

Collaboration works!

I also wrote a book called 'Dear Josephine' which was based on a series of postcards that I sent home to my fictional partner (Josephoen) while I was on a fictional trip around Europe looking for a house to buy.

I hope that YOUR postcard book goes well.

Regards, Val

Comment by Cassandra Gallagher on March 28, 2013 at 1:55pm

My friend, Adam, lives in Cincinnati, Ohio (my hometown) have been sending each other postcards for some time now. Both being writers too we decided to attempt at a story told in postcards. We are each playing the part of a fictional character and now we get double the postcards!

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 27, 2013 at 3:50pm

What's the postcard project all about, Squiggly Cass?