Into the depths of my mind...

Well, folks it's official. I am back in print with my new Cyberpunk novel - Null/Void

By the mid 21st Century, the United States are a mess of political and corporate interests muddled and uncontained. Ecological disaster, broad social stratification, urban decay and economic insolvency have turned Chicago into a war zone, faught in back alleys and with undercover cloak and dagger operations.

Beret's the best of the worst, and even he's a man with problems. A dead girlfriend he can't forget, a new mechanic he can't hide his feelings for, and a short list of close friends that are getting shorter by the day. Life in Chicago's underworld isn't easy.

Warning you now, it's not for the feint of heart. When I wrote this novel, I went for real. Violence, Sex, Language. It's in there.

If you can pick it up from a local independant bookseller,do so. Supporting independant book sellers keep independant publishers (like mine) in business.

If you can't, Null/Void is available through Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

Null/Void
by Arian Drake

Publisher: P.D. Publishing, Inc.
Pub. Date: July 2009
ISBN-13: 9781933720623
184pp

Ok, so I'm doing my final* review for Null/Void, my upcoming novel, and I'm totally stoked.  I asked two authors whose work I adore to blurb my book.  The first, who I have a pretty good relationship with, and had offered to blurb for me, has apparently been crazy-busy and never got back to me.  A little of a bummer, but meh, whatever, that's life.

The second author I met a few years back at WisCon and after a weekend of chatting about the cyberpunk genre and how it has evolved and become this fluid near future vision that becomes closer to reality rather than fiction as every day goes by and had a totally amazing stream of conciousness conversation over several days that kick started me to really take the kernel I had been massaging for a long time and turn it into what is now Null/Void. 

When I realized I was getting close to publication I fired off an email to her and asked if she would blurb for me.

She got back to me in a couple hours and gave me a resounding yes.

I got my final* review manuscript a few days ago and fired it off to her, figuring I had a couple weeks to get my edits done because I wanted to send them back with her blurb.  I got her blurb today.

I read it, and peed myself....just a little.  I want to save the whole thing for the cover...but the first four words made every hair on my neck stand up, do a dance then have an epileptic seisure.

""Reminiscent of classic Gibson..."

Having a writer who has won a Phillip K. Dick Award (2nd place) and a Shamus Award refer to William Gibson when talking about my book in any way, shape or form is high praise indeed.

So a great big shout out to Lyda Morehouse (lyda222 ) (Author of Archangel Protocol as well as the rest of the AngeLINK books.  I'm looking forward to seeing Ressurection Code.  If you're reading this and you haven't read her books, you need to.

 - Adrian



* final is not intended to mean the actual Oxford Dictionary definition final but more of an intended or quasi-real final that falls within the ream of "almost", "nearly" and "really really soon"  These terms are non-binding, non-guaranteed and carry no more weight than a hundred angels dancing on the head of a pin.  For an alternate definition of the word final, please see the Blizzard Entertainment definition of Soon™

So I'm redesigning my website.  Currently the design is really old and out of date.

So I'm updating it.  Should see the new improved site in a couple hours.  (EDIT - or whenever my host gets back to me.  my ftp client won't frigging connect.  GAH.  Need to update my site during normal business hours)

I'd love to hear what y'all think. (EDIT - Once it's updated.  GRR!!!)

So....

I take a week off of work to try and write.  Try and finish up my sequel to Null/Void.  Just sit down and pound it out.

*sigh*

And next to nothing comes out.

I keep looking at the nearly blank page, going over in my head where my story is going.  I have an outline.  I have some critical plot points coming to a head.  I know where it's going.  I know what I'm doing with this book.

And in four days, I've punched out less than 1K.

Everything distracts me.  Life distracts me.  Motes of dust in the air distract me.  Anger distracts me.  My inability to put word to paper distracts me.

This isn't writers bock.  I know where the plot is going.  i know where the subplots are going.  I've got this b*tch scripted tighter than anything I've ever written before.

Why can't I do this?

And I must get into the habit of updating more regularily.

Especially now that somone has shown interest in one of my books!

Nothing is official and nothing is signed yet but they have sent me an electronic copy of the contract to review.

As I am able (and allowed) to post more details I will.

Yay me!

Ok, so I haven't been blogging much...but I've been busy.

Two weeks ago, i submitted "Null/Void" to PD Publishing.

Since then I've been editing.

Today I submitted "The Black Wyverns" to Juno Books.

Now the nail-biting begins.