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I have, once again, persuaded Philip Purser-Hallard to pay me cold hard cash to write a story. It's another City of the Saved short story (i.e., another spin off of a spin off of a spin off of Doctor Who) in an anthology entitled Tales of the Civil War which details events after death returns to the denizens of the City of the Saved (where all humans have ended up after their deaths and where, up until this point, they appeared to be immune to physical harm).

This time, it has to be said, the book I purchased for research (a biography of Anne Boleyn) cost more than I was paid. I think I'm currently running about evens on this "professional author" lark.

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Date: 2016-08-04 06:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daniel-saunders.livejournal.com
That's not such a problem, as I was thinking of my Changing Style of Doctor Who posts making up the bulk of the book and I have most of those as Word documents. To be honest, I would put the work in cutting and pasting and reformatting IF I thought that there was a market. But I fear the market is saturated and I don't have a distinctive enough voice or enough original insights to justify the effort. There, now I've talked myself out of it! Hence my not having done anything to advance the project since dreaming it up six months ago.

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Date: 2016-08-07 01:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daniel-saunders.livejournal.com
I did actually talk to parrot_knight about it some months ago. He seemed reasonably enthusiastic, but felt self-publishing was the way to go. I'm currently not sure I would be able to do that competently, especially since lately (after I spoke to him) I've moved out of my parents' house, which has been quite stressful and draining and hasn't helped my mental health issues the way I hoped it would.

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Date: 2016-08-09 01:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daniel-saunders.livejournal.com
Yes, it's still less than two months since I moved out, so hopefully things will get easier. I think it was a bit over-optimistic of me to assume that things would suddenly improve with moving out, but I definitely feel the benefits of independence some of the time.

I'm also still trying to find my 'level' in the much wider, more complex and more vibrant Jewish community where I now live, but that's been going on for a year, since my parents and I moved to the area when I was still living with them (we moved as a family last August and then I moved out to a nearby studio flat in June this year). Again, I think that's going to take time, and will partly depend on my mental health and self-confidence.
Edited Date: 2016-08-09 01:17 pm (UTC)

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