Current mood:

creative

For some time I've talked about webbing The Novel That Almost Sold. There was a discussion on rasfc about versions and file types and so on and so forth, but I never came to any decision about the best way to do it.

Anyway, maticiquala on her elizabethbear LJ has been webbing chapters. poliphilo has also been putting his novels on LJ, so I thought, "why not?"

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What you're getting, should you choose to read this, is the version that almost sold a few years ago. I had a very nice letter from my agent explaining a) why he had failed to sell it and b) why he was having to drop me as a client. Basically the publishers liked it to some extent, but felt that it was not different enough to sell enough copies to be worth their while. But the agent really liked it when he took it on and said nice things, so I know it's not utter crap and therefore may as well be made public here, where one or two souls may read it, as languish forever on my hard drive.

Please feel free to discuss the story in the comments, but I'm not asking for (and don't really want) a critique as such. I am very unlikely to revise this again as I'd rather work on new things.

Please enjoy or ignore, as you will. Chapter One is here...